Jan Smejkal

About

Jan Smejkal is working in different media since the 70's – painting, drawing, performance – in his artistic approach he is dealing with themes as time, signs, writing and language. Drawing, writing and painting are forming parallel worlds in his oeuvre, the fundamental idea lies in uncovering the indirect and hidden relationship within these components.

 

 

Biography

1948
born in Beroun, Tschechien

1967-68
Studium an der Hochschule für Gestaltung, Prag

1968-73
Studium an der Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main

2000-2018 
lives and works in Berlin

since 2018 back home in CZ

Selected works

10.9.2001 (painting on the day before 9/11)
Berlin Wall Painting, 350x490cm, wooden panels, exhibited at ARTFORUM Berlin
The Art Car entitled Volkswagen, painted Volvo GDR state limousine, 2000
es lebe der marxismus sozialismus
the Art Car in front of the Frankfurt skyscraper line
the Art Car in a Berlin courtyard
Installation on Gendarmenmarkt Berlin, 2002
Questions Installation on Gendarmenmarkt Berlin, 2002
Exhibition at the Jewish Museum in Berlin, 2003
8hours drawings 1978
8hours drawings 1978
Drawings 2022-2024
Drawing Archives 1980-ongoing
5 Paintings Installation / artist names 2010-2012
68x68=4624 mixed media on paper/ cardboard
Questions Jewish Museum Berlin 2001
Text Installation Jewish Museum Frankfurt
Paintings Artist names 2014-2019, installation in the garden of the artist
gouaches on paper
single gouache with date and time, postcard size
Untitled / Martin Buber/75x75cm.10.3.1999
Untitled / Declare Your Independence Baby You Never Get A Second Chance/130x130cm.24.4.1992

Color field paintings 2023-now

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Projects

Artcar

The idea behind The Art Car Project is the provision of this unique car for film productions, photo shootings and special events as the Berlin Film Festival, the Berlin Art Fair and the various Berlin Fashion shows.

Positions Berlin Art Fair 2020

Art Cologne Palma Mallorca April 9-12th 2026