CV/BIO
The Czech group Pode Bal was founded in 1997 and their work grew out of
a critique of visual communication. The group has re-policized the art scene,
and has been significantly engaged in discussion centered around drugs
and the law, parliamentary election, taboo problems related to the eviction
of Germans after the Second World War, and the critique of art institutions.
The group has realized many projects in public places and media.
(East Art Map - A (Re)Construction of the History of Art in Eastern Europe)
A skewered Marlboro ad featuring a hookah-smoking man bore the legend:
"Pode Bal warns that smoking nonstate-owned drugs can damage your freedom."
(New York Times)
Disney gave Pinocchio Jimi Cricket to be his conscience. The Czech Republic
has Pode Bal.
(The Prague Post)
Pode Bal combines fashion and socio-political commentary: a black-and-white
Palestinian head scarf embroidered with the Hermes logo; a curved
Middle Eastern dagger with a Swiss Army knife handle; a sleek lightbox
photo of a woman in a white burqa, with one eye exposed where the fabric
is cut in the shape of a Nike swoosh.
(Art in America)
Sellected solo exhibitions / projects
2011 - Modern Flagellant, permanent installation, Dox Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague
2010 - Bohdanka will be without her Dad This Christmas, House of Art, Ceske Budejovice
2010 - Kosice Program, Kasarne / Kulturpark, Kosice,
2010 - I like America and America likes me, Napa Gallery, Prague
2010 - Malík urvi II – Dox Center for Contemporary Art, Prague
2010 - Crises – House of Oscar Wilde, Dublin
2009 - Eagles, permanent installation, Dox Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague
2009 - Flagellants – Public space, Kosice
2009 - The reeping – Gallery Bludny Kamen, Opava
2009 - Converse II – Divus Unit 30, London
2008 - Briefs – Dox, Center for Contemporary Art, Prague
2008 - Fascade – public space, fascade of the National Gallery, Prague
2007 - Cover Art – Hunt Kastner Artworks, Prague
2006 - Lety – Gallery Gambit, Prague
2006 - Flagellants – public space, Galerie Art Wall, Prague
2005 - FlagelanT-shirts – public space, Prague
2005 - Reaction Painting – public space, Prague
2005 - Dialog der Denkmaler – Gallery Framework, Berlin
2004 - Garden – public space, Prague
2003 - Stars – Municipal Gallery of Stemberk, Stemberk
2003 - Serial Sniper – public space, Amsterdam
2003 - Faithful We Shall Remain – public space, Prague
2002 - Crossdressing – public space, Prague
2002 - Institutionalized Art– public space, fascade of the National Gallery, Prague
2001 - Pay per view – Gallery NoD, Prague
2000 - Malík urvi / Gen - Gallery of Established Nomenclature – Václav Špála Gallery, Prague / Gallery Priestor, Bratislava / many other galleries all over the Czech Republic
1999 - TGM Chicken – Gallery MXM, Prague
1999 - Larger Amount of State Drugs – Gallery of the Academy of Applied Arts, Prague
1998 - Action Czech Hands – Cinema U Hradeb, Prague
1998 - Extreme Campaign – public space, all over the Czech Republic
1998 - Parliament Prohibition – Parliament of the Czech Republic, Gallery MXM, Prague
Sellected group exhibitions
2011 - Lucifer Effect, Dox Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague
2011 - Artbank, Museum of Young Art, Prague
2009 - Formats of Transformation – The Art House of Brno, Brno / Vienna, 2010
2009 - Tomorrow starts Yesterday, Dox Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague
2009 - Subvision. Kunst. Festival. Off., Hamburk
2008 - Impressions – Gallery Senzor, Designblok, Prague
2008 - ArtPhone – public space, Prague
2008 - 30% OFF – Václav Spála Gallery, Prague
2007 - TinaB – public space, Prague
2007 - Gross National Product – Metropolitan Gallery of Prague, Prague
2007 - Tease Art Fair – Köln
2007 - Wydarzylo sie dzisiaj – Arsenal, Poznan
2007 - HDP, City Gallery Prague, Prague
2006 - Chaplin Resident Fighter – Gallery Futura, Prague
2006 - Among Us Groups II – DUMB, Brno
2006 - Czech Point – Gallery NoD, Prague
2006 - Ballkunstler – Museum der bildenden Kunste, Liepzig
2006 - Keine Wunderkamer – C2C Gallery, Prague
2006 - Stín humoru – BWA Awantgarda, Wroclaw, Poland, 2006, Gallery Mars, Moscow
2006 - Don’t Die for Love – public space and Gallery C2C, Prague, Czech Republic, Bratislava,
2005 - Beauty Free Shop – Palace Adria, Prague
2005 - Prague Biennial 2 – Prague
2004 - Niemansland – Kunstlerhaus Wien, Vienna
2003 - Billboard Gallery Europe – public space, Bratislava
2003 - Next5Minutes – Amsterdam
2003 - Art of Survival at the Czech Centre – Czech Centre, B+B, London
2002 - Transindex – Cluj, Romania
2002 - Politik-Um, New Engagement – Prague Castle courtyard, Prague Castle Gallery, Prague
2002 - Extradi(c)tion – Museu da Água, Lisabon
2000 - Enough Smoke? – Gallery Mánes, Prague
2000 - Uberlebens Kunst, Junge Tschechische Kunst – Mitte Europe Festival, Kulmbach
2000 - Uberlebens Kunst, Junge Tschechische Kunst – Gallery NBK, Berlin
1999 - Austrotel Contemporary Art Fair – Vienna
1999 - CZ99 – Wenceslas Square, Prague
Sellected lectures and presentations
2011 - Return of the Monument, Gallery of Architecture, Brno
2010 - United Brands for World Peace, Fridericianum, Kassel
2010 - Return of the Monument, Bureau of Experimental Architecture, Museum Quartier, Vienna
2008 - Pode Bal – FAMU, Prague, Czech Republic, 2008
2007–2008 - Art, Media and Politics – seminar at the Masaryk University, Brno
2006 - Art, Media and Public Space – Academy of Applied Arts, Prague
2005 - Luxury of Attention – Burg Giebichenstein Academy of Arts and Design, Halle, Germany, 2005
2004 - Public Space and Urbanism – panel discussion, Czech_In – 3d Block, Stadwerkstad, Linz, Austria, 2004
2004 - Public Art and Urban Interventions – Czech_In – 3d Block, OK Center, Linz, Austria, 2004
2004 - Politics of the Image, Visual Reality – Gallery Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic, 2004
2004 - Public Art – Philosophical Faculty of the Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 2004
2003–2005 - Art as Method, alternative approaches in visual communication (postgradual teaching position with Prof. Ziegler) – Academy of Applied Arts, Prague
2003 - Decentralization of the Structure of Visual Communication – Academy of Applied Arts, Prague, Czech Republic, 2003
2003 - Media Activism and Art – Priestor Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2003
2003 - Dialogs – Experimental Space NoD,Prague, Czech Republic, 2003
2003 - Urban Interventions – Next5Minutes, Amsterdam, NL, 2003
2003 - Low-Tech methods in Activist Art – Next5Minutes, Amsterdam, NL, 2003
2003 - Enduring Post-Communism – panel discussion, Next5Minutes, Amsterdam, NL, 2003
2003 - Dialogs – Gallery Display, Prague, Czech Republic, 2003
2003 - Political Aspects of Contemporary Art – Academy of Applied Arts, Prague, Czech Republic, 2003
2002 - Media Activism and Art – Transindex conference, Cluj, Romania, 2002
2002 - Political Art – panel discussion, Politikum / New Engagement, Goethe Institute, Prague, Czech Republic, 2002
2001 - New Media and Art – panel discussion, Datatransfer, Archa Theater, Prague, Czech Republic, 2001
2000 - Application of Commercial Strategies in Non-commercial Visual Work / Art – Iberoamerican University, Mexico City, 2000
1999 - Visual Communication and Manipulation – Gallery Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic, 1999
Sellected workshops
2011 - Fresh Films, Theater Ponec, Prague
2004 - Academy of Applied Arts, Prague
2003 - University of Jan Evangelist Purkyne
2003 - Academy of Applied Arts, Prague
2002 - University of Jan Evangelist Purkyne, Usti nad Labem
2001 - Gallery NoD (together with RTMark), Prague
2000 - Iberoamerican University, Mexico City
CONTACT:
Petr Motycka
petr@podebal.cz
+420 603 160 797
http://www.podebal.com/motycka
Michelle Siml
siml.michal@gmail.com
+420 737 549 279