Tomáš Tichý
Tomáš Tichý (1984) is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (2011). In 2009, he studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. His work is often shortlisted for prestigious art prizes (e.g. Wells Art Contemporary, the Columbia Threadneedle Prize, CBM Prize). His work was featured in the After Rembrandt exhibition project held at the National Gallery in Prague and at the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne (2016 - 2021). He is represented abroad by the Italian gallery CRAG.
In his figurative paintings, Tomáš Tichý has been observing the changes that human sensitivity has gone through under the circumstances of the post-media era (characterised by the junction of various types of media) and the digital era. His work reacts to the flood of photo images and motion pictures that become, whether on a conscious or a sub-conscious level, an integral part of our lives, transforming the surface of reality and sculpting a new dimension of our perception that automatically involves elements of manipulation and equalisation. Tomáš Tichý studies how the world of new media interacts with certain visual genres such as fashion, sports, politics, and consumerism, and with the trend of creating attractive, easy-to-remember visual setups (artificial paradises) and idols (celebrities). He compares and examines the relationship between the traditional painting that hangs on a wall and certain new impulses that transform the linguistic framework of painting and set it into motion.
Petr Vaňous
Solo exhibitions:
2026
Reload, Jan Čejka Gallery, Praha
2025
Dopamind, Spot Gallery, Prague
Bio Digitalis, Regional Museum and Gallery, Most
Fata Morgana, Antonín Dvořák Theatre, Ostrava
2023
Living Room Facing the Street, Artefin Gallery, Prague
2022
Continuum, Crag Gallery, Turin, Italy
Disconnected, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
2020
Echo, Galerie Krystal, Havířov (CZ)
2019
Monoscope, Peron Gallery, Prague
In Private, (with Kateřina Čápová), HYB4, Prague
2018
Instantlife (with Ondrej Oliva), Kotelna Gallery, Prague
About a Digital Dream, Crag Gallery, Torino, Italy
Waves, Museum of Modern Arts, Náchod
2017
Signal 2.0, Contact Office of the Free State of Saxony in Prague
2016
After Rembrandt, Sternberk Palace, National Gallery Prague
Fortress, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
2015
Pentimenti, Peron Gallery, Prague
(an)organic codes (with Ondřej Oliva), The Kotelna Gallery, Prague
2014
The Artificial Paradises, The Chemistry Gallery / BADOKH, Prague
Projection, Salon Vaňkovka, Brno
2013
After the Supper, Prague House, Brussels, Belgium
Mein Blick auf die Dinge, Salve Art Gallery, Leipzig, Germany
The Theatre, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
2012
On the Road, Contact Office of the Free State of Saxony in Prague
All My Tiny Little Things, Primavesi Gallery, Olomouc
All My Tiny Little Things (with Ondřej Oliva ), Museum of Minsk, Belarus
2011
Tomáš Tichý and Ondřej Oliva, Water Power Station, Semily
2010
Contrasts, Trafo Gallery, Prague
2009
Deep inside (with Tomáš Spevák), GAVU, Prague
Group exhibitions:
2026
Metastory, Stage Garden, Rožnov pod Radhoštěm
2024
Faceless, Gallery of Fine Arts in Ostrava
2023
In Arte Voluptas, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
2020
Mikulov Symposium, Chateau Mikulov
Rembrandt: Portrait of a Man, Kinsky Palace, National Gallery Prague
10 Years of Exhibition Project Until 40, Gallery of Fine Arts in Náchod
2019
Inside Rembrandt, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany
PragArtworks – Velvet Edition, Prague
2018
Wells Art Contemporary, Bishop’s Palace, Somerset, United Kingdom
The Columbia Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries, London, United Kingdom
10 YEARS OF CHEMISTRY, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
CHEMISTRY SALÓN, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
Dancing People are never wrong, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
2017
Passion, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
Story of (To)day, Gallery of Modern Art in Hradec Králové
PragArtworks, Group Exhibition, Prague
The Art of Making Catastrophe, Zoya Museum, Modra, Slovakia
2016
Misteriosa, Crag Gallery, Turin, Italy
Narciso, Crag Gallery, Turin, Italy
Look at me, Areacreativa42, Turin, Italy
The Columbia Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries, London, United Kingdom
The Columbia Threadneedle Prize, Pallazzo Strozzi, Firenze, Italy
Art Prize CBM - Torino, Prague, London
2015
Summer Show, Millenium Gallery, Prague
Temporary Contemporary, The Chemistry Gallery – Lobkowicz Palace, Prague
Forum Junge Kunst, Schönsee, Regensburg, Plzeň
2014
The Thereadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries, London, United Kingdom
Art Prague, Peron Gallery, Mánes, Prague
2013
Celeste Prize Exhibition, Rome, Italy
“7”, Trafo Gallery, Prague
Biannual for Diaconia IV, Prague
Leinwand, Salve Art Gallery, Leipzig, Germany
No Show! K4 Gallery, Prague
No Show! Emil Filla Gallery, Ústí nad Labem
2011
Fifth over Ninth, Trafo Gallery, Prague
Caleidoscope, Kotelna Gallery, Prague
The Best of Graduates, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
Graduates from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Karlin Hall, Prague
2010
Chance Project, Vltavin Gallery, Prague
ARScontact, Confrontation, Prague, Brno
