Ivan Pinkava
Ivan Pinkava (*1961) studied in 1977–1981 at the Secondary Industrial School of Graphic Arts in Prague and then Art Photography at FAMU. In 1989, together with other photographers, he co-founded the Prague House of Photography (PHP), and from 2005 to 2007 he was the head of the Photography Studio at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts. Outside of Czech institutions, he is represented in the collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, the Gernsheim Collection in Texas, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Kinsey Institute Art Collection in Bloomington, The Dali Photo Museum in China, the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego and many others.
Stone
Pigment print on Hahnemuhle Photorag baryta
136 x 104 cm
2017
Reserved
Orange
Gelatin silver print (1/13)
48,5 x 36 cm
2004
Vejce a vosk
Gelatin silver print (4/10)
105 x 135 cm
2002
Spiritual Exercises III
photography
68 x 82 cm
2003
Moonshine
Pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta mounted on dibond (6/10)
105 x 136 cm
2018
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Pigment print on Hahneumhüle Photo Rag Baryta mounted on disbond (4/10)
105 x 136 cm
2020
Downfall (Paeonia)
Pigment print on Hahnemuhle Photorag baryta (1/10)
136 x 104 cm
2022
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Photorag baryta (1/10)
136 x 104 cm
2022
Melancholy
analogue photography (11/13)
36 x 51 cm
2004
Menza III
Pigment print on Hahneumhüle Photo Rag Baryta mounted on disbond (2/10)
105 x 136 cm
2016
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Pigment print on Hahneumhüle Photo Rag Baryta mounted on disbond (1/10)
25,5 x 34 x 3
2015
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analogue photography
60 x 80 cm
2010
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Pigment print on Hahnemügle Photorag baryta (1/10)
25,5 x 34 x 3 cm
2020
Gravity
analogue
138 x 97 cm
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Bez názvu
Pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta mounted on disband (1/10)
105 x 136 cm
2019
Bez názvu
Pigment print on Hahneumhüle Photo Rag Baryta mounted on dibond (1/10)
105 x 136 cm
2018
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Pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta mounted on dibond (1/10)
105 x 136 cm
2019
Komoda
Pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta mounted on dibond (1/10)
25,5 x 34 x 3 cm
2018
Vejce a vosk
Gelatin silver print (4/10)
2002
Sold
Bez názvu
Pigment print on Hahnemühle Photorag baryta mounted on dibond
105 x 135 cm
2015
Bez názvu
Pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta mounted on dibond (2/10)
105 x 136 cm
2019
Bez názvu
Pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta mounted on dibond (1/5)
22,5 x 30 cm
2016
2020
- Ivan Pinkava / Dogma of Photography Gallery Nola, Náchod
2020
- Ivan Pinkava / Backtracking Gallery of Contemporary Art and Architecture – České Budějovice House of Art, České Budějovice
2019
- Ivan Pinkava / Pod židlí židle Ateliér Josefa Sudka, Prague
2018
- Ivan Pinkava, Vznešený poutník Trutnov City Gallery, Trutnov
2018
- Ivan Pinkava, Zbývá jenom zlato Lachian Museum, Kopřivnice
2018
- Ivan Pinkava / Eliáš Dolejší, Burning through / Napřed uhořet GVUO Ostrava, Ostrava
2016
- Ivan Pinkava, Temporary Contemporary II, Nothing Will Come of Nothing. Speak Again Lobkowicz Palace, Prague
2016
- Ivan Pinkava, Shenzhen International Photography Week Shenzhen
2015
- Ivan Pinkava – Categorie of Fiction See + Gallery, Beijing
2015
- Stühle in der Nacht Tschechisches Zentrum, Wien
2015
- Trônes délaissés Stimultania Gallery, Strassbourg
2014
- Anthropologie Fait Gallery, Brno
2013
- Stripped-off Ornament / Stržený ornament Zahorian &co Gallery, Bratislava
2012
- Remains AU Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington DC
2012
- Indexace Dům Gallery, Broumov
2011
- Opposite White Fiducia Gallery, Ostrava
2011
- Opposite White L’Été photographique de Lectoure, Hotel de ville / Ancient tribunal, Lectoure
2010
- Where the Place – Upon the Heath /Ještě místo – pustá zem (with Josef Bolf) Západočeská Galerie, Pilsen
2010
- Seul reste l’or Galerie Seine 51, Paris
2009
- Silence, Silence, Dream and Three Mattresses Vernon International & in Stage, Padua
2007
- Salome Jižní zahrady Pražského Hradu, Prague
2006
- Heroes – choice Central exhibition hall „Manesh“, Moscow
2006
- Ivan Pinkava Galerie Ars, Brno
2004
- Heroes – Ivan Pinkava Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague
2002
- TNF Ateliér Josef Sudek, Prague
2001
- Theatre of Lost Soul Mesaros Gallery, Morgantown, WV, USA
2001
- Adam and Eve Fiducia Gallery, Ostrava
1999
- Cain and Abel Galerie Allan, Wien
1999
- Kain und Abel Tschechisches Zentrum, Berlin
1999
- Ivan Pinkava, Month of Photography Bratislava
1998
- Kain a Ábel Galerie JNJ, Prague
1997
- Ivan Pinkava, Centro de la Imagen Palatio Bellas Artes, Mexico City
1996
- Ivan Pinkava Vrais Rèves Galerie, Lyon
1996
- Ivan Pinkava Galerie G4, Cheb
1996
- Portraits Frederiks Bastion Gallery, Kobenhavn
1995
- Portrait Galerie Pallas, Prague
1995
- Memento Mori (with Václav Jirásek and Robert V. Novák) Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague; later in Mexico City
1992
- Dynasty Pražský dům fotografie, Prague
1992
- Ivan Pinkava Hippolyte Gallery, Helsinki
1990
- Ivan Pinkava – Fotografien Fotogalerie in der Brotfabrik, Berlin
2019
- Inverzná romantika, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Bratislava
2019
- Retina, možnosti malby (1989-2019), 8SMIČKA, Humpolec
2018
- Dimension of Dialogue / Možnosti Dialogu, National Gallery, Salm Palace, Prague
2018
- Slunce v úplňku (Pinkava, Štech, Typlt, Kintera, Polách), DSC Gallery, Prague
2018
- Sudek, Funke, Drtikol, Česká a slovenská fotografie ze sbírky PPF Oblastní galerie Liberec, Liberec
2016
- Šum andělských křídel Olomouc Museum of Art, Olomouc
2016
- Ornament Masy (Fragmenty z biblie vizuality) #2 Nitra Gallery, Nitra
2015
- See + Gallery Avant-Garde and Contemporary, Beijing
2014
- Zářivý Krystal, Bohumil Kubišta a české umění 1905–2013 The House of Arts GVUO, Ostrava
2014
- Kouzla zátiší Josef Sudek Atelier, Prague
2013
- Solitude (Ivan Pinkava, Martin Gerboc, Jiří Petrbok) Zahorian &co Gallery, Bratislava
2012
- The intimated Circle in Contemporary Czech Photograpy Municipal Library, Prague
2011
- Fundamenty & Sedimenty GHMP, Prague
2011
- Fotografie – mutující médium Gallery Rudolfinum, Prague
2011
- …a jiné věci Galerie Caesar, Olomouc
2010
- Decadence Now / Vision of Excess Gallery Rudolfinum, Prague
2010
- EGO, portrait × photography Langhans Gallery, Prague
2010
- Darkness for Light – Czech Photography Today Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
2009
- Černobílé Zlaté město 09 Topičův salon, Prague
2009
- Tschechische Fotografie des 20. Jahrhunderts Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn
2008
- The Third Side of the Wall The Moravian Gallery, Brno
2008
- Nový urbanismus Gallery Seiene 51, Paris
2007
- My Favorites Photography Gallery Seiene 51, Paris
2006
- Sigmund Freud, Život – sen Staroměstská radnice, Prague
2006
- Closed Eyes Museet for Fotokunst, Odense
2004
- Il Nudo, Fra Ideale e Realità Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna
2004
- Gods Becoming Men Frissiras Museum, Athens
2002
- Česká a slovenská fotografie osmdesátých a devadesátých let 20. století Olomouc Museum of Art, Olomouc
2001
- Czech Photography Benham Studio / Gallery, Seattle
2001
- GoEurope: the kaleidoscopic eye Kunsthalle des Artmax, Braunschweig
2000
- Gallery Replica, Stockholm
2000
- Portrait New Gallery, Houston
2000
- Akt v české fotografii Tsar's stables at the Prague Castle, Prague
1999
- Czech Photography in the 20th Century The Eli Lemberger Museum of Photography at Tel-Hai Industrial Park, Israel
1999
- Czech and Slovak Photography Czech Centrum, New York
1998
- Tělo a fotografie National Gallery, Salm palace, Prague
1996
- Facing the End of the Century, Five Czech Photographers Taitemia Gallery, Kuopio, Tallinn
1996
- Certainty and Searching in Czech Photography of the 1990s Burgrave´s House of Prague Castle, Prague, Berlin, Bratislava, Chicago
1996
- The Body in Contemporary Czech Photography Macintosh Gallery Glasgow, Braga, London
1996
- Soudobá fotografie NOX 1996 National Gallery, Kinsky Palace, Prague
1993
- Fotofeis MacLaurin Art Gallery, Ayr; EBRD London, Lisabon, Porto
1993
- Presences The Photographer’s Gallery, Bill Brandt Room, London
1992
- Photographes européens forts de leur Histoire Salle des Fêtes, Arles
1991
- Plastic Photography Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Foto Biennale Enschede
1991
- European Photography Award 1991, Berlin
1990
- Choice Fotofest, Houston
1990
- Tchechoslowakische Photographie der Gegenwart Museum Ludwig, Köln
1990
- La Tchècoslovaquie à Arles Palais de l’Archevêché, Arles
1990
- Vision de l’homme Galerie Municipale du Château d’Eau, Toulouse
1989
- Contemporary Czech Photography Nieuwe Kerk Foto 89, Amsterdam
1988
- Vize Moravian Gallery, Brno