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Tomas Hruza

Country of residence Czech Republic

Somewhere on the border between art and tourism, and between an inconspicuous event, its photographic representation and the eventual installation is where the field of interest of Tomas Hruza begins. Like other artists of the younger generation he is concerned with a re-reading of the influences underpinning conceptual and action art, and their usefulness in resuscitating the deflated credit of his principal medium – photography. The themes that he has developed over a long-term basis – the relationship between culture and nature – he renders almost in the spirit of camaraderie; his artistic means are unspectacular, and his endeavor is to fuse together categories which have been separated since the Enlightenment into an organic sense of unity insofar as it is possible within the framework of current stereotypes in communication and the media.

He lives and works in Prague, London and Sumava Mountains and studied at University of J.E. Purkyne, Usti nad Labem

Solo exhibitions:
2008 Tourists, 35m2 Gallery, Prague, CZ
2007 Tourists, Fiducia Gallery, Ostrava, CZ
2007 Behind the River There Is Argentina (with J. Freiberg), FABS Gallery, Warsaw, PL
2006 Nature Motifs, Skolska 28, Prague, CZ

Selected group exhibitions:
2007 Start Your Collection!, London, UK
2007 As Is, Old Truman Brewery, London, UK
2006 Sestka, Prague House of Photography, Prague, CZ
2006 Artfest, St. Lawrence church in Klatovy, Klatovy, CZ
2005 Periphery, VSUP Gallery, Prague, CZ
2005 Kunstkaufhaus, Regensburg, D
2004 2 + 18, The Town Museum in Usti nad Labem, Usti nad Labem, CZ
2004 Stelle Cadenti, Bassano in Teverina, I
2004 Kunst, Motorenhalle Dresden, Dresden, D
2004 Christmas, Gallery U kostela, Bilina, CZ
2004 2 + 17, The North Bohemian Museum, Liberec, CZ
2003 Re-kultivation, National Museum of Agriculture, Prague, CZ
2002 Subject - Object, The Photography Gallery Profile, Bratislava, SK
2002 Confrontation, Prague House of Photography, Prague, CZ
2001 Festival of Photography Funke’s Kolin (with S. Klimes, L. Kubec and T. Juzl), Kolin, CZ

Exhibitions Start Your Collection 2008!, 01.Aug - 20.Sep.08, Contemporary Art Projects, Start Your Collection 2007!, 01.Aug - 30.Sep.07, Contemporary Art Projects


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