杨·瓦里克 JAN VALIK

Jan Valik (born 1987, Slovakia) completed his MFA at Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (2012). He was selected as a finalist of the EXIT Award in 2011 (Czech Republic) and is the third prize winner of the VUB Foundation Painting Award (Slovakia, 2016) and in 2019 he was shortlisted for Amart Gallery Prize in Vienna, Austria. Valik has had solo exhibitions recently at Husk Gallery, Brussels (2020), but also at Niche Gallery in Tokyo (2017), Cin Cin Gallery, Slovakia (2019), Industra Art Gallery in Brno, Czechia (2019). He has participated in residency programs notably at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris (2013), BankART Studio in Yokohama (Japan, 2016), Mark Rothko Art Center (Latvia, 2017), Banska Stanica Contemporary (Slovakia, 2018) and Shanjian Contemporary Art Space (Beijing, China, 2019). His works have also been exhibited in group shows in Belgium, UK, Japan, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, China, France, Latvia and Ireland. 

Solo exhibitions

2020  Verge, Husk Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

2019  Abstract Reality and Temporary Neighbors, Industra Art, Brno, Czech Republic

2019  Seeing Triple, Cin Cin Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia

2018  Inner Weather, Chisou Gallery, Komono, Japan

2018  Uncertain Territories, Art/books/coffee Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia

2017  Kago, Flatgallery, Bratislava, Slovakia

2017  Plethora and a Quiet World, Niche Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2016  Drawings, Hole to the world Gallery, Liptovsky Mikulas, Slovakia

2016  Fragile Garden, NOV Art Space, Pardubice, Czech Republic

2015  Scent of Outside, Atelier Sin, Telc, Czech Republic

2015  Situation, Galerie Pavilon, Prague, Czech Republic

2015  disJOINTED, Maumau Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey

2014  Light Has No Colour, Stolen Gallery, Nitra, Slovakia

2014  Invisible Body, Gallery of Pan-European University, Bratislava, Slovakia

2014  Inbetween Branching, Cit Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia

2013  Et In Arcadia Ego, Cecilia!, Installation, Slovak Filharmony, Bratislava, Slovakia

2012  Walkwell John, CC Centrum Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia

2011  Tempted / To Linger, AVU Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic

Two-person exhibitions

2019  Night Walk - Day Sleep, (w/ Akiko Ueda), Medium Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia

2013  Et In Arcadia Ego, Cecilia!, (w/ Viktor Fucek), Slovak Philharmony, Bratislava, Slovakia

Selected group exhibitions

2020  Arcadian Summer, Husk Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

2019  December Trails, CinCin Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia

2019  Floating Fellows vol. 2, Kobayashi Art Studio, Komoro, Japan

2019  Room with a View, Niche Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2019  Extension of Reality, Galerie Amart, Vienna, Austria

2019  Muster Actions, Star Art Space, Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Chongqing, China    

2019  Anonymous Drawings Archive, Kunsthaus Kannen, Münster, Germany

2018  December Trails, CinCin Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia  

2018  Plain Air, Mark Rothko Art Center, Daugavpils, Latvia

2017  Winter Selection, Flatgallery, Bratislava, Slovakia

2017  Tao Hua Tan, Gallery of Xuancheng Library, Xuancheng, China

2017  Valdis Bušs, Vilaka Municipal Gallery, Vilaka, Latvia

2017  Floating Fellows, Motoazabu Gallery, Saku, Japan

2017  Slovak Art from CIdA, French Institute, Bratislava, Slovakia

2017  L’art Slovaquie, Slovak Institute and Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France

2016  “2016”, DOT. Contemporary Art Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia

2016  Winter Selection 5, Flatgallery, Bratislava, Slovakia

2016  Painting 2016, Nedbalka Gallery, Finalists exhibition, Bratislava, Slovakia

2016  Open Studio, BankART Studio NYK AiR, Yokohama, Japan

2016  Subtilities, DOT. Contemporary Art Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia

2015  CIRCLE, Site-specific art Festival, Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic

2015  Painting 2015, Finalists exhibition, Nedbalka Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia

2015  Spital Art, Site-specific art Festival, Jaromer, Czech Republic