ARTIST PROFILE

Markéta Magidová

  • Czech Republic (b. 1984 in Prague)
  • Currently in Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Markéta Magidová is an intermediary artist working mainly with photography, installations and video. In her work, she reveals underlying levels of collective thoughts and emotions, reflects abnormalities in a normative system of society.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018

  • Postponed Celebration , UMPRUM, gallery 207, Prague, Czech Republic.

2017

  • Soft Target, French Institute , Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Zero Minute Warning, Centre Européen d'Actions Artistiques Contemporaines, Strasbourg, France.
  • Turbid Photosynthesis, Entrance Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.

2016

  • Typos and Stumbless (radio play), Czech Radio, broadcasting nationwide, Czech Republic.
  • Tertium non datur, FAIT Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic.
  • Typos and Stumbless (screening), Studio Alta, Prague, Czech Republic.

2015

  • Persona forte (with J. Pfeiffer), Pradelna Bohnice, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Argumentum ex silentium, Stolen Gallery, Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic.
  • Draft, INI Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.

2014

  • Restless reading, Gallery SPZ, Prague, Czech Republic.

2013

  • Translation, Pavillon Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • A room for a maid (with J. Pfeiffer), City Gallery of Nitra, Nitra, Slovakia.
  • Home vocabulary, TIC Gallery, Kabinet, Brno, Czech Republic.
  • Unreturned plan, Meetfactory, Kostka Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.

2012

  • Here, I was trying to think about nothing, Outdoor Gallery, Nitra, Slovakia.
  • Condolences (with D. Barackova, S. Telecka), Gallery of Academy of Arts, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • But you can´t do this – I really do – I don´t understand! We Have the Opening., K4 Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.

2011

  • Sizzling Solus and the brindle eye, F 43 Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Jelení, Jelení Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • To the top of the frothiness, to the bottom of the shoaliness (with V. Magid), 35m2 Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • One Ell, Four Fingers, Five Seeds and the Line, cur. Michala Janeckova,, Fenester Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.

2010

  • Greetings, Museum of Boskovice, Boskovice, Czech Republic.
  • The natural reservation (with A. Abramjan), Trmal´s house, Prague, Czech Republic.

2009

  • Home nets: to be continued... , City Gallery of Nitra, Nitra, Slovakia.
  • To be continued, (A)VOID gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.

2008

  • Home nets, Citadela Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Diagnosis, Velryba Gallery, Prague.

2007

  • Once upon a time, Svetozor Cinema, Prague, Czech Republic.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018

  • Al Camello camello al amor amor , Espacio La Cigarra, Medellín , Colombia.

2017

  • Release on Command: The theme of group therapy and exercise in the works of contemporary artists., Jihlava Film Festival, Jihlava, Czech Republic.
  • Conditions of Impossibility II / (Im)mediate, Center for Contemporary Arts Prague, Cursor Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Sofia Underground International Performance Art Festival, National Palace of Culture, Sofia, Bulgaria.

2016

  • 16. Film Festival Litoměřice, Cargo Gallery, Litoměřice, Czech Republic.
  • Jiné Vize CZ (2007–2015), Gallery of Academy of Musical Arts, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Festival of Alternative Theatrical Expression, Medica Cultural Centre, Zagreb, Croatia.
  • Movere, Migra Yoga (performance), The House of Arts, Brno, Czech Republic.
  • Contemporary Czech Videoart and Film in Visual Arts, Meetfactory, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Graphomen, Story-tellers, Authors and Producers, PLATO Gallery, Ostrava, Czech Republic.

2015

  • Rule and Exception, National Gallery of Macedonia, Skopje, Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic Of.
  • PLATOvideo05 Theatre, PLATO , Ostrava, Czech Republic.
  • PAF New York, East Village, 4th Street 59, New York, United States.
  • International literary festival Ha!wangarda, Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland.
  • International festival of contemporary art 4 + 4 days in motion, Desfour palace, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Other visions, tAd Gallery, Denton, United States.
  • Graphomen, story-tellers, authors and producers, etc. Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.

2014

  • Other visions, Gallery Attick, Olomouc, Czech Republic.
  • International festival of contemporary art 4 + 4 days in motion, Prague, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • New Territories, Days of slovak literature, A4, Bratislava, Slovakia.
  • Vy troubo! Pro Jiřího Koláře, Castle gallery, Hradec nad Moravici, Czech Republic.
  • New literary strategies, KC Dunaj, Bratislava, Slovakia.
  • 4th International Moscow Biennale for Young Art, RuArts Gallery, Moscow, Russian Federation.
  • V4 residents, Artforum, Bratislava, Slovakia.
  • Other visions, Geotermal baths, Seljavellir , Iceland.

2013

  • Lisabon Architectural Triennale, Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
  • Festival of one-minute videos, NTK Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.

2012

  • For Mushrooms / For John Cage, Gottfrei, Opava, Czech Republic.

2011

  • (Un)human, Theatre Reduta, Brno, Czech Republic.
  • ABCDEF, The House of Lords from Kunstat, Brno, Czech Republic.
  • Tractatus Pedagogicus, Entrance Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.

2010

  • Video camp, GASK - Gallery of Central Bohemia, Kutna Hora, Czech Republic.

2009

  • Video camp, Prague, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Homelesness, Dominic monastery, Krakow, Poland.
  • Harenda, Gallery of Academy of Arts, Krakow, Poland.
  • Stone and water, House of books, Krakow, Poland.

2008

  • One day of Czech Republic, Manes gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.

2007

  • Festival of photography, Cultural house, Blatna, Czech Republic.
  • Bachelor and master works, Hall 32, Zlin, Czech Republic.

2006

  • The 9th harvest, Hall 64, Zlín, Czech Republic.
  • Welten am Fluss, Bottrop Ebel, Bottrop Ebel, Germany.

LOCATION

  • Born 1984 in Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Lives and works in Prague, Czech Republic.

EDUCATION

  • 2009 - 2011
    Faculty of Fine Arts VUT, Brno, Czech Republic
    Master of Fine Arts in Video
  • 2009 - 2009
    Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow, Poland
    Internship in Intermedia
  • 2007 - 2009
    Academy of Art, Architecture and Design, Prague
    Master in Theory of Art (Internship at Studio of Intermedia Confrontations)
  • 2006 - 2006
    Fachohochschule, Dortmund, Germany
    Internship in Photography
  • 2004 - 2007
    Faculty of Multimedia Communications UTB, Zlín, Czech Republic
    Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography

AWARDS & GRANTS

  • 2017
    Other Visions, shortlist
    PAF - Festival of Film Animation, Olomouc, Czech Republic
  • 2017
    Art Residency Stipend
    Center For Contemporary Art Futura, Berlin Sessions, Prague, Berlin, Germany
  • 2016
    Stipend for a residency Prague - Strasbourg
    Meetfactory, French Institute in Prague, CEAAC, Prague - Strasbourg, Czech Republic
  • 2016
    The Performance Grant
    The Foundation Life of an Artist , Prague -Zagreb
  • 2015
    Publication Grant (for artist book)
    Ministry of Culture, Prague, Czech Republic
  • 2014
    Other Visions, shortlist
    PAF - Festival of Animation, Olomouc, Czech Republic

RESIDENCIES

  • 2017
    Art Residency, Berlin Sessions, Berlin, Germany
  • 2016
    International Art Residency, CEAAC , Strasbourg, France
  • 2015
    Art Residency, Egon Schiele Art Centre , Cesky Krumlov
  • 2015
    Performance Residency Program, BUDA Art Centre, Kortrijk, Belgium
  • 2015
    INI Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
  • 2014
    Visegrad Literary Program, Literary centre, Bratislava, Slovakia