Krištof Kintera

Krištof kintera is a Czeck republic sculpture and installation artist, he lives and works in Prague. His work is often distinguished by its grandeur and spatiality presence, by its entirely recycled components and especially by its conceptual formats that interrogate ecological issues. The sense of parodical dark humor is omnipresent in almost all his artworks, by which the artist explores different far-reaching vital topics.

BIO 

Krištof Kintera, born in 1973, Prague, Czech Republic.

Lives and works in Prague.

FORMATION

1992–96 | Prague/Czech Republic | Academy of Fine Arts | B. A. Academy of Fine Arts

1997–99 | Prague/Czech Republic | Academy of Fine Arts | M. A. Academy of Fine Arts

2003–04 | Amsterdam, Netherland | Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten

QUOTES

“I am aware of our responsibility of drastic change of climate, extinctions of species and all kinds of living organism, and therefore we’ll face sooner or later fatal problems. It is our shame, it is my shame”

SOLO EXHIBITIONS HIGHLIGHTS

2021 | Padova / Italy | Orto Botanico | Installation | This is How Nature Works | Link

2021 | Borgo Valsugana / Italy | Artesella | Sculpture | Memorial of Passed Light | Link

2020 | Birmingham / Great Britain | IKON gallery | Sculptures / Installation | The End of  Fun! | Link

2020 | Prague / Czech Republic | Galerie Zdenek Sklenář | Installation | Neuropolis | Link

2019 | Rome / Italy | Z2O – Sara Zanin Gallery | Sculptures / Installation | No One Has Nothing | Link

2018 | Prague / Czech Republic | Galerie Zdenek Sklenář | Sculptures / Installation | I’m a Piece of Stick Painted White | Link

2017 | Prague / Czech Republic | Galerie Rudolfinum | Sculptures / Installation | Nervous Trees | Link

2017 | Reggio Emilia / Italy | Maramotti Collection | Installation | Postnaturalia | Link

2016 | Bratislava / Slovakia | Kunsthalle LAB | Sculptures / Installation | Natural Nervosity | Link

2015 | Rotterdam / Netherlands | Kunsthal Rotterdam | Sculptures / Installation | Your Light is My Life | Link

2014 | Basel / Switzerland | Tinguely Museum | Installation | I am not you | Link

2013 | Berlin / Germany | Gallery Jiri Svetka | Sculptures / Installation | Bad News | Link

2013 | Brno / Czech Rep | MEM-Fait Gallery | Sculptures | Hollywoodoo | Link

2012 | Berlin / Germany | Galerie Schleicher/Lange | Installation | Demon of the Growth | Link

2010 | Berlin / Germany | Galerie JIří Švestka |Installation | A Bigger Problem Than Yours | Link

AWARDS

2011 | Prague/Czech Republic | Personality of the Year award for living artists

2005 | Prague/Czech Republic | Prague Biennale II

1996 | Bratislava / Slovakia | Honour prize of Soros centrum of Contemporary Art

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