Presentation of the artist

Michal Gabriel

Are you interested in art? Do you want to learn something about contemporary art? The lecture series with the artists and curators themselves is the perfect opportunity to take a peek under the hood of the art world, talk directly with the artists about their own work and spend an evening in a pleasant environment. There is no limit to the creativity of asking questions, because it is thanks to the audience's attention that works of art live the life they deserve.

In the lecture series dealing with the presentation of contemporary artists and curators, one of the exhibiting artists of the already closed exhibition

Michal Gabriel (*1960) is one of the most important postmodern sculptors on the domestic scene and the winner of the 1994 Jindřich Chalupecký Prize. Gabriel graduated from the Academy of Arts in Prague, where he co-founded the Hardheads group during the same period. Since 1997, he has been a teacher at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno, where he heads the Studio of Sculpture 1. Gabriel perceives sculpture primarily physically, as a shapeless object with a great ability to persist in time, but also in terms of ideas. The main motifs of his works are flora and fauna. He places his works in spatial and architectural contexts and then explores how sculptures interact with their environment. He works with traditional materials such as bronze and wood, as well as less traditional ones such as polyester resin and stainless steel. He also works with 3D printing, which he then intervenes in. He is also associated with Telegraph through the statue of the beast that guarded the building for several years.

Programme subject to change.