Archive of Artists

The archive of artists at the AVU Research Centre consists of collections of several Czech artists‘ portfolios. It was created in connection with the i-datum contemporary Czech art database project and it is expanding as part of a research project documenting Czech art from the 1980s to the present.

It contains original texts by artists, curators, and theoreticians, as well as press releases, exhibition reviews, and other texts (essays and critical documents, etc.). The overall context is supplemented by additional printed material, such as invitations, posters, etc.

It offers cross-sectional photo documentation of art works and the documentation of exhibitions (see the audiovisual archive).

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Jan J. Kotík

Born:	7.2.1972
Place of birth:	Buffalo
Died:	2007-12-13
Place of death:	Praha
Lives and works:	Prague, New York

Key words

object/installation , sculpture

Education / Fellowship

1990-95 Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, USA
1992-93 VŠUP, Prague

Solo exhibitions

2005 Ill Gotten Gains, Futura, Prague
2005 Discography, A.M.180, Praue
2004 60 Watt Max, Galleria Estro, Padova, IT
2003 Freedom Lovers and Evil Doers, Eskort, Brno
2003 S-M-L-XL, Display sub:label, Prague
2003 Entrance Stage Death, (s Murphy, Clive a Welch, Fritz), House of Art České Budějovice
2001 Breakfast of Champions, BJ display box, Komunardů St., Prague
2000 Economies of Scale, Galerie Jelení, Prague
2000 Grand Opening, Galerie Jáma 10, Ostrava

Group exhibitions

2006 J. Chalupecký Award Finalists 2006, DUMB, Brno
2006 Indikace, Jungmannova ul., Prague
2005 Dead Kids Do Nothing, 31 Grand Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2005 Prague Biennale 2, Karlin Hall, Prague
2005 Zeche Zollverein, Essen, DE
2004 The Presidency, Exit Art, New York, USA
2004 Certain Traces, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2004 Czech the Market, Galerie Kai Hilgemann, Berlin, DE
2004 Agora, Bordighera, IT
2004 Breakthrough, Grote Kerk, Den Haag, NL
2004 Armory Show, with Futura, New York, USA
2004 Passage d´Europe, Musée d´art moderne, St-Etiénne, FR
2003 Survey 03, Futura, Prague
2002 Low-Fi, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, North Ireland
2002 In Between, Czech Centre, New York, USA
2002 Heavy Metal for Sale, Buryzone, Bratislava, SK
2002 Galerie Oberwelt (with Tomáš Svoboda), in the framework of Wechselstube, Stuttgart, DE
2002 Politik(um). New Engagement, project of FCCA, Prague Castle, Prague
2002 IV. Biennial of Young Art Zvon 2002, House at the Stone Bell, GHMP, Prague
2001 Players/Gracze, BWA, Wroclaw, PL
2001 Criss/Cross: Praha, Stuttgart, Wroclaw, project of FCCA, Centrum Broumov, Broumov
2001 Laboratory of Contemporary Tendencies, Trade-Fair Palace, National Gallery, Prague
2000 Hear Gallery, New York, USA
1995 Advanced Watercolor, Houghton Gallery at the Cooper Union, New York, USA

Texts / Publications

Catalogues, publications:
- Jan J. Kotik. Práce z let / Works 1995-2005, texts by `ev
ík, Jana a Jiří; Pospiszyl, Tomáš, Praha 2005
- Jan J. Kotík, Economies of Scale / Úspory měřítek, FCCA, Praha 2000

Articles, reviews:
- Jeppesen, Travis, Spálený toast a rozbité satelity: umění Jana J. Kotíka, in. Umělec 1/04, p.60-63
- Pospiszyl, Tomáš, V umění i stroje meditují, Týden, 2002
- Valoch, Jiří, Modely a parafráze, in. Ateliér, 2001- Stanice Mir jako umělecká inspirace, LN, . 5. 2001
- Co vidět, a co nevidět, MF Dnes, výstavní glosář, 20. 4. 2001