Lukáš Rittstein

Curriculum Vitae

Born 31 July 1973 in Prague

1987–1991 Václav Hollar secondary School of Fine Arts, Prague
1991–1997 Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, Sculpture Studio of Prof. Hugo Demartini, Monumental Art Studio of Prof. Aleš Veselý
1997–1999 Graduate Study at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, Prague, Studio Glass in Architecture of Prof. Marian Karel Since 2013 Head of the Sculpture Studio 1 at the Academy of fine Arts in Prague (Sculptural School I)

Expeditions

1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2017, 2021, 2022 Papua New Guinea, West Papua, the Solomon Islands

Awards

1997 The Václav Chad Award (Czech Republic)
1999 The Jindřich Chalupecký Prize (Czech Republic)
2000 Residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito (California, USA)
2005 The Magnesia Litera Award in the category Newcomer of the Year for the book Why the Night Is Black, with Barbora Šlapetová (published by KANT 2004) (Czech Republic)

Sculpture Projects in Public Space

2000 Waves. Masaryk University Medical School in Brno (Czech Republic)
2000 The Elusive One. The Archive of the City of Prague, Jižní Město district (Czech Republic)
2003 Vein. Regional Science Library in Liberec (Czech Republic)
2003 Day by Day. Town square in Brandýs nad Orlicí (Czech Republic)
2002–2004 Sculptural part of the interior of the Indonesian Jungle Pavilion at Prague Zoo (Czech Republic). Together with Barbora Šlapetová and Michal Gabriel
2005 Daybreak. Umělecká Street in Ostrava (Czech Republic)
2007 Everlasting Tenderness. A tram stop in Liberec (Czech Republic)
2009 Powerful Colour and Enlightment. Campus of Masaryk University in Brno (Czech Republic)
2010 Once... Jindřišská Street in Prague (Czech Republic)
2010 EXPO Shanghai. Czech Pavilion (China)
2015 EXPO Milano. Czech Pavilion (Italy)
2015 Together. Dlouhá Street in Prague (Czech Republic)
2018 Birds of Paradise. KOMA Modular Cathedral from EXPO Milano With Barbora Šlapetová. Vizovice (Czech Republic)

Represented in Collections

Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art of National Gallery in Prague (Czech Republic), Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Germany), State Gallery in Zlín (Czech Republic), Klatovy / Klenová Gallery (Czech Republic), CCA Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montréal (Canada), COLLET Prague | Munich, private collections

Selected Solo Exhibitions

1998 Boxes, Shelves, but also a Frame. The Pecka Gallery, Prague (Czech Republic)
1999 From Kitchen to Saturn. State Gallery of Art in Zlín (Czech Republic); Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art of National Gallery in Prague – Trade Fair Palace (Czech Republic); House of Art in České Budějovice (Czech Republic)
2000 Blue December. With Barbora Šlapetová. Václav Špála Gallery, Prague (Czech Republic)
2001 Snapshots. Mánes Exhibition Hall, Prague (Czech Republic)
2002 Sculptures and Photographs. With Barbora Šlapetová. Bruntál Museum – Castle (Czech Republic)
2002 Lukáš Rittstein. Sokolská 26 Exhibition Hall, Ostrava (Czech Republic)
2002 Beings. Astra Gallery, Kuřim – Castle (Czech Republic)
2003 We are Cooking a Treat for Two on Mars. With Michael Rittstein. Gallery no. 4, Cheb – Church of St. Bartolomew (Czech Republic)
2003 Day by Day. Czech Center, New York (USA)
2006 Milk and Soil. With Barbora Šlapetová. The Museum of Slovácko, Uherské Hradiště – 32nd edition of the film festival (Czech Republic)
2006 Forest. Klatovy / Klenová Gallery (Czech Republic)
2007 Why the Night Is Black. With Barbora Šlapetová. Czech Centre, Munich (Germany)
2007 Mad Girls in the Forest. With Marta Morice. The Ars Gallery, Brno (Czech Republic)
2008 Virtual Pain. The Moravian Gallery – space for one art piece, Brno (Czech Republic)
2009 Manop – The Final First. With Barbora Šlapetová. DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague (Czech Republic)
2009 The Transfer. With Barbora Šlapetová. Gallery of Modern Art in Roudnice nad Labem (Czech Republic)
2009 Do Not Come Any Closer. With Barbora Šlapetová. Blansko Town Gallery (Czech Republic)
2010 Symbiosis. EXPO Shanghai. With Barbora Šlapetová. Czech Pavilion, Shanghai (China)
2010 Through the Keyhole and Vice-versa. Rittstein–Šlapetová–Rittstein. With Barbora Šlapetová and Michael Rittstein. Pilsen City Gallery (Czech Republic)
2010 The Transfer. With Barbora Šlapetová. Dole (Down) Gallery, Ostrava (Czech Republic)
2010 Tour. Neue Albertina. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Germany); DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague (Czech Republic)
2011 Powerful Colour. With Barbora Šlapetová. Masaryk University, Archive of MU, Brno (Czech Republic)
2013 Why the Night Is Black. With Barbora Šlapetová. Tugu Kunstkring Palace, Jakarta (Indonesia)
2015 Everything is Different. With Barbora Šlapetová. DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague (Czech Republic)
2015 Free Form Gate. EXPO Milano. Monument in front of the Czech Pavilion, Milano (Italy)
2015 Everything Is Different. With Barbora Šlapetová. UFFO Gallery, Trutnov (Czech Republic)
2016 Rittstein–Šlapetová–Rittstein. With Barbora Šlapetová and Michael Rittstein. Miroslav Kubík Gallery, Litomyšl (Czech Republic)
2018 Tour. Várkert Bazár plazza, Budapest (Hungary)
2018 Parallelly Together – Signal Festival. With Barbora Šlapetová. Old Town Square, Prague (Czech Republic)
2018 KOMA Modular Cathedral from EXPO Milano – Birds of Paradise. With Barbora Šlapetová. Vizovice (Czech Republic)
2020 ULTRA-SUPER-NATURAL. With Barbora Šlapetová. DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague (Czech Republic)
2020 Natural-born Astronauts and Highway. With Barbora Šlapetová. Sovinec Castle (Czech Republic)

Selected Group Exhibitions

1993 Demartini – The Sculptural School II. Medium Gallery, Bratislava (Slovakia)
1995 Test Run. Mánes Exhibition Hall, Prague (Czech Republic)
1995 Biennale of Small-scale Sculpture. Murska Sobota (Slovenia)
1996 Confrontation. Svárov (Czech Republic)
1997 The First Zlín Salon of Young Artists. State Gallery in Zlín (Czech Republic)
1997 Young Artists Biennale ‘Zvon’. Poprad (Slovakia)
1997 Fruchte aus Prag (Fruit from Prague). Czech Center, Berlin (Germany)
1997 International 97. Socrates Sculpture Park, New York (USA)
1997 Reduced Budget. Mánes Exhibition Hall, Prague (Czech Republic)
1998 Harvest II. Mánes Exhibition Hall, Prague (Czech Republic)
1998 About Nature. Czech Museum of Fine Arts, Prague (Czech Republic)
1998 La nature en dix chapitres – Artistes contemporains tchéques (Nature in Ten Chapters – Contemporary Czech Artists). Centre Rhénan d’Art Contemporain Alsace, Altkirche (France)
1998 Gifts and Purchases. Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art of National Gallery – Trade Fair Palace, Prague (Czech Republic)
1998 Tschechische Kunst (Czech Art). Czech Cultural Center, Bonn (Germany)
1999 About Nature. Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (Germany)
1999 About Nature. Le Centre d’Art Contemporain de Rethymnon (Greece)
1999 Umělecká beseda Arts Association. Mánes Exhibition Hall, Prague (Czech Republic)
1999 Contemporary Czech Art. The Czech and Slovak Embassy, London (Great Britain) 1999 Finals.
1999 Jindřich Chalupecký Award. Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art of National Gallery – Trade Fair Palace, Prague (Czech Republic)
1999 Unplanned Connection. Mánes Exhibition Hall, Prague (Czech Republic)
2000 The Second Zlín Salon of Young Artists. State Gallery in Zlín (Czech Republic)
2000 L’Art dans le monde 2000 (Art in the World 2000). Cullée du Pont Alexandre III, Paris (France)
2000 Classics of 2000. The Olomouc Museum of Art (Czech Republic)
2000 Stories from the Mid-Land. Kulturhuset USF Gallery, Bergen (Norway)
2000 100+1 Works of Art of the 20th Century. Czech Museum of Fine, Prague (Czech Republic)
2001 The New Connection. World Trade Center, New York (USA)
2001 The New Connection. City Gallery, Bratislava (Slovakia)
2001 Melancholy. The Moravian Gallery in Brno (Czech Republic)
2001 About People. Czech Museum of Fine Arts, Prague (Czech Republic)
2002 Wilderness – Nature, Soul and Language. Klatovy / Klenová Gallery (Czech Republic)
2002 What Water Did Not Take Away. Gallery of Art Critics, Adria Palace, Prague (Czech Republic)
2002 Golem. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires (Argentina)
2002 5o below the Equator. Gallery of Art Critics, Adria Palace, Prague (Czech Republic)
2003 Garden. Michal Gabriel and Guests. Barbora Šlapetová and Lukáš Rittstein. Tvrdohlaví Gallery, Prague (Czech Republic)
2003 Speculare. Consum Gallery, Brandýs nad Orlicí (Czech Republic)
2003 About Technology. Czech Museum of Fine Arts, Prague (Czech Republic)
2003 Umělecká beseda Arts Association. Prague City Gallery (Czech Republic)
2003 The World as a Structure, the Structure as a Picture. Klatovy / Klenová Gallery (Czech Republic)
2003 The Third Zlín Salon of Young Artists. State Gallery in Zlín (Czech Republic)
2004 Vision. Gallery of Art Critics, Adria Palace, Prague (Czech Republic); Toki Gallery, Tokyo (Japan)
2004 Acquaintances. Art Factory, Prague (Czech Republic)
2004 In Time Between. Gallery of Art Critics, Adria Palace, Prague (Czech Republic)
2004 The School of Monumental Art of Prof. A. Veselý. Wortner House of the ASBG in České Budějovice (Czech Republic)
2004 E.U. Positive. Akademie der Künste, Berlin (Germany)
2005 Sculpture Grande 2005. Prague (Czech Republic)
2005 From the Ground over a Hill and into the Sky. North Bohemian Gallery of Fine Art in Litoměřice (Czech Republic)
2005 In Time Between. NCCA – National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow (Russia)
2005 Impression. Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague (Czech Republic)
2006 From the Ground over a Hill and into the Sky. Klatovy / Klenová Gallery (Czech Republic)
2006 Forest. The Pilsen City Gallery (Czech Republic)
2006 Hotel Chalupecký. Motorenhalle, Contemporary Art Center, Dresden (Germany)
2006 Quality Solution. Gallery of Modern Art in Hradec Králové (Czech Republic)
2006 Fathers and Sons. Consum Gallery, Brandýs nad Orlicí (Czech Republic)
2006 Process. Holešovická tržnice Market Hall, Prague (Czech Republic)
2006 Girls’ War – Vlasta, Part 1. Gallery of Art Critics, Adria Palace, Prague (Czech Republic)
2006 Girls’ War – Šárka, Part 2. Consumption Gallery, Brandýs nad Orlicí (Czech Republic)
2006 HumOrg-Human Organism. Gallery of Art Critics, Adria Palace, Prague (Czech Republic)
2007 Fireworks of Beauty. Zdeněk Sklenář Gallery, Litomyšl (Czech Republic)
2007 Form follows... risk. Karlín Studios, Futura Gallery, Prague (Czech Republic)
2007 Form follows... risk. Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava (Slovakia)
2007 Exoticisms in 20th-century Art in Bohemia and Moravia. Czech Museum of Fine Arts, Prague (Czech Republic); East Bohemian Gallery, Pardubice (Czech Republic); Gallery of Fine Art, Cheb (Czech Republic)
2008 Lovely World of Fauna and Flora. Rajatila Maltinranta Artcenter, Tampere (Finland); Gallery of Art Critics, Adria Palace, Prague (Czech Republic)
2008 International Triennale of Contemporary Art: Re-reading the Future. National Gallery – Trade Fair Palace, Prague (Czech Republic)
2008 Aeronale. Prague Airport (Czech Republic)
2008 The Transfer. White Box Gallery, Munich (Germany); House of Art, Brno (Czech Republic)
2008 International Triennale of Contemporary Art: Re-reading the Future. Kuva – Art Academy Helsinki (Finland); Perve Gallery, Lisbon (Portugal)
2008 Dialogues. Calendars for Jindra Štreit. Smečky Gallery, Prague (Czech Republic)
2008 Born into Space. Umělecká beseda Arts Association. Sovinec Castle (Czech Republic)
2008 Statues in the Streets. Brno (Czech Republic)
2008 Ultra. Zdeněk Sklenář Gallery, Prague (Czech Republic)
2008 Art Beijing. Beijing (China)
2009 International Triennale of Contemporary Art: Re-reading the Future. National Museum of Bulgarian Art, Sofia (Bulgaria)
2010 7x Different Ways + 1 Guest. Dole Gallery, Ostrava
2016 Silver Lining. National Gallery – Trade Fair Palace, Prague (Czech Republic)
2018 Visegrad Group. V4 in Focus at Budapest Art Market. Budapest Castle (Hungary)
2018 Art Market Budapest International. Contemporary Art Fair, Budapest (Hungary)
2019 ArtQuake Kyoto Japan Biennale. The Museum of Kjoto (Japan)
2019 Birds of Paradise. Sculpture by the Sea Bondi, Sydney (Australia)
2019 Summer Art Salon. Kodl Contemporary, Prague (Czech Republic)
2019 Avenue of Saints. GASK – Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region, Kutná Hora (Czech Republic)
2020 Re-Form. A Survey of Contemporary Czech Sculpture. Trafo Gallery, Prague (Czech Republic)
2021 Vanitas. DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague (Czech Republic)