DAVID HANVALD

BORN ON 1 DECEMBER 1980 IN LIBEREC, CZECH REPUBLIC

EDUCATION

2003 – 2009 Academy of Arts, Architecture & Design in Prague, Painting Studio led by Stanislav Diviš
2001 – 2002 Technical University of Liberec
2000 – 2001 Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, Faculty of Art and Design
1996 – 2000 Secondary School of Applied Art, Jablonec nad Nisou

EXHIBITIONS

SELECTED LIST OF SOLO SHOWS

2023 David Hanvald: Discrete Disposition, Augsburg Art Collections and Museums, Hall 1 – Space for Art in The Glass Palace, Augsburg, DE
2022 By the Way, Cifra Gallery, Doubice, CZ
2022 A Plan, the Movement of an Arm, and a Feeling in a Fracture of Time, Ateliér Josefa Sudka, Prague, CZ
2022 Keeping Above Water!, Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, Bratislava, SK
2022 David Hanvald 2021–2022, Galerie Zdeněk Sklenář, Prague, CZ
2021 White in White, Vokno, Liberec, CZ
2020 David Hanvald: A Signature Style Cannot Be Forged!, Liberec Regional Gallery, Liberec, CZ
2020 Without Retouch, Gallery of Fine Arts in Cheb, Cheb, CZ
2020 David Hanvald : H2O, Kunst kout – Labský zámek, Liberec, CZ
2019 All That Glitters Is Not Gold, Lapidarium Hall, Broumov Monastery Educational and Cultural Centre, Broumov, CZ
2019 The Junkspace, Kaplička Gallery, Jablonec nad Nisou, CZ
2018 Summer is for Flying, Studio Pirsc Porcelain, Mikulov, CZ
2018 Baukasten at the Kryštofák, Cube x Cube Gallery, Kryštofovo Údolí, CZ
2018 This Art Is Not a Stereotype, Moon Gallery, Liberec, CZ
2018 Conceptual Spring in Aesthetic Prague, Galerie Zdeněk Sklenář, Prague, CZ
2017 Aesthetic Autumn in Conceptual Brno, Pitevna Gallery, Brno, CZ
2017 The Loss of Focus Can Liberate the Eye!, Blansko City Gallery, Blansko, CZ
2016 David Hanvald, Kerstin Engholm Gallery, Vienna, AT
2015 Make a Brush Stroke!, Petr Novotný Gallery, Prague, CZ
2014 Handwriting Cannot be Forged!, Gallery Dole, Ostrava, CZ
2014 Damn, It’s Beautiful!, Gallery Die Aktualität des Schönen, Liberec, CZ
2013 When Something Is Supposed to Look Good, It Looks Good, GASK – Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region, Kutná Hora, CZ
2013 Acrylic, Canvas, Hanvald, NoD Gallery, Prague, CZ
2012 Die Konstruktion, Berlin Model Gallery, Prague, CZ
2012 Der echte Hanvald, Česká Pojišťovna Gallery, Prague, CZ
2012 Hanvaldkunst, Petr Novotný Gallery, Prague, CZ
2012 The Brick, SPZ Gallery, Prague, CZ (with Amar Mulabegovič)
2011 Kunst-historie, Collection @Y, Prague, CZ
2011 Hanvaldkunst, Ad Astra Gallery, Kuřim, CZ
2011 Upgrade: From Louis Kahn to Sol LeWitt, Bruce Nauman Included, House of Art, České Budějovice, CZ
2010 Proper Painting, Gallery Caesar, Olomouc, CZ (with Karel Štědrý)
2010 System, Construction, Order, Wannieck Gallery/Adam Gallery – Gallery Behind the Wall, Brno, CZ
2008 Key Landscapes, Felix Jenewein Gallery, Kutná Hora, CZ

SELECTED LIST OF GROUP SHOWS

2022 Uncontrollably Appealing, Studio Pirsc Porcelain, Mikulov, CZ
2021 Dancing Lines and Colours, Jan Koniarek Gallery in Trnava, Trnava, SK
2021 An Onslaught of Liberec, Kunst hala, Liberec, CZ
2020 Aesthetic Reflections During Moments of Leisure, Pilsen Municipal Gallery, Pilsen, CZ
2020 Definitively Beautiful! Let’s Have a Coffee, GaP, Znojmo, CZ
2019 My Dear Christ Child, Galerie Zdeněk Sklenář, Litomyšl, CZ
2019 Culmination: The Apex of Czech Fine Art, Galerie Zdeněk Sklenář, Prague, CZ
2019 Beyond the Horizon: Twenty-Five Years of the Mikulov Fine Art Workshop Symposium, Mikulov Chateau, Mikulov, CZ
2018 My Dear Christ Child, Galerie Zdeněk Sklenář, Litomyšl, CZ
2018 Who’s the Victor?, Gallery of Fine Arts, Ostrava, CZ
2018 NordArt, Büdelsdorf, DE
2018 Exposition 1/2018, Artikle Gallery, Brno, CZ
2017 1685 Days and Nights, Galerie Zdeněk Sklenář, Prague, CZ
2017 Art Festival, Galerie Zdeněk Sklenář, CCC Art Gallery, Beijing, CN
2017 Visegrad4art: Painting Rediscovery, National Museum of Przemyśl, Przemyśl, PL
2017 Space Is Not Sinful, Trutnov City Gallery, Trutnov, CZ
2016 Jiří Dostál + 21, Liberec Regional Gallery, Liberec, CZ
2016 Publicly Acceptable Revelation, Gallery 101, Prague, CZ
2016 Beneath Ještěd, Galerie am Domhof, Zwickau, DE
2015 Obr. Art Group, Václav Špála Gallery, Prague, CZ
2015 Bringing the Dream Home, Stadtpark Gallery, Krems, AT (with Jessica Stockholder and Priscila Fernandes)
2015 From the Ground Up, Emil Filla Gallery, Ústí nad Labem, CZ
2015 From Painting to Object, Gagarinka Gallery, Bratislava, SK
2014 The Golden Age: Reminiscences of Cubism in Contemporary Art, Brno House of Art, Brno, CZ
2014 A Shining Crystal: Bohumil Kubišta and Czech Art 1905–2013. Intersections/Clashes/Overlaps, Gallery of Fine Arts, Ostrava, CZ
2013 Skeleton in Tomato Sauce, Wannieck Gallery/Adam Gallery, Brno, CZ
2013 Obr. Art Group: Contour, The Brno House of Art, Brno, CZ
2012 Metaplay, The Gallery of Art Critics, Prague, CZ
2012 Quotations and Interpretations II: Painting, NoD Gallery, Prague, CZ
2012 Gardens of Painting: Contemporary Czech Painting from the Wannieck Gallery in Brno Collections, Michal Bohúň Gallery, Liptovský Mikuláš, SK
2012 A Good Year: 19th Fine Art Workshop Symposium in Mikulov, Mikulov Chateau, Mikulov, CZ
2012 Young Stars, Miroslav Kubík Gallery, Litomyšl, CZ
2011 Czech Painting of the Noughties Generation of the 21st Century, Wannieck Gallery/Adam Gallery, Brno, CZ
2011 Silenced, Wannieck Gallery/Adam Gallery, Brno, CZ
2011 Obr. Group, NoD Gallery, Prague, CZ
2009 Obr. Group: Cubes, Klárov, Prague, CZ
2009 Start Point, Klatovy Gallery – Klenová, CZ
2009 5th Zlín Youth Salon, House of Art, Zlín, CZ
2009 Obr. Art Group on the Sand, Tranzit Workshops, Bratislava, SK
2008 Obr. Art Group, Mánes Exhibition Hall, Prague, CZ
2008 CZ–SK: Contemporary Young Painting, Wannieck Gallery/Adam Gallery, Brno, CZ
2007 Obr. Art Group at the Louvre, Louvre Gallery, Prague, CZ (the official establishment of the Obr. Art Group)
2007 Designblok 07, Prague, CZ
2006 Trafačka, Trafačka Factory Hall, Prague, CZ
2006 City, Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Prague, CZ
2005 Eternally Hungry, Studená Hall (Tranzit), Bratislava, SK

SYMPOSIA

2012 1st Young Stars Symposium, Litomyšl, CZ
2012 19th Fine Art Workshop Symposium, Mikulov, CZ
2009 Šumava/Böhmerwald 2009: 2nd Annual Czech-German Painting Symposium, Kvilda, CZ
2005 5th Felix Jenewein Gallery Symposium of Contemporary Art, Kutná Hora, CZ
2005 3rd International Symposium of Art Academies, Klatovy Gallery / Klenová, Klatovy, CZ

REALISED PROJECTS

2005 Murals painted according to a design by Zdeněk Sýkora (group of students from the Academy of Arts, Architecture & Design in Prague, Czech National Integrated Air Navigation Services Centre, Jeneč, CZ)

REPRESENTATION IN COLLECTIONS

B-Y Collection of Contemporary Art, Brno
Martin Dýma HoMA Collection, Nymburk
Jan Kavalírek Collection, Prague
Mikulov Collection
Kunsthalle Praha
Robert Runták Collection, Olomouc
Liberec Regional Gallery
Gallery of Fine Arts in Cheb
Klatovy Gallery / Klenová
Felix Jenewein Gallery in Kutná Hora
Adam Gallery, Brno
Miroslav Kubík Gallery, Litomyšl
Galerie Zdeněk Sklenář, Prague
D.A.D.A. Endowment Fund, Prague
COLLETT Prague | Munich
8smička Foundation, Humpolec
Lust Collection, Horní Maxov
Our Collection Roman Pilíšek, Prague
Jelínci Collection, Prague
Private collections in the Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, and China

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

BOOKS

David Hanvald / A Signature Style Cannot Be Forged!, texts by: Martin Dostál, David Hanvald, David Komary, Jen Kratochvil, Marie Míčová, Galerie Zdeněk Sklenář in cooperation with the Liberec Regional Gallery, Prague 2020
Reciprocity, David Komary (ed.), texts by: Dieter Bogner, Silvia Eiblmayr, Lorenzo Giusti, David Komary, Galerie Stadtpark, Krems 2017
David Hanvald, Martin Dostál (ed.), texts by: Martin Dostál, David Komary, Richard Adam, KANT, Praha 2016
Dům umění České Budějovice 2013–1998 / České Budějovice House of Art 2013–1998, Terezie Nekvindová (ed.), Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in collaboration with the House of Art in České Budějovice, 2014
Hanvald, Martin Dostál (ed.), texts by: Martin Dostál, Stanislav Diviš, Richard Adam, ARSkontakt, Brno 2009.