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.
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Michal MackůBorn 1963, Bruntal, 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 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 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 |