Michal Macků

Born 1963, Bruntal, Czech Republic
Lives and Works in Olomouc, Czech Republic

Karin Weber Gallery artist Michal Macků uses historical photographic techniques in the creation of three-dimensional glass objects.

Solo Exhibitions

2016

‘Skleněné objekty’, Galerie Zet, Velká Bystřice, Czech Republic

2014

Michal Macků – Gelages, verres, carbones, Czech Centre in Paris and Galerie David Guiraud, Paris

2013

‘Michal Macků – 3D Photography’, Paci Contemporary, Brescia, Italy
‘Michal Macků, Antonin Tesar’, Galerie Mona Lisa, Olomouc, Czech Republic

2012

Wei-Ling Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

2011

‘Michal Macků – Glass Photo’, Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong

2009

‘Glass Photo’, PaciArte Contemporary, Brescia, Italy

‘Gellages’, Wei-Ling Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Galerie Museum Art St.Urban. St. Urban, Switzerland

2008

‘Sklenene Gelaze’, Galerie V Kapli, Bruntal, Czech Republic

Galerie David Guiraud, Paris, France

2007

Bielske centrum kultury, Foto Art Festival, Bielsko-Biala, Poland

‘Over The Photo’, Galleria PaciArte Contemporary, Brescia, Italy

‘Bilder vom Menschen’, In focus Galerie, Cologne, Germany

Galery Na Soljanke, Moscow, Russia

Galerie Caesar, Olomouc, Czech Republic

2006

‘Ottoman Mint complex’, IFSAK, Istanbul, Turkey

Photo Event, Turnhout, Belgium

Galerie Art Affair, Regensburg, Germany

2005

Czech Centre, München, Germany

Státní zámek Třeboň, Czech Republic

Městské divadlo Zlín, Czech Republic

Galerie Palais Breuner, Vienna, Austria

Gallery “pf”, Poznaň, Poland

‘Vize, čin, sen, smrt’, Galerie Brno, Brno, Czech Republic

2004

J&T Bank, Prague, Czech Republic

‘In focus’ Galerie am Dom, Cologne, Germany

John Stevenson Gallery, New York

Aberystwyth Art College, Aberystwyth, UK

Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea, UK

2002

Galeria Omar Alonzo, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

2001

FotoGaleria Teatro San Martin, Buenos Aires

Estudio Lisenberg, Buenos Aires

2000

John Stevenson Gallery, New York

1999

Galerie Pennings, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

‘In focus’ Galerie am Dom, Cologne, Germany

1998

Galerie „U Řečických”, Prague, Czech Republic

1996

Photoforum Feldeg, Zürich, Switzerland

Galleri Karneval, Albrunna, Sweden

Photography Gallery, Perth, Australia

Slezské muzeum, Opava, Czech Republic

Gallery St.Gervais, Geneva, Switzerland

Victor Barsokevitsch-Valokuvakeskus, Kuopio, Finland

1995

Kino Prostějov, Czech Republic

Photogalerie Bild, Aarau, Switzerland

1994

Galerie Ambrosiana, Brno, Czech Republic

Prague House of Photography, Prague, Czech Republic

1993

Galerie Aura, Olomouc, Czech Republic

1992

Umělecká průmyslovka, Palisády, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia

Galerie Mladých, Brno, Czechoslovakia

Galerie Caesar, Olomouc, Czechoslovakia

Galerie Bílá růže, Pratur, Czechoslovakia

1991

Fotografisk Galleri, Copenhagen, Denmark

Galerie pod podloubím, Olomouc, Czechoslovakia

1990

Galerie Centrum, Plzeň, Czechoslovakia

Kulturní Dům, Bruntál, Czechoslovakia

Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, USA

Group Exhibitions

2018

‘Human Nature’, Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong

2016

Michal Macku, Antonit Tesař, Jan Saudek, Galerie STP, Greifswald, Germany

2015

‘Love is…’, In Focus Galeria, Cologne, Germany

‘A Touch of Glass’, Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong

2014

‘Zářivý krystal – Bohumil Kubišta a české umění 1905 – 2013’, Galerie Výtrvarného umění v Ostravě, Ostrava, Czech Republic
’Meta-illusioni: il giardino dell´impossibile’, Villa di Donato, Napoli, Italy

2010

Exposed – Nude Photography in the XX, Century, In Focus Galerie, Cologne, Germany

‘Darkness for Light – Czech Photography Today’, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2009

Tschechische Fotografie des 20. Jahrhunderts, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany

2008

Love – frammenti visivi di un discorso amoroso, Gallerie Civiche d´Arte Contemporanea di Palazzo

Ducale, Modena, Italy

2007

‘Expressive Bodies: Contemporary Art Photography from The Kinsey Institute’, Herron Gallery, Indianapolis, USA

2006

‘Noble Processes, in a Digital Age’, John Stevenson Gallery, New York

‘Autopoesis’, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia

2005

NEW ART Redefining „The Photograph“ – collage, overpainting, 3-dimensions, and more, John Stevenson Gallery, New York

Czech Photography of the 20th Century, The City Gallery of Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

2003

‘Celebration of Light: Photographs from the Collection of Cherye and Jim Pierce’, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

2001

‘Re-presenting Representation V – Arnot Art Museum’, Rockwell Museum of Western Art, New York, USA

2000

‘Optical Delusions: Jokes, Puns, and Sleights-of-Hand in Photography’, The Art Institute of Chicago, USA

‘Tre samtida fotografer fran Tjeckien’, Replica Theater and Art Center, Stockholm, Sweden

‘Akt v české fotografii’ (The Nude in Czech Photography), Císařská konírna Pražského hradu (The Imperial Stables at the Prague Castle), Prague, Czech Republic

1999`

Czech Photography of the 1990s, The Art Institute of Chicago, USA

Video Virtuale, Foto Fictionale, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany

1998

‘Sicherheit und Suche in der tschechischen Fotografie der neunziger Jahre’, Berlin, Germany

‘The Body in Contemporary Czech Photography’, London, UK

1997

‘The Body in Contemporary Czech Photography’, Macintosh Gallery, Glasgow, UK

1996

Jistoty a hledání v české fotografii 90.let (Certainty and Searching in Czech Photography of the 1990s) Nejvyšší purkrabství Pražského hradu (Burgrave´s House of Prague Castle), Prague, Czech Republic

1995

Institut tvůrčí fotografie 25/5, Slezské zemské muzeum, Opava, Czech Republic

1994

After the Velvet Revolution, 15 Czech & Slovak Photographers: 4 photos each, Photography Gallery, Perth, Australia

‘Revelations, Photographs of Male and Female Nudes’, The Gallery at John Jones, London, UK

1993

‘Czech Photography of the 1990s’, Fotofeis, Maclaurin Art Gallery, Ayr, Scotland, UK

1992

‘What´s New: Prague’, The Art Institute of Chicago, USA

1991

Bilder Lust, Galerie Rhanitzgasse der Landeshauptstadt, Sachsen (traveled to Dresden; Museum Ludwig, Cologne), Germany

‘The Male – Contemporary Male Nude Photographs’, Portfolio Gallery, London, UK

1990

‘Tschechoslovakische Fotografie Der Gegenwart’, Cologne (traveled to Erlangen, Metz, Luxembourg, Strassbourg, Odense, Freiburg, Barcelona, Texas, Lawrence)

Collections

Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA

Museum for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark

The Royal Library of Denmark, Copenhagen

Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France

Harvard Visual Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA

Moravská Galerie v Brně, Brno, Czech Republic

Muzeum Umění Olomouc, Czech Republic;

MOPA – Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, USA

Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA

Kinsey Institute, Indianopolis, USA

Collection of Cherye R. and James F. Pierce

Private art collection of Jacqueline Bisset

Art Fairs

Art Chicago, SCOPE New York, Art Stage Singapore, SCOPE Miami, Art Verona, SCOPE Basel, ARCO Madrid, Photo Miami, Art First Bologna, Cologne Fine Art Fair, AAF Hong Kong, AAF Hamburg

Publications

The Metamorphosis of Mack, Walter Guadagnini, Brescia, Italy, 2013

The Elements of Photography, Angela Faris Belt, Focal Press, USA, 2008

Black & White Magazine, Issue 79, March 2007, USA

Schwarzweiss 46, Das Magazin für Fotografie, Juni-Juli 2005, Germany

Vize, čin, sen, smrt (Vision, Deed, Dream, Death), 2005, Exhibition catalogue, Galerie Brno, Czech Republic

Strange Genius, 2002, The Journal of Contemporary Photography, Volume V, USA

Re-presenting Representation V, 2001, Arnot Art Museum, New York, USA

Akt v ceske fotografii – The Nude in Czech Photography, Vladimir Birgus and Jan Mlcoch, KANT, Prague 2001

The AIPAD Photography Show, 2000 Membership Directory and Illustrated Catalogue, Washington, D.C., USA

Fotografie v Českých zemích 1839 – 1999, Vladimír Birgus, Pavel Scheufler, Prague 1999

Česká fotografie 90 let – Czech Photography of the 1990s by Vladimír Birgus and Miroslav

Vojtechovský, Prague, Chicago 1999

Kamera Obskura, No.3, 1998, Moscow, Russia

Chimaera, Aktuelle Photokunst aus Mitteleuropa, 1997, Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg, Halle, Germany

Katalog, Journal of Photography and Video, winter 1997, Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark

20th Century Photography, Museum Ludwig Koln, Taschen, 1996

Photographers Encyclopedia International – 1839 to the present, Maison Européenne de la

Photographie, Paris, 1996

‘Jistoty a hledání v české fotografii 90.let – Certainty and Searching in Czech Photography of the 1990s’ by Vladimír Birgus and Miroslav Vojtechovský, Prague, 1996

Fully exposed – The Male Nude in Photography by Emanuel Cooper, Routledge, London, 1995

Contemporary Photographers, 3rd edition, St. James Press, Detroit, 1995

Graphis Photo, Zurich 1993

Encyklopedie českých a slovenských fotografů, Prague 1993

Bilder Lust by Ulrich Domrose, Heidelberg 1991

Současná česká a slovenská fotografie, Prague 1991

Misselbeck, Cologne, 1990

‘Tschechoslovakische Fotografie Der Gegenwart’ by Vladimír Birgus and Reinhold