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Josef Zlamal, born in 1983 in Šternberk, Czech Republic, is among the most promising contemporary Czech artists. He lives and works in Prague and Šternberk.
Josef Zlamal's paintings, drawings, sculptures and films confront the viewer with a world of uncertainty. Zlamal searches for light through darkness, offering new perspectives on history and geopolitical issues connected to human existence and life.
Natural respect for the experience of previous generations plays a vital role in Zlamal's strategy. He sees art as an ideal language for studying, synthesizing, and communicating across time, language, and geography.
Fascinated by the way how various elements (or forces) affect our existence, he confronts a range of phenomena such as contemplation, enlightenment, and transcendence. He reveals what lies behind the commonly perceived and materializes the invisible.
Josef Zlamal's work has been exhibited in the company of both contemporary and classic masters (e.g. Otto Dix, Lucas Cranach, Arnulf Rainer, Jiri Georg Dokoupil, Daniel Richter, Rona Pondick, or Marc Quinn) in private institutions as well as at leading public museums (e.g. Power Station of Art Shanghai or Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig).
Since 2009 Zlamal has been actively collaborating with his mother Blanka Zlamalova (Studio Zlamal) on projects involving art in architecture and public space. Collaboration plays a vital role in his practice, as seen in his joint work with fashion designer Andrea Vytlacilova (since 2019).
Zlamal is fascinated, inspired, and irritated by artists such as Laurent Grasso, William Kentridge, Richard Mosse, Thomas Schütte, Isaac Julien, Arthur Jafa, Jan Fabre, Georg Baselitz, Kara Walker, Alberto Giacometti, Fritz Lang, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Sergei Eisenstein, Ingmar Bergman, Edvard Munch, Alfred Kubin, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Thomas Bernhard, Karel Capek, Matthias Grünewald, and Hieronymus Bosch.
Zlamal is regularly being featured in various media, more recently in Mf Dnes, Česká Televize, Lidové noviny, TV Nova and Český Rozhlas. More in PRESS.
Josef Zlamal’s work is part of many international private collections across Europe and is being acquired by prestigious private art collectors (i.e. COLLETT Prague | Munich, Elgiz Collection and DrAK Foundation) and also Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig.
To view available works please visit my studio (Thunovská 20, 118 00 Prague 1) or contact me.
Josef Zlamal's paintings, drawings, sculptures and films confront the viewer with a world of uncertainty. Zlamal searches for light through darkness, offering new perspectives on history and geopolitical issues connected to human existence and life.
Natural respect for the experience of previous generations plays a vital role in Zlamal's strategy. He sees art as an ideal language for studying, synthesizing, and communicating across time, language, and geography.
Fascinated by the way how various elements (or forces) affect our existence, he confronts a range of phenomena such as contemplation, enlightenment, and transcendence. He reveals what lies behind the commonly perceived and materializes the invisible.
Josef Zlamal's work has been exhibited in the company of both contemporary and classic masters (e.g. Otto Dix, Lucas Cranach, Arnulf Rainer, Jiri Georg Dokoupil, Daniel Richter, Rona Pondick, or Marc Quinn) in private institutions as well as at leading public museums (e.g. Power Station of Art Shanghai or Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig).
Since 2009 Zlamal has been actively collaborating with his mother Blanka Zlamalova (Studio Zlamal) on projects involving art in architecture and public space. Collaboration plays a vital role in his practice, as seen in his joint work with fashion designer Andrea Vytlacilova (since 2019).
Zlamal is fascinated, inspired, and irritated by artists such as Laurent Grasso, William Kentridge, Richard Mosse, Thomas Schütte, Isaac Julien, Arthur Jafa, Jan Fabre, Georg Baselitz, Kara Walker, Alberto Giacometti, Fritz Lang, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Sergei Eisenstein, Ingmar Bergman, Edvard Munch, Alfred Kubin, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Thomas Bernhard, Karel Capek, Matthias Grünewald, and Hieronymus Bosch.
Zlamal is regularly being featured in various media, more recently in Mf Dnes, Česká Televize, Lidové noviny, TV Nova and Český Rozhlas. More in PRESS.
Josef Zlamal’s work is part of many international private collections across Europe and is being acquired by prestigious private art collectors (i.e. COLLETT Prague | Munich, Elgiz Collection and DrAK Foundation) and also Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig.
To view available works please visit my studio (Thunovská 20, 118 00 Prague 1) or contact me.
Current and Upcoming Exhibitions (Selection):
2023 - "... a viděl jsem nové nebe a novou zemi ..." Apokalypsa a umění v českých zemích, Západočeská galerie Plzeň
(04/10/2023-03/03/2024)
Solo Exhibitions (Selection):
2022 - Josef Zlamal - Recent works, MACT/CACT Museum and Center of Contemporary Art, Bellinzona, Switzerland
2020 - Josef Zlamal & Andrea Vytlačilová - Na konec sveta a zpet ke korenum, Ceske centrum Londyn, London
2020 - Josef Zlamal / Richard Štipl - Stalo se za bílého dne, Art & Event Gallery Černá labuť, Prague
2019 - Josef Zlamal & Andrea Vytlačilová, Sothebys Realty, Prague
2019 - Josef Zlamal - Well of Life, Galerie výtvarného umění, Cheb
2019 - Alén Diviš / Josef Zlamal, Galerie U Betlémské kaple, Prague
2019 - Josef Zlamal - The New, Pierstone, Prague
2018 - East of Eden - Richard Stipl & Josef Zlamal, Museum Montanelli, Prague
2018 - East of Eden - Richard Stipl & Josef Zlamal, Galaria Fravi, Domat/Ems
2018 - Josef Zlamal - Visions of Heaven, Galerie Micheko, Munich
2018 - Josef Zlamal - East of Eden, Galerie Römerapotheke, Zürich
2017 - Stipl & Zlamal – Skulptur und Zeichnung, Galaria Fravi, Domat/Ems
2017 - Josef Zlamal – Private view, Galerie Micheko, München
2017 - Richard Stipl & Josef Zlamal, Galería Enrique Guerrero, Mexico City
2016 - Richard Stipl & Josef Zlamal - Drawing Sculpture, Laden für Nichts, Leipzig
2016 - Richard Stipl & Josef Zlamal, Galaria Fravi, Domat/Ems
2016 - Richard Stipl & Josef Zlamal, Galerie Miro, Prague
2015 - Summa Contemporary, Galería Enrique Guerrero, Madrid
2015 - Volta 11, Galería Enrique Guerrero, Basel
2014 - Richard Stipl & Josef Zlamal, Dvorak Sec Contemporary, Prague
2012 - The Other Side, Krampf Gallery, Istanbul
2011 - Josef Zlamal: The Other Side, Galerie výtvarného umění, Cheb
Group Exhibitions (Selection):
2022 - Strukturen - Sven Egert I Josef Zlamal, Galaria Fravi, Domat/Ems, Switzerland (12/11-04/12/2022)
2019 - Preparing for Darkness, Galerie Römerapotheke, Zürich
2019 - Sommerausstellung, Galaria Fravi, Domat/Ems
2019 - Die dunkle Seite der Macht. Darth Vader im Dialog mit Princess Leia, Galerie Micheko, Munich
2018 - Bez obav. Papír hoří!, Galerie města Plzně, Pilsen
2018 - Summer Selection from the Elgiz Collection, Elgiz Museum, Istanbul
2018 - DIALOG #2, KALI Gallery, Luzern
2018 - Preparing For Darkness, Selected Artists, Kühlhaus Berlin, Berlin
2018 - Art Paris, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Paris
2018 - Drawing Now Paris 12, Galerie Römerapotheke, Paris
2017 - Contradictions, Galerie Miro, Prague
2017 - Vier Räume - Fünf Künstler, Galaria Fravi, Domat/Ems
2017 - This Is the Sea, Fanø Kunstmuseum, Fanø
2017 - Volta 13, Galeria Enrique Guerrero, Basel
2017 - Antlitz, Galaria Fravi, Domat/Ems
2017 - The Fine Art of Drawing: Best of Iceland, Germany, Czechia, Galerie Römerapotheke, Zürich
2017 - Drawing Now Paris 11, Galerie Römerapotheke, Paris
2017 - Zona Maco, Galería Enrique Guerrero, Mexico City
2016 - Pulse Miami, Galerie Römerapotheke, Miami
2016 - Context Art Miami, Galería Enrique Guerrero, Miami
2016 - 1+1, Hans Alf Gallery, Copenhagen
2016 - Drawings – The Thoughts of Artists II, Galerie Miro, Prague
2016 - Art Toronto, Galería Enrique Guerrero, Toronto
2016 - Wopart, Galerie Römerapotheke, Lugano
2016 - Inauguración del nuevo Espacio, Galería Enrique Guerrero, Mexico City
2015 - Context Art Miami, Galería Enrique Guerrero, Miami
2015 - Art from the Heart, Power Station of Art, Shanghai
Private Collections:
Germany, Switzerland, Lichtenstein, USA, China, Spain, Denmark, Mexico, Turkey and Czechia.
Museums Collections:
Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig
Public and private commissioned artworks:
City of Šternberk, Czechia
Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, Czechia
City of Vsetín, Czechia
IP Systém a.s., Czechia
VHZ a.s., Czechia
AL INVEST a.s., Czechia
City of Šlapanice, Czechia
City of Mariánské Lázně, Czechia
Nemocnice Šumperk a.s., Czechia
Nová Myslivna, Czechia
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2023 - "... a viděl jsem nové nebe a novou zemi ..." Apokalypsa a umění v českých zemích, Západočeská galerie Plzeň
(04/10/2023-03/03/2024)
Solo Exhibitions (Selection):
2022 - Josef Zlamal - Recent works, MACT/CACT Museum and Center of Contemporary Art, Bellinzona, Switzerland
2020 - Josef Zlamal & Andrea Vytlačilová - Na konec sveta a zpet ke korenum, Ceske centrum Londyn, London
2020 - Josef Zlamal / Richard Štipl - Stalo se za bílého dne, Art & Event Gallery Černá labuť, Prague
2019 - Josef Zlamal & Andrea Vytlačilová, Sothebys Realty, Prague
2019 - Josef Zlamal - Well of Life, Galerie výtvarného umění, Cheb
2019 - Alén Diviš / Josef Zlamal, Galerie U Betlémské kaple, Prague
2019 - Josef Zlamal - The New, Pierstone, Prague
2018 - East of Eden - Richard Stipl & Josef Zlamal, Museum Montanelli, Prague
2018 - East of Eden - Richard Stipl & Josef Zlamal, Galaria Fravi, Domat/Ems
2018 - Josef Zlamal - Visions of Heaven, Galerie Micheko, Munich
2018 - Josef Zlamal - East of Eden, Galerie Römerapotheke, Zürich
2017 - Stipl & Zlamal – Skulptur und Zeichnung, Galaria Fravi, Domat/Ems
2017 - Josef Zlamal – Private view, Galerie Micheko, München
2017 - Richard Stipl & Josef Zlamal, Galería Enrique Guerrero, Mexico City
2016 - Richard Stipl & Josef Zlamal - Drawing Sculpture, Laden für Nichts, Leipzig
2016 - Richard Stipl & Josef Zlamal, Galaria Fravi, Domat/Ems
2016 - Richard Stipl & Josef Zlamal, Galerie Miro, Prague
2015 - Summa Contemporary, Galería Enrique Guerrero, Madrid
2015 - Volta 11, Galería Enrique Guerrero, Basel
2014 - Richard Stipl & Josef Zlamal, Dvorak Sec Contemporary, Prague
2012 - The Other Side, Krampf Gallery, Istanbul
2011 - Josef Zlamal: The Other Side, Galerie výtvarného umění, Cheb
Group Exhibitions (Selection):
2022 - Strukturen - Sven Egert I Josef Zlamal, Galaria Fravi, Domat/Ems, Switzerland (12/11-04/12/2022)
2019 - Preparing for Darkness, Galerie Römerapotheke, Zürich
2019 - Sommerausstellung, Galaria Fravi, Domat/Ems
2019 - Die dunkle Seite der Macht. Darth Vader im Dialog mit Princess Leia, Galerie Micheko, Munich
2018 - Bez obav. Papír hoří!, Galerie města Plzně, Pilsen
2018 - Summer Selection from the Elgiz Collection, Elgiz Museum, Istanbul
2018 - DIALOG #2, KALI Gallery, Luzern
2018 - Preparing For Darkness, Selected Artists, Kühlhaus Berlin, Berlin
2018 - Art Paris, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Paris
2018 - Drawing Now Paris 12, Galerie Römerapotheke, Paris
2017 - Contradictions, Galerie Miro, Prague
2017 - Vier Räume - Fünf Künstler, Galaria Fravi, Domat/Ems
2017 - This Is the Sea, Fanø Kunstmuseum, Fanø
2017 - Volta 13, Galeria Enrique Guerrero, Basel
2017 - Antlitz, Galaria Fravi, Domat/Ems
2017 - The Fine Art of Drawing: Best of Iceland, Germany, Czechia, Galerie Römerapotheke, Zürich
2017 - Drawing Now Paris 11, Galerie Römerapotheke, Paris
2017 - Zona Maco, Galería Enrique Guerrero, Mexico City
2016 - Pulse Miami, Galerie Römerapotheke, Miami
2016 - Context Art Miami, Galería Enrique Guerrero, Miami
2016 - 1+1, Hans Alf Gallery, Copenhagen
2016 - Drawings – The Thoughts of Artists II, Galerie Miro, Prague
2016 - Art Toronto, Galería Enrique Guerrero, Toronto
2016 - Wopart, Galerie Römerapotheke, Lugano
2016 - Inauguración del nuevo Espacio, Galería Enrique Guerrero, Mexico City
2015 - Context Art Miami, Galería Enrique Guerrero, Miami
2015 - Art from the Heart, Power Station of Art, Shanghai
Private Collections:
Germany, Switzerland, Lichtenstein, USA, China, Spain, Denmark, Mexico, Turkey and Czechia.
Museums Collections:
Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig
Public and private commissioned artworks:
City of Šternberk, Czechia
Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, Czechia
City of Vsetín, Czechia
IP Systém a.s., Czechia
VHZ a.s., Czechia
AL INVEST a.s., Czechia
City of Šlapanice, Czechia
City of Mariánské Lázně, Czechia
Nemocnice Šumperk a.s., Czechia
Nová Myslivna, Czechia
237x343x15cm