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Jaroslav Valečka
Jaroslav Valečka M. A.
born on Otober 27 th 1972
 
 
                                                            Photo Petr Šálek

 

Studies:

1987-1991 Elementary school of art (prof. Vlastimil Šik)

1991-1998 Art Academy Prague (studio of painting led by prof. Sopko and studio of figurative sculpture led by prof. Hendrych)

 


Scholarships:

1994 Vestlandes Kunstakademi, Bergen, Norwa

1995 Staatliche Kunstakademie Karlsruhe, Germany
1996 Royal academy Rotterdam, Netherlands


Workshops:

1997 Festival international des arts de la rue, Dijon, France

2006 North Bohemian Landscape, Louny (catalogue)
2008 L´art dans les petites cites de caractiere, Bretagne, France (catalogue)
2010 Im Reich der Steines, Saxonia, Germany (catalogue)


Prizes and awards:

  
1993 Award of Soros foundation for contemporary art

1994 Prize of foundation Herbert von Hayek
1994 J. and M. Jelínek foundation scholarship

1995 SBC art competition London
1996 Hlávka foundation award
1997 Prize of Foundation de Bourgogne


Solo exhibitions (selection):

1997 Paintings, Muzeum Děčín, Czech republic
1997 Paintings, Merkner gallery, Prague
1998 Paintings, Art Academy gallery, Prague ( together with J. Turner)
1998 Paintings, House of Art, České Budějovice, Czech republic
1999 Drawings, Mrtvá ryba, Prague
2000 Paintings and drawings, Templ, Mladá Boleslav, Czech republic
2001 Paintings, Bayer Bayer gallery, Prague
2001 Drawings, Mrtvá ryba, Prague
2002 Paintings, Hrádek, Kutná Hora, Czech republic
2002 Paintings, Na schodech gallery, Tisá, Czech republic
2002 Paintings, The gallery of Youth, Brno, Czech republic
2003 Paintings and drawings, Ve dvoře gallery, Litoměřice, Czech republic
2004 Paintings, Bayer & Bayer, Prague
2004 Paintings, Jídelna gallery, Česká Lípa, Czech republic
2005 Paintings, Galerie u kostela Bílina, Czech republic
2005 Paintings, IMC institute Prague
2005 Paintings, Artkontakt gallery, Brno, Czech republic
2005 Paintings, HVB bank Valdek, Prague, Czech republic
2005 Paintings, Klicperovo divadlo, Hradec Králové, Czech republic
2006 Paintings, Galerie Pintner, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2006 "Bloody romances", OGV gallery Jihlava, Czech republic

 

 

"Bloody romances", OGV gallery Jihlava


2006 Paintings, CHKO gallery, Děčín, Czech republic
2006 "The trip", XXL gallery, Louny, Czech republic
2006 Paintings, Vltavín gallery, Prague
2007 Paintings, Strabag, Prague
2007 Paintings, Vernon gallery, Prague
2008 "White nights", Kotelna gallery, Říčany, Czech republic
2008 "Landscape covered by darkness", Beseda gallery, Ostrava, Czech republic
2008 "The Way to the North", Dolmen gallery, Prague
2009 "The Nigtmares", Gallery v Zahradě, Kolín, Czech republic
2009 Paintings, Rabas gallery, Rakovník, Czech republic
2009 "Carnet des voyages", Chateau Chateugiron, France
2009 "The paintings from the North", Bystřice pod Hostýnem castle, Czech republic
2009 Paintings, Česká pojišťovna gallery, Prague
2010 "The Horizonts", City gallery, Chrudim
2010 "Private landscapes", Diamant gallery, Prague (together with J. Hauschka and M. Urbanová)
2010 " From Dusk till Dawn" Art-pro gallery, Prague
2010 Paintings, Alšova Jihočeská galerie, České Budějovice
2010 "Northern landscapes", Flora gallery, Prague

2011 "Stuck in the emotional landsacape", Red gate gallery, London (together with J. Hauschka)

 

 

"Stuck in the emotional landsacape", Red gate gallery, London 


2011 " A raw lyricism", Galerie 21. století, Prague
2011 Paintings, Magna gallery, Ostrava

2012 "Morbid romance", Galerie 21. století, Prague
2012, "My childhood Landscapes", House of Art, Opava
2012 "Captive of Dreams", Dolní Brána gallery, Prachatice
2012 "Stories from Sudetenland", Prostor 228, Liberec

2013 "A long way home", Potheimka gallery, Prague
2013 Paintings, Galerie Ve věži, Planá
2013 "Sudetenland", Vltavín gallery Prague
2014 Diamonds of the Night, Era svět, Prague

2015 Long Nights, Atelier Fiala, Prague

2015 Czech Landscape, City theatre Jablonec nad Nisou
2015 The Shadows of Sudetenland, Špála gallery, Prague

 

 

The Shadows of Sudetenland, Špála gallery, Prague


2016 The Dusk Landscapes, City Gallery, Pardubice
2016 The Inner Landscapes, The outer Landscapes, GASK Kutná Hora

2017 Dream of the North, Regional gallery, Liberec

 

 

Dream of the North, Regional gallery, Liberec

 

2017 The Silence, City gallery, Prague 1
2018 Resurrection, Arcimboldo Gallery, Prague
2018, Silent Road to the Dark, Galerie kritiků, Prague
2019 The Line of Fire, Zaza Gallery, Ostrava
2019 A City Radiation, City Museum, Králíky

2019 White Vasteland, Toyen City Gallery, Prague
2020 Pictura Obscura, Regional gallery, Most

 

 

Pictura Obscura, Regional gallery, Most


2020 Tale stories and Balads, Gallery of critics, Prague
2021 North wind is cruel, Aleš South Bohemian gallery, České Budějovice

 

 

North wind is cruel, Aleš South Bohemian gallery, České Budějovice

 

2021 Tale stories and crimes, MUD, Benešov

2021 Unce upon a time on the North, Chagall gallery, Ostrava
2021 Dark stories, Gallery 1, Prague

2021 Nocturno, Crears gallery, Rožnov 

2022 Worlds in between, Gallery Twenty-six, Wien 

2022 The silent Landsccapes, Gallery Artkoncept, Prague
2022 Landscape of lost Memory, Regional gallery, Havlíčkův Brod
2022 Zwinschen Welten, Galerie Ebner-Eschenbach, Znojmo
2023 Theatrum Mundi, Galerie Art Praha, Prague
2023 Once upon a time, Regional gallery, Česká Lípa
2023 Neurosis and innocence, Špála Gallery Prague

2024 The Horizonts, Galerie Crears, Rožnov

 

 

 


Group exhibitions (selection):

1993 Art academy at Hybern's palace, Prague
1994 PEN klub, Prague
1995 Austelung der stipendianten, Lichthalle Karlsruhe, Germany
1995 SBC art competition exhibition, London
1996 Salle dés marchandes, Dijon, France
1997Art academy at Mánes, Prague
1998 The graduates, National gallery, Prague
1999 An unplanned connection, Mánes, Prague
2000 The green, Art academy gallery, Prague
2001 Fair of art, Prague
2002 Art Prague, Prague
2003 281 m2, Špála gallery, Prague
2003 Agua art, Galerie kritiků gallery, Prague
2003 Art Prague, Prague
2003 Perfect tense, Prague castle, Prague
2004 The underwiew of Smíchov, U kamene gallery, Cheb, Czech republic
2004 Fairy tailles in czech modern an contemporary painting, Gallery of modern art, Hradec Králové, Czech republic
2004 Art Prague, Prague
2005 Contemporary Czech art, XXL gallery Louny, Czech republic
2005 Romantic horror, Gallery u Prstenu, Prague
2005 Wiew from the other side, U kostela Bílina, Bílina, Czech republic
2006 Next station Arkadia, Galerry of modern art, Roudnice nad Labem, Czech republic
2006 Students and graduates of Jiří Sopko, Alšova jihočeská galerry, České Budějovice, Czech republic
2006 Next station Arkadia, Schloss Pirna, Germany
2006 Lucky A12, Chrudim gallery, Czech republic
2006 Art Prague, Špála gallery, Prague
2006 North bohemian landscape, Gallery XXL, Louny, Czech republic
2006 The underwiew of Smíchov II, Jídelna gallery, Česká Lípa, Czech republic
2006 15 years of Bayer&Bayer gallery, Monmartre gallery, Prague
2007 Accrochage, Vltavín gallery, Prague
2007 Typical painting II., Nová síň gallery, Prague
2007 New patience, Mánes, Prague
2007 Konforntace, Svárov, Czech republic
2007 Stuck in the middle of the november, Topič salon gallery, Prague
2008 Art prague, Mánes, Prague
2008 Unselled paintings, Benedikt Rejt gallery, Louny, Czech republic
2008 All about Prague, White Box gallery, Munchen, Germany
2008 Stuck in the November, Dolmen gallery, Brno, Czech republic
2009 Carnet des voyages, Becherel, France
2009 Transfer, House of Art, Brno , Czech republic
2009 Art dans les cites-peintres Tcheques, Chateau de Josselin, France
2009 Aperto!, Dolmen gallery, Prague
2009 Stuck in...., Uherské Hradiště, Czech republic
2009 Brno Art fair, Brno, Czech republic
2009 Art dans les petites cites de charactere, Galerie de Treguier, France
2009 Transfer, Czech centre, New York
2010 Im Reich der Steines, Festung Koenigstein, Germany
2010 Summer coctail, Galerie Michal´s collection, Prague
2010 Stuck athe National gallery, Galerie 21. století, Praha
2010 "Dark night, Clear night", Alšova jihočeská gallery, České Budějovice

2011 "Natvrdlí", Dům umění, Opava

2011 Prague stuckists, Výstavní síň Chrudim
2011 "Natvrdlí", Michal´s Collection, Prague
2011 Enemies of Art, Lauderdale house, London
2011 "Art Prague in Brussel", Prague house, Brussel
2011 "Natvrdlí", Galerie 21.století, Prague
2011 Art Prague, Mánes, Prague

2011 "Originální a perspektivní", BMAG, Prague

2011 "Natvrdlí", Beseda gallery, Ostrava

2011 "DYS..." Veletržní palác, National gallery, Prague

 

 

"DYS...", National gallery, Prague


2012 "SVU Mánes Jubilee",  Diamant gallery, Prague
2012 "Species Periclitata", Artpro gallery, Prague
2012 "Free direction", Severočeská gallery, Litoměřice
2012 "Stuckists tarot show", Insligton Art Factory London
2012 "Natvrdlí", City gallery, Svitavy

2012 Stuckists: Elizabethian Avant-Garde, Bermondsey Project, London  

2012 "Originální perspektivy", Gallery Klatovy - Klenová
2013 Natvrdlí, Galerie kritiků gallery, Prague  

2013 STUCK, between Prague and London, Nolias 11 gallery, London, (catalogue)
2013 Natvrdlí, OGV gallery Jihlava

2013 Second day after the End of the World, Czech centre, Prague
2013 Process in Mánesova street, Galerie Mánesova, Praha
2013 Border line syndrom, Galerie Uffo, Trutnov, (catalogue)
2013 STUCK in Pardubice, městská galerie Pardubice, (catalogue)
2014 The Stuckists, Explorers and Inventors, Phoenix, USA
2014 Orbis Pictus, Trafo gallery, Prague
2014 C3 Gallery Tempe, Arizona, USA

2014 Borderline syndrom,Klatovy / Klenová, gallery, (catalogue)

 

 

 

Borderline syndrom,Klatovy / Klenová, gallery


2014 The Body - and letter, Rabasova gallery Rakovník, (catalogue)

2014 Back to sun , Goltozova tvrz gallery, Golčův Jeníkov, (catalogue)
2014 STUCK!!, Vltavín gallery, Prague, (catalogue)
2014, Borderline syndrome, Ostrale, Dresden, Germany, (catalogue)

 

 

Ostrale, Borderline syndrom, Dresden


2014 Last hours of Human, Galerie 1, Prague
2015 Borderline syndrom, Art prague
2015 Crossing lines, Artatak gallery, Prague

2015 Acrochage, Chateau Kvasiny

2015 L ˇart dans les cités, Chateu Chateurigon, France

2015 Volné M assotiation in Synagouge, Palmovka synagogue, Prague, (catalogue)

2015 Holy ways, European arts, Prague, (catalogue)

2015 Stuckism Remordenising the Mainstream, Studio 3 Gallery, Universtiy of Canterbury, (catalogue)

 

 

Stuckism Remordenising the Mainstream, Studio 3 Gallery, Universtiy of Canterbury

 

2015 The Border-line-syndrom, GVU Karlovy Vary(catalogue)

2016 Art Prague, Prague
2016 The Border-line-syndrom, Alfred Kubin Gallery, Munich

2016 The Stuckists Art Show, Wiew two Gallery, Liverpool

2017 Gegenstand Wiederstand, OstDeutschegalerie, Regensburg (catalogue)

2017 The Stuckists, Cass Art Inslington, London
2017 Nude Muses, European Arts, Praha

2017 International Stuckist, Quintus Gallery, Watkins Glen,USA
2018 States of Mind/ Beyond the Image, GASK gallery, Kutná Hora (catalogue)

2018 Art Prague, Prague 
2018 Factory Tour, House of Art, Opava
2019 Ausstellung 70 Jahre KunstlerGilde,Eslingen,
2019 Old news, Gallery Arcimboldo, Prague

2020 The Stuckists, Sayé Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2020 Fair for Art Wien, Wien

2021 The Visit, City museum, Hlinsko

2021 Sudeteland,Regional gallery, Rychnov nad Kněžnou

2021 Fair for Art Wien, Wien
2022 WIKAM artfair, Wien
2022 STUCK in Venice, Crea gallery, Venice
2023 All flowers of the world, Galerie Klatovy / Klenová

2023 Baeutifull horror, Regonal gallery, Karlovy Vary

2023 Stuckists in Ostrov Regional gallery

2024 Selected works, Twenty six gallery Wien

2024 Castle on the castle, Galerie Klatovy / Klenová


Monographs:

 2010 Jaroslav Valečka, texts by Vlastimil Tetiva, AJG gallery, 128 pages
 2015 Jaroslav Valečka, texts by Edward Lucie-Smith, Rea Michalová, Martina Vítková, Veronika Marešová

 2021 Jaroslav Valečka, texts byAdam Hnojil, Paul Harvey, Charles Thomson, Markéta Hornerová, Rea Michalová, Jolana Pastor, Edward Lucie-Smith, Zuzana Štěpanovičová, Kateřina Tučková, Martina Vítková a Radek Wohlmuth



Catalogues:

2006 Jaroslav Valečka, Paintings, text by P. Vaňous and R. Janás, 36 pages

2006 Jaroslav Valečka Bilder, text by Dusan Pintner, Frankfurt am Main
2007 Jaroslav Valečka, Edition Arskontakt, text by K. Tučková, 48 pages
2008 Landscape covered by darkness, Beseda gallery Ostrava, texts by P. Pivoda and P. Vaňous, 36 pages
2009 Jaroslav Valečka, Paintings, Rabas gallery Rakovník, text by R. Janás, 32 pages
2009 Jaroslav Valečka, Paintings, Česká pojišťovna gallery, Praha, text by K. Tučková, 10pages
2010 Jaroslav Valečka, The Horizonts, text by K. Tučková, 32 pages
2011 Stuck in the emotional landscape, Victoria Press, London, text by Charles Thompson, 64 pages

2013 Návrat domů, (A long way home), text by Rea Michalová, 48 pages
2016 The Dream of the North, text by Zuzana Štěpanovičová, 72 pages

2022 Zwinchen Welten, Twenty six gallery, Wien, text Katharine Hesse, 72 pages

2023 50 stories of painter Valečky, Tetxt Jolana Pastor, 108 pages

 

 




Group catalogues:


1995 SBC Art competition, London,
1996 New testament in art, Ambit gallery, Prague
1998 The graduates, National gallery, Prague
1999 A Unplanned connection, Mánes gallery, Prague
2003 Perfect tense, Prague castle riding hall, Prague
2004 Art Prague, Prague
2004 Unce upon a time…., Gallery of modern art, Hradec Králové
2005 Unce upon a time ...., Gallery of modern art, Cheb
2006 Next station Arcadia, Gallery of modern art Roudnice nad Labem and Schloss Pirna
2006 The students and graduates of prof. Jiří Sopko, Alšova Jihočeská gallery, České Budějovice
2006 Art Prague 2006, Mánes a Špála gallery, Prague
2007 Typical painting II., Nová síň gallery, Prague
2007 Nová trpělivost, Mánes, Prague
2007 Stuck in the middle of the november, Topičův salón, Prague
2008 Galerie Vernon / Vernon projekt 2007, Prague
2008 White nights, Kotelna gallery, Říčany
2008 Art Prague, Mánes, Prague
2008 Transfer, White Box gallery, Munich
2008 Stuck in the midlle of November, Dolmen gallery, Brno
2008 The landscape of Ústí nad labem region, XXL gallery, Louny
2009 Peintres Tcheques, edition Uest France
2010 Summer coctail, Galerie Michal´s collection, Prague
2010 Im Reich der Steines, Festung Koenigstein, Germany
2010 "Dark night, Clear night", Alšova jihočeská gallery

2011 Prague stuckists, Výstavní síň Chrudim
2011 Enemies of Art, Victoria Press, London
2011 Art Prague, Mánes, Prague
2011 5 lyears of Beseda gallery, Beseda gallery, Ostrava
2011 Originální a perspektivní, BMAG gallery, Prague, text by Rea Michalová
2011 Natvrdlí, Beseda gallery, Ostrava, text by Rea Michalová

2012 Species Periclitata, Artpro gallery, Prague
2013 Natvrdlí, Galerie kritiků gallery, Prague, text by Rea Michalová
2013 STUCK between Prague and London, Victoria press, London, text by Edward Lucien-Smith
2013 Borderline syndrom, Galerie Michal ´s collection, text Rea Michalová

2014 STUCK!!, Galerie Vltavín, text by Kateřina Tučková
2014 Borderline syndrom, Ostrale, Germany, text by Rea Michalová
2014 Contemporary Czech Art, text by Martin Fryč
2015 Art Prague, text by Iva Nesvatbová

2015 Holy ways, text by Rea Michalová

2015 Volné M assotiation in synagogue, text by Josef Záruba-Pfeffermann
2017 Gegenstand Wiederstand, Ost Deutschegalerie, Regensburg, text by J. Gartner

2017 Nude Muses, European Arts, Praha, text by Rea Michalová
2018 States of Mind/ Beyond the Image, GASK gallery, Kutná Hora, text by Richard Drury
2023 STUCK in Venice, text Martin Dostál

 


Lexicons and encyclopedias:

2006 Czech lexicon of individualities, Hamaro, Prague

2006 New encyclopedia of Czech visual arts, Academia, Prague
2008 The lexicon of Czech and Slovak visual artists
2009 Stuckism international, Victoria press, London

2020 Edward Lucien Smith, Movements in art since 1945, Thames&Hudson

 

 



Collections:  

 

National gallery, Prague, Czech rep.

Alšova Jihočeská gallery, Czech. rep.
Centre for contemporary art, Prague, Czech rep.
Credit Mutuel de Bretagne, France
Festung Koenigstein samlung, Germany
Foundation de Bourgogne, France

GASK, Kutná Hora, Czech rep.

Regional Gallery, Most
Hlávka foundation, Prague, Czech rep.

Gallery Klatovy - Klenová, Czech rep.

Gallery of Fine Art, Karlovy Vary, Czech. rep.
Gallery of modern art, Roudnice nad Labem, Czech rep.
Gallery of city Chrudim, Czech rep.

Regional gallery, Liberec, Czech rep.

Regional Gallery, Česká Lípa, Czech rep.

Regional gallery, Havlíčkův Brod, Czech rep.

Regional Museum, Králíky, Czech rep.
Rabas Gallery, Rakovník, Czech rep.
Collection of State Department of Czech rep.


Pivate collections: Canada, Czech republic, France, Chile, Israel, Germany, Holland, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Austria, Spain, USA, UK

Member of Central Europe stuckists