Jan Jakub Kotík | Forces of Resistance | exhibition | DOX | Prague

Jan Jakub Kotík - Forces of Resistance | Prague, Czech republic | DOX Centre for Contemporary Art | 11/10 - 07/01/13

 The work of Jan J. Kotík – an artist of American origin with Czech roots – has been viewed primarily within the context of political engagement. After completing his studies at the studio of Hans Haacke at Cooper Union,
New York and a short period in NYC, Kotík has relocated to Prague where he acquired his recognition as an artist. An influence of the American environment where he grew up and completed his studies remained a strong influence in his work. The need to scrutinize and further question rooted socio-political structures nevertheless remained present in his work. The compartment to which he has been confined, due to the thematic focus of his work by the markedly apolitical environment of the Czech fine arts of the time, in many respects reduced the understanding of his practice exclusively to issues with which the Czech environment had great difficulty identifying at the turn of the millennium. Themes, such as the structure of the globalised society, the functioning of the world of huge corporations and their effect on the private space of the individual, still seemed far remote from the local context, which was in the process of the continuing post-communist transformation. Kotík thus gained recognition primarily through his conceptual approach to the object, which even despite his conspicuous social-political overlap, was quite remote from the rather superficial nature of the so called “engaged art” of the 1990s.
 

Anna a Jerry Kozovi
Ron Arad
M.S. Bastian
Jiří Belda
Zdeněk Janošec Benda
Jakub Berdych
David Böhm
Filomena Borecká
Erika Bornová
Václav Boštík
Cyril Bouda
Vladimír Boudník
Ronan a Erwan Bouroullec
Jiří Bradáček
Pavel Brázda
Veronika Bromová
Jan Brož
Tomáš Brzoň
Rudolf Burda
Maria Burešová
Adam a Samuel Ciglerovi
Andrea Cihlářová
Michal Cimala
Tomáš Císařovský
Jan Čapek
Josef Čapek
Jana Černá
Jiří Černoch
Jiří David
Vladimír David
Sonia Delaunay
Hugo Demartini
Mark Dion
Stanislav Diviš
Markéta Dlouhá Márová
Jiri Georg Dokoupil
Libor Doležal
Veronika Drahotová
Otto Eckert
Ondřej Elfmark
Max Ernst
Libor Fára
Gabina Fárová
Karen Feldman
Robert Filliou
František Foltýn
Jitka Forejtová
Roman Franta
Tereza Froňková
Michal Gabriel
Pavla Gajdošíková
Ladislava Gažiová
Martin Gerboc
Otto Gutfreund
Jindřich Halabala
Peter Harach
Martin Hašek
Zbyněk Havlín
Tomáš Hlavina
Josef Hoffmann
Vladimír Houdek
Zbyněk Hřivnáč
Pavel Humhal
Charles & Ray Eames
Martina Chloupa
Vlastislav Janáček
Martin Janecký
Věra Janoušková
Jan Jaroš
Jaroslav Ježek
Hella Jongerius
Mariana Jůdová
Jaroslav Juřica
Irena Jůzová
Jan Kaláb
Jiří (Georg) Kars
Krištof Kintera
Martin Kocourek
Václav Kočí
Jiří Kolář
Lucie Koldová
Stanislav Kolíbal
Jan Konůpek
Vladimír Kopecký
Antonín Kopp
Pavel Kopřiva
Karolína Kopřivová
Jiří Kovanda
Jerry Koza
Anna Kozová
Petr Králík
Rudolf Kremlička
Václav Krůček
Barbora Křivská
Jan Kubíček
Bohumil Kubišta
Alena Kučerová
František Kupka
Petr Kvíčala
Zuzana Kynčlová
Tomáš Lahoda
Hanuš Lamr
Kamil Lhoták
Zdeněk Lhotský
Silvie Luběnová
Petr Lysáček
Oto Macek
Oto Macek
Martin Mainer
Karel Malich
Jindřich Marek
Blažena Martiníková
Ivana Mašitová
Jiří Matějů
František Matoušek
Jiří Matoušek
Jan Merta
Lidia Meszaroszová
Jitka Mikulicová
Joan Miró
Václav Miškovský
Václav Miškovský
Jasper Morrison
George Nelson
Miloš Nemec
Petr Nikl
Filip Nízký
Isamu Noguchi
Ivona Nováková
Martin Nytra
Claes Oldenburg
Olgoj Chorchoj
Petra Ondreičková
Pasta Oner
Bet Orten
Jan Padrnos
Dagmar Pánková
Verner Panton
Petr Pastrňák
Petr Pavlík
Milan Pekař
Jiří Pelcl
A.R. Penck
Daniel Piršč
Petr Písařík
Daniel Pitín
PODEBAL
Anna Polanská
Míla Preslová
Antonín Procházka
Janja Prokić
Jean Prouvé
Ondřej Přibyl
Pavel Příkaský
Qubus Design Studio
Pravoslav Rada
Eva Růžičková
Niki Saint Phalle
Lada Semecká
Tereza Severová
Michal Singer
Vladimír Skrepl
Jitka Skuhravá
Leoš Smejkal
Tomáš Smetana
Kateřina Smolíková
Miloslav Smutný
Petra Steinerová
Filip Streit
Antotnín Střížek
Jiří Surůvka
Jan Svoboda
Zdeněk Sýkora
Roman Šedina
Jan Šerých
Michal Šilhán
Dušan Šimánek
Adriena Šimotová
Jiří Šín
Klára Šípková
Václav Špála
Jakub Špaňhel
Ivan Štěpán
René Šulc
Tereza Talichová
František Tichý
Vladimír Tichý
Tobyšlo
Miloš Urbásek
Karel Vaca
Šimon Vahala
Dana Vachtová
Maarten Van Severen
Maxim Velčovský
František Vízner
Ludmila Vojířová
Mark Wallinger
Andy Warhol
Zdeněk Vacek & Daniel Pošta
Martin Zet
Jan Zrzavý
Josef Žáček
Vladimír Žák
Martin Žampach