MICHAL MACKU B. 1963 EDUCATION 1985 Technological Faculty of the Polytechnic Institute in Brno 1989 Institute of Art Photography at Prague Until 1991 he worked at the Sigma Olomouc Research Center. Then he taught at the Pedagogical Faculty of Palacky University in Olomouc. He has lived as a freelance artist since 1992. Michal has started with photography since the age of 15. He is also interested in sculpture, drawing, and graphics. In 1989, he created his own photographic technique which he has named "Gellage". He continues to use and develop this technologyin his still-photo art work. Healso works with historical large format negative photographic processes and. At the cooperation of Czech Television Brno, has made an animated Gellage film named Process. From 2000 he started to work also with historical photography techniques, especially carbon printing. From 2005 he expanded his photography work to the third dimension making glass photographic objects. SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2009 Glass (And) Gellages, Wei·ling Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2008 Galerie David Guiraud, Paris, France 2007 Galerie Caesar, Olomouc, Czech Republic Gallery Na Soljanke, Moscow, Russia Bilder vom Menschen, In focus Galerie, Koln, Germany Over the photo, Galleria PaciArte Contemporanea, Brescia, Italy Bielske centrum kultury, Foto Art Festival, Bielsko·Biala, Poland 2006 Galerie Art Affair, Regensburg, Germany Photo Event, Turnhout, Belgium Ottoman Mint complex, IFSAK, Istanbul,Turkey 2005 Galerie Brno, Brno, Czech Republic Gallery "pi", Poznan, Poland Galerie Palais Breuner, Vien, Austria Mestske divadlo Zlin, Czech Republic Statni zamek Trebon, Czech Republic Czech Centre, Munchen, Germany 2004 Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea, UK Aberystwyth Art College, Aberystwyth, UK John Stevenson Gallery, New York In Focus Galerie am Dom, Koln, Germany J&T Bank, Prague, Czech Republic 2002 Galeria Omar Alonzo, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico 2001 FotoGaleria Teatro San Martin, Buenos Aires Estudio Lisenberg, Buenos Aires 2000 John Stevenson Gallery, New York 1999 In Focus, Galerie am Dom. Koln, Germany Galerie Pennings, Eindhoven, The Netherlands 1998 Galerie "U Recickych", Prague 1996 Victor Barsokevitsch· Valokuvakeskus, Kuopio, Finland Gallery St.Gervais, Geneva Slezske muzeum, Opava, Czech Republic Galleri Karneval, Albrunna, Sweden Photoforum Feldeg, Zurich Photography Gallery, Perth, Australia 1995 Photogalerie Bild, Aarau, Switzerland 1994 Prague House of Photography, Prague Galerie Ambrosiana, Brno, Czech Republic 1993 Galerie Aura, Olomouc, Czech Republic 1992 Galerie Bila ruze, Prague Galerie Caesar, Olomouc, Czechoslovakia Galerie Mladych, Brno, Czechoslovakia Umelecka prumyslovka, Palisady, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia 1991 Galerie pod podloubim, Olomouc, Czechoslovakia Fotografisk Galleri, Copenhagen 1990 Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco Kulturni Dum, Bruntal, Czechoslovakia Galerie Centrum, Plzen, Czechoslovakia SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2007 Expressive Bodies: Contemporary Art Photography from The Kinsey Institute, Herron Gallery, Indianopolis, USA 2006 Noble Processes, in a Digital Age, John Stevenson Gallery, New York Autopoesis, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia 2005 NEW ART Redefining "The Photograph" - collage, overpalnting, 3·dimensions and more, John Stevenson Gallery, New York Czech Photography of the 20th Century, The City Gallery of Prague, Prague 2003 Celebration of Light: Photographs from the Collection of Cherye and Jim Pierce, Honolulu Academy of Arts in Honolulu 2001 Re·presenting Representation V Arnot Art Museum, Rockwell Museum of Western Art, New York 2000 Optical Delusions: Jokes, Puns, and Sieight of· Hand in Photography, The Art Institute of Chicago Tre samtida fotografer fran Tjeckien, Replica Theater and Art Center, Stockholm Akt v ceske fotografii (The Nude in Czech Photography), Cisarska konirna Prazskehohradu (The Imperial Stables at the Prague Castle), Prague 1999 Czech Photography of the 1990s, The Art Institute of Chicago Video Virtuale, Foto Fictionale, Museum Ludwig, Koln 1998 Sicherheit und Suche in der tschechischen Fotografie der neunziger Jahre, Berlin The Body in Contemporary Czech Photography, London, UK 1997 The Body in Contemporary Czech Photography, Macintosh Gallery, Glasgow 1996 Instltut tvurci fotografie 25/5, Slezskezemske Muzeum, Opava, Czech Republic 1994 After the Velvet Revolution, 15 Czech & Slovak Photographers, Photography Gallery, Perth, Australia Revelations, Photographs of Male and Female Nudes, The Gallery at John Jones, London 1993 Czech Photography of the 1990s . Fotofeis, Maclaurin Art Gallery, Ayr, Scotland 1992 What's New: Prague, The Art Institute of Chicago 1991 Bilder Lust, Galerie Rhanitzgasse der 2 Landeshauptstadt, Sachsen(traveled to Dresden; Museum Ludwig, Cologne) The Male· Contemporary Male Nude Photographs, Portfolio Gallery, London, UK 1990 Tschechoslovakische Fotografie Des Gegenwart, Cologne (traveled to Erlangen, Metz, Lucenburg, Strassbourg, Odense, Freiburg, Barcelona, Texas, Lawrence) COLLECTIONS Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Museum for Fotokunst, Odense,Denmark The Royal Library of Denmark, Copenhagen Maison Europeenne de la Photographie. Paris Harvard Visual Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois Moravska galerie v Brne, Brno, Czech Republic Muzeum Umeni Olomouc, Czech Republic MOPA - Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, USA Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA
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