MgA. Jan Pfeiffer












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            Affiliation: Department of Art Education, Faculty of Education,

            Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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            Current position:
            Lecturer, Phd student


            Research field: Black, phenomenon, visual art, culture, possibilities, education


            Artist statement:
            Jan Pfeiffer has mastered various media, indulging in video, photography, animation and dr

            combines an analytical melancholy over historical, political and sociocultural phenomena a
            fascination by mythological and religious symbolism. However, the artist does not choose h
            according to its relevance in the historiographic discourse. He is primarily interested in

            hardly perceptible mechanisms and connotations that co-create or surround the given histor
            moments. Or, on the contrary, he explores the given mechanisms and connotations as results
            initiation which triggers a historical or social movement. The language employed by Pfeiff

            eclectic stories of his own reflection is abstract and often distinctively symbolic. Howev
            based on a human measure that the artist employs both in his individual works and in the


            Selected solo exhibitions :
            2018
            Counterbalance, curated by Tomáš Knoflíček, Gallery Dukla,

            Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic

            2017

            Two Rules for One Thing, curated by Pavel Kubesa, NoD Gallery, Prague,
            Czech Republic


            Somewhere Something Is Happening, curated by Tereza Severová, Galerie
            Entrance, Prague, Czech Republic  (in collaboration with Pavla
            Gajdošíková)


            Black in The Move, curated by Tomáš Knoflíček, Galerie Louby, Ostrava,
            Czech Republic


            2016
            Surfaces and Plains, curated by Ida a Jakub Chuchlíkovy, Gallery

            Kaplička, Jablonec, Czech Republic

            In-depth Research, curated by R. Šalanda, L.Machalický, SPZ Gallery,

            Prague, Czech Republic (in collaboration with Radek Brousil)

            Relation of a Relation, curated by Lenka Sýkorová, Drdova Gallery,

            Prague, Czech Republic

            2015

            Mastabas and Dumps II., curated by Zuzana Jakolová, Jaro Varga, Make
            up Gallery, Tabačka, Košice, Slovakia


            Persona Forte, curated by Zuzana Jakalová, Prádelna Bohnice, Prague,
            Czech Republic (in collaboration with Markéta Magidová)


            Pohyb železa, curated by Lenka Sýkorová, Altán Klamovka, Prague, Czech Republic

            2014

            Mastabas and Dumps, curated by Zuzana Jakolová, Jaro Varga, Hit
            Gallery  Bratislava, Slovakia


            Support Points, curated by Stanisław Ruksza, Kronika Gallery, Bytom, Poland

            Hidden Power, curated by Michal Novotný, Futura Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic


            Ostentatious Abstraction, curated by Sandra Bavorovská, Colloredo
            Mansfeld Palace, GHMP, Prague, Czech Republic


            2013
            Construction Works, curated by Markéta Stará, Kabinet Gallery, TIC,

            Brno, Czech Republic (in collaboration with Radek Brousil)

            The Fire Begins All Over Again, curated by Petr Kovář, Gallery

            OFF/FORMAT, Brno, Czech Republic

            2012

            Each embracing all the rest, curated by Viktor Čech, Jelení Gallery,
            Prague, Czech Republic


            Some Things Pass, curated by Jakub Stejskal, Drdová Gallery, Prague,
            Czech Republic


            2011
            Contribution, curated by Tereza Stejskalová, etc.gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
            A PREMONITIONED LANDSCAPE STRETCHES BEHIND YOU, curated by Dušan Záhoranský, Gallery Kostk

            Prague, Czech Republic

            Right in front of me, curated by Alessandra Troncone, Museo

            Laboratorio di Arte Contemporary, Roma, Italy

            2010

            Behind the Back, curated by Bára Špičáková, Gallery Fenester, Prague,
            Czech Republic


            Extension, curated by  Sandra Baborovská, Start-up – GHMP – The Golden
            Ring House, Prague, Czech Republic


            Urbanism of Memory, curated by Katarína Uhlířová, Open Gallery,
            Bratislava, Slovakia


            Limited Overlap, curated by Jan Zálešák, Galerie mladých BKC, Brno,
            Czech Republic


            Grants and research projects:
            2009
            Grant award from the Standpunkte Landeplatze for a public space

            installation, curator: Wolfgang Herzer, Weiden, Germany

            Selected publications:

            Gajdošíková P., Pfeiffer J. (2017). Visuality (Visual Changes) in the
            City Space, in: Alesadro Castelanos (ed.), Visual literacy / Visual
            Imagineries, Interdisciplinarity Press