Simona Blahutová
*23. 9. 1980 Zlín, lives and works in Prague
The recurring theme in my art is a Power and Zeitgeist, the spirit of the times.
My effort is to deal with selected events of modern history, which are often interpreted in terms of black and white, in spite of having no simple answer. I choose the crucial moments or periods when their key players faced internal conflicts and boundary situations. /Operation Anthropoid, Germans who fought against Nazism, the miracle of the priest in Čihošť and his murder by the state police, the dark side of modern Western society, the Cold War and the 1980s atmosphere in Eastern Europe/
Education
| 2005-2006 | Academy of Fine Arts in Prague /Studio of Vladimír Skrepl/ |
| 2002-2004 | Academy of Fine Arts in Prague /Studio of Michael Rittstein/ |
| 2000-2002 | Academy of Fine Arts in Prague /Studio of Karel Nepraš/ |
Residence
| 2005 | Robert Gordon University, Gray School of Art, Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
Solo exhibitions
| 2021 | Gallery Caesar Olomouc – Close your eyes, everything will be fine |
| 2020 | Art Space NOV Pardubice – In the Kitchen Under the Table, In My Atomic Shelter |
| Gallery Optika Zlin – Once Upon a Time in Gottwaldov | |
| Cargo Gallery Prague /virtual only/ – Atomic Age | |
| 2019 | Gallery nEUROPA /Kultur Aktiv Dresden, Germany – My Atomic Age |
| Gallery UFFO Trutnov – A_TEN_TÁTY__ | |
| 2018 | Gallery HŠ, Holešovická Šachta Prague – I shall burn the demon in a convertible car |
| 2017 | Gallery Suteren Brno – Kurt Gerstein Report |
| 2016 | Gallery 1.2.3. Prague – The Last Day of Conspirators |
| Gallery Manor House Veselí n.Moravou – I Got It, Agent Cooper | |
| Gallery Down Ostrava /with Bára Lungová/ – Maybe the Magician Will Also Come | |
| Congress Centre Zlín – The Hot Summer Day of Colonel Stauffenberg | |
| 2015 | Gallery Kabinet Chaos Polička /with Pavel Klvaňa/ – The Black Tudor Is Coming |
| 2012 | City Theatre Zlín – Virgo |
| 2011 | Gallery Vednevnoci Hodonín – Rendezvous at the End of the World |
| Gallery Final Prague – Mirror, Show Me the Reality | |
| 2010 | Gallery ZAS /Observatory/ Zlín – Planet Earth Is Almost Perfect |
| 2008 | La fabrika Prague – Wu-Man |
| 2007 | Gallery In the Garden Kolín – Love My Man |
| 2006 | Gallery AVU Prague /with guests/ – Do You Love my Man? |
Collective exhibitions
| 2021 | Valid World Hall Gallery Barcelona, Spain – Barcelona Contemporary |
| 2020 | Runde Ecke Dresden, Germany – Strömungen „Glocal Emotions“ |
| 2019 | Gallery Millennium Prague – Painting III |
| AVU Prague – 220 places | |
| Hosek Contemporary Berlin, Germany – Improvised & Experimental | |
| Gallery Gabor Sillye Hajdúböszörmény, Hungary – International Art Colony | |
| City Gallery of Pilsen – Other Voices, Other Rooms | |
| 2017 | Gallery 2nd Floor Zlín – Third Space /presentation of projects/ |
| Art Space NOV Pardubice – Waste and Art III | |
| Gallery of the Slovácko Museum Uherské Hradiště – Memento Tiziani | |
| 2016 | The Chemistry Gallery Prague – Forest-ink |
| Kunstwerk Carlshütte, Büdelsdorf, Germany – NordArt | |
| Gallery Orlovna Kroměříž – Memento Tiziani | |
| Gallery UFFO Trutnov – Multipoint | |
| 2015 | Cinema Světozor Prague – 100 Posters for Terry´s Socks |
| 2014 | Gallery SPP Bratislava, Slovakia – Multipoint |
| Slovak Institute Warsaw, Poland – Multipoint | |
| Gallery Oravska Dolný Kubín, Slovakia – Multipoint | |
| 2012 | Church of St. Anthony of Peduan Sokolov – From Nowhere, For Nothing, Near the Border |
| Moving Station Pilsen – The Body Is the Earthly Garden of Suffering | |
| Divus Prager Kabarett Prague – Loving Antikrist | |
| 2011 | Gallery Gottfrei Opava – Salon 1 |
| Gallery Vednevnoci Hodonín – Salon 2011 | |
| Gallery of Fine Arts Hodonín – Young Meeting, XII. International Triennial of Young Artists | |
| 2010 | MeetFactory Prague – Artyčok. TV- Art Fair |
| Gallery Univerzum Nitra, Slovakia – Multipoint- International Art Symposium | |
| Gallery Orlovna Kroměříž – Great Stories of Someone Else | |
| Gallery Mine Michal Ostrava – Girl´s Dream | |
| Gallery and Museum Night in Zlín /Loft 577/ | |
| Exhibition Hall - Synagogue Hranice – Girl´s Dream | |
| 2009 | County Gallery of Fine Arts /Graphic Cabinet/ Zlín – Zlín's Picture of the World |
| County Gallery of Fine Arts Zlín – 5th Salon of Young Artists | |
| Reduta Brno – Girl´s Dream | |
| 2008 | Gallery of Fine Arts Hodonín – Small Format |
| Gallery of Fine Arts Hodonín – Young Meeting- XI. International Triennial of Young Artists | |
| Gallery Dolmen Brno – Three | |
| 2007 | Castle Gallery Uherský Ostroh – Intimacy |
| 2006 | Gallery AVU Prague – Spoon Pool |
| National Gallery - Trade Fair Palace Prague – AVU Graduates | |
| NoD Prague – Students of Vladimír Skrepl | |
| County Gallery of Fine Arts Zlín – 4th Salon of Young Artists | |
| FAVU Brno – Students of Vladimír Skrepl | |
| 2005 | Gallery Dining Room Česká Lípa – Contemporary Czech Collage |
| Gallery U dobrého pastýře Brno – Artkontakt | |
| House of Culture Opava – Karel Nepraš Lesbian School | |
| 2004 | Theatre Novanta Mělník – Variation 2004 |
| Gallery Vltavín Prague – Sichr Is Sychr | |
| Exhibition Hall of Karel Pippich Chrudim – Down Without | |
| 2003 | Theatre of Oskar Nedbal Tábor – Noisy Subscription |
| Gallery Husa na provázku Brno – Kalba | |
| City Museum and Gallery Svitavy – Tavba | |
| City Museum of Hořice v Podkrkonoší – After Year | |
| Theatre of Oskar Nedbal Tábor – Karel Nepraš Sculpture School | |
| 2002 | City Gallery Trutnov – Karel Nepraš Sculpture School |
Symposiums
| 2020 | 18. Kunstsymposium Strömungen/Proudení "Glocal Emotions", Dresden, Germany |
| 2019 | Internatiol Artistic Creation Workshop, Hajdúság, Hungary |
| 2017 | Waste and Art III, Pardubice |
| 2012 | Opava Semi-finished Product, symposium Gottfrei Opava |
| 2010 | Multipoint - International Art Symposium, Nitra, Slovakia |
| 2008 | Small Format, Hodonín |
| 2003 | Pacov Meridian, Pacov |
Representation in Collections
|
Marek collection, CZ |
| Gallery of Fine Arts Hodonin, CZ |
| City Gallery Hajdúböszörmény, HU |
| private collections |
Bibliography
| Close your eyes, everything will be fine, catalog © Gallery Caesar / 2021 |
| Fullmoon, magazine PDF / From Igráček to Hitler and back again © Prof.Neutrino 15/02/ 2021 |
| In My Atomic Shelter, catalog © Art Space NOV, Martina Vítková, Petr Vaňous / 2020 |
| Fullmoon, magazine PDF/ In the Kitchen Under the Table, In My Atomic Shelter © Prof.Neutrino 7/7/ 2020 |
| Important things are not talked about, catalog, page 144, 162-165 © Academy of Fine Arts in Prague / 2020 |
| My Atomic Age, magazine MAGnEUROPA Dresden © Michal Tošner, Simon Wolf 3/ 2019 |
| Painting III, catalog © Academy of Fine Arts in Prague / 2019 |
| AVU 220, catalog, page 275 © Academy of Fine Arts in Prague / 2019 |
| Radio Propaganda / text for the exhibition © Michal Tošner / 2019 |
| MF Dnes, newspaper / Obrazy Simony Blahutové nenechají diváka v klidu © Tomáš Plecháč 25/4/ 2019 |
| A_TEN_TÁTY__ / text for the exhibition © Michal Tošner / 2019 |
|
Kurt Gerstein Report / text for the exhibition © Miloš Doležal / 2017 |
|
NordArt, catalog, page 99 © Kunstwerk Carlshütte Germany / 2016 |
| Memento Tiziani, catalog, page 42, 43 © Gallery Orlovna / 2016 |
| Maybe the Magician Will Also Come / text for the exhibition © Martin Mikolášek / 2016 |
| The Black Tudor is Coming / text for the exhibition © Veronika Bromová / 2015 |
| The Body Is the Earthly Garden of Suffering, catalog © Johan centrum + ArtBuffe Plzeň / 2012 |
| GO, catalog PDF / Great Stories of Someone Else © GO! Gallery Orlovna / 2010 |
| 5th Zlin Youth Salon, catalog, page 42, 43 © County Gallery of Fine Arts Zlín, Ludvík Ševeček / 2009 |
| Atelier, magazine / Girl´s dream © Barbora Lungová 28/5/ 2009 |
| Mini / text for the exhibition © Barbora Lungová / 2008 |
| Atelier, magazine / The Cup with Cherry © Irena Prázdná 12/ 2007 |
| Intimacy, catalog, page 13 © Vojtěch Petratur, Bára Lungová / 2007 |
| Lidové noviny, newspaper / Gallery – Salon 23/9/ 2006 |
| AVU Graduates, catalog, page 7 © Academy of Fine Arts in Prague / 2006 |
| 4th Zlin Youth Salon, catalog, page 28, 29 © County Gallery of Fine Arts Zlín, Ludvík Ševeček / 2006 |
| /texts can be read in the News section/ |
Links
Czech TV, CT Art, reportage from the exhibition (Gallery Caesar), directed by Helena Dohnalová / 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVe0MLcYA_s
Czech Radio Vltava, interview from the exhibition (Art Space NOV), directed by Naďa Kubínková / 2020
Cargo Gallery, virtual exhibition: Atomic Age, directed by Alžběta Ambrožová / 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=8iE7F7eXfRE&feature=emb_title
Regional TV news, reportage from the exhibition (Gallery Manor House), since time 4:12 / 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GD2zln1VUE
Czech TV, Events in Culture, reportage from the exhibition (Gallery Down), directed by Lucie Křížková / 2016
Czech TV, Culture - TV medallion, directed by Jan Dadák / 2010
Czech Radio Vltava, interview from the exhibition (AVU Gallery), directed by Karel Oujezdský /2006
https://vltava.rozhlas.cz/slecno-milujete-meho-muze-5087421