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Mountains

Heres Jan


sold

Mountains, 2024

70 x 50 cm

acrylic on canvas

The painting is inspired by this year's stay in Taiwan. East Asian painters painted mountains because the sight of them has a spiritual dimension and because they are massive and reach up to the sky. J. H.
 

 

About the artist

 

born in 1992, St Gallen, Switzerland

Education:

2011 – 2017   Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Czech Republic, Painting Studio III of prof. Michael Rittstein
2015 – 2016  Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Czech Republic, Painting Studio I of prof. Jiří Sopko
2014 – 2015  Indonesian Institute of the Arts, Yogyakarta, Painting studio
2007 – 2011  High art school of Vaclav Hollar in Prague 

Scholarships and residences:

2022 Residence in Miami, THINK + feel contemporary Art Gallery, USA

Group Exhibitions:

2022 (UN) Attainable Light, THINK+feel Contemporary, Miami, USA (with Filip Švehla)

2021 Finalist of the 14th Price of Art Critics for Young Painting, Galerie Kritiků, Prague

2021 Rainbow in the rain, Art library of the Municipal Library in Prague

2020 Lovekill, Jan Heres a David Mazanec, Brandýs nad Orlicí
2020 Art Prague Fair, Youngrealart, Prague

2020 Real Dreams, Nová síň, Prague

2019 Unconsciousness, Galerie ŠČigol, Prague

2017  New Wave - Diploma work exhibition 2017, National Gallery in Prague

2016  In Half: Adéla Lustigová and Jan Heres, Via Art Gallery, Prague, CZ

2014  I Walked Past an Apple Tree, Nakladove nadrazi Zizkov, Prague, Czech Republic

2013  The World Around Us, The National Technical Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic

2013  12th ESID - Welcoming of Prague's Spring, K4 Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic

2012  Twelve Years of the Painting Studio of doc. Michael Rittstein, Embassy of the Czech Republic in Wienna, Austria

2012  Figurama, Gallery of Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

 

 

Appraisement:

2021 Finalist of the 14. Price of Art Critics for Young Painting, Galerie Kritiků, Prague (CZ)