Jiří Valoch

 

Born 1946 in Brno, lives in Brno, Czech Republic.

In collaboration with Jana Písaříková and Ondřej Chrobák, Moravian Gallery, Brno and Anna Ebner-Quadri, and the editions, Vienna.

For editioned artworks please visit →andtheeditions.com

EXILE solo exhibitions

Projekt für eine Ausstellung (1969-71) (2025)

EXILE group exhibitions

Versatzstücke (2026)

Education

1965 -70
Bohemian & German Studies and Aesthetics, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University (then J. E. Purkyně University), Brno

Selected solo exhibitions

2025
PRE-PICTORIAL, Galerie Stadtpark, Krems

2022
spɹoʍ ʎɹɐuᴉpɹo (ordinary words), Gandy Gallery, Bratislava
I-In/finito (with Katinka Bock and Bernard Cella), fjk3 – Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Vienna

2020
Subliminal Images, Galerie aKonzept, Berlin

2017
Art is Here, Sokolská 1, Ostrava

2016
The Power of the Powerless, Galerija Zuccato, Porec

2015
Merde, Tranzitdisplay, Prague
WORDS, Fait Gallery, Brno

2016
70 x Jiří Valoch, Moravian Gallery in Brno, Brno

2006
Text Installation: slova jako slova, National Gallery, Prague 

2003
Pouze tři slova, Dům umění, České Budějovice

1997
Die Bedeutung der Worte, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen

1996
Installations, Galerie U bílého jednorožce, Klatovy

1992
Jiří Valoch, Pavel Rudolf, Galerie Lindner, Vienna

1985
Vizuální poezie, Galerie města Blanska, Blansko

1984
Werken uit 1964-82, Het Apollohuis, Eindhoven

1979
In, Oltre, Centre Culturale, Monza

1978
Relations und Haiku, City library Wroclaw, Wroclaw

1977
Relations, Galerie Mercanto del Sale, Milano

1974
Sculptures, Galerie Akumulatory, Poznan

1972
Informationszentrale für Ereignisse, Bielefeld

Selected group exhibitions

2025
Invisible Fidelity: Sergio Tomasinelli´s Perspective on Czech Art of the 1960s and 70s, Gandy Gallery, Bratislava
Something Different, Galeria Prostora, Prague
SPLIT, +43, Vienna

2024
The Cynic Republic – A Score by Pierre Bal Blanc: 20 years of Kontakt, Palais de Tokyo, Paris 

2021
Enjoy – the mumok Collection in Change, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, mumok, Vienna

2019
Writing the history of the future, ZKM – Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe 

2018
Who was 1968? Art, Architecture, Society, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz

2017
YOU’VE GOT 1243 UNREAD MESSAGES. The Last Generation Before the Internet. Their Lives, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art at the Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga

2016
ZENIT nije Dada Zirih (100 years Cabaret Voltaire), Muzej Macura, Belgrade
Eastern-European Art from the Marinko Sudac Collection, FM Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, Milano

2013
16 – 20 000 Hz, MeetFactory, Prague

2012
Die Mühen der Ebene, Galerie Lindner, Vienna

2009
Native Nature Concrete, Galerie Rytmogram, Bad Ischl

2005
MOTIVA. International, Konstruktiv, Konkret, Intelligibel, Austria Center, Vienna

2003
Dauersommer. Werke aus der Sammlung Jaschke, Sommergalerie Unterretzbach, Unterretzbach 

2001
Arteast 2001+, Moderna Galerija, Ljubiljana
Arteast 2001+, Congress, Innsbruck 

2000
Aspects / Positions, 50 years of Art in Central Europe, 1949 – 1999, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, mumok, Vienna

1997
Geografie Geometrie, Konkrete Kunst an der Donau, Galerie Lindner, Vienna 

1995
Nová citlivost, Moravian gallery in Brno, Brno

1992
Graphik aus den Landesbeständen / Grafica dalle collezioni provinciali, Museion, Bolzano

1991
Détente, Knoll Galerie, Vienna

1990
Neue Blätter aus der ČSSR, Kupferstichkabinett, Dresden
Kunstsprache – Sprachkunst (Symposium), Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck 

1986
Die ecke the corner le coin, Galerie Görbelheimer Mühle, Friedberg

1982
Young Fluxus, Artists’ Space, New York

1979
Works and Words, De Appel Gallery, Amsterdam 

1976
The Museum of Drawers, Museumsfoyer, Solothurn
ICC, Antwerpen
Objekte – Multiples – Mail-Art, Atelierbund Erfurt, Erfurt

1975
International visuele poésie t’Hoogt, Utrecht

1974
Experimentelle Kunst aus der ČSSR, Polen und Ungarn, Galerie Paramedia, Berlin

1973
Texts Kápolna, Balatonboglar
Pécsi Mühely, Pecs
A conceptographic reading of our world thermometer W.O.R.K.S., University of Calgary, Calgary

Festival of flags, Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham
Aktuelle Kunst in Ost-Europa, New Reform Gallery, Aalst
Creative Postcards, New Reform Gallery, Wasly

1972
Art Systems Bienal de Medellin, Medellin
Natura morta internationale Centro d’arte santelmo, Saló
Arte de sistemas II., CAYC, Buenos Aires
Arte de sistemas I., CAYC, Buenos Aires
Junge tschechoslowakische Künstler, Informationszentrale für Ereignisse, Bielefeld

1971
Interventi di landart Biblioteca dello spettacolo, Lecce 

1966
Arlington – Une, Arlington Mill, Arlington
Exposición international de poesía de Vanguarda, Galeria Juana Mordo, Madrid
Esposizione Internazionale di Poesia Sperimantala, Casa del Mantegna, Mantova
Poésia concreta international, Galeria Universitaria Aristos, Mexico City

1965
II. International exhibition of concrete poetry, Oxford

Selected public collections

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Selected publications

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Selected Awards

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