Tváře 21/6 – 16/9 2012 Kurátor výstavy / Ladislav Kesner

Marina Abramović 1946 narozena v Bělehradu / born in Belgrade 1970 graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Belgrade 1972 postgraduate studies in Zagreb 1976 moved to Amsterdam

Ocenění 2009 Lorenzo il Magnifico career Award, Florence Biennale, Florence 2008 Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science & Art 2004 Honorary Doctorate from The Art Institute of Chicago 2003 AICA USA Award (The House with the Ocean View) 2003 Niedersächsischer Kunstpreis 2003 New York Dance and Performance Award (The Bessies) 2003 International Association of Art Critics, Best Show in a Commercial Gallery Award 1997 Golden Lion Award, 47th , Venice

Vybrané samostatné výstavy 2011 Marina Abramović - The Artist is Present, The Garage, Moscow 2011 Marina Abramović, Pinnacle Gallery, Savannah 2010 Marina Abramović - The Artist is Present, Museum of Modern Art, New York 2010 Personal Archeology, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York 2009 Unconditional Love, Arsenale Novissimo Tesa 89, Venice Biennale, Venezia 2008 Les traces du sacré, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris 2007 Marina Abramović: Retrospective, Kappatos Gallery, Athens 2005 The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York 2004 Performing Body: Video Works By Marina Abramovic, The Speed Art Museum, Louisville 2003 The Star, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan 2001 Marina Abramović: The Hero, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington 2001 Marking the Territory, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin 2000 Cleaning the House: Travelling Cabinet, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki 1998 Marina Abramović: Expiring Body, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia 1998 Marina Abramović: Artist Body-Public Body, Kunstmuseum Bern; Moderna galerija Ljubljana 1998 Marina Abramović: objects, performance, video, sound, traveling exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 1993 Dragon Heads, (performance), Caixa de Pensiones, Barcelona; Kunstmuseum, Bonn; Kunsthalle, Hamburg 1992 Marina Abramović, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris 1992 Biography, Kunsthalle Wien

1990-91 The Lovers, (objects and performances), Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf; Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal 1989 The Lovers, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp 1982 Nightsea Crossing, Documenta 7, Kassel 1975 Freeing the Voice, Galerie De Appel, Amsterdam 1974 Spaces, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zagreb

Vito Acconci 1940 narozen / born in New York 1962 BA, Holy Cross College, Worcester, MA 1964 MFA, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

Vybraná ocenění 1999 New York City Art Commission Award for Excellence in Design 1997 Sculpture Center Award for Lifetime Achievement 1980 Skowhegan Award 1979 Guggenheim Fellowship

Vybrané samostatné výstavy 2010 AAA Talk Vito Acconci + Ai Weiwei: Artist in Conversation, Agnès b. Cinema, Wanchai, Hong Kong 2009 Vito Acconci: Language Works ‐ Video, Audio and poetry, Argos, Brussels 2008 Power Fields: Explorations in the Work of Vito Acconci, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia 2005 Self /Sound/City, Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT), Liverpool 2004 Diary of a Body, Gladstone Gallery, New York 1999 Vito Acconci: Public Art, University of the Arts, Philadelphia 1996 Vito Acconci: Living Off the Museum, Centro Gellego de Art Contemporanea, Santiago de Campostela 1993 Vito Acconci: The City Inside Us, Mak Österreichisches Museum, Wien 1992 Home Entertainment Centers 1991‐1992, 303 Gallery, New York 1991 Vito Acconci, Le Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble 1990 Vito Acconci Retrospective, Landfall Press, New York 1990 New Work/Vito Acconci, James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles 1988 Public Places, The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1981 The Kitchen, New York 1980 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (retrospective) 1979 Sonnabend Gallery, New York 1978 Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco 1978 Kunstmuseum Luzern 1978 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (retrospective) 1978 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 1977 Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva 1975 Sonnabend Gallery, New York 1975 Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, CA 1972 Sonnabend Gallery, New York

Peter Campus 1937 narozen / born in New York City 1960 BS, Ohio State University 1961-1962 City College Film Institute

Ocenění 1976-9 Fellowship, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1976 National Endowment for the Art Fellowship 1975 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship

Vybrané výstavy 2010 Peter Campus - Calling for Shantih, Cristin Tierney, New York 2010 Peter Campus - Anamnesis and Inflections, The Power Plant, Toronto 2009 Peter Campus – Opticks, British Film Institute, Southbank, London 2007 White Night, Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid 2006 In Collaboration: Early Works from the Media Arts Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco 2005 Tiempos de Video. 1965–2005, Fundacio La Caixa, Barcelona; Fine Arts Museum, Taipei 2005 Landscape, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 2003 Peter Campus: Analog + Digital Video + Foto 1970–2003, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen 2002 Whitney Biennial 2002, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 2001 Into the Light, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 1996 The Bohen Foundation, New York 1993 Whitney Biennial 1993, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 1992 Recent Digital Photographs, Cleveland Centre for Contemporary Art, Ohio 1992 Manifeste, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris 1988 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 1980 Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris 1979 Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin 1978 Venice Biennale, Venezia 1978 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 1977 documenta 6, Kassel 1977 The Kitchen, New York 1976 Leo Castelli Gallery, New York 1974 Project 74, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln 1974 Projected Images, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis 1973 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 1971 Ten Video Performances, Finch College Museum of Art, New York 1971 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.

Douglas Gordon 1966 narozen / born in Glasgow 1984-1988 Glasgow School of Art, Scotland 1988-1990 The Slade School of Art, London

Ocenění 2012 Käthe-Kollwitz-Preis awarded by the Akademie der Künste in Berlin 2011 London Award for Art and Performance 2008 Roswitha Haftmann Prize 1998 Hugo Boss Prize, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1998 Central Kunstpreis, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln 1997 Venice Biennial's Premio 2000 award 1996 Turner Prize, London Kunstpreis Niedersachsen, Kunstverein Hannover

Vybrané samostatné výstavy 2011 Douglas Gordon: k.364, Gagosian Gallery, London 2009 Douglas Gordon: Blood, Sweat, Tears, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art Prague 2008 Douglas Gordon, Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture, Moscow 2008 Archetypes and Icons, Gagosian Gallery, New York 2008 Retrospective, Gagosian Gallery, New York 2007 Douglas Gordon: self-portrait of you + me, after the factory, Gagosian Gallery, New York 2007 Douglas Gordon, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco 2007 Douglas Gordon: Between Darkness and Light. Works 1980-2007, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg 2006 Douglas Gordon: superhumanatural, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh 2006 Douglas Gordon: Timeline, The Museum of Modern Art, New York 2006 Douglas Gordon: What do you want me to say? I am already dead, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona 2005 Douglas Gordon’s The Vanity of Allegory, Deutsche Guggenheim Museum, Berlin 2003 Douglas Gordon: Blind Star, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh 2003 24 Hour Psycho, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö 2002 What Have I Done? Hayward Gallery, London 2002 Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Kunsthaus Bregenz 2001 – 04 Douglas Gordon, MOCA at the Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, Vancouver Art Gallery; Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. 2001 K21 Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf 1999 Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin 1999 Harmony, Moderna Museet, Stockholm 1998 Douglas Gordon, Kunstverein Hannover 1998 Douglas Gordon, Gandy Gallery, Prague 1998 Douglas Gordon, Biennale de Lyon 1998 5 Year Drive-By. Overnight: # 1, Kunstverein Hannover 1998 Leben nach dem Leben nach dem Leben..., Deutsches Museum Bonn 1998 Douglas Gordon, Côté-Rue - Yvon Lambert, Paris 1996 Douglas Gordon & Rirkrit Tiravanija, FRAC Languedoc-Roussillion, Montpellier 1996 24 Hour Psycho, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Wien 1986 Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris 1986 Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven

Juan Manuel Echavarría 1947 narozen / born in Medellín, Colombia Původně spisovatel, napsal dva romány: / As a writer he published two novels: La gran catarata (Bogotá: Editorial Arco, 1981) Moros en la costa (Bogotá: Ancora Editores, 1991)

Vybrané samostatné výstavy 2009 Juan Manuel Echavarría, Requiem, Galería Sextante, Bogotá 2008 Juan Manuel Echavarría: Death and the River, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York 2008 Monumentos, Galería Sextante, Bogotá 2007 Juan Manuel Echavarría: Mouths of Ash, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe 2007 Public Manifestations of Creative Dissent, Malmö Konsthall 2006 Juan Manuel Echavarría: Mouths of Ash, Weatherspoon Museum of Art 2005 Juan Manuel Echavarría: Mouths of Ash, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks 2003 Erich Maria Remarque Peace Center, Osnabrück 2000 Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires 1998 B & B International Gallery, New York

Franz Gratwohl 1967 narozen / born in Aarau 1989–1993 F+F, Schule für Kunst- und Mediendesign, Zürich

Výbrané výstavy a performance 2009 Galerie in the Gluri Suter Huus, Wettingen 2009 new era, Festival TINA B, Prague 2009 Gravitations, Kunstraum Aarau 2008 Sound of Art. About Music in Art, MdM Museum der Moderne, Salzburg 2007 Selection 07, Kunsthaus Aarau 2007 Strings Keys Sounds, Museum Bellerive, Zürich 2004 mediasculpture, National Gallery, Melbourne; Palace of Art, Kairo; Nacionalna Galerija, Sarajevo 2003 privat impact, Baltic-Biennale, Stettin 2003 vision, illusion, fiction, Künstlerhaus S11, Solothurn 2001 Bone 4, Performanceszene Switzerland, Stadtgalerie Bern 2001 MoneyLust: Modelbanking, Kunsthalle Tirol 2001 Videoex, Zürich 2000 Performance Festival, ICA, London 2000 Foundation “Stiftung Binz 39”, Zürich 2000 Art Frankfurt, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt/Main 2000 Quadrature & Articulare, Stadtgalerie Bern 2000 Exit, Chisenhale Gallery, London 1999 Socialmachine Money, OK, Centre for contemporary Art, Linz 1999 Haute Couture, sic/projects, Galerie Mönch, Berlin 1998 NBK/Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, 6. International Perfomance Conference, Berlin 1998 V.A.L.E.U.R., PAC, Poste Art Contemprain, Fribourg 1998 Stiftung Binz 39, Zürich

1997 Realitäter, Ruine der Künste, Berlin 1995 Kunsthalle St. Gallen

Freya Hattenberger 1978 narozena / born in Offenbach/Main 1998–2000 Studies of Cultural Anthropology / European Ethnology and Theater-, Film- and Media, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt/Main 2006 M.A., Media Art at the Kunsthochschule für Medien, Köln

Ocenění 2008 Award for Young Artists (Category: Media Art) Ministry of North-Rhine-Westphalia 2007 First Prize "EXPANDED MEDIA", Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart 2007 Honory Mention of the Jury at the VIDEONALE 11, Kunstmuseum Bonn 2006 First Prize at the Internationaler Videokunst.Wettbewerb C/OUNTRYCLUB, Mönchengladbach 2006 First Prize at the Film- and Videofestival "rampenfiber", Filmclub Schikaneder, Wien

Samostatné výstavy 2011 Metaphorical Staircase, Galerie Alexander Lorenz, Frankfurt/Main 2010 CASAMATTA, Kunst.Unterirdisch, Bunker Tullstrase 5, Dortmund 2007 höchstpersönlich, Galerie Uschi Kolb, Karlsruhe

Nan Hoover 1931 narozena / born in New York 2008 zemřela / died in Berlin 1950-55 studied painting at the Corcoran Gallery School, Washington, D.C. 1969 moved to Amsterdam

Ocenění 1987 First price at the Third International Biennale in Ljubljana

Vybrané výstavy 2008 Nan Hoover: Gestures - Closing Doors, Suzanne Biederberg Gallery, Amsterdam 2008 Nan Hoover - Hands, Dieter Reitz Gallery, Berlin 2008 Nan Hoover - Photography and Drawings, Sebastian Fath Contemporary, Mannheim 2008 Nan Hoover / Bill Viola. Some Times, video, photography, MdM Mönchsberg, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg 2007 Drawings / video / light installation, Dieter Reitz Gallery, Berlin 2005 Nan Hoover, photography and two video sculptures, Metis Gallery, Amsterdam 2004 Nan Hoover - photo works, Sebastian Fath Contemporary, Mannheim 2003 some times, Nan Hoover: photography, Bill Viola: video projections, Kunsthalle Darmstadt 1995 movement from either direction (video installation), Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn 1991 Neue Pinakothek, München 1991 The Kitchen, New York 1991, 1981, 1979 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 1989 Museum Folkwang, Essen 1988 Kunstmuseum, Bern 1988 Kunsthaus Zürich 1988 Sydney Video Festival 1987, 1984 Het Kijkhuis, Hague 1987 documenta 8, Kassel 1984 Venice Biennale, Venezia 1982 Centre International d'Art Contemporain, Montreal 1981 DAAD Gallery, Berlin 1980, 1977 Museum of Modern Art, New York 1976 De Appel, Amsterdam 1977 documenta 6, Kassel

Bruce Nauman 1941 narozen / born in Fort Wayne, Indiana 1964 B.S., University of Wisconsin, Madison 1966 M.F.A., University of California, Davis

Ocenění 2009 Golden Lion of the Venice Biennale 2004 Praemium Imperiale Prize for Visual Arts, Japan 2004 Beaux-Arts Magazine Art Awards: Best International Artist, Paris 2000 Member, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York 2000 Honorary Doctor of Arts, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California 1999 Golden Lion of the Venice Biennale 1977 Member, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany 1995 Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1995 Aldrich Prize, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut 1994 Wexner Prize, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 1993 The Wolf Foundation Prize in Arts (Sculpture), Herzlia, Israel 1990 Max Beckmann Prize, Frankfurt am Main 1989 Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, California

Vybrané samostatné výstavy 2010 Bruce Nauman: Dream Passage, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin 2007 Bruce Nauman: Days, The Museum of Modern Art, New York 2009 Bruce Nauman: Topological Gardens, United States Exhibition of the , United States Pavilion at the Giardini della Biennale, Venezia; Universitá luav di Venezia at Tolentini, Venezia; Exhibition Spaces at Universitá Ca’ Foscari, Venezia 2009 Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive 2007 La Biennale di Venezia, Venezia 2006 Elusive Signs: Bruce Nauman Works with Light, Milwaukee Art Museum 2006 Bruce Nauman, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern 2006 Bruce Nauman: Make Me think, Tate Liverpool 2005 Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art 2002 Bruce Nauman. Mapping the Studio I (Fat Chance John Cage), Dia Art Foundation, New York

2003-2004 Bruce Nauman: Theaters of Experience, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin 1992 documenta, Kassel (and 1982, 1977, 1972, 1968) 1997, Bruce Nauman: Image/Text, 1966-1996, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg; Centre Georges Pompidou, Mnam-Centre de création industrielle, Paris; Hayward Gallery, London; Nykytaiteen museo/Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg 1993 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis 1981 Bruce Nauman 1972-81, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Kroller-Muller-Museum, Otterlo; Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden 1973 Bruce Nauman: Works from 1965-1972, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Kunsthalle, Bern; Stadtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf; Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Palazzo Reale, Milano; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco 1968 Leo Castelli Gallery, New York 1968 Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf, initiated a long series of solo shows 1966 Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles

Nam June Paik 1932 narozen v Soulu / born in Seoul 2006 zemřel / died in Miami, Florida 1956 graduated from the University of Tokyo (the History of Art and the History of Music) 1956-58 studied the History of Music at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München; studies Composition at Hochschule für Musik, Freiburg

Ocenění 2000 National Arts Club Award 1998 Kyoto Award 1991-1992 Goslar Kaiserringes Award 1987 member of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin Další mnohá ocenění, mezi jinými, / Numerous awards from, inter alia, the Guggenheim Museum, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the American Film Institute; Will Grohmann Award, Goslar Emperor's Ring, UNESCO's Picasso Medal.

Vybrané samostatné výstavy 2000 The Worlds of Nam June Paik, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Museo Guggenheim Bilbao 1999 Nam June Paik: Fluxus/Video, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen 1994 The Electronic Super Highway: Travels with Nam June Paik, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale 1992 II Novecento di Nam June Paik: Arti elettroniche, cinema e media verso it XXl secolo, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma 1991-92Video Time - Video Space, Double exhibition in Kunsthalle Basel and Kunsthalle Zürich 1989 Nam June Paik: Recent Paintings and Sculpture, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York 1988 Nam June Paik: Video Works 1963-88, Hayward Gallery, London 1984 Nam June Paik-Mostly Video, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo 1982 Nam June Paik, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1980 The New American Filmmakers Series, Nam June Paik, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 1978 Nam June Paik Retrospective, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris 1977 Projects: Nam June Paik, The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1976 Nam June Paik: Werke 1946-1976: Musik-Fluxus-Video, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln 1968 Electronic Art II, Galeria Bonino, New York 1968 Electronic Art I/I: Paik-Abe Video, Galeria Bonino in collaboration with Intermedia Institute, New York 1965 Electronic Art, Galeria Bonino, New York 1963 Exposition of Music-Electronic Television, Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal

Ulrike Rosenbach 1943 narozena / born in Bad Salzdetfurth 1964–69 Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, master-class student under Joseph Beuys 1989-2007 professor of new art media at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar, Saarbrücken

Ocenění 1977 Förderpreis des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen für junge Künstlerinnen und Künstler 1996 Kunstpreis des Saarlandes 2004 Gabriele Münter Preis 2011 Künstlerinnenpreis des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen

Vybrané samostatné výstavy 2010 Galerie Maier Hahn, Düsseldorf 2010 Galerie Holtmann, Köln 2009 Landesgalerie des Saarlandes, Berlin 2009 Galerie Julia Phillipi, Heidelberg 2009 Galerie Brigitte March, Stuttgart 2008 Ulrike Rosenbach - Installation, Foto, Video, Gallerie Jöllenbeck, Köln 2007 Natur- Figur, Zeichnungen, Videoinstallationen, Saarlandmuseum, Saarbrücken 2007 Dance in a madhouse, 5 Medieninstallationen, Lutherkirche, Köln 2006 Or-Phelia, Galerie March, Stuttgart 2006 Retrospective, videoworks of 3 decades, Millenaris Pixel Gallery, Budapest 2005 Zeichenhaube, Zeichnungen und Performancevideo (drawings and performancevideo), Kunsthalle, Bremen 2004 DA2 Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca 2003 Zeichnung und Video, ARTtikel- Galerie, Köln 2002 Tableaux Vivants, videoworks, Kunsthalle Wien 2002 das zweite Gesicht, Videowork, Deutsches Museum, München 2002 Stars and Brigths, Galerie March, Stuttgart; Bellevue-Saal, Wiesbaden 2001 in memoriam :Über die Kinder, mixed media, Frauenmuseum, Bonn 2001 Wasserturm, Eutin 1999 Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn 1999 Staatliches Museum, Schwerin 1999 Retrospektiv, Kunsthalle Göttingen

1998 Die Einsame Spaziergängerin, Ulrike Rosenbach retrospektiv, Altes Rathaus, Göttingen 1998 Installation und Zeichnung, Kunsthaus, Erfurt 1997 Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der BRD, Bonn 1997 Kunstverein, Heilbronn 1997 Made for Arolsen, Museum Schloss Arolsen, Bad Arolsen 1995 Weißer Raum, Hamburg 1993 Galerie March, Stuttgart 1990 Stadtgalerie, Saarbrücken 1989 Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto 1986 Galerie Meier-Hahn, Düsseldorf 1985 Kunstverein Oldenburg, Oldenburg 1984 Galerie Magers, Bonn 1983 Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston 1981 Galerie Stampa, Basel 1980 Stedelijkmuseum, Amsterdam 1972 Galerie Ernst, Hannover

Steina (Steinunn Briem Bjarnadottir) 1940 narozena / born in Reykjavík studied violin and music theory 1959 Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (scholarship) 1965 moved to New York

Ocenění 1995 Siemens Media Art Prize 1992 American Film Institute Maya Deren Award

Vybrané samostatné výstavy The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo The Museum of Modern Art, New York Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris The Kitchen, New York Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Miloš Šejn 1947 narozen / born in Jablonec nad Nisou 1975 absolvoval Filosofickou fakultu Univerzity Karlovy v Praze / graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of Charles University in Prague 1990-2011 profesor intermediálního ateliéru Akademie výtvarných umění v Praze a hostující učitel na Akademiích výtvarných umění v / professor of intermediate studio at the Academy of Fine Arts

in Prague, a visiting lecturer at the Academies in Vienna, Stuttgart, Aix-en-Provence, Carrara, Ljubljana and Reykjavík.

Vybrané samostatné výstavy a performance 2012 Archives & Cabinets, Museum of European Arts, Liberec 2012 The Writen Face, Uppsala Art Museum 2010 Att Vara Landskap – Tillägnad Carl von Linné / Being Landscape, Uppsala Art Museum 2010 Being Landscape, West Bohemian Gallery in Pilsen 2009 Gardening, Experimental Space Školská 28, Prague 2009 Writen Landscapes, Šternberk Gallery, Šternberk 2007 Dictionarium, House of Art, České Budějovice 2006 Miscellanea, Experimental Space Školská 28, Prague 2005 Colorum Naturae Varietas / Malerei, Installation, Video, Saarländisches Künstlerhaus Galerie, Saarbrücken 2004 Dream of the Fishermen’s Women – Dot in the calligraphy style of Zygnemates Algea, II. Tea Culture, Festival, Kozel Castle 2003 Subrosa lutea, The Gallery of Modern Art in Hradec Králové 2000 Mr. Spilka’s Dream, Holešovice Brevery, 4+4 days in Movement, Prague 1997 Body / Landscape, Hameau de la Brousse, Dordogne 1995 Without Date, Archa Theatre, Prague 1995 Miloš Šejn, IFA Galerie, Institut für Auslandbeziehungen, Berlin 1994 Videosonic Body Projection, Fungus, Plasy Monastery 1992 An immediate Space and The Space of Memories II, Hermit, Plasy Monastery 1992 Walking, National Gallery in Prague 1991 An immediate Space and The Space of Memories, Milano-poesia, Spacio Ansaldo, Milan 1988 Installations, Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry of the ASCR, v. v. i., Prague 1986 Photography / Drawings / Books, Jaromír Funke Photographic Cabinet / The Brno House of Arts 1977 Light in Stones, Central Cinema, Hradec Králové

Fiona Tan 1966 narozena / born in Pekan Baru, Indonesia 1988-92 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam 1996-97 Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunst, Amsterdam

Ocenění 2004 ICP Infinity Award for Art, New York 1998 J. C. Van Lanschot Prize for Sculpture, Belgium/the Netherlands 1997 Prize for the best national debut film, the Netherlands Film Festival 1996 Prix de Rome, Film/Video

Vybrané samostatné výstavy 2011 Fiona Tan: Rise and Fall, l’ Uqam, Montreal Centre Culturel Suisse de Paris, showing: Vox Populi, 2010 Cloud Island, Frith Street Gallery, London

2010 Fiona Tan, Freer & Sackler Gallery, Washington 2010 Fiona Tan: Rise and Fall, The Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver 2010 Peter Freeman, New York 2010 Disorient, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem 2009 Disorient – Fiona Tan, , 53rd Venice Biennale, Venezia 2008 Provenance, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 2008 Countenance, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA 2007 A Lapse of Memory, Royal Institute of British Architects, London 2007 80 Tage, Pinakothek der Moderne, München 2007 Time and Again, Lunds Konsthall, Lunds 2006 Short Voyages, Frith Street Gallery, London 2006 Fiona Tan, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto 2006 Mirror Maker, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense. Touring to Landesgalerie, Linz; Kunstmuseum, Bergen; Kunstmuseum Pori. 2005 Fiona Tan, Saint Sebastian, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montréal 2005 Countenance and other works, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford 2005 Baltic Art Center, Visby 2005 Saint Sebastian, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne Festival, Melbourne 2004 Correction, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Touring to New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. 2004 Recent Works, IASPIS Gallery, Stockholm 2003 New and Recent Works, Frith Street Gallery, London 2002 Fiona Tan - akte 1, Villa Arson Nice, Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Nice. Touring to De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg; Akademie der Künsten, Berlin 2001 Matrix 144, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut 2001 Film and Video Works, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo 2001 May You Live in Interesting Times, Galerie der Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Luzern 2001 Rain, Galerie Elisabeth Kaufmann, Zürich 2000 Scenario, Kunstverein Hamburg 2000 Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan 2000 Carwreck Cinema, Aussendienst, Hamburg 2000 Lift, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam 1999 Roll I & II, De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg 1999 Elsewhere is a Negative Mirror, De Begane Grond, Utrecht 1999 Cradle, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam 1999 Smoke Screen, De Balie, Amsterdam 1998 J. C. Van Lanschot Prijs, First Prize, Stedelijk Museum voor Aktuele Kunst, Ghent 1998 Linneaus’ Flower Clock, Stedelijk Museum Het Domein, Sittard 1997-1996 Open Studio, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunst, Amsterdam; 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

Bill Viola 1951 narozen / born in Queens, New York 1973 B.F.A., College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University

Ocenění 2011 Praemium Imperiale, Japan 2009 Catalonia International Prize, Barcelona 2009 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts, MIT, Cambridge, MA 2006 NORD/LB Art Prize, Bremen 2003 Cultural Leadership Award, American Federal of Arts, USA 1993 Medienkunstpreis, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, and Siemens Kulturprogramm, Germany 1993 Skowhegan Medal (Video Installation), USA 1989 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Award, USA 1987 Maya Deren Award, American Film Institute, USA 1984 Polaroid Video Art Award for outstanding achievement, USA

Vybrané samostatné výstavy 2010-11 Bill Viola: The Raft, Australian Centre of the Moving Image and Kaldor Public Art Projects, Australia 2009 Bill Viola: Intimate work, Museum De Pont, Tilburg 2008-9 Bill Viola: Ocean without a shore, National Gallery of Victoria, Australia 2007 Bill Viola: Hatsu-Yume (First Dream), Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Hyōgo Prefectural Art Museum, Kobe 2006 LOVE/DEATH The Tristan Project, Haunch of Venison, London 2005 Tristan und Isolde, fully staged opera premiere at the Opéra National de Paris 2005 Bill Viola, James Cohan Gallery, New York 2005 Bill Viola Visions, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus 2004 Bill Viola: Temporality and Transcendence, Guggenheim, Bilbao 2003 Bill Viola: The Passions, National Gallery, London 2003 Bill Viola: Five Angels for the Millennium, Ruhrtriennale, Gasometer, Oberhausen 2003 Bill Viola: The Passions, Getty Museum, Los Angeles 2002 Bill Viola: Going Forth By Day, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin 2001 Bill Viola: Five Angels for the Millennium, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London 2000 Bill Viola: Stations, Museum für Neue Kunst|ZKM Karlsruhe 2000 Bill Viola: New Work, James Cohan Gallery, New York 2000 The World of Appearances, Helaba Main Tower, Frankfurt (permanent installation) 1997 Bill Viola: A 25-Year Survey, organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art. Travels to Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1998); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1998); Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (1999); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California (1999); Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois (1999–2000) 1997 Bill Viola: Fire, Water, Breath, Guggenheim Museum (SoHo), New York 1996 Bill Viola: The Messenger, Durham Cathedral, Visual Arts UK 1996, Durham. Travels to South London Gallery, London (1996); Video Positiva-Moviola, Liverpool; The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; Oriel Mostyn, Gwynedd; The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin (1997); La Chapelle Saint Louis de la Salpetriere, Paris 1996 Bill Viola: New Work, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia (installation) 1995 Buried Secrets, United States Pavilion, 46th Venice Biennale, Venezia. Travels to Kestner- Gesellschaft, Hannover (1995); Arizona State University Art Museum (1996)

1994 Bill Viola: Território do Invisível/Site of the Unseen, Centro Cultural/Banco do Brazil, Rio de Janeiro 1994 Bill Viola: Stations, American Center inaugural opening, Paris 1992 Bill Viola. Unseen Images, Stadtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf. Travels to Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1993); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (1993); Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne (1993); Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (1993), Tel Aviv Museum of Art (1994). 1992 Bill Viola: Two Installations, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London 1992 Bill Viola: Nantes Triptych, Chappelle de l'Oratoire, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes 1992 Bill Viola, Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, Washington (five installations) 1991 Bill Viola: The Passing, South London Gallery, London 1990 Bill Viola: The Sleep of Reason, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Jouy-en-Josas 1989 Bill Viola, Fukui Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukui City, Japan, part of The 3rd Fukui International Video Biennale 1988 Bill Viola: Survey of a Decade, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas 1987 Bill Viola: Installations and Videotapes, The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1985 Bill Viola, Moderna Museet, Stockholm 1983 Bill Viola, ARC, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris 1979 Projects: Bill Viola, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Peter Weibel 1944 narozen / born in Odessa studied of Literature, Philosophy, Medicine, Logic and Film in Paris and Wien 1992-1995 artistic director of Ars Electronica 1993-1999 chief curator at the Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz since 1999 chairman of the ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe

Vybrané samostatné výstavy 2011 No Limits, Poésies visuelles, Médiathèque André Malraux, Strasbourg 2011 No Limits, Réécrire l'Europe, Palais du Rhin, Strasbourg 2011 No Limits, De la réalité virtuelle à la réalité augmentée, apollonia, Strasbourg 2011 Peter Weibel – Mediapoet, Galerie Henze & Ketterer, Wichtrach/Bern 2011 Die Kunst ist der Imker, nicht die Biene, Galerie Lisi Hämmerle, Bregenz 2011 Konzeptuelle Fotografie 1965-1975, Galerie Kampl, München 2009 Rewriter, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia 2009 Zur modernen Finanzarchitektur. Bewohnbare Bibliotheken, Galerie Grita Insam, Wien 2006 Das offene Werk, Sammlung Falckenberg/Phoenix Kulturstiftung, Hamburg 2004 Sozialmatrix. Werke 1965-79, Galerie Meyerrieger, Karlsruhe 2004 Das Offene Werk 1964–1979, Neue Galerie, Graz; Mücsarnok, Kunsthalle Budapest; Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana 2003 B-Picture. Ein Film über Peter Weibel, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz 2000 Wegwerfbotschaften. Zur freien Entnahme, Galerie Kampl, München 1999 Videoretrospektive, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg 1999 überproduktion:nur paranoiker:überleben, Galerie Hubert Winter, Wien 1999 Globale Gier, Kärntner Landesgalerie, Klagenfurt

1993 Vertreibung der Vernunft, Biennale von Venedig, Venezia 1992 Virtuelle Welten, Galerie Tanja Grunnert, Köln 1992 Malerei zwischen Anarchie und Forschung, Neue Galerie, Graz 1991 Scanned Objects, Galerie Grita Insam, Wien 1988 Inszenierte Kunstgeschichte, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Wien 1975 Kosmologie des Paradoxen, Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Wien