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Education:

1982 - 1986
The Hollar School of Applied & Graphic Arts,
Prague, Czech Republic
1986 - 1987
Masaryk Universty
, Brno , Czech Republic: art history
1987 - 1993
Academy of Visual Arts , Prague
(Milan Knizak, Ales Vesely)
fall 1999
Creative bursary at the Egon Schiele International
Art Centre, Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic

One-man shows:

1998

Josef Sudek Revisited
-
Photoshop Remix
Gallery 761, Ostrava, Czech Republic
invitation card


1996

Sweet shitting

Gallery U dobreho pastyre, Brno, Czech Republic
Curator: Tereza Petiskova
invitation card


1994

Chapters from the Art History

The Chalupecky Art Award Contest

(Czech version only)
Gallery MXM, Prague, Czech Republic (catalogue)
invitation card

Collective exhibitions:

1999

CZ99 - Nineties
Artlab, Prague, Czech Republic
Curators: Milan Salak, Jan Kadlec, Jiri David


1998

That's not possible
September 9-13
MXM
Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
(together with Petr Pisarik,Vilem Kabzan,Vladimir Skrepl,
Petr Pavlik and Jakub Spanihel)
invitation card

Harmony 98
The Spala Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
Curators: Martin Dostal & Jiri David
(catalogue)
invitation card

Reduced Budget (Snizeny rozpocet)
The Manes Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
Curators: Jana & Jiri Sevcik
(catalogue)


1997
Dead Souls
Gallery Nova Sin, Prague, Czech Republic
Curator: Martin Dostal


1996

Mrkacka
MXM Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
Curator: Martin Dostal
invitation card


1995

Selfmade
Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria.
(together with Véronique Elena, Rachel Evans, Mariko Mori,
Steven Pipin, Jason Rhoades, Barbara Visser and others)
Curators: Eva Maria Stadler a Thomas Trummer
(catalogue)
invitation card


1994

Elsewhere and in Time (Jinde a v case)
Public Gallery Nachod, Nachod, Czech Republic
Curator: Otto M. Urban
(catalogue)

Hybernatus
Gallery Akademy of Visual Arts, Prague, Czech Republic
invitation card

Young artists in the Obecni dum
Gallery

The Obecni dum
Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic


1993

Like Women (Jako zeny)
Gallery Nova sin, Prague, Czech Republic
Curator: Petr Pisarik
(catalogue)
invitation card


1992
Objects, Installations
Public Art Gallery in Zilina, Zilina, Slovakia
Curator: Katarina Rusnakova
(catalogue)

Kontakte '92
Museum Ostdeutsche Gallery Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
(catalogue)

Her brother, his husband (Jeji bratr, jeho manzel)
The Spala Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
Curator: Pavel Humhal

From Aezop to Maugli (Od Ezopa k Mauglimu)
The Spala Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
Curator: Milena Slavicka

Slovaques et Tcheques
Gallery Jojo Maeght, Paris, France

Prague, Bratislava, D'une generation, l'autre
Musee d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Curator: Suzanne Page
(catalogue)

Syrup (Sirup)
Pasinger Fabrik, Mnichov, Germany
Curators: Jana & Jiri Sevcik
(catalogue)

MXM Gallery
MXM Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
(together with Petr Lysacek, Michal Nesazal & Petr Pisarik)
invitation card


1991
Milan Knizak's Students
Culture Centre Blatiny, Prague, Czech Republic
November 6 - December 20
invitation card

Art Party II
Paraplu Fabrieken, Nijmegen, the Nederlands
(catalogue)
invitation card
installation view

New Names
The Spala Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
Curators: Marie Judlova a Mahulena Neslehova
July 29 - August 25
invitation card

Academy of Visual Arts Show
U Hybernu Palace, Prague, Czech Republic


1990
People to People / The Totalitarian Zone
The Stalin Monument, Prague, Czech Republic
invitation card

Art Party
Rock Cafe, Prague, Czech Republic


1989
Confrontation VI
Svarov, Czech Republic

Internet projects:

Online shitting
animated gif, 1998 www.ecn.cz/turek/shitting.html


Publications:

Zivel quarterly 13/1999, Lighthouse,
a picture from the "Chalupecky Art Award Contest" series

Detail
monthly 8/1998, page 8, Zena vyloucena z naseho sveta
(A woman expelled from our world, an article on Cindy Sherman)

Umelec/Artist monthly 6-7/1997, page 4,
from the Josef Sudek Revisited project
whole project on-line version

Detail monthly 8/1996, page 8-9, about the Sweet Shitting project
(Czech version only)

Divus yearly 3/ 1996, page 13 - 29, From the History of Art
- Filip Turek's collection, MXMIV.
(text - Czech version only)
whole project on-line version

Divus yearly 1/1995, page 15 - 18, drawings and poetry

Phill Tucker: The Chalupecky Art Award Contest
Published by Divus on the occasion of
the MXM Gallery exhibition, Prague, 1994.
on-line version

Vytvarne umeni, magazine for contemporary art
1/1992, page 62 - 63, interview with 4 young artists.

Essays and reviews:

Umelec
monthly 1/2000, page 46 - 51
Otto M. Urban: Anus et animus

Atelier
monthly 8/1997, page 12
Milena Slavicka: Dead Souls ( Mrtve duse)


Umelec monthly 2/1997, page 24
Simona Vladikova: Dead Souls (Mrtve duse)

Atelier monthly 6/1995, page 3
Dr. Pavel Petrik: More on the Turek versus Chalupecky case
(Pokracovani kauzy Turek versus Chalupecky)
Czech version only

Atelier monthly 2/1995, page 7
Radek Vana: Turek versus Chalupecky
czech version only

Tana Demcakova: An essay on the MXM Gallery exhibition
Academy of Visual Arts, Prague, December 15th, 1994

Lidove noviny daily, 24.11.1994, page 11
Lenka Lindaurova: Boring post-modern text book
(Nudna postmoderni citanka)
Czech version only

Vytvarne umeni, magazine for contemporary art
2-3/1993, page 59 -62, Ludvik Hlavacek: Filip Turek.

Playboy (Czech edition) 1/1991, page 17
Milan Knizak on Czech artists

Catalogues:

Harmony 98

Curators: Martin Dostal a Jiri David
Spala Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic, 1998
Text by: Martin Dostal
Hand-made catalogue

Reduced Budget (Snizeny rozpocet)
Curators: Jana & Jiri Sevcik
The Manes Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic, 1998
Text by: Jana & Jiri Sevcik

Selfmade
Published by Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria, 1995
Texts: Eva Maria Stadler, Thomas Trummer, Collier Schorr,
Wolfgang Pauser, Fritz Heubach, Richard Schusterman

Elsewhere and in Time (Jinde a v case)
Curator: Otto M. Urban
Nachod, Czech Republic, 1994
Texts by: Miroslav Petricek jr., Otto M. Urban, Tamara Bissell,
Ladislav Soukup

1993
Like Women (Jako zeny)

Curator: Petr Písaøík, Gallery Nova sin, Prague,
Czech Republic, 1993
Text by: Milena Slavicka

Sonsbeek 93
Jan Brand, Catelijne de Muynck, Valerie Smith, Arnhem,
the Netherlands, 1993, correspondence with Valerie Smith,
drawings and proposals, page 144 - 147

Objects, Installations
Published by Public Art Gallery in Zilina, Zilina, Slovakia,
1992 - 93
Text by: Katarina Rusnakova

Contacts '92
Published by Museum Ostdeutsche Gallery Regensburg,
Germany, 1992
Texts by: Otto Herbert Hajek, Sigrid Canz

Prague - Bratislava, d'une generation, l'autre
Published by Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris,
Paris, France, 1992
Texts by: Suzanne Page, Jana & Jiri Sevcik,
Zuzana Bartosova, Helena Kontova, Michel Nuridsany.

Sirup - junge Kunst aus der Tschechoslowakei
Published by Pasinger Fabrik, Mnichov, Germany, 1992
Text by: Jana & Jiri Sevcik

Art Party
Published by Extrapool/Knust, Nijmegen, the Nederlands, 1991
Hand-made catalogue

Performances and happenings:

1998

Vacuum-cleaning
JNJ Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic


1997

Warning young artists against the power of media
Quasi-lecture with a video projection
Club Roxy, Prague, Czech Republic
invitation card


1996

To be a dog in Ostrava
(with Petr Pavlik)
Festival Malamut '96, Ostrava, Czech Republic.


1991

The Pink Tank Project

Prague, Czech Republic
Concept by: David Cerny

Harvest-Home Celebration
Performance at the festival MilanoPoesia, Milano, Italy

The Evening of Fire (Vecer ohne)
(on the occasion of Jan Palach's suicide anniversary)
Performance with installation
Live music by Martin Janicek, Ivan Vizner & IvanVosecky
Academy of Visual Arts, Prague, Czech Republic


1990

Performance

(together with Petr Lysacek)
Wenceslas Square, Prague, Czech Republic
March

Video:

Salvator Dali with his work
VHS, 1996, an everlasting loop

© Filip Turek 1999