Aleš Brázdil
Asides from a sense for the illusionar y nature of expression, Aleš Brázdil’s paintings are also characterised by the presence of a certain sense of visual irritation. Observation of the artist’s paintings arouses a feeling of profound unease. To transform one’s artistic abilities into a visual form – registering among observers as dynamic, of free-flowing substance, and that can freely continue to be further reshaped, manipulated, and reformed according to par ticular needs the author of fers an examination of an analogical world of a reproduced record, in which the static medium of both classic and digital photography, and the configurational time-based media of video, film, digital capture, and documentation are utilised. Brázdil is fascinated by the notion of a time capsule, fixed within the medium of choice, and which can be returned to at will. But what are the hidden motivations that lie behind the artistic “mining” that yields such reproductions?
text: Petr Vaňous
Solo exhibitions:
2026
Tender blue, Nookart studio, Prague
2023
Videodrome, dvúr Králové nad Labem
Mailer daemon, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
Cosmos, together with Jan Uldrych, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
2020
Crawling on bruised knees, Kotelna Gallery, Prague
Trance, (2) Dum Radost, The Chemistry Gallery
2019
Trance, Badokh, Prague
2017
Pictures, Galerie Michal’s Collection, Prague
Portrait, Beseda Gallery, Ostrava
2016
Highly Thin Joints, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
Sadly, for Me, K10 Coworking, Prague
2011
Nobody Likes Me, Michal’s Collection Gallery, Prague
Group exhibitions:
2025
Preparations for Silence, Spot Gallery, Prague
Face to Face, Pilsen City Gallery
2024
Faceless, Ostrava House of Art
2023
One Man's Ceiling Is Another Man's Floor, Rooftop Radost, Prague
2020
Mikulov Symposium, Mikulov Castle
Scope , New York, USA
22:22 (3), The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
2019
Just Kids, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
2018
10 YEARS OF CHEMISTRY, Hala 17, Prague
Chemistry Salon, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
The Art of Making Catastrophe, Zoya Muzeum, Modra
Art Market Budapest, International Art Fair, Budapest, Hungary 2016
DANCING PEOPLE ARE NEVER WRONG, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
2017
Passion, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
2016
Artefakt, The Chemistry Design Store, Prague
Art for Heart, Mánes Gallery, Prague
Resurrection, Trafo Gallery, Prague
Klenova › ART ‹ Schwandorf, Klenova
2015
Holy ways, Europeans Art Gallery, Prague
The Face of Plzeň, Depo 2015, Pilsen
2014
Arnold and Children, Galerie Michal’s Collection, Prague
OSTRALE 014, Dresden, Germany
The Dark Depths of Happiness, Orlovna Gallery, Kroměříž
22:22 2, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
Temple of Freedom, Red Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2013
Confidential Report ,Galerie NOD, Prague
The Dark Depths of Happiness, New Town Hall, Prague
22:22, The Chemistry Gallery, Praha
Terminal, Mimochodem Gallery, Prague
2012
Contemporary Czech Art, National Gallery, Prague
Czech Pictures, Galerie Piestany, Piestany
One hand washes the other, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
Dreams of Youth, Gallery Art Affair, Regensburg
2011
Something Else, Dea Orh Art Gallery, Prague
Kick-off, DSC Gallery, Prague
2010
Gallery Kunstverein Graz, Regensburg
Scarecrows, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
2009
Articulation, Galerie Diamant, Prague
2007
AVU18, National Gallery, Prague
Defenestration, New Town Hall, Prague
