Vladimir SKODA
Introduction
Vladimir Skoda is a sculptor, and was born in 1942 (Prague). He lives and works in Paris since 1968.
He grew up with a special interest in mathematics and physics and he was also interested in manual work, he did training as a turner-milling and at the same time he studied drawing. When he was 26 he came to Paris and decided to stay in France to study Arts. The French artist Cesar was one of his teachers and he started working with iron wire. From 1975 he started forging iron and steel, changing his relationship with these materials. In the work of this period appeared simple shapes, balls, tops, pyramids. His spheres, polyhedral and surfaces concave and convex, lying on the floor or on the wall create a feeling of heaviness because of their weight, mass and gravity. In between microcosm and macrocosm, Vladimir Skoda changes the context and the shapes of their sculptures. Spheres became one of his favourite research subject, in order to develop the multiplicity of relationships between interior and exterior of the material, between the spectators space and works one.
Biography
Solo exhibitions (selected)
2021
- Special focus VLADIMIR SKODA, Opale Foundation , Lens, Suisse
2020
- Od drátu k hmot? / Du fil jusqu'à la matière, Pecka Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2019
- Vladimir Skoda. L'Atelier, Espace Art Absolument, Paris, France
2018
- Mysterium Cosmographicum - Johannes Kepler, Museum Kampa, Prague, Czech Republic
- Harmonices Mundi - Johannes Kepler, Château Troja, GHMP - Prague Gallery, Czech Republic
- Distorsion - vision, 1980–2018, Catherine Issert Gallery, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
2017
- Skoda à Caumont, Hôtel de Caumont – Centre d‘art, Aix-en-Provence, France
- Vladimir Skoda, AL/MA Gallery, Montpellier, France
- Vladimir Skoda – sculpteur, Mathieu Gallery, Lyon, France
2016
- Art Paris Art Fair, with baudoin lebon, Paris, France
- Claire Gastaud Gallery, Clermont-Ferrand, France
- Accélérateur d'espace, L'aspirateur - Lieu d'art contemporain, Narbonne, France
- Space Kaan, with baudoin lebon, Seoul, South Korea
2014
- Pendule, Exhibition of Arsenal and Réfectoire, Soisson, France
2012
- Parallèles dans l?espace-temps, baudoin lebon, Paris, France
2011
- Trou blanc, Carré Sainte Anne, Montpellier, France
2010
- Cinq corps de Platon, Wittenbrink Gallery, München, Germany
- Miroirs du temps, Casanova forever, AL/MA Gallery, Montpellier, France
2009
- Galileo-Galilei, Anno Galileiano,aéroport G. Galilei, Pisa, Italy
- L?Art dans les chapelles, Chapelle Saint-Gildas, Bieuzy-les-Eaux, France
- Le monde entre l?amour et la folie, Musée Denys-Puech, Rodez, France
2008
- Eric Linard Gallery, La Garde Adhémar, France
- Vision du monde, Musée du Temps, Beaux-Arts Museum, Besançon, France
2007
- Entropia grande, Zamek Ujazdowski, Contemporary art center, Varsovie, Poland
- Quatrième dimension, National Gallery of Praha ? Veletrzni Palais, Praha, Czech Republic
- Vladimir Skoda, ARTE, Strasbourg, France
2006
- Specchio del tempo, Ponte delle Torri, Rocca Albornoziana, Casa Romana, Galleria civica d'arte moderna, Basilica di San Salvatore, Spoleto, Italy
2005
- Pluie sidérale, Contemporary art center le Creux de l?Enfer, Thiers, France
- Autour du temps, Municipal Gallery of Vitry-sur-Seine, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
- Galileo - Galilei, Wittenbrink Gallery, Open Art 2005, München, Germany
2004
- Riflessi celesti e meccaniche galileane, Abbazia San Zeno, Chiesa di Santa Maria della Spina, Teatro Verdi, Centro Ricerche Enel,Pisa, Italy
- Entropie, Art Image,Chapelle du Carmel, Chalon-sur-Rhône, France
- Sphères, Hôtel de Ville de Paris, Paris, France
2003
- Chiesa di San Paolo, Modena, Italy
- Un deux trois, baudoin lebon, Paris, France
2002
- Distorsion - Vision, Le 10neuf, CRAC, Montbéliard, France
- Gravures et gravitations, Budapest Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
- FIAC, with baudoin lebon, Paris, France
2001
- Sculptures, Wittenbrink Gallery, München, Germany
- Entropie, baudoin lebon, Paris, France
- ?uvres gravées, French Institute,Cluj, Bucarest, Iasi, Timisoara, Roumania
2000
- Mathieu Gallery, Lyon, France
- Vladimir Skoda a hosté, Galerie u Bileho Jednorozce, Klatovy, Czech republic
1999
- Lepty, Vaclava Spaly Gallery, Praha, Czech republic
- Prague -1968 - Paris, Réflexion binaire, Czech cultural center, Paris, France
1998
- Les Sphères, Kunstverein Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany
- Hommage à Foucault, Hoffmann Gallery, Friedberg, Germany
1997
- Vladimir Skoda. Skulpturen 1995 - 97, Springer Gallery, Berlin, Germany
- Vladimir Skoda. Sculptures 1973 - 75 / 1995 - 97, Wittenbrink Gallery, München, Germany
1996
- Konstellationen,Wilhem-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany
- Prywatny kosmos, Arsenal, Galeria Miejska, Poznan, Poland
- Sphères 1988 - 1996 et travaux graphiques, Villa Steinbach, Fine Arts Museum, Mulhouse, France
1995
- Atelier 340, Brussels, Belguim
- Constellations, Galerie Rudolfinum, Praha, Czech republic
- Kresby - Objekty, Galerie Ruce, Praha, Czech republic
1994
- Obrazy, kresby, grafika, Galerie Ruce, Pra, Czech republic
- Constellations, La Chaufferie ? Gallery of Decorative Arts School, Strasbourg, France
1993
- Galerie Montenay, Paris, France
- Sculptures, gravures, House of Contemporary Art of Chaillioux, Fresnes, France
- Sculptures - Dessins - Gravures, Athanor Gallery, Marseille, France
1992
- Eclipses, Les Moulins Albigeois, Albi, France
- Vladimir Skoda, Neue Eisenskulpturen und Retrospektive, Wittenbrink Gallery, Munich, Germany
1991
- Vladimir Skoda, kresby, Studio Opatov Gallery, Praha, Czech republic
1990
- Skulpturen, Galerie Springer, Berlin, Germany
1989
- Primo Piano Gallery, Roma, Italy
1988
- Galerie Wittenbrink, Munich, Germany
- Vladimir Skoda, sculptures, Carreton-Laune Gallery, Nîmes, France
- Ziem Museum, Martigues, France
1987
- de l'intérieur, ARC Museum of Modern Art of Paris, Paris, France
- Sculptures, La Criée - Halle d?Art Contemporain, Rennes, France
- Vladimir Skoda, gravures et sculptures, Alma Gallery, Lyon, France
1986
- Oeuvres de 1976 à 1986, CREDAC - Fernand Léger Gallery, Ivry-sur-Seine, France
- Montenay-Delsol Gallery, Paris, France
1985
- Galerie Lydia Megert, Bern, Suisse
1984
- Neue Skulpturen, Wittenbrink Gallery, Regensbourg, Germany
- Sculptures récentes, Christian Laune Gallery, Montpellier, France
1983
- Eisenskulptur, Katrin Rabus Gallery, Bremen, Germany
- Installation, J. et J. Donguy Gallery, Paris, France
Group exhibitions (selected)
2021
- Industrie Magnifique, le quai des Bateliers, Strasbourg, France
- Rêver de la terre aux étoiles, Apollonia – Échanges Artistiques Européens, Strasbourg, France
- FIAC OVR (Galerie Catherine Issert), Online Viewing Rooms, France
- Concepts of Mirroring, Art Moderne Gallery of Roudnice nad Labem, Roudnice nad Labem, Czech Republic
2020
- Géométries de l'Invisible, Espace de l'Art Concret – Centre d'art contemporain d'intérêt national Donation Albers-Honegger, en partenariat avec le Musée de l'Invisible, Château de Mouans, Mouans-Sartoux, France
- Art Paris (Galerie Claire Gastaud), Grand Palais, France
- Rêver l´Univers, Musée de la Poste, Paris, France
2019
- Cermak Eisenkraft Gallery, SmetanaQ, Prague, République tchèque
- Enérgeïa, Topographie de l´Art, in partnership with the Invisible Museum, Paris, France
- L'œil et la nuit, Institut of Islam Culture, Paris, France
- FIAC Hors les Murs, Tuileries Garden (org. Catherine Issert Gallery), Paris, France
- Mnohozna?nost struktur / dynamika sil – Ambiguity of Structures / Dynamics of Forces, Museum Kampa, Prague, Czech Republic
- Screening, GASK, Kutná Hora, Czech Republic
- Collection 7, galerie Claire Gastaud, Clermont-Ferrand, France
- Sculpture Line, festivalinternational de la sculpture, Vojanovy sady, Prague, Czech Republic
- EPHEMERAL, Tour Bazeos, Naxos, Greece
- Drawing Now (Galerie Catherine Issert), Carreau du Temple, Paris, France
- Art Monte-Carlo (Galerie Catherine Issert), Grimaldi Forum Monaco, Monaco
- Art Genève (Galerie Catherine Issert), Palexpo, Genève, Suisse
2018
- FIAC Hors les Murs, Tuileries Garden (org. Catherine Issert Gallery), Paris, France
- Vincent Barré, Vincent Mauger, David Nash, Benjamin Sabatier, Vladimir Skoda (org. galerie Catherine Issert), Sainte Roseline Castle, France
- Biennale Internationale Saint-Paul de Vence – Art Contemporain, Saint Paul de Vence, France
- Drawing Now (Galerie Catherine Issert), Carreau du Temple, Paris, France
- Rond d'artistes, Mathieu Gallery, Lyon, France
2017
- Art Paris Art Fair (Galerie Cermak Eisenkraft) Grand Palais, Paris, France
- En l'occurrence, works from the FRAC Alsace collection, CEAAC, Strasbourg, France
- Pierres de visions, Musée Gassendi, org. Musée de l'invisible, Digne-les-Bains, France
- Mirabilia, Maison des Consuls, org. Caroline Allaire-Matte, Les Matelles, France
- Vladimir Skoda et ses invités, La lune en parachute, Epinal, France
- Fresh Winds, the international art biennale, Gardur, Islande
2016
- Art Paris, with baudoin lebon, Paris, France
- Art Busan, with baudoin lebon, Busan, South Korea
- Gwangju Art Fair, with baudoin lebon, Gwangju, South Korea
2015
- De mineralis, v rámci Hors-les-murs YIA ART FAIR, Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM), Musée des arts et métiers, Paris, France
- Raisonance des contrasts – Vladimir Skoda & Nathalie Leroy-Fiévée, Centre d'art contemporain de la Matmut, Château de Saint Pierre de Varengeville, France
2014
- Art Elysées, with baudoin lebon, Paris, France
2013
- Art Paris Art Fair, with baudoin lebon, Grand Palais, Paris, France
2011
- Sur mesures, Reattu Museum, Arles, France
2010
- Les sens de l'art, FRAC Ile de France,Jean Monnet Highschool, Juvisy-sur-Orge, France
- Ecritures et Les Presses du jardin, Boîte Noire Gallery, Montpellier, France
- Senses, Erastudio Apartment Gallery, Milan, Italy
- Nevermore ; Souvenir, souvenir, que me veux-tu ?, MAC/VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
2009
- Et moi, émoi, émois?Le musée imaginaire d?une école d?art, Contemporary art collection of departmental council, Espace Gainville, Aulnay-sous-Bois, France
- Cosmos, Jean Greset Gallery, Besançon, France
- AL/MA Gallery, Montpellier, France
- Balade en Yvelines ? Sculptures en l?ile, Parc du Moussel, Andrésy, France
2008
- Art Paris, baudoin lebon and Eric Linard Gallery, Grand Palais, Paris, France
- Une histoire partagée, International City of Arts, Paris, France
- L'art dans tous ses états, FRAC Ile-de-France, Centre d?exposition, Limay, France
2007
- Art Paris, with baudoin lebon,Grand Palais, Paris, France
- Lecciones de tinieblas, Musée José Luis Cuevas, Mexico City, Mexico
2006
- Le noir est une couleur, Hommage vivant à Aimé Maeght, Foundation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
2005
- Et pourtant elles tournent, ARTour, La Louvière Museum,La Louvière, Belgium
- Acqua, aria, terra, fuoco.I quattro elementi: l?energia della natura tra arte e scienza, Palazzo della Borsa, Geneva, Switzerland
2004
- Transparences, Itinéraires, FRAC Alsace, Barr et Bernstein, France
- FIAC, with baudoin lebon, Paris, France
- Prochaine station cosmos, Sponek Hotel, Montbéliard, France
2003
- Progetto Terre del Cerrano, Atri, Italy
- Preghiera al Sole, La fabbrica, Losone, et Chiesa di Sant? Antonio, Breno, Italy
2002
- Itinéraires, FRAC Alsace, Epfig, France
- Sacrées sculptures, FRAC Franche-Comté, Montbenois Abbey, France
- FIAC, with baudoin lebon, Paris, France
- Objet de réflexion, Collection du FRAC Ile de France, Musée - Promenade, Louveciennes, France
2001
- Collection 3, FRAC Alsace, Sélestat, France
2000
- Cosmos, Palazzo Grasi, Venice, Italy
- L'art dans le vent, Domaine départemental de Chamarande, France
- Berlin Art Forum, Galerie Wittenbrink, Berlin, Germany
1999
- Les états de la sculpture, Le 10neuf, CRAC,Montbéliard, France
- Eclipses, CEAAC,Strasbourg, France
- Circonstences, 12es Instants Vidéo, Monasque, France
1998
- Sympozium zelezne plastiky / Trinec, Galerie Vaclava Spaly Gallery, Praha, Czech Republic
1997
- Made in France 1947 ? 1997. Cinquante ans de création en France, Geroges Pompidou Center, Paris, France
- Carrefour de Paralles, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
- Ouplna Luna, Ceske Muzeum Vytvarnych Umeni,Praha, Czech Republic
1996
- Dawn of the magicians? Art, Science, Society at the Turn of the Millennium, National Gallery - Veletrzni palace, Praha, Czech Republic
- Carte blanche à Fouad Bellemine, Villa Roudani, Casablanca, and French Institute, Rabat, Marocco
1995
- Papiers choisis, Montenay Gallery, Paris, France
- Autour des acquisitions récentes. Individu et cosmos, FRAC Alsace, Sélestat, France
1994
- Paris cosmopolite, ?uvres sur papier, French Institute, Praha, Czech Republic
- Sedá cihla exil, Klenova Castle,Klatovy, Czech Republic
1993
- Springer Gallery, Berlin, Germany
- FIAC, with Montenay Gallery, Paris, France
1992
- Champs de silence, Royaumont Abbey, Asnières-sur-Oise, France
1991
- Europäische Dialoge 1991, Bochum Museum, Bochum, Germany
- FIAC, with Springer Gallery, Paris, France
1989
- Solex nostalgie, Cartier Foundation, Jouy-en-Josas (F) ; Nürnberg, Kaiserburg, Francfort-sur-le-Main
- Sculptures, Collection of FRAC Limousin, Château de l?île de Vassivière, France
- 34e Salon de Montrouge (Les Prix de Montrouge 1976 - 1988), Montrouge, France
1988
- L'art moderne à Marseille, Musée Cantini, Centre de la Veille Charité, Marseille, France
- Images et Mages, Gaillac, France
public collections
- Musée national d'art moderne - Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
- Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
- Prague National Gallery, Czech Republic
- GHMP - Galerie de la Ville de Prague, Czech Republic
- Museum Kampa, Prague, Czech Republic
- GASK, Kutná Hora, Czech Republic
- History and Art Museum, Belfort, France
- Musée des beaux-arts, La Cohue, Vannes, France
- Musée Cantini, Marseille, France
- Reattu Museum, Arles, France
- MAC/VAL - Contemporary Art Museum of Val de Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
- Gemaldegalerie, Neue Meister, Dresde, Germany
- Narodni galerie v Praze, Praha, Czech Republic
- Ceske Muzeum Vytvarnych Umeni, Praha, Czech Republic
- Regional Fund of Contemporary Art for the following regions : Ile-de-France, Alsace, PACA, Franche-Comté, Languedoc-Roussillon
- FDAC Seine-Saint-Denis
- Contemporary Art Center, Vassivière, France
- Art and History Museum, Belfort, France
- National fund of Contemporary Art, Paris, France
- Cantini Museum, Marseille, France
- National Modern Art Museum - Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
- Modern Art Museum, Paris, France
Exhibitions
Albert BESNARD / Beatrice BISSARA / Alain CLEMENT / Anish KAPOOR / Francis LIMERAT / Manish PUSHKALE / Sayed Haider RAZA / Vladimir SKODA
Patrick BAILLY-MAITRE-GRAND / Laurence Demaison / Karen FARKAS / Evsa MODEL / Laurent PERBOS / Vladimir SKODA
Alain CLEMENT / Michel DUPORT / Sé-Yeol OH / Vladimir SKODA
Sung-Pil CHAE / Alain CLEMENT / Michel DUPORT / Tschang-Yeul KIM / Young-Hoon KO / OBJECTAL / Sé-Yeol OH / Sung-Hy SHIN / Vladimir SKODA
Sung-Pil CHAE / Tschang-Yeul KIM / Sé-Yeol OH / Philippe PERRIN / Sung-Hy SHIN / Vladimir SKODA
Javier BALMASEDA / Luciano Castelli / Chu Teh Chun / Alain CLEMENT / Joël DUCORROY / Charles Christopher HILL / Tschang-Yeul KIM / Francis LIMERAT / Robert MAPPLETHORPE / Ivan MESSAC / Evsa MODEL / Gloria Petyarre / Jaume PLENSA / Julian Schnabel / Sung-Hy SHIN / Vladimir SKODA / Antoni Tàpies / Joel-Peter WITKIN / A-Sun WU
Mathieu BERNARD-REYMOND / Vladimir SKODA
gallery exhibition
Parallèles dans l'espace-temps
11/24/2011 - 01/07/2012
Vladimir SKODA / Keiji UEMATSU