Jakub Hájek & František Hanousek
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hajekhanousek@gmail.com
Co-authorship has never been a motive for them, but a basic 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 enthusiasm and motivation for lurking around art labour. Using different artistic languages, such as ink drawing wire crafting, or complex installations they make tiny connections between certain historical periods, which they describe as: “the universal industrial key drama, the transition from psychic woodiness to psychic metallicity”. That might be put into frame of so called long nineteenth century, as it was referred to by marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm. A key position of the work is, therefore, a tension between certain reconstruction of fictional genres and inner social history of material itself.
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)
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)