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Untitled

Švehla Filip


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Untitled, 2020

30 x 21 cm

watercolor on paper

 

About the artist

 

born in 1991, Prague, Czech Republic

Education:
2011 - 2017  Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Czech Rep., Painting Studio of doc. Michael Rittstein, Painting Studio of prof. Jiri Sopko, Painting Studio of prof. R. Šalanda
2015  Utrecht School of the Arts, Netherlands 

Scholarships and residences:

2023 Gray Nivas Art Residency, New York, USA

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

2017 Summeracademy Venice - scholarship, Venice, IT

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2023 Pět barevných pruhů, Galerie Poštovního muzea, Prague
2022 (UN) Attainable Light, THINK+feel Contemporary, Miami, USA (with Jan Heres)
2022 Wonderful World, Volesky Gallery, Prague, CZ
2021 Mégethos 28, Kampus Hybernská, Prague, CZ
2021 14. Ročník Ceny kritiky za mladou malbu, Galerie Kritiků, Prague, CZ
2020 Art Prague Fair, Youngrealart, Prague, CZ
2020 Today and tomorrow will be better (+ D. Minařík), Pragovka Gallery, Prague, CZ
2019 Armonico (with Jiří Dolinski), OFF / FORMAT Gallery, Brno, CZ
2019 Šmucik Ordnung, Stolen Gallery, Prague, CZ
2019 370 Days Sunny (with Jan Heres), Jan Čejka Gallery, Prague, CZ
2017 Fortunately, I had a special room, Villa P651, Prague (with Martina Nováková) 
2016  On Paper, El Colibri Gallery, Prague, CZ
2014  Your Silence has Become Our Silence, AVU Gallery, Prague, CZ
2013  Having a Coffee, Alta Studio, Prague, CZ
2012  Paintings, Cestice Castle, CZ
2011  Paintings and Drawings, Egzyl Gallery, Brandys nad Labem, CZ

Group Exhibitions:

2023 Elements, Galerie Škroupovka, Hradec Králové
2023 Pop up shop, Parasol Projects, New York
2022 18 FPS, Jan Čejka Gallery, Praha
2019 Painting III, Millennium Gallery, Prague, CZ
2019 Leinemann Kunstpreis - Negative Realism, Czech Center, Berlin, DE
2018 Summeracademy Venedig, Palazzo Zenobio, Venice, IT
2017 New Wave, AVU graduates 2017, Veletržní Palace, National Gallery, Prague, CZ
2017 Landscape 2017, Nová galerie, Prague, CZ
2013 Lukov Symposium, Topicuv Club, Prague, CZ
2012 Figurama, Gallery of Czech Technical University in Prague, CZ

Awards:

2021 14th Critics' Award for Young Painting - finalist

2019 Kunstpreis der Leinemann-Stiftung - finalist

2017 Josef Hlávka Foundation Award - finalist

2017 AVU Studio Award

News about the work

Filip Švehla

Filip Švehla

Filip Švehla’s paintings immediately catch the eye, especially thanks to their colors. Although we can find in them echoes of his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague under Jiří Sopek, his current artistic style fully developed only after...