Beepbeep, 2007
Jan Serych
Beepbeep, 2007
acrylic on canvas, 110 x 140 cm
Jan Serych
finalist Jindřich Chalupecký Award , 2005
Artist statement / about artist Artist resume News from the artist

Born 1972, Prague, Czech Republic
Lives and works in Prague, Czech Republic

www.huntkastner.com/en/artists/serych/


EDUCATION

1992–1999 AVU / Academy of Fine Arts, Prague (studios of Jiří Lindovský,Michal Bielický and Vladimír Skrepl)

Member of the group BJ (Bezhlavy Jezdec / Headless Rider) with Jan Mancuska, Josef Bolf and
Tomáš Vanek


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007
Take Me Home, hunt kastner artworks, Prague

2006
Jednoho krasneho ra....., Galerie die Aktualitat des Schonen, Liberec
GOTOHELL, Galerie na Bidylku, Brno
Remember Me / Is All I Ask / And If Remembered / Forget It All, PROGR, Bern, SW

2005
Double Feature Picture Show (with J. Bolf), Galerie České pojišťovny, Prague
Abbey Road 2:45, Atrium of the Pražák Palace, Moravian Gallery, Brno

2004
From Books, Antikvariát Ouky douky, Prague
A je to!, Galerie A.M.180, Prague

2003

Look whose Talking, House of Art, České Budějovice
bla, Galerie 761, Ostrava
Galerie Na bidýlku, Brno
10 Ways to Look Good During Sex, House of the Lords of Kunštát, Brno

2002
Placebo, Malá Špálovka, Prague

2000
Ozzy, Černý Pavouk, Ostrava
Head in the Clouds, České Budějovice

1999
Dial, Prague National Gallery in the Veletržní palác


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007
Gross Domestic Product, Prague City Gallery at the Municipal Library, Prague
Punctum, Centre for Contemporary Arts FUTURA, Prague

2006
ACNE, Contemporary Czech Painting from the Richard Adam Collection, Rudolfinum Gallery, Prague
I Invited Some Friends to Come and Watch, Galerijam M. Kraljevic + Galerija Nova, Zagreb, HR
Slepí muží přeměřují slona, Gallery C2C, Prague
Frisbee, Brno House of Art, Brno

2005
Frisbee, MNAC, Bucharest, RO
5th Biennale of Young Artists, Prague City Gallery at the House of the Stone Bell, Prague
Prague Biennale 2, Definition of Everyday, Karlin Hall, Prague
Finalists of the Jindrich Chalupecky Award, Prague City Gallery at the Municipal Library
1811197604122005, Galerie Plan B, Cluj, RO
2004
Like Beads on an Abacus Designed to Calculate Infinity, Rockwell, London, UK
Check the art, Galerie Kai Hilgeman, Berlin, DE
Neutral, (organized by Display Gallery in Prague), Motorenhalle, Dresden, DE

2003
Československo, Slovak National Museum, Bratislava, SK
The Youngest, Prague National Gallery in the Veletržní Palace, Prague
Survey '03, Futura, Prague
To the Letter, Czech Center in New York, USA
Kompression, Kolonie Wedding, Berlin, DE
Finalists of the Jindrich Chalupecky Award, Futura, Prague
Perfect Tense (Painting Today) – Prague Castle Riding Hall, Prague

2002
Laboratoř, Prague National Gallery at the Veletržní Palace, Prague
4th Biennale of the Young, (Forum of Independent Galleries), Prague City Gallery, U Prstenu
Fair (Glued Intimacy), project of PAS, Royal Colledge of Art, London, UK
Hédonistická abstrakce, Atrium of the Pražák Palace, Moravian Gallery in Brno
Sláva kosmonautů zapadá prachem, exhibition of the group BJ, Galerie Šternberk
War – Love – Peace, Galerie Eskort, Brno
From Prague, La Chaufferie, Strasbourg, FR
D’un printemps l’autre, Ecole d’Art Gérard Jacot, Belfort, FR

2001
Art Moskva, Dom Chudožnikov, (with the BJ), organized by Umělec art journal, Moscow, RU
Laboratoř, Prague National Gallery at the Veletržní Palace, Prague
Criss/Cross: Praha - Stuttgart- Wroclaw, exhibition organized by the Foundation and Center of
Contemporary Arts-Prague at the Broumov Brewery, Broumov
Sleva 20%, Dům umění, České Budějovice

2000
Bezhlavý jezdec, Jeleni Gallery of the Foundation and Center for Contemporary Arts-Prague and
galerie NoD, Prague
Women Come and Go, Only We, Writers of Sci-Fi, Remain, (with the group BJ), Galerie 761, Ostrava

1999
Metro, Černý pavouk, Ostrava
Cargo (the studios of Vaclav Skrepl and Jiří Sopko), Dresden, DE
Unplanned Connections – Foundation Jelenik stipend winners, galerie Mánes, Prague
Studio of Vaclav Skrepl, Galerie MXM, Prague
Graduates of the Prague Academy of Fine Arts, Karolinum, Prague
About Love, Richter villa, Prague
No Sex until Marriage, Holečkova Street, Prague
Open House, (with the group BJ), organized by the Foundation and Center for Contemporary Arts-
Prague, Čimelice castle, Čimelice
99CZ – ëxhibition organized by Artlab, Prague

1998
Down in the Bunker, Bunkr, Prague
City, Bořivojova Street 26, Prague

1997

s...s..., Bunkr, Prague
Artwork in Public Space, organized by the Foundation and Center of Contemporary Arts, (with the
group BJ), Prague National Gallery at the Veletržní Palace, Prague
Fruits From Prague, Czech Center in Berlin, DE


RESIDENCIES

2005 Residency at PROGR, Bern, Switzerland


REPRESENTATION

Hunt Kastner Artworks
Kamenická 22, 170 00 Praha 7, Czech Republic
www.huntkastner.com


BIBLIOGRAPHY

- Gotohell, exhibition catalog, text Valoch, Jiří; Ptáček, Jiří, Galerie Na Bidýlku, Brno 2006
- 1811197604122005, exhibition poster, Cluj 2005
- Jan Šerých a Josef Bolf, exhibition catalog (text Ptáček, Jiří), Česká pojišťovna, Praha 2005
- Váňa, Radek, Lidové noviny, 20.6.2002
- Havránek, Vít, Subjektivní vzorce konzumace, Umělec casopis
- BJ (text Havránek, Vít), catalog, Divus, Praha 1999
- Lindaurová, Lenka, BJ, nové tváře, Umělec casopis 2/98, pp.16-17

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