Jakub & František

Jakub Hájek & František Hanousek

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Working as a single entity, Jakub and František share a sense of foresight and synchronicity in their artistic practice. Co-authorship has never been merely a motive for them but rather a fundamental condition. It is the key to facing the challenges of the art industry, with its own materialist specifics. It is the constitutive element of reciprocity and friendship that helps them maintain their enthusiasm and motivation to remain engaged in artistic labor. Using different artistic languages—ranging from works on paper to complex installations—they create tiny connections between certain historical periods, all while preserving a poetic framework, which they refer to as “the universal industrial key drama, the transition from psychic woodiness to psychic metallicity.”

Jakub and František (1994, Czech Republic) are based in Prague and Vimperk. Both hold master’s degrees from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. They have exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions at C. Rockefeller Center for the Contemporary Arts in Dresden (2020), Holešovická Šachta in Prague (2020), and Future Suburban Contemporary in Copenhagen (2022). Their work has been included in numerous group shows, including A.M. 180 in Prague (2019), Futura Prague (2020), Bistro 21 in Leipzig, Dálava space in Prague (2021), Divoká Šárka (is still alive) in Prague (2021), Terén in Brno (2022), Clueless Agency in Prague (2023), Acud gallery in Berlin (2024), Display in Prague (2024). Their work was also incorporated as an exhibition design at MeetFactory Prague (2023), Galerie Klatovy / Klenová (2023) and AQB Budapest (2024).

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2024

01. Na úpatí zahrady; Curated by Marek Meduna; Kurzor; Prague (CZ)
02.To The Bottom Of The Goblet; Curated by Ján Gajdušek; AQB Budapest (HU)
03.Cognitive Fuckfest; A.M. 180 gallery; Prague (CZ)
04.Things That Knowledge Cannot Eat; Curated by Jiří Sirůček a Noemi Purkrábková; galerie Display; Praha (CZ)
05.The Underbelly of a Lost Hat; curated by Natálie Kubíková, Mia Milgrom; Garage Gallery Prague (CZ)
06.Winterbergovy Slzy; Knihovna Vimperk (CZ)
07.There has to be smth in the room; Curated by Alžběta Čermáková; ACUD; Berlin (DE)

RESIDENCIES

2024 - AQB; Budapest (HU)
2023 - MORPHO; Antwerp (BE)
2023 - AB3 Pražárna; Prague (CZ)
2022 - Future Suburban Contemporary; Copenhagen (DK)
2021 - 42. international painting symposium in Moravany nad Váhom (SK)
2021 - Dálava Space; Prague (CZ)
2019 - C. Rockefeller Center for the contemporary Arts, Dresden (GER)

PRESS

Profile written by Michal Novotný (in Czech only)

Reviews (only in Czech):

Dát zmatku světa smysl by Ondřej Trhoň

Upřímnost nade vše by Helena Todorová

Triptych podzemného zvukopriestoru by Viktória Pardovičová

Mysterium tremendum na zahradě galerie by František Fekete

Immersive piece/exhibition design/architecture or whatever you want to call it

To The Bottom Of The Goblet, AQB Budapest (documentation soon)
Heartbeaten, Holešovická šachta, Prague
Kingdom of Hex and Jakub Hošek’s Clairvoyant at Meet Factory, Prague

Trite, contrived, mediocre, milquetoast, amateurish, infantile, cliche-and-gonorrhea-ridden paean to conformism and other cultural events.

Cognitive Fuckfest; A.M. 180 gallery 2024
Winterbergovy Slzy; Knihovna Vimperk

Death by Dipping Sauce

the code of bourgeois taste

Na úpatí zahrady

2. 10. – 24. 11. 2024

Pavla Dundálková, Zdena Fibichová, Jakub Hájek & František Hanousek, Jaroslav Hladký, Stanislav Judl, Stanislava Karbušická, Josef Mladějovský, Mark Ther,
Sofie Tobiášová

Curated by Marek Meduna

Installation view of Jakub Hájek and František Hanousek at Kurzor gallery, 2024. Photo: Filip Beránek.

Things That Knowledge Cannot Eat at Display gallery

Jun 21, 2024 — Aug 25, 2024
Silvia Dal Dosso, Jakub Hájek & František Hanousek, Ondřej Houšťava & kolektiv, Robuche, Theo Triantafyllidis

Curated by Noemi Purkrábková and Jiří Sirůček

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Installation view of Jakub Hájek and František Hanousek at Display gallery, 2024. Photo: Jan Kolský.

Installation view of Theo Triantafyllidis , Jakub Hájek and František Hanousek at Display gallery, 2024. Photo: Jan Kolský.

Installation view of Jakub Hájek and František Hanousek at Display gallery, 2024. Photo: Jan Kolský.

The Underbelly of a Lost Hat at Garage Gallery

Curated by: Natálie Kubíková, Mia Milgrom
Josefin Arnell, David Čumalo, Tobias Izsó, Jolana Škachová, Maximilian Haja, Jakub Hájek & František Hanousek

16.4. - 2.6. 2024

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Installation view of Jakub Hájek and František Hanousek at Garage Gallery, 2024. Photo: Shotbyus.

Installation view of Jakub Hájek and František Hanousek at Garage Gallery, 2024. Photo: Shotbyus.

Delving into Bone Liquor

MORPHO (The Refectory)
09.12.2023–16.12.2023

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Installation view of Jakub Hájek and František Hanousek, Delving into Bone Liquor at Refactory, Morpho, 2024.

Everything but the Lie

Gallery Klenová, Klatovy
September 03 — October 31, 2023

Artists: Timur Aloev, Julius Bobke, Štěpán Brož, Bianka Chladek, Theo Ellison, Nschotschi Haslinger, Jakub Hájek & František Hanousek, Klara Jakes, Monika Kováčová, Šimon Sýkora, Peter Wächtler

Curation: Tina Poliačková, Lumír Nykl

Exhibition design: Jakub Hájek & František Hanousek

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Installation view of Štěpán Brož, Monika Kováčová, Šimon Sýkora, Jakub Hájek and František Hanousek, Everything but the Lie at Gallery Klenová/Klatovy, 2023. Photo: Bianka Chladek

Installation view of Jakub Hájek and František Hanousek, Everything but the Lie at Gallery Klenová/Klatovy, 2023. Photo: Bianka Chladek

View of exhibition design Jakub Hájek and František Hanousek, Everything but the Lie at Gallery Klenová/Klatovy, 2023. Photo: Bianka Chladek

View of exhibition design, Jakub Hájek and František Hanousek, Everything but the Lie at Gallery Klenová/Klatokvy, 2023. Photo: Bianka Chladek

View of exhibition design of Jakub Hájek and František Hanousek, Everything but the Lie at Gallery Klenová/Klatovy, 2023. Photo: Bianka Chladek

View of exhibition design, Jakub Hájek and František Hanousek, Everything but the Lie at Gallery Klenová/Klatovy, 2023. Photo: Bianka Chladek

Installation view of Jakub Hájek and František Hanousek, Beverage Made from a Metal Dew and Šumava Herbs

Hairy earthtongue, weeping toothcrust, fairy rings

Futura, Prague
June 12 – July 26, 2020

Václav Girsa, Jakub Hájek and František Hanousek, Chlorofyl (Nikol Hoangová and Julie Slaba), Tomáš Kocka Jusko and Alex Selmeci, the Mycological Twist (Eloïse Bonneviot and Anne de Boer), Adelaide Ruff, Jitka Tomsová and others. With music by Václav Hálek

Curated by: Lukáš Hofmann

Installation view of Jakub Hájek and František Hanousek, Hairy earthtongue, weeping toothcrust, fairy rings at Futura Gallery, 2020. Photo: Tomáš Souček

Jakub Hájek & František Hanousek 2024