Krištof Kintera

Bio

The artist and sculptor which is one of our best-known and most successful contemporary artists. His sculptures, objects and collages depict the world around us in a completely original and at the same time very accessible form. In the years 1992–1999, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in the studios of Jiří Lindovský, Aleš Veselý, Michael Bielický and Milan Knížák, and then in 2003–2004 as a postgraduate at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam. He has been exhibiting independently since the mid-nineties. He was nominated for the Jindřich Chalupecký Award a total of three times. In the past, he was represented by the Jiří Švestka Gallery. In the 1990s, he was a member and leading figure of the theater-performance group Jednotka. In 1999, he was one of the founders of the Universal Space NoD on the floor above the ROXY music club and became the first curator of the gallery there. He regularly collaborates on the creative concept and exhibitions of the theater festival 4+4 days in motion in Prague. In 2006, he created the visual concept for the eighth annual One World documentary film festival. He also participated in the controversial sculptural installation Entropa created in 2009 by the sculptor David Černý for the atrium of the Justus Lipsius building in Brussels as part of the Czech presidency of the Council of the European Union.