ARTIST PROFILE

Gryboś / Zentková

  • b. 1987 in Martin/opole
  • Currently in Berlin, Germany.
  • Julia Gryboś and Barbora Zentková are an artistic duo, based in Berlin (DE) and Brno (CZ) working together since 2010. They create site–specific installations, multi–layered environments and performative sound events.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021

  • Tea Bags on Eyelids, TIC gallery, Brno, Czech Republic.
  • One–Legged Pigeon, Kostka gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • One Knot After Another, Třinec City gallery, Třinec, Czech Republic.

2020

  • One Knot After Another, HotDock Project Space, Bratislava, Slovakia.
  • The Light that Finds the Spreading Wounds, The Contextile Biennale 2020, Guimarães, Portugal.
  • Tiredness Quotes, Karlín Studios, Prague, Czech Republic.

2019

  • What has happened with sleep today?, Album Arte, Roma, Italy.
  • Potential Causes of Afternoon Tiredness, Bancrupt textil shop, Ostrava, Czech Republic.
  • A Few Liters of Dried Rituals, River and Sun Spa, Luhačovice, Czech Republic.
  • Soya Stream, 35m2 gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Diagnosis of the Curved Spine, Horizont gallery, Budapest, Hungary.

2017

  • A Dose of a Shared After-Taste, Nová Cvernovka, Bratislava, Slovakia.
  • The Shallow Sleep of Emergency Mode, Etc. gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • No Disc, Public space, Brno, Czech Republic.

2016

  • W-WORLD, HotDock Project Space, Bratislava, Slovakia.
  • To Compose the Words from the Rush / Skládat slova z ruchů, Cella gallery, Opava, Czech Republic.
  • Speech to the Wind / Mluva do větru, Lauby gallery, Ostrava, Czech Republic.

2015

  • AC/BC, Jelení gallery, Praha, Czech Republic.
  • To Moved the Air by the Sweep / Mávnutím rozčísnutý vzduch, Audiovize 2015, Cinema Art, Brno, Czech Republic.
  • The Mangy Gang and the Noisy Song, Měsíc ve dne gallery, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
  • To Hear One’s footsteps Amidst The Noise / Uprostřed hluku vlastní kroky slyšet, The Brno House of Arts, Brno, Czech Republic.
  • The While / Chvíle, Off/Format gallery, Brno, Czech Republic.

2014

  • How the Things Are Going / Jak se věci mají, Půda gallery, Jihlava, Czech Republic.

2013

  • The Working Title – Painting / Pracovní název – Malířství, Luxfer gallery, Česká Skalice, Czech Republic.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021

  • Hybrid IN, BWA Wroclaw (PL), GVUO Ostrava (CZ), GJK Trnava (SK), Wrocław, Ostrava, Trnava.
  • Chronicles 3, Berlin Gallery Weekend, KPM Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur, Berlin, Germany.
  • THE TRAFO-CLIQUE, Kunstverein Eisenstadt, Eisenstadt, Austria.
  • Twisted Trails, Ceasar gallery, olomouc, Czech Republic.
  • HOT MESS, Napoleon Komplex, Berlin, Germany.
  • The Forage, sculpture route at Moabit, Berlin, Germany.
  • Home–topia, R.–Raum für drastische Maßnahmen, Berlin, Germany.

2020

  • Overview Fact, Center for Contemporary Arts Prague, Prague, Czech Republic.

2019

  • Salm Modern#1: Young Scene Challenge part III, National gallery Prague, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Skúter IV, Jan Koniarek Gallery, Trnava, Slovakia.
  • Open House, , Berlin, DE, Zentrum fur Kunst und Urbanistik, Berlin, Germany.

2018

  • Two Heads Four Hands, 8smička gallery, Humpolec, CZ, 8smička gallery, Humpolec, Czech Republic.
  • # OK – XII. Trienale of Small Objects and Drawings, Jozef Kollár Gallery, Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia.
  • Every Other Thing (with Pedro Barateiro, Sari Ember, Jaroslav Kysa, Lindsay Lawson, Roman Štětina, Nicolas Lamas), Krokus Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia.
  • The Neighbourhood, Bauer’s Chateau, Brno exhibition centre , Brno, Czech Republic.
  • Dynasty, Temporary Structures 1 (with Johana Pošova and Milan Houser), PLATO, Ostrava, Czech Republic.

2016

  • The Resonating Sound of a Fist Punching a Wall / Úder pěstí o zeď, co zní celý den, Central Slovakian Gallery, Banska bystrica, Slovakia.
  • The abstraction rate in a particular life is decreasing / Miera abstrakcie v konkrétnom živote klesá, Central Slovakian Gallery, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia.

2015

  • Zlínský salon mladých, Krajská galerie výtvarného umění ve Zlíně, Zlín, Czech Republic.

2013

  • Depth of focus, Das weisse haus, Vien, Austria.

LOCATION

  • Born 1987 in Martin/Opole.
  • Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

EDUCATION

  • 2016 - 2022
    VUT Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno, Czech Republic
    PhD. candidate – ongoing in
  • 2011 - 2014
    VUT Faculty of Fine Arts, painting studio II., Brno, Czech Republic
    Masters of Fine Arts in Painting (MgA. Luděk Rathouský and MgA. Jiří Franta)
  • 2008 - 2011
    University of Ostrava, Fakulty of Fine Arts, painting studio II., Ostrava, Czech Republic
    Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting studio (MgA. František Kowolowski and MgA. Jiří Kuděla)

AWARDS & GRANTS

  • 2021
    Scholarship
    Slovak Arts Council, Bratislava, Slovakia
  • 2020
    Mobility and project grant
    Visegrad Fund, Prague, Czech Republic
  • 2020
    Mobility and project grant
    Magic Carpets Fund, Guimaraes, Portugal
  • 2019
    Mobility grant
    AIR Futura , Berlin, Germany
  • 2019
    Project grant
    Slovak Arts Council , Budapest, Hungary
  • 2018
    Travel grant
    Tranzit.org/ERSTE Stiftung Fund, Vienna, Austria
  • 2017
    Travel grant
    YVAA Awards, New York, United States
  • 2016
    Oskar Čepan Award
    Nadácia súčasného umenia, Bratislava, Slovakia
  • 2016
    Travel grant
    Banska St anica Contemporary, Bern, Swaziland

RESIDENCIES

  • 2020
    Artist in residence, Air Futura, Prague, Czech Republic
  • 2020
    Artist in residence, BANSKA ST A NICA Contemporary, Banska Štiavnica, Slovakia
  • 2020
    Artist in Residence, The Contextile Biennale 2020, The Contextile Biennale 2020, Guimarães, Portugal
  • 2019
    Artist in residence, Berlin Sessions, Berlin, Germany
  • 2019
    Artist in residence, Zentrum fur Kunst und Urbanistic, Berlin, Germany
  • 2018
    Artist in residence, Q21, MuseumsQuartier, Wien, Austria
  • 2017
    Artist in residence, Residency Unlimited, New York City, United States
  • 2016
    Artist in residence, PROGR, Bern, Switzerland
  • 2014
    Artist in residence , ISCP The International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York, United States

MEMBERSHIPS

  • 2013 - Present
    2013 – 2017 founders and dramaturgists of artist run space – Tvar , Brno, Czech Republic