ARTIST PROFILE

Matěj Frank

  • Czech Republic (b. 1989 in Opava)
  • Currently in Wien, Austria.
  • Matěj Frank is a visual artist interested in slow transformations and transience. Frank's measure of time and space is often a human body.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020

  • It Could Start Anywhere, Contemporary Museum Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland.
  • Monologue, public space, Seestadt, Vienna, Austria.

2019

  • Entering Continuities / duo with Jasmin Schaitl, Pragovka Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • ˈdrɪpɪŋ ˈdrɔːɪŋ, Altán Klamovka, Prague, Czech Republic.

2018

  • Present / Absent, QL Gallery, Graz, Austria.
  • Entropy, Casa Toesca, Rivarolo, Italy.
  • Entering continuities: Sleeping Drawings / duo w Jasmin Schaitl, Galerie XY-1, Olomouc, Czech Republic.

2017

  • 1-x, 24.10.-21.11. 2017, Graz, Schaufenstergalerie SCHARF , Graz, Austria.
  • Chronolog, Galerie Lauby, Ostrava, Czech Republic.
  • entering continuities / duo w Jasmin Schaitl, Matiční dům / Bludný kámen, Opava, Czech Republic.
  • Prostory / Spaces, Industra, Brno, Czech Republic.

2016

  • Przestrzenie / Spaces, sculpture in public space, Ergo Hestia Sculpture Park, Sopot, Poland.
  • Work in Progress / as a part of Wrocław Triennale of Drawing, Szewska Passage Art Gallery, Wrocław, Poland.

2015

  • Przestrzenie / Spaces, Galeria Nowa, Poznań, Poland.

2014

  • Noise Walls / performance and sound instalation, collaboration with Jakub Frank, Koresh 14, Jerusalem, Israel.
  • Przestrzenie / Spaces, Galeria U, Wrocław, Poland.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021

  • Landscape festival, public space, Krnov, Czech Republic.
  • Point of view, Gallery BOHCXY, Łuck, Ukraine.
  • Umění oceňovat, Moderní galerie AVU, Prague, Czech Republic.

2019

  • We Will All Meet At The Same Place, BWA Gallery, Wrocław, Poland.

2018

  • Man muss das Leben tanzen, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz, Germany.
  • Sanatorium dźwięku, Sanatorium Brehmera, Sokołowsko, Poland.
  • Młoda rzeźba, Nowy Targ Square, Wrocław, Poland.
  • Entropia rośnie v.3.0, Galeria Entropia, Wrocław, Poland.
  • Zrąb, Stara kopalni, Wałbrzych, Poland.
  • Aesthetics & Bias, Arsenal, Poznań, Poland.
  • Silence Matters, AIL, Vienna, Austria.

2017

  • Nomádi / Nomads, DEPO2015, Pilsen, Czech Republic.
  • M3, public space, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Jednoczesność zdarzeń, Cener for Contemporary Art, Toruń, Poland.

2016

  • Absichtlich unvollendet , Schlos Trebnitz, Trebnitz, Germany.
  • Tasks / group performance directed by Jasmin Schaitl and William Bilwa Costa, PLATO , Ostrava, Poland.
  • Before, Now, Later / Předtím, teď, potom, Municipal Gallery, Pilsen, Czech Republic.

2015

  • Ściany szumów / performance with Jakub Frank, part of Kukačka, Kukačka, Ostrava, Czech Republic.
  • Ściany szumów / performance with Jakub Frank, CSW Cener for Contemporary Art, Bytom, Poland.
  • Survival Art Reviwe, Former Police Station, Wrocław, Poland.
  • Media Art Biennale WRO, GG-SUW, Wrocław, Poland.

2014

  • MY'14 Best diploma works, BWA Awangarda, Wrocław, Poland.
  • Vy Troubo! Pro Jiřího Koláře, Velká galerie, Hradec nad Moravicí, Czech Republic.
  • Best Diploma Works of Poland, Wielka Zbrojownia, Gdańsk, Poland.

2013

  • From A to B, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain.

PROGRAMS

2018

  • λ - visible, invisible, Curator Of The Exhibition, Bludný kámen, Opava, Czech Republic. curator with Jakub Frank and Martin Klimeš.

2017

  • Sounding, resonating, vibrating / Znějící, rezonující, vibrující, Curator Of The Exhibition, Opava, Ostrava, Czech Republic. curator with Jakub Frank and Martin Klimeš.

LOCATION

  • Born 1989 in Opava, Czech Republic.
  • Lives and works in Wien, Austria.

EDUCATION

  • 2012 - 2013
    University of País Vasco, Faculty of Fine Arts, Bilbao, Spain
    Erasmus student in Media Art
  • 2011 - 2014
    Academy of Fine Arts im. E. Gepperta in Wrocalaw, Wrocalaw, Poland
    Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture
  • 2008 - 2011
    Ostravská Universita v Ostravě, Faculty of Fine Arts, Ostrava, Czech Republic
    BcA. in Sculpture

AWARDS & GRANTS

  • 2021
    Ministry of Culture of the Czech Reublic Scholarship 2019-2021
    Ministry of Culture, Czech Republic
  • 2020
    3rd Prize, Competition for a memorial of victims of the attack at the University Hospital, Ostrava (CZ)
    City of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic
  • 2018
    Creative scholarship
    Ministry of Culture and National Herritage of Poland, Poland
  • 2017
    Art Prize CBM
    Area Creativa 42, Turin, Italy
  • 2014
    Best diploma work MY'14
    Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland
  • 2014
    ZAiKS prize
    Best diploma work of Academies of Fine Arts, Gdansk, Poland
  • 2014
    Artistic Journey by Hestia, special prize
    Artystyczna Podroz Hestii, Poland
  • 2013
    Scholarship of Minister Of Culture and National Heritage
    Ministery of Culture and National Heritage, Warszawa, Poland
  • 2013
    The Scholarship of Mayor of the City of Wrocław
    City of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland
  • 2013
    The Scholarship of Rector
    Academy of Art and Design, Wrocław, Poland

RESIDENCIES

  • 2019
    MoKS Arist in Residence, MoKS, Mooste, Estonia
  • 2018
    ADATA AiR, Plovdiv 2019 Foundation, European capital of culture 2019, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
  • 2018
    AiR as a part of CBM Art Prize, Areacreativa 42 and Associazione Barriera, Torino and Rivarolo, Italy
  • 2017
    ARTBNB, HaMiffal, Jerusalem, Israel
  • 2017
    St. A.I.R., Styria Artist in Residence, Graz, Austria
  • 2014
    Artistic Journey by Hestia, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

MEMBERSHIPS

  • 2016 - Present
    The E. Geppert Academy of Art and Design, Department of Sculpture and Spatial Activities, Wrocław, Poland
  • 2012 - Present
    Bludný kámen, cultural organization, Opava, Czech Republic