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16th Edition Prague Photo Festival. 19 - 24.11.2024
Stand 1. Atelier Eliška Bartek, CH
Clam-Gallas Palace. Husova 20. Prague 1
Das Schwere wird leicht
Thomas Jordan. literaturkritik.de
Review of the novel And Before Me, a Whole Life. Eliška Bartek
In her autofictional novel “And before me a whole life”, artist Eliška Bartek tells the story of a young woman's cross-border search for happiness in times of patriarchy and finds her very own sound in the process.
Publication Date: March 5, 2024
Publisher: Weissbooks
Number of Pages: 240
ISBN: 978-3-86337-214-9
THE LAST BOHEMIAN.
ELIŠKA BARTEK'S SURREAL JOURNEY THROUGH SPACE AND TIME
From April 12th to July 6th, 2024, the Max Wandeler Foundation in Luzern will showcase a selection of photograms and clichés from the artist Eliška Bartek, alongside excerpts from her collection of photographs from the Czech Avant-garde, featuring works by František Drtikol, Jaromir Funke, Miloš Korecek, Vilém Reichmann, Jaroslav Rössler, and Miroslav Tichy.
Curated by Marco Obrist and carefully tailored to fit the historical spaces of the Max Wandeler Foundation in Luzern, the exhibition, along with its accompanying publication, intertwines different generations and perspectives. It juxtaposes Eliška Bartek's photograms with carefully selected historical works, offering a captivating narrative that transcends time and space.
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"And Before Me, a Whole Life" tells the terrible and deeply moving, yet also somewhat comical life story of a girl from a good and influential family who decides to leave her homeland of Czechoslovakia after the Russian invasion of Prague. Using an advertisement – "Beautiful Czech Woman Seeks Husband" – she initiates her escape from the country and embarks on an odyssey through various, more or less taxing, yet always passionate love and marriage situations in Germany and Switzerland, until she finally arrives as a person and an artist, at peace within herself, in her entire life. "
A completely unadapted voice. A new tone, rough and daring, yet also tender and full of profound Eastern European humor. A book that tends towards drastic measures and ruthlessly explores boundaries. And a woman who crosses these boundaries." (Daniel Kehlmann)
Publication Date: March 5, 2024
Publisher: Weissbooks
Number of Pages: 240
ISBN: 978-3-86337-214-9
Beauty Strikes Back
Eliška Bartek - Paintings
Solo exhibition at Hilleckes Gallery in Berlin
12.11.2022 - 14.01.2023
Eliska Bartek. Farbrausch/Color Frenzy
Solo Show
7. November 2020 - 16. January 2021
Suarezstrasse 55, 14057 Berlin
HITZE(FREI). Arbeiten auf Papier
Group Exhibition
16. Juni - 15. August 2020
Suarezstrasse 55, 14057 Berlin
…born to be alive.
Eliska Bartek / Christian Eisenberger / Markus Huemer / Peter Kogler / Christian Philipp Müller / Rudi Molacek / Werner Reiterer / Alfred Resch Diaz / Ira Schneider Michael Schuster / Thomas Stimm / Uta Weber
Group exhibition
Duration: May - Juni 2020
Griesgasse 3, 8020 Graz
Diario di Maggia. Eliska Bartek (New book release)
This new edition contains 56 watercolours from the Maggia Valley in Switzerland. With an introduction by Andreas Schwab
Hardcover. 24,2 x 34,5 cm. 128 pages.
German / italian / english
Photo Edition Berlin ISBN 978-3-947451-03-6
The book will be available from November 2019.
To see a preview click here.
Artelier Contemporary @ Vienna Contemporary 2019
Stand / Booth B02
Gruppenaustelung. Dauer: 26.09-29.09.2019
Vienna contemporary
Marx Halle
Karl-Farkas-Gasse 19, 1030 Vienna
Too much is not enough!
The donation "Artelier Collection"
Group exhibition. Duration: 15.02.-25.08.2019
Neue Galerie Graz. Joanneumsviertel
Pensieri - a life story in pictures
Solo exhibition until 16 December 2017
Spazio Arauco, Via dell' Acqua 27, Minusio, Switzerland.
Double - Exhibition
ALUAN ARGÜELLES & ELIŠKA BARTEK
Cuban impressions
Inauguration: Dr. Elisabeth Fiedler, Universalmuseum Joanneum Graz.
Duration: 14/09/2017 - 14/11/2017
ARTELIER CONTEMPORARY, Graz / Austria
New book release
Eliska Bartek. Havanna, die Diva der Antillen.
Fischer Verlag. ISBN 978-3-86455-071-3
Presentation at Frankfurt Book Fair 2016 and
Leipzig Book Fair 2017
Video
Presentation of her book
Havanna, die Diva der Antillen
at Frankfurt Book Fair 2016
VIDEO
Havana, the Diva of the Antilles, 2016
A drive through Havana with the artist.
FOTOFEVER PARIS
Photo Edition Berlin Show with Eliska
Bartek at the
4. Fotofever, Paris. 13. -15. November 2015.
Carrousel du Louvre, Paris
CONFERENCE
Rotary Club Henningsdorf-Oranienburg
Art as Investment
Speaker: Eliska Bartek
2015
PHOTO BASEL 2015
The Photo Edition Berlin shows positions of concrete photography and the artist Eliska Bartek
GROUP EXHIBITION at the Museo di Roma in Trastevere in cooperation with PHOTO EDITION BERLIN and Centro Sperimentale di Fotografia Adams "CZECH FUNDAMENTAL - With Frantisek Drtikol, Jaroslav Rossler, Jaromir Funke, Ladislav Emil Berka, Josef Sudek, Miroslav Tichy, Jan Saudek, Aleš Kuneš, Suzanne Pastor, Nadia Rovderova, Jiri Sigut, Eliška Bartek, Ivan Pinkava. From 27. May bis 19. July 2015
VIDEO
Video from the Catalogue Czech Fundamental.
Guest invitation
Artist Eliska Bartek presents her painting
at Volksbank AG in St. Margrethen, Switzerland.
June - December 2015
BOOKPUBLICATION:
ELISKA BARTEK - Secret Photography
Chliché Verre and photograms
With an introduction by Prof. Dr. Eugen Blume
hardcover 24,2 x 34,5 cm
96 pages thereof 76 colour illustrations
German / English
ISBN 978-3-00-048105-5
SOLO EXHIBITION
in the Gallery for Photography - PHOTO EDITION BERLIN
Secret photography.
Chliché Verre and photograms with book presentation
From 07 February to 18 March 2015
VIDEO
Video of the solo exhibition "Secret Photography"
at the Gallery Photo Edition Berlin, 2015.
SOLO EXHIBITION
Secret photography
Chliché Verre and photograms with book presentation
11 February to 15 March 2015
Gallery ARTELIER CONTEMPORARY, Graz, Austria
The world of small things
Lecturer in photography: Eliska Bartek.
17th International Dresden Summer Academy of Fine Arts, 2014.27.07. - 09.08.2014
PRAGUE PHOTO FESTIVAL 2013
Photography Fair Prague Photo
23. - 28. 4. 2013
Mit Galerie Photo Edition Berlin
Interview with Eliska Bartek.
Graz, Austria.
Beauty | Flowers in Contemporary Photography
7 April - 24 Juni, 2012
Tokyo Art Museum
Künstler: Nobuyoshi Araki, Eliška Bartek, Wilfried Bauer, Jessica Backhaus, Michael Wesely a. o.
group exhibition
Art photography shows life elementary
Representation Rhineland Palatinate
27 May to 13 June 2011
With Eliska Bartek, Thomas Florschuetz, Lina Kim, Knut Wolfgang Maron, Joachim Richau, Michael Wesely and others. The exhibition was curated by Christoph Tannert.