As a visual artist, Matěj Frank (* 1989, CZ) develops several autonomous creative practices. He works with sculpture, spatial installation, sound art and conceptual drawing. He is interested in slow events, the impermanent and ephemeral everyday. He explores space, entering it with gesture or sound. He captures time through processual drawings and performances. His measure is the human body, the actual, living, and the figurative, artificial. For him, chance is important; he improvises and experiments based on fixed premises. Matěj Frank looks for relationships between fullness and emptiness, transience, and permanence; he is interested in intersections and layers, while trying to maintain simplicity of form and process. He creates situations, models meeting places, participates – for example with Jasmin Schaitl and Jakub Frank.
Matěj Frank also works as a curator and dramaturge, among others within the Opava-based contemporary art association Bludný kámen [The Wandering Stone]. From 2016 to 2022, he taught in the Department of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. He regularly participates in international projects (Scuplture Quadrennial Riga, 2021-2024; MoKS Mooste, 2019; ART BnB HaMiffal, 2017 etc.) and exhibitions (Galerie Dole, Ostrava, 2023; 8smička, Humpolec, 2022; Contemporary Museum Wrocław, 2020; QL-galerie, Graz, 2018 etc.), his works have been awarded at international competitions, and he has received scholarships from (among others) the Czech Ministry of Culture (2019-2021) and the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (2018).
He believes in human responsibility and mutual respect.
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Education
2011 – 2014 Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, Sculpture; Wrocław, Polska (best diploma work)
2012 – 2013 Universidad del Pais Vasco, Faculty of Fine Arts, Bilbao, Spain (Erasmus)
2008 – 2011 University of Ostrava, Faculty of Fine Arts, Sculpture, Ostrava, Czech Republic
Awards, scholarships, residencies (selection)
2022 Major of the city of Wrocław scholarship, Wrocław (PL)
2021-24 Scuplture Quadriennal Riga, Artist in residence, Riga (LV)
2020 3rd Prize, Competition for a memorial of victims of the attack at the Ostrava Hospital, (CZ)
2019-21 Minister of Culture scholarship (CZ)
2019 MoKS, Artist in Residence, MoKS, Mooste (EE)
2018 Minister of Culture and National Heritage scholarship (PL)
ADATA, AiR as a part of preparations for the European Capital of Culture 2019, Plovdiv (BG)
AiR in Associazione Barriera & Areacreativa42, Torino & Rivarolo (I)
2017 ART BnB – art residency HaMiffal, Jerusalem (IL)
2017 CBM Art Prize, Areacreativa42, Torino (I)
Styria Artist in Residence, Graz (A)
2014 Best Diploma Work Prize, Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław (PL)
ZaiKS Prize for Diploma Work, Gdańsk (PL)
Artistic Journey by Hestia (PL)
Aesthetics and Bias (IL & PL)
2013-14 Minister of Culture and National Heritage scholarship (PL)
2013-14 Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław scholarship (PL)
2013 Mayor of Wrocław scholarship (PL)
SOLO / DUO EXHIBITIONS, SCULPTURES IN PUBLIC SPACE (selection)
2024 Death of The Sun. Empty Places Dům umění Opava (CZ)
2023 Dolů, Galerie Dole, Ostrava (CZ)
2022 visual DISTANCING (for Leo) 8smička Light, Humpolec (CZ)
Triggers with J. Schaitl, Blansko Municipal Gallery (CZ)
Monolog (Dialog) Proluka, Prague (CZ)
Ničí těla Galerie Kaple, Valašské Meziříčí (CZ)
2020 It Could Start Anywhere Contemporary Museum Wrocław (PL)
Obecność Galeria Foucoulta, Gliwice (PL)
Monologue public space, Seestadt, Vienna (AT)
Archiving the Presence with J. Schaitl, 139Artspace, London UK
2019 Entering Continuities with J. Schaitl, Pragovka Gallery, Prague
ˈdrɪpɪŋ ˈdrɔːɪŋ Altán Klamovka, Prague (CZ)
2018 present / absent QL-galerie, Graz (A)
Monologue (IN-OUT) Zinzedorfstrasse, Graz (A)
entering continuities: sleeping drawings with J. Schaitl, Galerie XY-1, Olomouc (CZ)
2017 1-x, 24.10.-21.11. 2017 Schaufenstergalerie SCHARF, Graz, (A)
Chronolog Lauby gallery, Ostrava (CZ)
entering continuities with J. Schaitl, Bluný kámen, Matiční dům, Opava(CZ)
Prostory Industra, Brno (CZ)
2016 Spaces Ergo Hestia Sculpture Park, Sopot (PL)
Work in Process Szewska pasja, Szewska street, Wrocław (PL)
2015 Noise Walls with J. Frank, CSW Kronika, Bytom (PL)
Przestrzenie [Spaces] Nowa Gallery, Poznań (PL)
2014 Noise Walls with J. Frank, Koresh 14, Jerusalem (IL)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2024 Zahrada světla public space, Opava (CZ)
Boskovice 24 public space, Boskovice (CZ)
What Would Not Have Been public space installation and performance, Riga (LV)
2023 Volume EPO1, Trutnov (CZ)
Rezonance Galerie Josefa Jambora, Tišnov (CZ)
Sites of Reverberation architect of the exhibition, 8smička, Humpolec (CZ)
Sculpture park, Bechyně Castle, Bechyně (CZ)
Topography of the Nest, GAFU, Ostrava (CZ)
NOTGALERIE, OGV, Jihlava (CZ)
Academia Film Olomouc, exhibition in public space, Olomouc (CZ)
Burning re:collection vol.II, Galeria Geppart, Wrocław (PL)
Art with a Spark, Galeria Neon, Wrocław (PL)
2022 Landscape public space, Prague (CZ)
Burning re-collection Industra Gallery, Brno (CZ)
How to Disappear Kunstraum Super, Wien (A)
2021 Landscape festival public space, Krnov (CZ)
Umění ve městě public space, České Budějovice (CZ)
Point of view Gallery BOHCXY, Łuck (UA)
2020 Od-do ASP im J. Matejki, Kraków, Polska
2019 Kunstland Nord public space, NOT Gallery, Wien (A)
Art in Space public space, Hluboká nad Vltavou (CZ)
We Will All Meet At The Same Place BWA Wrocław Główny, Wrocław (PL)
Performance crossings performance festival, Praha (CZ)
2018 Sanatorium Dzwięku sound art festival, Sokolowsko (PL)
Entropy incerases v.3.0 Entropia Gallery, Wrocław (PL)
Młoda rzeźba / Young Sculpture Nowy Targ, Wrocław (PL)
Aesthetics & Bias Arsenal, Poznań (PL)
Silence Matters AIL, Vienna (A)
2017 M3 / Art in Space public space, Praha (CZ)
Nomads DEPO2015, Pilsen (CZ)
Jednoczesność zdarzeń CSW Toruń (PL)
2016 Tasks J. Schaitl and William ‚Bilwa‘ Costa, Plato Gallery, Ostrava (CZ)
Absichtlich unvollendet Schloss Trebnitz, Müncheberg (D)
Wśrod twarzy National Gallery of Art, Sopot (PL)
Before, now, later Municipal Gallery, Plzeň (CZ)
2015 Survival art review with J. Frank, Wrocław (PL)
WRO Media Art Biennale with J. Frank, Wrocław (PL)
Kukačka with J. Frank, Ostrava (CZ)
2014 Vy Troubo! Pro Jiřího Koláře Velká Galerie, Hradec nad Moravicí
Best Diploma Works 2014 Wielka Zbrojownia, Gdańsk (PL)
MY‘14 Best Diploma Works BWA Awangarda, Wrocław (PL)
Artistic Journey by Hestia Dom towarowy braci Jabłkowskich, Warszawa (PL)
2013 From A to B Sala Rekalde, Bilbao (E)
Projects realized in 2022 were supported by the City of Wrocław, Poland
Projects realized in years 2019-2021 were supported by
the Ministry of Culture, the Czech Republic
Projects realized in 2018 were supported by
the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Poland
