ARTIST PROFILE

Janek Rous

  • Czech Republic (b. 1981 in Prague)
  • Currently in Prague, Czech Republic.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2015

  • The Apparition and Travertin (with Markus Hanakam and Roswitha Schuller), Austrian Cultural Forum, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • I was keeping myself awake by a loud and regular clapping of my hands, galerie Jelení, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Sound from the Desert, Kostka gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.

2014

  • (sometimes the world looks as if there was nothing happening), ProjektPlus, Roztoky u Prahy, Czech Republic.

2012

  • Cycle 4, Jama 10, Ostrava, Czech Republic.

2011

  • fig.7 the King, Space gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia.

2010

  • Stars on Speck, Pavilon gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Neue Dörflichkeit / New Rurality (with Jan Trejbal), Školská 28, Prague, Czech Republic.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2016

  • A Furry Ball Theory, GKK, Klatovy, Czech Republic.

2015

  • Teserakt, GAMU, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • How not to Want Anything?, 4+4 days in motion, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Magnetic Leakage Fluxes, The Brno House of Art, Brno, Czech Republic.
  • SHARE, Too Much History, More Future, Depo, Pilsen, Czech Republic.

2014

  • Aviaries, MWW Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland.

2013

  • Hunky Dory, Karlin Studios, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Needless Cleanup, Meetfactory, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • The 01 Video Review, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art, Krakow, Poland.

2012

  • Culburb Ursus, Arsus, Warsaw, Poland.
  • Would you like to play another game?, 4+4 days in motion, Prague, Czech Republic.

2011

  • In Optima Forma, GEF, Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic.

2010

  • Transgression, Videotage, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
  • Trial (Our House)/Trial Trail, Atelierhaus der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Wien, Austria.
  • Altruismus, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany.

PROGRAMS

2016

  • interview - dramatisation for Czech Radio Broadcasting, Project, Prague, Czech Republic.
    An interview with a fictional contemporary artist as a radio play made for Czech Radio Broadcasting Vltava station

2015

  • interview, Project, Galerie moderního umění, Roudnice nad Labem, Czech Republic.

2013

  • J.A.R.O., Project, tranzitdisplay, Prague, Czech Republic. Kateřina Zochová, Matyáš Chochola, Alexander Puškin.
    winning project in TranzitDisplay competition among art students

2012

  • Waiting for Turning, Project, kukačka festival, Ostrava, Czech Republic.
    3 day lasting performance on Ostravice river

LOCATION

  • Born 1981 in Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Lives and works in Prague, Czech Republic.

EDUCATION

  • 2007 - 2013
    Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
    Master of Fine Arts in the School of Monumental Art (Jiří Příhoda)
  • 2001 - 2003
    Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
    - in Faculty of Philosophy (Romani and Hungarian Language)

AWARDS & GRANTS

  • 2015
    Other Visions Award (for Sound from the Desert)
    PAF, Olomouc, Czech Republic

RESIDENCIES

  • 2016
    AiR Bucharest, Centrul Ceh, Bucharest, Romania
  • 2015
    A.I.R., Kultur Kontakt + BKA Austria, Wien, Austria
  • 2013
    Salzburg Sommerakademie, Tranzit, Salzburg, Austria
  • 2012
    Egon Schiele Art Centre, Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic
  • 2011
    The Cooper Union School of Arts, The Cooper Union School of Arts, New York, United States
  • 2011
    Visegrad A.I.R., Space gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia