ŠTEFAN TÓTH

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* 1974 CZECH REPUBLIC / LIVES AND WORKS IN PRAGUE

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ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Stefan Toth has over 15 years of international experience as a visual artist, art consultant, curator, and collector. He studied at the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (BcA.) and the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (MgA.). In 2006 Stefan won the Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy Prize - the Paris Scholarship in Fine Art at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris. From 2008 – 2012 studied doctoral program at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (PhD.) with a research project: „Meaning of the context in contemporary art / Reinterpretation as an artistic style”. Stefan was a member of the artistic groups the Kontextual (2005 – 2007) and the Neue Kontextual (2008). His work was exhibited in Italy (the Palazzo Bembo, the 55. Venice Biennale, Venice), France (the Fondation Victor Lyon, Paris), Germany (the La Brique Gallery, Frankfurt), USA (the Hotel Victor, Miami Beach, Florida), Australia (the ANU School of Art Gallery, Canberra), as well as in the Czech Republic (the National Gallery Prague). His work is held in important public collections (the Collection Lambert in Avignon, Barceló Foundation in Palma de Mallorca, the National Gallery Prague) and private collections in the USA, England, Germany, France, Italy, Holland, Switzerland, Poland, and Russia. In 2013 Stefan was a visiting tutor at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. From 2004 till 2006 was an art creator and designer at Vincent Design Ltd. During that period, he created several art projects of interior design. From 2009 to 2014 Stefan was a curator at the Dea Orh Gallery in Prague and in 2015 was a curator at the Adolf Loos Apartment and Gallery. Since 2017 Stefan is working at the Kunsthalle Praha as a collection manager. He is specializing in appropriation art and connotations of art. He is working with conceptions of history and philosophy of art. He is researching the relation of the aesthetic values of contemporary painting.

EDUCATION:

  • 2008-2012 Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (PhD.)
  • 2007 École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris
  • 2001-2007 Academy of Fine Arts in Prague
  • 1998-2002 Theater Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague

SCHOLARSHIPS, PRIZES, GRANTS:

  • 2015 Miami meets the Milano Prize, Biennale Milano, Milan
  • 2009 Leinemann Foundation for Education and Art, Berlin, finalist
  • 2008 NG 333 Group Award and CEZ, National Gallery in Prague, Creative Community finalist, Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, Prague
  • 2007 NG 333 Group Award and ČEZ, National Gallery in Prague, finalist
  • 2006 Louise Vuitton Moët Hennessy Award, Paris, France
  • 2005 Barceló Award, Barceló Foundation, Mallorca, Spain

Selection of SEPARATE EXHIBITIONS:

  • 2020 Soggiorno, Bim Gallery, Dobřichovice, Czech Republic
  • 2019 Štefan Tóth, Gallery 1st floor, Prague
  • 2018 Holistic Principle, Garage Gallery Karlín, Prague
  • 2016 Monochromes, Stefan Toth Studio, Prague
  • 2016 Adozione, Bim Gallery, Dobřichovice, Czech Republic
  • 2014 After Rembrandt, National Gallery in Prague, Sternberg Palace, Prague
  • 2014 Et in Arcadia ego / Retroactive Renaissance-After Pietro Bembo, Dea Orh Gallery, Praha
  • 2013 Art is not a concept, Art is a context, La Brique Gallery, Frankfurt
  • 2012 Garden series, Dea Orh Gallery, Prague
  • 2011 After Jasanský / Polák, Gallery of Česká pojišťovna, Prague
  • 2010 What you don't see is important, Dea Orh Gallery, Prague (with P. Tichon)
  • 2008 Der Spielplatz, Michal’s Collection Gallery, Prague
  • 2008 Item II., Jeleni Gallery, Prague
  • 2007 Kontextual: Participatory Method No. 2, Modern Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague
  • 2007 Le Photo, Victor Lyon Foundation, Paris
  • 2007 Le Monochrome, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris
  • 2006 Contextual: Optimum Portrait, Embassy of the Czech Republic, Canberra, Australia
  • 2006 Contextual: Intuition No. 1, ANU School of Art Gallery, Canberra, Australia
  • 2006 Contextual: Intuition No. 1, C2C Gallery, Prague
  • 2006 Kontextual: Seated Figure, Sculpture’s Garden, National Gallery of Australia
  • 2006 Contextual: Double Salchow, XXL Gallery, Louny, Czech Republic
  • 2005 Kontextual: Portrait of a Sicilian squire with puppets, AVU Gallery, Prague
  • 2005 Type A-type B, Villa Pelle, Prague (with V. Pešek)
  • 1996 Czech Landscape, SUPS Gallery, Prague (with D. Koutecký)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

  • 2020 Rembrandt: Portrait of a Man, National Gallery Prague, Kinský Palace, Prague
  • 2017 6th visit to the Eva and Petr Zeman collection, Sladovna Gallery, Žatec
  • 2016 Spoleto Art, Palazzo Leti Sansi, Spoleto
  • 2015 Miami meets Milan, Victor Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida, USA
  • 2015 Spoleto Arte incontra Venezia, Palazzo Giustinian, Venice
  • 2015 Biennale Milano: International Art Meeting, Milano Art Gallery, Milan
  • 2013 Personal Structures, Palazzo Bembo, 55th Biennale di Venezia, Italy
  • 2011 Square: Studio of prof. Milan Knizak, Lalit Kala Academy, New
  • 2011 Delhi, India
  • 2011 Juraj Kollar, Tomáš Nemec, Adam Stech, Stefan Toth, Dea Orh Gallery, Prague
  • 2010 I believe in miracles. 10th anniversary of the Lambert collection,
    Collection of Lambert, Avignon, France
  • 2009 19 years later, Embassy of the Czech Republic in Berlin
  • 2008
    Exhibition of the finalists of the NG 333 Group Award & ČEZ, National Gallery in Prague, Trade Fair Palace, Prague
  • 2008, National Gallery in Prague, Trade Fair Palace, Prague
  • 2007 Studio of prof. Milan Knizak, Cairo Opera, Cairo, Egypt
  • 2006 International Painting Salon, Carbunari 2006, Baia Mare, Romania
  • 2005 Czech Painting Today, International Biennial of Contemporary Art 2005 National Gallery in Prague, Trade Fair Palace, Prague
  • 2004 International Art Fair in Prague, Municipal House, Prague
  • 1999 Cube, Prague Quadrennial 1999, 9th International Exhibition of Scenography and Theater Architecture, School Section, Prague
  • 1995 Portraits, chateau gallery, Jemniště chateau
  • 1994 Tolerance, International Symposium on Youth Art, Altkirch, France

REPRESENTATION IN COLLECTIONS

  • National Gallery Prague, Prague

  • Kunsthalle Prague, Prague

  • Collection of Yvon Lambert, Avignon