Tadeáš Kotrba
Tadeáš Kotrba (*1986, Valašské Meziříčí) paints figurative landscape paintings with the motif of a journey, barriers or discovering new spaces. It is based on experienced situations, real landscapes, and the scenes painted on the paintings can even resemble photographic snapshots in contours.
His thoughtful sequence of images within images, his intelligent way of treating the image-object as a narrative form, the simultaneous blending of painterly and graphic expression, the overlapping layers of past and future, civil and otherworldly, capture our attention with synthetic intensity. We perceive the personal level, we recognize a readable story, but we immediately enter an abstract landscape, an image-making space. In recent years, he has incorporated into his typical photographic scenery figurative drawings, reminiscent of demons or angels, robust visages inspired by the work of the last period of the life of father Mário Kotrba. At a given moment, the picture acquires two positions, namely the realistic plane of the author based on real life with a kind of imaginary world of stylized characters.
The author took charge of the space of Kaple Gallery in a unique way and realized an installation of paintings that fit directly into the environment of the Kaple Gallery. The exhibition will feature works that have never been exhibited before, as well as paintings that carry the spirit of the chapel.
Tadeáš Kotrba graduated from the High School of Applied Arts in Uherské Hradiště and then in 2012 he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in the studio Grafika I, J. Lindovský; studio of guest teacher J. Merta; studio Painting III, M. Rittstein. In 2011, he completed an internship at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, in Valašské Meziříčí he was a finalist for the Rudolf Schlattauer Award in 2016, he exhibits at home and abroad.
Solo exhibitions
2022
Rinascimento, Jilska 14, Prague
2021
River, Kaple Gallery, Valasske Mezirici
Standing on the Heads of Giants, GAVU, Cheb
Deepening, Optika Gallery, Zlín
2020
Scorched Land, Showcase AXA, Prague
2019
How Far I Can Carry You, 3. Etaz, Rožnov pod Radhoštěm
Family Demons, Galerie mesta Trince, Trinec
2018
Sanctuaries Underfoot, Via Art Gallery, Prague
Hope on the Horizon, GSH, Mladá Boleslav
2017
Three Principles, House of Arts, Brno
To Know Where You Are Coming From, Pram Gallery, Prague (with Veronika Durova)
Colour Above Dust, Photogether Gallery, Zlín
2016
Okolo Nohy Nia, Půda Gallery, Jihlava
Mamonaku, Projektplus Gallery, Prague (with Jan Richtr)
2015
My Taste In Women / Damn, I Love You, Slovacke Museum Gallery, Uherské Hradiště (with Tomáš Absolon)
Half-broken Memories, GASK, Kutná Hora
Fragments of Remaining Exoticness, Industrial Gallery, Ostrava
Exhausted, I Made My Way Through the Dark Undergrowth, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
2013
Still Life and Landscape, Cafe Portal, Uherské Hradiště (with Tomáš Absolon)
2012
Traces, Gallery of Fine Arts, Náchod
Traces in the Landscape, Galerie Langův dům, Frýdek-Místek
2011
Napůl, Galerie Via Art, Prague (with Ira Svobodová)
Marius Kotrba & Tadeáš Kotrba, Galerie CreArs, Rožnov pod Radhoštěm
2010
V Grafice, Studio Paměť, Prague, (with Hana Šuranská)
Group exhibitions
2022
Physiognomy of Contemporaneity, European Parliament building, Brussels
2021
Fenomeander, DOX, Prague
Ko-laborace, Pragovka Gallery, Praha
2020
+- Monochrome, GVCH, Zlín
The Pilgrim Who Returns, Church of the Annunciation, Litoměřice
<40, GVUN, Náchod
2019
Böhmerwald, Kvilda Gallery, Kvilda
Návraty, Galerie Slovacke Museum Gallery, Uherské Hradiště
Flying Inn, Pragovka, Prague
2017
States of Mind / Beyond the Image, GASK, Kutná Hora
With Wings, Pragovka, Prague
Junge Prager Junge Berliner, Cermak Eisenkraft, Smetana Q, Prague
The Story of /To/Day, Gallery of Modern Art, Hradec Králové
2016
Triennale Valmez, Rudolf Schlattauer Prize, Sýpka Gallery, Valašské Meziříčí
2015
Overture II., Hauch Gallery, Prague
Contemporary Art, Nová Síň, Prague
2014
Definig Continuity of Lines, Gallery NTK, Prague
GEN 2:7-18, Karlin Studios, Prague
2013
Triennale Valmez, Rudolf Schlattauer Prize, Sýpka Gallery, Valašské Meziříčí
Unsuspected Space Between Landscape and Soul, Letohrádek Hvězda, Prague
Young Graphic, Galerie Hollar, Praha
2012
Ein Dutzend Jahre Malerei III, Embassy of the Czech Republic, Vienna
Diplomky 2012, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
Graduates from AVU in Prague 2012, National Gallery, Prague
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2011
Project, Bayem Shaw Gallery, London
2010
Best of Klausury, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
2009
6th International Graphic Triennial, N.I. Institute and Museum, Bitola
Graphics of the Year, Clam-Gallas Palace, Prague
2008
Graph East, Lénna & Rosseli Gallery, Hall of Hungarian Creative Arts, Budapest
I.D.E.G.O., AVU Gallery, Prague
Graphics of the Year, Clam-Gallas Palace, Prague
