Jan Uldrych
The focus of Uldrych's attention is the inner world of experience, the boundaries of human perception, and the themes of the subconscious and memories. “I am interested in a certain confrontation with reality. We do not know with unshakable certainty where its borders really are, what it creates and where our source of consciousness is. I don't want to paint only the things I see with my eyes. I want to go beyond what we commonly call "reality". I am interested in the inner structure of being, something original, something that seeps from other levels of consciousness. This way we avoid lies - we are not transforming the outside world, but our experiences of another give us answers to what the world "out there" rather is not," says Jan Uldrych. All the more interesting are the resulting paintings by Uldrych. Imagination - traditionally understood as realistic (putting aside the issue of realism as "convention") - is presented in the paintings as completely unknown and unknowable, anchored in the reality of the unseen entity. The visual character thus resembles the abstract, nonfigurative positions of painting. Jan Uldrych is aware of this, and over time he began to reflect on the relationship between transparent depiction and the course, expressive gesture which is usually associated with abstraction. As a result, Udrych puts before us ideal and perfect windows with his paintings: we see the world beyond them
clearly and distinctly, but we have no rational experience of what we see out there, our mind simply does not have the concepts by which we can grasp what is being depicted. His paintings thus call for a "Wittgenstein silence" - What cannot be talked about must be kept silent." Therefore, the contours of realism and reality are shaped into a pure and clean creative and conceptually inconceivable image experience, in an attempt to resurrect the "innocent eye".

Solo exhibitions
2024
Garden, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
2022
Fairytale, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
2019
Roots, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
2018
Kolo, Knupp Gallery, Prague
Prayer, Volta New York Fair, The Chemistry Gallery
2017
The Cave, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
2015
Bug In The Head, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
2014
Source Code, The Chemistry gallery, Grid, Prague
299792, Knupp Gallery, Prague
2012
Tera Incognita,GHMP, House at the Golden Ring, Prague
Group exhibitions
2021
KOSMOS, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
2020
22:22 3, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
2018
Can't stop kissing you, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
Art market Budapest", Budapest
Vizuální mytologie", Regional Gallery in Jihlava, Vysočina
2017
Between Spaces, Los Angeles
2016
Spectaculare Art Show : Otisk hudby", The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
Art Fair Cologne
Velvet and Glass, Los Angeles
Art Prize CBM Art Salon S Gallery III edition, Dancing House, Prague
Art Show LA Convention Center", Los Angeles, Knupp Gallery
2015
CZECH in LA with Building Bridges Art Exchange, Los Angeles
Art Prize CBM, III Edition, Rivarolo C.se Turin, Italy
2014
22:22/2, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
2013
An Unsuspected Space on the Border of Landscape and Soul, Letohrádek Hvězda
22:22, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
Selection, Knupp Gallery, Prague
Contemporary realistic painting from the collection of Pavel Feigl Zdeněk Beran and his students, Black Swan Gallery, Prague
2012
PAINTOMORROW, Šumperk Gallery, Šumperk
Česká malba, Piešťany
Again, Trafo gallery, Prague
Except for Alice - The Realm Behind The Mirror, Orlovna Gallery, Kroměříž
2011
HYPE-R-R, Artprogallery, Prague
PREVIEW, The Chemistry Galery, Prague
4, Kotelna Gallery
2009
Articulation, Diamont Gallery, Prague
PAIN(t), Šumperk Gallery, Šumperk