Bio

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 Cold War and the 1980s atmosphere in Eastern Europe, the dark side of modern Western society/

 

 

 

EDUCATION

2000-2006 Academy of Fine Arts in Prague 
  /Studio of Vladimír Skrepl, Studio of Michael Rittstein, Studio of Karel Nepraš/
2005 Robert Gordon University /Gray School of Art/, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 Karel Pippich Exhibition Hall, Chrudim – God blessed America
2022 Gallery Prostor 228, Liberec – The Healer
  Avoid Gallery, Prague – Radio Propaganda Starts Broadcasting
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'll Burn a Demon In a Cabriolet
2017 Gallery Suteren, Brno – Kurt Gerstein Report
2016 Gallery 1.2.3., Prague – The Last Day of Conspirators
  Gallery Panský dvůr, Veselí n.Moravou – I Got It, Agent Cooper
  Gallery Dole, Ostrava /with Bára Lungová/ – Maybe the Magician Will Also Come
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
  Gallery ZAS /Observatory/, Zlín – Planet Earth Is Almost Perfect
2008 La fabrika, Prague – Wu-Man
2007 Gallery V zahradě, Kolín – Love My Man
2006 Gallery AVU, Prague /with guests/ – Do You Love My Man?

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS

2023 Regional Gallery of Fine Arts, Zlín – Zlin Salon / contemporary art triennial
  Sint-Tillokerk, Kerkplein, Izegem, Belgium – Iz'Art twinning 2023
2022 KUNST/MITTE, Magdeburg, Germany – International Art Fair
2021 Gallery Caesar, Olomouc – 30 Years
  Gallery 90° + Rock cafe, Prague – Už je nejhůř II
  Valid World Hall Gallery, Barcelona, Spain – Barcelona Contemporary
2020 Runde Ecke, Dresden, Germany – Strömungen „Glocal Emotions“
2019 Gallery Millennium, Prague – Painting III
  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
  Exhibition Hall - Synagogue, Hranice – Girl´s Dream
2009 Regional Gallery of Fine Arts /Graphic Cabinet/, Zlín – Zlín's Picture of the World
  Regional 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
  Regional 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 the Slovak Museum Uh. Hradiste, CZ
Gallery of Fine Arts Hodonin, CZ
City Gallery Hajdúböszörmény, HU
private collections

BIBLIOGRAPHY

God has blessed America, catalog © Chrudimská beseda, Martina Vítková / 2023
House of Art Triennial II, catalog, page 22 © Regional Gallery of Fine Arts, Zlín / 2023  
Ambiguous Healer of an ambiguous disease / text for the exhibition © Petr Vaňous / 2022
Prostor Zlin, magazin, page 32 - 35 / Dystopian moments in the painting of Simona B. © Petr Vaňous 2/ 2021
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 / TV, RADIO

YouTube Channel Kodlc Chrudim, reportage from the exhibition (Karel Pippich Exhibition Hall) / 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDaR2iVlet8

 

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

https://mail.centrum.cz/download.php?msg_id=0000000081700003cd100508eb48&idx=1.2&filename=pce-art%20space%20nov-simona%20blahutova.mp3&r=62.37184805054734

 

Cargo Gallery, TV medallion, directed by Alžběta Ambrožová / 2020 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iE7F7eXfRE&t=9s

 

Regional TV news, reportage from the exhibition (Gallery Manor House), since time 4:10 / 2016 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GD2zln1VUE&t=252s

 

Czech TV, reportage from the exhibition (Gallery Down), since time 16:19, directed by Lucie Křížková / 2016

https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/ivysilani/1097206490-udalosti-v-kulture/216411000120122/obsah/447825-posedlost-moci-na-malirskem-platne

 

Czech TV, Culture - TV medallion, directed by Jan Dadák / 2010

https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/ivysilani/1183619616-kultura-cz/310295350090019/obsah/129565-portret-simona-blahutova

 

Czech Radio Vltava, interview from the exhibition (AVU Gallery), directed by Karel Oujezdský / 2006

https://vltava.rozhlas.cz/slecno-milujete-meho-muze-5087421