David Cerny has Palm Springs talking. The controversial and spectacular art installation of 10 massive babies with bar codes instead of faces caused an initial outrage, but soon became the most visited public art installation in the desert and a social media sensation. As Christian Hohmann says "Whenever art touches on raw emotions and creates controversy, it also creates conversation and with it an opportunity to educate."
HOHMANN will premiere two brand new resin works by David Cerny at this year's booth at Art Miami.
Artist David Černý has pinned his “BEETLE” on BB Centrum.
“BROUK” or “BEETLE”, a sculpture in the shape of the legendary Porsche 911 automobile and one of the unique moving installations from artist David Černý, can be seen from the beginning of April in BB Centrum in Prague 4. Passerinvest Group, which is behind the development of this location and which has long invested in non-profit projects and the development of the public space, has thus enriched this space with an untraditional installation, which will also welcome people to the complex.
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David Černý was born in 1967 in Prague, Czech Republic
Černý burst into the public eye in 1991 when he painted a Soviet tank, that served as a war memorial in central Prague, the color pink. Creating extreme controversy with his work, this international sculptor has been described as “witty, exciting, kinetic, crass and provocative”. Černý is the son of a graphic designer father and a mother who was a restorer of art in the National Gallery of Prague. He learned his trade at the Academy of Applied Art in the country’s capital, studied in Boswil on a grant from the Swiss government, and also in New York City at P.S.I Artists Residence New York before taking part in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.
His works are characteristically bold, courageous and reach into sensitive political, historical and social themes, all sprinkled with the unconventional artist’s sarcastic humor. In his hometown of Prague alone, Černý has 14 installations in public spaces that have become major public attractions. In 2001 he created a non-profit cultural art and event center in a former 1920’s glass warehouse in Prague, which he named the “Meet Factory”. Černý calls his factory a “multicultural supermarket”, as it houses a theater, music stage and 16 studious occupied by a total of 30 international artists.
1995-1996 |
Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York, USA |
1994-1995 |
P.S.I. artists residence, New York, USA |
1991 |
Sculptor’s residency grant Swiss government in Boswil, Switzerland |
1988-1994 |
Academy of Applied Arts, Prof. Kurt Gebauer, Prague |
2016 |
"legs" rio de janeiro, Olympic house Czech republic |
Black Hole DSC gallery prague |
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2014 |
DSC gallery, Prague |
2013 |
Mucsarnok, Budapest |
DSC gallery, Prague |
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Kuchling Gallery, Berlin |
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"Fuck You Mr President" Prague, Vltava river |
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2012 |
"London Booster", London Olympic games |
2010 |
Mona Lisa gallery Olomouc |
Gallery Arsenal, Poznan |
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2009 |
DSC gallery prague |
"Entropa", European commity, Bruxels |
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2007 |
"Man hanging out" Chicago, USA |
2002 |
"Cirkus Cerny", MAMA gallery / Netherlands Architecture Institute / TENT / Politiegalerie / |
"Political Pop", chromosome Berlin, Germany |
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Galerie V kapli, Bruntal, Czech Republic |
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2000 |
NYU, Prague |
1999 |
Czech Embassy London, Great Britain |
1993 |
“Artificial”, Spalova Gallery, Prague |
1992 |
“Fertility”, Rubin Club, Center of Performing Arts, with Marketa Bankova, Prague |
1993 |
“Draft”, Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art, Medzilaborce, Slovakia |
“Smallness” State Gallery, Znojmo, Czech Republic |
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1990 |
“Exhibition for The Meanest Instincts”, Club Delta, with Tomas Pospiszyl, Prague |
2020 |
“Art in Oisterwik”, Holland |
2019 |
"Sculpture by the sea" Sydney, Australia |
2018 |
“Shenzen biennale”, China |
2016 |
"NordArt" Regensburg, Germany |
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"Observations: A Digital Life" New York, USA |
2015 |
"Open Air" Orebro, Sweden |
2014 |
“Sculpture by the sea” Sydney, Australia “Signal festival” Prague “Light festival” Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
2013 |
“Twente Biennale”, Hengelo, The Netherlands “Art Masters”, San Moritz, Swiss |
2012 |
“Biele Noci” Kosice, Slovakia |
2011 |
“Twente Biennale”, Hengelo, The Netherlands “Inspiracje”, Szczecin, Poland “ArtBoom”, Krakow, Poland “Cenzurovano” Zlin, CR “Mapy” GMB, Bratislava, “Groteska”, NOD, Praha |
MojA, Praha “Nord Art”, Rensbourg, Germany |
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2010 |
“Twente Biennale” Amsterdam “AntiBeeld” , Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam “Homo Erotica” National Museum Warsaw “Colours” Dresden motorhalle “Art Pricze” DOX Prague “Dekadence now” Umprum, Prague Danubiana, Bratislava |
2009 |
Chalupecky Prize, Seoul, Korea Monument ghmp, Pragu “Po Sametu” U zlateho Prstenu , Prague Center for Contemporary Art - Plovdiv Pecsgallery, Hungary Irokez Gallery, Budapest “Katowice biennial” Poland |
2008 |
Interferencia Barcelona Madrid |
2006 |
“Project 2006 Beaufort”, Oostende,Belgium “Shadows of Humor”, Wroclaw BWA Gallery,Poland “Waste of Humor” Cieszyn, Poland |
2005 |
"Prague Biennale” Prague “Pink”, Tokyo nat. univ. of art , Tokyo “Living Together”, Odapark Venray, Holland “happy materials” NTM, Prague “Beautyfreeshop” , Prague |
2003 |
“SURVEY ’03“, Futura Gallery, Prague “Aus Liebe“, Galerie der Stadt Remscheid, Remscheid, Germany |
2002 |
“Politikum”, Prague Castle, Pragu “Between Dresden and Prague”, Italian Embassy, Prague |
2001 |
“to flow to”, chromosome Berlin, Germany “A Sense of Wellbeing”, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic |
2000 |
“Czech History”, SKODA Pavillion, Autostadt Volkswagen, Wolfsburg, Germany “Maso / Meet“, Chalupeckého Prize, National Gallery, Prague “Bohemian Birds”, Kunsthalle Dresden, Germany “The End of the World”, National Gallery, Prague |
1999-2000 |
“After the Wall. Art and Culture in post-Communist Europe” Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Ludwig Museum Budapest – Museum of Contemporary Art, Hungary Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany |
1999 |
99 CZ, Prague |
1998 |
Atelier of all Sculpturing, Prague “Nad Možnosti” City Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic |
1997 |
Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague SCCA Kyjev, Ukraine Joslyn Memorial Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, USA Veletržní palác, Art in public space, Prague Czech Cultural Center, Berlin, Germany |
1996 |
Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York, USA Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA Technische Sammlung Dresden, Dresden, Germany “Object: Video”, Landesgalerie Linz, Austria “Beyond Belief” Allen Memorial Arts Museum, Oberlin, USA Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA |
1995 |
“Orbis Fictus”, New Media in Contemporary Arts, National Gallery, Prague “Artcircolo 95”, Castle Melnik by Prague P.S.1 94-95 Studio artists, The clocktower, New York, USA “Beyond Belief”, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Chicago, USA |
1994 |
600 SIAF, Seoul International Art Festival, Seoul, Korea The 22nd Sao Paolo International Biennial Sao Paolo, Brasil “Impermanent Places, Seven Installations from Prague” The World Financial Center, New York, USA “You Must Remember This”, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA “Young Artist from Prague”, Duesseldorf - Kunstmuseum, Germany |
1993 |
“Europe without Walls”, City Galleries, Manchester, Great Britain |
1992 |
“Edge 92”, Madrid - London, International Biennial of Visual and Performance Art, Spain |
1991 |
Light Festival of avant-garde Art under the former Stalin monument, Prague Sargfabrik, International Exhibition of Young Artists, Vienna, Austria |
1990 |
“Czech Alternative”, Galerie ULUV, Prague Old Town Yards, open-air exhibition of Contemporary Art, Prague |
1989 |
“Smile, Joke and Grim”, Palace of Culture, State Gallery, Prague “November 89”, Manes, State Gallery, Prague The Neostunners, Prague - underground exhibition of Art group |
1987 |
“Bridge”, Prague “Vychovatel ke strachu”, Dir P. Marek - Animation |
1986 |
“Sounds”, Ostrava, Czech Republic" |
1997 |
“Buttoners (Knoflíkáji)”, dir. Petr Zelenka - actor and stage designer |
1998 |
“Prague stories”, dir A.Benki - actor and stage designer |
“Touch of picture”, FAMU, architect |
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2002-2004 |
ARTOZA, Czech TV , monthly magazine about contemporary art, screenplay and theme |
2004 |
Zkamenělý dítě, Music video LUCIE band |
2012 |
Karel Vas, dokument, narrator |
1987-1990 |
Stage design for Theatre Rubin Praha, Prague |
1999 |
Dir. David Czesaný, Drama Studio Ústí n. Labem, Czech Republic |
2001 |
George Tabori - Vídenský rízek, Dir.Jirí Pokorný, Theatre On the Balustrade |
2014 |
Vaclav Havel, Theatre Na zabradli, Prague |
SKODA Pavillion, Autostadt Volkswagen, Wolfsburg, Germany Museum of Modern Art, San Diego, USA German Embassy, Prague, Czech Republic Gallery of Modern Art Olomouc Museum Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin, Germany Military museum, Lesany, Czech Republic Private collections in Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, USA, Greece, GB, France etc.. |
2000 |
Chalupecky Prize, National prize for young artist,Czech Republic |
1996 |
Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, USA |
1990 |
Special Prize in the Biennale of Kortrijk, Belgium |
Since 2020 |
“Lynch” Los Angeles, USA |
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“Falcons”, Doha, Qatar |
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“Beetle”, Prague, Czech Rep |
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“Quo Vadis” Berlin, Germany |
Since 2018 |
“Horspowers”, Prague, Czech Rep |
Since 2017 |
"Thief" Museum of modern art Olomouc |
Since 2016 |
"Head", Royal Caribbean |
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"Trifoot", Prague |
Since 2015 |
"Thinker", San Moritz, Switzerland |
Since 2014 |
“Three Babies”, Private Collection, Australia |
“K”, Prague Czech republic |
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Since 2011 |
“Crychloids”, Miura design hotel, Celadna, Czech Republic |
Since 2010 |
“Golem”, Poznan, Poland |
Since 2008 |
“Embryo” theatre Na zabradli, Prague |
Since 2006 |
“Metalmorphosis” fountain, Charlotte, USA, |
Since 2005 |
“Bus Stop-Still-Life” Liberec, Czech Republic |
Since 2004 |
“Three Babies” Middelkerke, Belgium “Streams” Hergetova Cihelna, Prague, Czech Republic |
2004 |
Winner of II WW memorial for Prague, not realized because of political statement of author |
Since 2003 |
“Sochy / Brownnosers” Futura Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic |
Since 2001 |
“10 Dkg Tanku / A Hundred Grams of Tank”, Lázne Bohdanec, Czech Republic “Mimina / Babies”, TV tower, Prague, Czech Republic |
Since 2000 |
“Czech native sceen”, autostadt Wolfsburg, Germany |
Since 1999 |
“Saint Wenceslav”, Lucerna Passage, Prague, Czech Republic |
Since 1994 |
“Pink Tank”, Vojenske Museum (Military Technical Museum), Lesany, Czech Republic |
Since 1990 |
“Quo Vadis”, German ambassy Prague, Czech Republic |
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