MICHAL GABRIEL

born on 25 February 1960 in Prague
1978-82 Specialized School of Decorative Arts, Prague
1980-87 Academy of Fine Arts, Prague - sculpture
1987 founding member of The Hardheads (Tvrdohlaví)
2001 senior lecturer at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, Prague
from 1998 senior lecturer at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Brno University of Technology
- head of the studio of figural sculpture
1995 Jindřich Chalupecký Award

TEXTS ABOUT AUTHOR
Stories of Michal Gabriel (Jiří Olič)

REPRESENTED IN COLLECTIONS
The National Gallery in Prague
Aleš South Bohemian Gallery, Hluboká nad Vltavou
Museum of Art, Olomouc
Gallery of Modern Art, Hradec Králové
private collections in the Czech Republic and abroad

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1988 Sculptures, Gallery Na bidýlku, Brno, curator Karel Tutsch
1989 Sculptures (with Petr Sládek and Erika Bornová), District Museum, Český Krumlov,
curator Pavel Zadražil
1991 Sculptures, Gallery Malovaný dům, Třebíč
1991 Sentences in Space, Gallery Pi-Pi-Art, Prague, curator Milena Slavická
1992 Sculptures, Gallery MXM, Prague
1993 Sculptures, Gallery Aspekt, Brno
1993 Sculptures, Gallery MXM, Prague
1994 Michal Gabriel - Sculptures-Martin Mainer - Painting, Pavilion Alter botanischen Garten,
Munich, Germany, curator Inge Lindemann
1994 Sculpture Summer in Rožnov (with Jiří Plieštik and Stefan Milkov), Gallery of the Municipal
Library, Rožnov pod Radhoštěm, curator Aleš Žanta
1994 New Tendencies (with Petr Písařík and Petr Lysáček), Museum, Šumperk, curator Pavla Teglová
1994 Sculptures, Paintings and Works on Paper (with Igor Minárik and Petr Veselý), Sovinec Castle,
curator Petr Nedoma
1995 Sculptures, City Gallery Prague-Old Town Hall, Prague, curator Olga Malá
1995 Bronze, Culture and Education Centre, Moravská Ostrava and Přívoz, curator Milan Weber
1995 Jindřich Chalupecký Award '94, Václav Špála Gallery, Prague, curator Mahulena Nešlehová
1995 Michal Gabriel-Stanislav Libenský and Jaroslava Brychtová, Exhibition hall under the Plečnik's
Staircase, Prague Castle, Prague, organized by Svoboda Foundation
1996/7 Michal Gabriel and Vladimír Kokolia, Emil Filla exhibition hall, Ústí nad Labem,
organized by Union of Artists and Soros Center for Contemporary Arts Prague
1997 Sculptures, Gallery Die Aktualität des Schönen..., Liberec, curator Zdeněk Primus
1997 Sculptures - Animations (in cooperation with Josef Švanda), Gallery MXM, Prague
1998 Michal Gabriel and Vladimír Kokolia, Emil Filla exhibition hall, Ústí nad Labem,
curators Michal Koleček and Petr Svoboda
1998 Sculptures (with Stefan Milkov), Gallery Sirius Design, Prague
1998 Sculptures - Animations (in cooperation with Josef Švanda), Gallery Caesar, Olomouc,
curator Miroslav Schubert
2000 Sculptures - Paintings (with Jan Merta), Local Gallery Beseda, Prague
2000 With Light, Gallery Malá Špálovka, Prague, curator Jaroslav Krbůšek
2002 Sculptures - Paintings (with Milada Gabrielová), Gallery 8A, Brno
2003/4 Michal Gabriel-Barbora Šlapetová-Lukáš Rittstein, Gallery Tvrdohlaví, Lucerna Palace, Prague
2004 Michal Gabriel-Tomáš Medek, Gallery ARS, Brno, curator Josef Chloupek
2004 Sculptures, Gallery of Modern Arts, Hradec Králové, curator Tomáš Rybička
2004/5 Lizard, installation in Regional Library-Spacium, Liberec, curator Ivona Raimanová

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1984 Confrontations II, Prague-Vršovice
1985 Confrontations III, Kladno
1985 Colour Sculpture, Gallery H, Kostelec nad Černými lesy, curators Jiří and Zdeněk Hůlas
1986 Confrontations IV, Prague-Smíchov
1986 The Young Prague Artists, Vysokoškolský klub, Brno, curator Karel Tutsch
1986 Confrontations V, Svárov
1986 The 1st Meeting of Young Slovak and Prague Artists, Střelecký ostrov, Prague
1987 Exhibition, Microbiologic Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague-Krč
1987 Exhibition of the Thirty, Lidový dům, Prague-Vysočany
1987 The Grotesque in the Czech Fine Arts of the 20th century. City Gallery Prague-Old Town Hall,
Prague, curator Alena Pomajzlová
1987/8 The Hardheads I, Lidový dům, Prague-Vysočany, curator Jiří Halík
1988 Exhibition of Young Artists in Honour of Hana Wichterlová, Václav Špála Gallery, Prague, organized
by Gallery of Young Artists-U Řečických
1988 The City, Statues and Movie - exhibition of the competition works for housing estate
Prague-Barrandov, Jaroslav Fragner Gallery, Prague, curator Mr Helzel
1988 Exhibition of the Fifteen - Generation of the 1980s, City Gallery Prague-Old Town Hall, Prague,
curator Ivona Raimanová
1988 Humour '88, Gallery of Fine Arts, Hradec Králové; repetition: Horácká Gallery,
Nové Město nad Metují
1988 Colour Sculpture, Vojan's Garden, Prague, curator Jitka Severová
1988 Salon of Prague Artists, Exhibition Ground - formerly PKOJF, Prague
1988 Exhibition of Czech Sculpture, travelling exhibition, Poland
1988 The Hardheads, Havířov
1989 Young to the Young, Central Bohemian Museum, Roztoky u Prahy, curator Ondřej J. Sekora
1989 In Honour of Jan Bauch - exhibition of young artists, Václav Špála Gallery, Prague,
curator Jiří Kotalík Jr.
1989 Young Studios '89, Gallery Fronta, Prague, curator Jiří Ševčík
1989 Exhibition of Czech Fine Art, Municipal Museum, Český Krumlov, curator Pavel Zadražil
1989 Painting and Sculptures of the Young Artists, Market-hall, Prague-Holešovice
1989 Sculpture, Flora - Olomouc, Olomouc, curator Pavel Zadražil
1989 Creative workshop "Primär Bildhauerei" participants' exhibition, Graz, Austria
1989 The Hardheads II, Exhibition hall ÚLUV, Prague
1989 Young Sculpture, Gallery of Young Artists-U Řečických, Prague, curator Olga Malá
1989 Description of One Struggle, Gallery of Fine Arts, Rychnov nad Kněžnou; repetitions: City Galleries,
Cheb, Karlovy Vary, Most, Regional Gallery of Fine Arts, Roudnice nad Labem,
curators Jana and Jiří Ševčíks
1990 New Group, the National Gallery-Municipal Library, Prague, curator Jaromír Zemina
1990 Path to the Post-modern, Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague, curator Josef Kroutvor
1990 New Collection of the National Gallery in Prague, National Gallery-Zbraslav Castle, Prague,
curator Václav Erben
1990 Young Studios '90, Gallery Fronta, Prague, curator Pavel Zadražil
1990 Exhibition of the competition works for the gates of the Trade Fair Palace-the National Gallery,
the National Gallery-Kinský Palace, Prague
1990 The Hardheads - in terms of the 3rd Summer Litvínov Fineart Fess, Château, Litvínov
1990 Exhibition of the International Sculpture Symposium in Hořice, Hořice v Podkrkonoší,
curator Václav Bukač
1990 The Hardheads - De Hårde Hoveder, Århus Kunstbygning, Århus, Denmark
1990 The Hardheads - Tetes Dures, Thèatre National de Bretagne, Rennes, France
1990 The 8th International Small Sculpture Triennial, Budapest, Hungary, curator Václav Erben
1990 Heap from Prague, Gallery Aime, Paris, France
1990 40 Artistest Tchèques et Slovaques 1960-1990, Galerie Art Défense,
Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, France, curator Jana Claverie
1991 Another Geometry, Exhibition hall Mánes, Prague, curator Josef Hlaváček
1991 Gallery MXM opening exhibition, Gallery MXM, Prague
1991 The Hardheads, Sovinec Castle
1991 Without Distance - Ohne Distanz, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna, Austria,
curator Antonia Huemer
1991 Prague in Eindhoven, De Krabbedans Art Centre, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
1991 European Dialogues, Museum Bochum, Germany, curator Josef Císařovský
1991 The Hardheads III, the National Gallery-Municipal Library, Prague
1992 Jindřich Chalupecký Award laureates, Václav Špála Gallery, Prague; repetition: Gallery Sýpka, Brno,
curator Mahulena Nešlehová
1992 Presentation of Gallery MXM - Art Messe, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
1992 Situation '92, Exhibition hall Mánes, Prague, curators Mahulena Nešlehová and Petr Wittlich
1992 Tanztheatre Zürich and the Hardheads (in terms of the Dance Prague Festival),
Gardens of Czernin Palace, Prague
1992 Šedá cihla 35/1992, Gallery Klenová, Klatovy, curators Zuzana Bartošová, Josef Hlaváček,
Vlasta Čiháková-Noshiro, Jiří Valoch, Jana and Jiří Ševčík
1992 Excursion to the Post-modern, Fairground - Pavilion H, Brno;
repetition: the Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, curator Egon Bondy
1992 Sculpture 1988-92 - Generation of the 1980s, City Gallery Prague-The Stone Bell House, Prague,
curator Olga Malá
1992 Presentation of Gallery MXM - Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany
1992 Bronze, Vojan's Garden, Prague, curator Štěpán Axman
1992 Exhibition of Small Sculpture, Gallery 9, Celle, Germany, organized by Gallery MXM
1993 Acquisitions of the 20th-Century Czech Art from the 1989-92,
Prague Castle Riding School, Prague
1993 Czech Geometry - Geometria Bohemia, Mücsarnok Gallery, Budapest, Hungary,
repetition: National Technical Museum, Prague, curator Ivo Janoušek
1993 Results of the Sculpture Symposium Trója '93, Botanical Garden, Prague
1993 Exhibition of Gallery MXM artists, Florsalon, Prague
1993 Jindřich Chalupecký Award laureates, Gallery Sýpka, Brno, curator Jan Velek
1993 Landscape in Contemporary Arts, City Gallery Prague-The Stone Bell House, Prague,
curators Ludvík Hlaváček and Marta Smolíková
1993 Hapestetika (exhibition for blind people), Gallery of Young Artists-U Řečických, Prague
1993 Four Artists in the Château of Jiří Lobkowicz (with Martin Mainer, Tomáš Ruller and
Vladimír Kokolia), Château Mělník
1993 Exhibition of the Five (with Jaroslav Róna, Stefan Milkov, Erika Bornová and
Martina Riedlbauchová), Gallery Art, Český Krumlov
1994 Manus Europae (exhibition of bronze sculpture for blind people),
Gallery of Young Artists-U Řečických, Prague, curator Štěpán Axman
1994 Gallery MXM artists' exhibition, Summer house Ostrov, Ostrov nad Ohří,
curators Jana and Jiří Ševčíks
1994 Travelling exhibition of painting and sculpture (Slovakia, Bohemia, Bavaria, Thuringia),
Passau, Germany, organized by Gallery Klenová, Klatovy
1994 Vyšehrad '94 - New Group of the Prague artists and their guests,
Gallery Vyšehrad, Prague, curator Miloslav Krajný
1994 Gallery MXM Circle - Sculptures and Paintings, Gallery Sýpka, Brno, curators Jana and Jiří Ševčíks
1994 Sculptures, Voorburg, the Netherlands, organized by Svoboda Foundation
1994 Wallenstein Garden '94, Wallenstein Garden, Prague, curator Martina Pachmanová
1994 Photos, Paintings, Sculptures, Objects, Installations - exhibition of Czech and German artists,
Château Hořín, Mělník, curator Inge Lindemann
1994 4 × 10 - sculpture exhibition (Slovakia, Bohemia, Bavaria, Thuringia),
Gallery Klenová, Klatovy, curator Petr Melzer
1995 Meeting of the Hardheads, Gallery Klenová, Klatovy
1995 European Triennial of Small-scale Sculpture '95, Murska Sobota, Slovenia, curator Jiří Ševčík
1995 Joint exhibition of artists and the handicapped, Gallery of Young Artists-U Řečických
(with groups NedomYsleno and Nová situace), Prague, curator Jiří Ševčík
1996 Orbis Fictus - Exhibition of Virtual Art, Wallenstein Riding Hall, Prague,
organized by Soros Centrum of Contemporary Arts
1996 Figur Struktur - Contemporary Art from the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, Markt
Bruckmühl, Bruckmühl, Germany
1996 Repeated Stories - Tradition in New, Moravian Gallery-Governor's Palace, Brno;
repetition: the National Gallery-Sternberg Palace, curator Kaliopi Chamonikola
1996 Triennial of Modern Art, The House of Art, Zlín, curator Ludvík Ševeček
1996 Manus Europae, Archbishopry Olomouc, Moravský Beroun, curator Štěpán Axman
1996 Half of dozen laureates of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award '90-95, Gallery Sýpka, Brno,
curator Jan Velek
1996 Fateful Pleasures (exhibition of collectors of modern art), National Gallery-Trade Fair Palace,
Prague, curators Naďa Řeháková, Vít Havránek and Karel Miler
1996 Bronze Offspring, Schwarzenberg Palace, Prague, curator Jonáš Nenička
1996 Revelation - Acquisitions of Galerie Klenová - 1987-1996, Gallery Klenová, Klatovy,
curator Marcel Fišer
1996 Jindřich Chalupecký Award - laureates of 1990-95, Old Royal Palace, Prague Castle, Prague
1997 Jindřich Chalupecký Award laureates, Kortárs Cseh Képzömüvészet, Budapest, Hungary
1997 Bronze - exhibition in terms of Třinecké železárny Sculpture Symposium, Třinec,
curator Michal Koleček
1997 Results of Třinecké železárny Sculpture Symposium, International Engineering Fair, Brno,
curator Michal Koleček
1997 Pardubice Rampart, East Bohemian Gallery of Fine Arts, Pardubice, curator Hana Řeháková
1997 From the Fictitious World of New Media, North Bohemian Museum, Liberec,
curator Ludvík Hlaváček / Soros Center for Contemporary Arts Prague
1997 Workshop '97 - Mikulov Art Symposium, Regional museum, Mikulov na Moravě
1997 Artwork in Public Spaces, the National Gallery-Trade Fair Palace, Prague, curator Ludvík Hlaváček
1997 Workshop '94-97 - Results of Mikulov Art Symposia, Exhibition hall under the Plečnik's Staircase,
Prague Castle, Prague, organized by Svoboda Foundation and RAP Mikulov na Moravě
1997/8 Christmas Box - joint exhibition of Gallery MXM artists, Gallery MXM, Prague,
curators Jana and Jiří Ševčíks
1998 Results of Třinecké železárny Sculpture Symposium - Iron and Bronze, Václav Špála Gallery, Prague;
repetitions: Emil Filla exhibition hall, Ústí nad Labem, Třinecké železárny, Třinec,
curator Michal Koleček
1998 Jindřich Chalupecký Award laureates, travelling exhibition: Enschede, Netherlands, Gallery Artex,
Bucharest, Romania, Gallery Manez, Moscow, Russia, Center of Contemporary Art, Kiev, Ukraine,
curators Martin Dostál and Radek Váňa
1999 Iron Sculpture, the National Gallery-Trade Fair Palace, Prague, curator Michal Koleček
1999 The Hardheads IV, the National Gallery-Wallenstein Riding School, Prague
1999 In Honour of Franz Kafka, Dancing Building, Prague
2000 Refiguration (with Kurt Gebauer, Márius Kotrba, Karel Nepraš and Jiří Plieštik),
Moravian Gallery-the Courtyard of Prazak Palace, Brno, curator Kaliopi Chamonikola
2000 End of the World?, the National Gallery-Kinský Palace, Prague, curator Milan Knížák
2000 Gallery Tvrdohlaví opening exhibition, Gallery Tvrdohlaví, Lucerna Palace, Prague
2000/1 Jindřich Chalupecký Award laureates, the National Gallery-Trade Fair Palace, Prague
2001 Looking for Lost Elegance - Project 2000+1, Design centre, Prague
2001 100+1 Artworks of the 20th century - Looking Back to the Last Century,
Czech Museum of Fine Arts-the Black Madonna House, Prague, curator Alena Potůčková
2001 The Hardheads + Michal Novotný (modification of the permanent collection), Gallery Tvrdohlaví,
Lucerna Palace, Prague
2001 The Hardheads - Artists for the Artists (modification of the permanent collection),
Gallery Tvrdohlaví, Lucerna Palace, Prague
2001 Colour Sculpture, North-bohemian Gallery, Litoměřice
2001/2 Nové spojení - New Connection, World Financial Center, New York, USA;
repetitions: Municipal Gallery-Mirbach Palace, Bratislava, Slovakia, the National Gallery-Trade
Fair Palace, Prague, curators Ľubomíra Slušná and Dan Merta
2001 The Hardheads - Erotic (modification of the permanent collection),
Gallery Tvrdohlaví, Lucerna Palace, Prague
2001 Michal Gabriel - Sculptures + Jan Ambrůz, David Černý, Michal Gabriel, Lukáš Rittstein,
Jiří Sobotka - Drawings, Gallery Druhá modrá, Prague, curator Irena Velková
2001/2 The Venue - Design of the 20th century, Moravian Gallery-Museum of Applied Arts,
curators Kaliopi Chamonikola and Tomáš Lahoda
2002 The Hardheads + Vít Soukup (modification of the permanent collection),
Gallery Tvrdohlaví, Lucerna Palace, Prague
2004 In the Time In-Between, Gallery of Art Critics, Adria Palace, Prague,
curator Vlasta Čiháková-Noshiro
2004 Bilder, Skulpturen, Fotografien - Tschechische Künstler zum Eintritt in die EU,
Galerie Kubus, Hannover, Germany, curator Vera Lindbeck
2004 Große Östbayerische Kunstausstellung 2004, Kunst- und Gewerbeverein Regensburg,
Kreuzgang des Dominakanerklosters, Regensburg, Germany
2004 Animalies, Gallery of Czech Sculpture, Prague
2004 European Triennial of Small-scale Sculpture 2004, Murska Sobota, Slovenia,
curator Raminta Jurenaite
2004 Figurama '04, The House of Art, Znojmo
2004 Still-life, HVB Bank-Revoluční, Prague
2004 X Years of Mould-melted Glass Sculpture / Lhotský-Pelechov, North Bohemian Museum, Liberec,
curator Zdeněk Lhotský