Jakub Nepras
Born in Prague (Czech Republic) in 1981, lives and works in Prague (Czech Republic).

Curator Jiri Ptacek - born in Prague (Czech Republic) in 1975 - will participate to the Artist Talk on Jakub Nepras' suggestion. Throughout his career he has collaborated with several galleries and art magazines working in the field of contemporary art. He worked as editor-in-chief of Umelec magazine, international art magazine published in Prague (2003-2006), curator of NoD Gallery in Prague (2007-2008) and Gallery of Young Artists in Brno (2011). Between 2009 and 2011 he worked as pedagogue of Video Studio at Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno. In summer 2012 he became a new curator of Fotograf Gallery in Prague. He is one of the constituent members of Ateliér Бања Лука, an international iniciative of young artist and curators focusing on models of collaborative practice. During the last two years he also run a flat "community gallery" Zutý Mánes in České Budějovice (together with artist Michal Vavrečka).

On Screening: Metropolia
Videosculpture, 10', loop - 2010

The city hovers authoritatively overhead. A unique view of the colossus in which most of us live. An icon of today’s city in a regular turning rhythm every moment links a new event to itself. The rotating frequencies contain visual and symbolic rhythms of present-day cities. But mostly from Shanghai and Prague. An abstract story of a universal city culminates in several phases and then sinks back into darkness. It’s as if a charge of energy left the space and then after a while returned for another hypnotic cycle. The relief projection surface is created by a circular construction from the packages of real products originally manufactured in China. This often works as an art object itself, as an illuminated physical casing or it can give space to the projected image. The aim is to encourage people to confront the city as a whole and to take advantage of its potential (dual) energy, which unfortunately usually manifests itself negatively, for instance on a person’s psyche. Another aim is to find in oneself a positive approach to the city as an inevitable mechanism of today’s society.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Artphilein Foundation, Vaduz, Lichtenstein; Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg/Vienna, Austria; Mikulov Collection, Mikulov, Czech Republic; Museum Colecção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal; National Gallery Prague, Czech Republic; Prague City Gallery, Czech Republic.

SOLO SHOWS ­ selection
Transforming cities, MaxmiliansForum, Munich, Germany; Museum night, Edith­Russ­Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, Germany (2014); Landscape, Arthobler gallery, Zurich, Switzerland; Transmitter, Church of St. Anthony of Padua, Sokolov, CZ (2013); Landscape, hunt kastner, Prague, CZ (2012); Jakub Nepraš, Waldburger Gallery, Brussels, Belgium; Culturas – Viaje, Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo, Monte Video, Uruguay; 3E, Arthobler gallery, Porto, Portugal (2011); Sediment, Galerie Alain Le Gaillard, Paris, France; Processes, Trafo Gallery, Prague, CZ (2009)

GROUP SHOWS ­ selection
Art from Heart, curated by Miroslav Ambroz, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China (2015); Dorothea Von Stetten Award, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany (2014); Prague Biennale 6, Expanded Painting, curated by Helena Kontova, Giancarlo Politi and Nicola Trezzi, Prague, CZ; À la recherche de la bohème perdue, CAN (The Art Center Neuchatel), Switzerland & NTK Gallery (National Library of Technology), Prague, CZ; Signal Festival, Prague, CZ (2013); SPOTLIGHTS video.kunst, curated by Anna Szöke, Andreas Hoffer, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg/Vienna, Austria (2012); Una Nueva Aventura, SIART Biennale 11, curated by Norma Campos Vera, Fundación Visión Cultural, La Paz, Bolivia; Spaceship Earth, Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, curated by Dobrila Denegri, Torun, Poland; Illuminations Festival Lichtströme, organized by Bettina Pelz and Tom Groll Koblenz, Germany; PAF Festival, New York, USA (2011) And_Writers, First Nanjing Biennale, curated by Zhu Tong, Wonil Rhee and Eleonora Battiston, Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum, Nanjing, China; DIGIFESTA 2010, curated by Wo­nil Rhee, Gwangju Biennial, Korea, Gwangju City Museum, Korea; Repair – Ready To Pull The Lifeline, Ars Electronica 2010,Linz, Austria (2010); Videonale 12 – Festival of Contemporary Video Art, curated by Susanne Hinrichs and Georg Elben, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany; Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts, curated by Douglas Geers and Ali Momeni, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA; My Europa, curated by Eva Eisler, EESC, Brussel, Belgium & DOX Center for Contemporary Art, Prague, CZ; Narracje, Installations and Interventions in Public Space, curated by Bettina Pelz, Gdansk, Poland; (2009); After Velvet, curated by Karel Srp and Sandra Baborovská, Prague City Gallery, CZ (2009/2013). Essl Award Winners 2007, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg/Vienna, Austria; Eccentric Paths, curated by Sarolta Schredl, Museum Colecção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal; International Biennale Florence, Italy (2007)

WEB
www.jakubnepras.com