Jiří Příhoda (CZ)

Jiří Příhoda is one of the most important contemporary Czech artists. He lives and works partly in New Mexico. He works on monumental realizations on the border between architecture and object, exploring the laws of spatial perspective, geometric proportions and the dynamics of light, sound and moving image. Since 1994 he has also worked with video projection. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where he attended the studios of Stanislav Kolíbal and Aleš Veselý. In 1997 he was awarded the Jindřich Chalupecký Prize. From 2005 to 2015 he was the director of the Intermedia Studio at the Academy of Fine Arts.

He is currently interested in the creation of alternative dwellings designed for reflection and individual isolation. Architecturally clean – minimal spaces are presented in natural and purely urban environments. His work has been included in the large-scale solo exhibition VOID at Prague’s Rudolfinum Gallery in 2022, collaborative project NAVE with musician Brian Eno as well at the same gallery in 2023 and his kinetic multimedia object Vista Mars is permanently installed in the grounds of Karlín Rustonka and presented as part of the Satellites project at the Signal Festival in 2023.