Jan Mancuska

BORN IN BRATISLAVA, SLOVAKIA, 1972
Lives and works in Prague, Czech Republic and Berlin, Germany

EDUCATION
1998 Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, Czech Republic

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 ‘Tíseň z nejprve vymyšleného/Bange vor dem zuerst Ausgedachten’(with Jeanne Faust), Galerie Karin Guenther, Hamburg, Germany
2008 ‘Actor: ‘Have you been there…?’ Actress: ‘He said after a while’’, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY, United States
2008 ‘Southwest pillar and its shadow at the beginning of the novel’, Tranzitdisplay, Prague, Czech Republic
2008 ‘Only those wild species that appeal to people will survive’, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2007 ‘Sorry for Being so Late’, West London Projects, London, United Kingdom
2007 ‘A Gap’, Galerie Meyer-Riegger, Karlsruhe, Germany
2006 ‘The First Minute of the Rest of a Movie’ (with Jonas Dahlberg), Neue Kunsthalle St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
2005 ‘Home Alone’, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2005 ‘The First Minute of the Rest of a Movie’ (with Jonas Dahlberg), Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
2005 ‘True Story’, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY, United States
2005 ‘Time in Sequences’, City Gallery Bratislava, Palffy Palace, Bratislava, Slovakia

2004 ‘Jan Mancuska’, Marc Foxx (West Gallery), Los Angeles, CA, United States
2004 ‘Read It…’, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY, United States
2003 ‘Jan Ondreicka Boris Mancuska, with Boris Ondreicka,’ Centre for Contemporary Art and NoD, Prague, Czech Republic
2002 ‘Prague 13’, Gallery V. Spala, Prague, Czech Republic

SELECTED PERFORMANCES
2009 ‘The Invisible - Acting in sequences, 4+4 Days in Motion’, 14th International Theatre Festival, Prague, Czech Republic
2009 ‘Civic Play’, Place and Formula Performance Festival, GASK, Kutna Hora, Czech Republic
2008 ‘Reverse play -Theatre, Takkelloftet,’ The Quadrennial of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
2008 ‘Falls an mir was Gutes ist, dann bin nur ich das, der das weiss, Stadtkino Basel’ (in collaboration with Kunsthalle Basel and Theater Basel), Basel, Switzerland
2007 ‘If there is anything good about me I’m the only one who knows’, Svetozor Cinema Theatre / Tranzit.cz, Prague, Czech Republic

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 ‘After Velvet’, Permanent Exposition of Czech Art, City Gallery Prague, Czech Republic
2009 ‘Die Welt als Buhne’, Neue Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
2009 ‘Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2009 ‘Any-Instant-Whatever’, Photomonth in Krakow and Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland
2008 ‘Other than Yourself. An Investigation between Inner and Outer Space’, Thyssen - Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
2007 ‘Between Two Deaths’, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2006 ‘Of Mice and Men’, 4th Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany
2005 ‘Model of Word - Quadrophonia’, La Biennale di Venezia - 51. Esposizione Internationale del’ Arte, Czech and Slovak Pavilion, Venice, Italy