MICHAL MOTYČKA

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*1974 PRAHA, ČESKÁ REPUBLIKA

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ABout the ARtist:

Michal Motyčka was born on 18 March 1974 in Prague. He is an architect and art graduate from the Faculty of Architecture at the Czech Technical University in Prague and from the studio of Glass in Architecture (with Professor Marian Karel) at the Prague Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design; he completed an internship at the School of Architecture (with Professor Emil Přikryl) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and received a research fellowship focusing on the field of glass at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island, USA (with Professor Bruce Chao). He is a diverse multi disciplinary artist,

and his works spans between architecture and contemporary visual art. Currently, his work has been selected for the New Glass Now exhibition at the Corning Museum of Glass, exhibiting at internationally respected museums in Ebeltoft, Aarhus, Denmark, and Lommel, Belgium. Since 1999, he works together with Václav Cigler. 

EDUCATION:

  • 1999 - 2000 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA
  • 1999 - School of Architecture Pof. Emil Přikryl, AVU, Prague, CZ
  • 1995 - 2000 Glass Studio in Architecture prof. Mariana Karla at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, Prague, CZ
  • 1992 - 2001 Faculty of Architecture CTU, Prague, CZ

SEPARATE EXHIBITIONS DUO CIGLER / MOTYČKA:

  • 2019 Václav Cigler and Michal Motyčka: Light Field, GMU Roudnice nad Labem, Roudnice nad Labem
  • 2019 Václav Cigler: Drawings, Olomouc Museum of Art, Olomouc
  • 2019 Václav Cigler and Michal Motyčka: Prisms and Wars, GVCH Zlín Castle, Zlín
  • 2019 Václav Cigler and Michal Motyčka: Human Space I, II, III, North Bohemian Gallery of Fine Arts in Litoměřice, Litoměřice
  • 2019 Václav Cigler, Michal Motyčka: Prisms and Cylinders, Caterina Tognon contemporary art, Venice
  • 2019 Václav Cigler, Michal Motyčka: Individualities, Sredets Gallery, Sofia.
  • 2018 Václav Cigler, Michal Motyčka: Event of the Place, Miroslav Kubík Gallery, Litomyšl
  • 2017 Václav Cigler, Michal Motyčka: Dialog, DSC Gallery, Prague
  • 2016 CIGLER MOTYČKA AKČYTOM RELGIC, Gallery of Contemporary Art and Architecture / House of Art, České Budějovice
  • 2015 Václav Cigler, Michal Motyčka: Projects 2003–2015, Regional Museum in Litomyšl
  • 2015 Václav Cigler: Here and Now, Troja Castle, Gallery of the Capital City of Prague, Prague
  • 2013 Václav Cigler: Here again, Gallery 19, Bratislava
  • 2013 Václav Cigler, Michal Motyčka: At the Castle, Museum in Bruntál, Sovinec Castle
  • 2013 Church space, crypt space, Castle Brewery, Litomyšl
  • 2012 Václav Cigler in collaboration with Michal Motýčka: Searching for Order, DSC Gallery, Prague
  • 2010 Václav Cigler: Light and Space in the Garden of Reason, Litvak Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 2009 Meeting places, Kampa Museum, Prague
  • 2009 Double vertical, Kramář's villa, Prague
  • 2009 Light and Water as a Principle, National Glass Center, Sunderland
  • 2008 Zerbrechliche Schönheit, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
  • Water levels, mirroring, ripple, Kai de kai, Prague
  • 2007 Václav Cigler, Caterina Tognon Contemporary Art, Venice
  • 2007 Václav Cigler, Drawings, Gallery of Modern Art in Roudnice nad Labem
  • 2006 Václav Cigler, Pokorná Gallery, Prague
  • 2004 Václav Cigler, Caesar Gallery, Olomouc
  • 2004 Václav Cigler, Trade Fair Palace, National Gallery in Prague
  • 2004 Václav Cigler, Benedikt Rejt Gallery, Louny
  • 2004 Thinking in glass, Václav Cigler and his school, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag
  • 2003 Václav Cigler and graduates of the Department of Glass in Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava in the years 1965–1979, Mánes, Prague
  • 2003 Václav Cigler and graduates of the Department of Glass in Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava in the years 1965–1979, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava