Michal Ožibko
Michal Ožibko (*1981) created his first oil painting at the age of 14. While attending a secondary technical school, he discovered graffiti, which later influenced the large-scale canvases he produced during his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. This "street experience" also radicalized Ožibko's perspective on what can become the subject of his paintings. Michal's realistic painterly approach tends toward hyperrealistic visuality, yet he also ventures into a purely non-figurative style that, by contrast, possesses a strongly expressive character. He explains this by stating that it is impossible to strictly adhere to a single artistic style without risking a lapse into mannerism and cliché, viewing this "dualism" as a form of self-defense. On the art scene, he made perhaps his most significant mark with the diptych "iDeath," which won the visitor's choice award at the BP Portrait Award exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London in 2010. Thematically, Michal Ožibko's work focuses on depicting compositions of everyday objects, often existential in nature, or historically rooted themes that he redefines, shifting their contexts. He is typically known for working in smaller, closed cycles.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2022
Sale 3+2, 19 m2 (ground floor) Prague 1 - Hybernská, Prague
2020
Fire in the midst of waters, Contemporary Czech Art, Šumperk
2018
Out there somewhere, 4MAT gallery, Tábor
2017
Mind the gap, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
2016
... with Pearl Earring, Jellyfish gallery, Prague
2007
PAINTODAY, Šumperk Theater
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2026
The Preparation of Silence – Spot Gallery, Prague
Violence+ – Vila Pellé Gallery, Prague
2025
He’s Coming… Vratislav Nechleba (1885–1965): A Realist Trapped in Modernism – GASK Central Bohemian Regional Gallery, Kutná Hora
2024
RELOAD – SmetanaQ Gallery, Prague
2023
In Arte Voluptas – Portheimka Gallery, Prague
2020
22:22 III. – The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
2019
Genesis – Dancing House Gallery, Prague
Alchemy II – Monastery Church of St Anthony, Sokolov
2018
Old news – Arcimboldo gallery, Prague
10 yers of Chemistry, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
Reality show – Arcimboldo gallery, Prague
Other worlds, Caesar, Olomouc
Chemistry Salon – The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
2017
Passion – The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
The Art Of Making Catastrophe, ZOYA Gallery & Museum, Modrá, Slovenia
FASCINATION WITH REALITY – Olomouc Museum of Art, Olomouc
Forms of Hyperrealism – Mánes Exhibition Hall, Prague
2014
Wail of Silence, Prague
22:22 II. The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
2013
22:22, The Chemistry gallery, Prague
PAINTOMORROW – ERA Svět Gallery, Prague
Alchemy, Monastery Church of St Anthony, Sokolov
PAINTOMORROW – Tišnov Town Museum, Tišnov
2012
One hand washes the other, Aula FaVu, Brno
PAINTOMORROW, Šumperk Regional Museum of Local History, Šumperk
Recent Graduates, Navrátil Gallery, Prague
2011
Graduates AVU, Karlin hall, Prague
2010
BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London
Transformation, Berlin
2009
UNIVERSERUM, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
PAINt, OVM, Sumperk
2008
DEFENESTRATION, New Town Hall, Prague
2007
5 TAG, Jiří Trnka Gallery, Plzeň
2005
EXPOSE, Okresní Vlastivědné Muzeum, Šumperk
HYPERREALISM, Strakonice
2004
INVENTORY, Zahrada Cultural Center, Prague
