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ELIŠKA BARTEK'S SURREAL JOURNEY THROUGH SPACE AND TIME

 

From April 12th to July 6th, 2024, the Max Wandeler Foundation in Luzern will showcase a selection of photograms and clichés from the artist Eliška Bartek, alongside excerpts from her collection of photographs from the Czech Avant-garde, featuring works by František Drtikol, Jaromir Funke, Miloš Korecek, Vilém Reichmann, Jaroslav Rössler, and Miroslav Tichy.

 

Curated by Marco Obrist and carefully tailored to fit the historical spaces of the Max Wandeler Foundation in Luzern, the exhibition, along with its accompanying publication, intertwines different generations and perspectives. It juxtaposes Eliška Bartek's photograms with carefully selected historical works, offering a captivating narrative that transcends time and space.

 

Preview E-Book


"And Before Me, a Whole Life" tells the terrible and deeply moving, yet also somewhat comical life story of a girl from a good and influential family who decides to leave her homeland of Czechoslovakia after the Russian invasion of Prague. Using an advertisement – "Beautiful Czech Woman Seeks Husband" – she initiates her escape from the country and embarks on an odyssey through various, more or less taxing, yet always passionate love and marriage situations in Germany and Switzerland, until she finally arrives as a person and an artist, at peace within herself, in her entire life. "

 

A completely unadapted voice. A new tone, rough and daring, yet also tender and full of profound Eastern European humor. A book that tends towards drastic measures and ruthlessly explores boundaries. And a woman who crosses these boundaries." (Daniel Kehlmann)

 

 

 

Publication Date: March 5, 2024

Publisher: Weissbooks

Number of Pages: 240

ISBN: 978-3-86337-214-9 


Beauty Strikes Back

Eliška Bartek - Paintings

Solo exhibition at Hilleckes Gallery in Berlin

12.11.2022 - 14.01.2023

 



Eliška

 

A portrait of the painter Eliska Bartek.

Eliška

30:13 Min.

A film by Klaus Heinemann

 


Kunstbulletin 11/2020

 

Eliska Bartek. Farbrausch/Color Frenzy

 


Eliska Bartek. Farbrausch/Color Frenzy

 

Solo Show

7. November 2020 - 16. January 2021

Hilleckes Probst Gallery

Suarezstrasse 55, 14057 Berlin

 


HITZE(FREI). Arbeiten auf Papier

 

Group Exhibition

16. Juni - 15. August 2020

Hilleckes Probst Gallery

Suarezstrasse 55, 14057 Berlin

 


…born to be alive.

Eliska Bartek / Christian Eisenberger / Markus Huemer / Peter Kogler / Christian Philipp Müller / Rudi Molacek / Werner Reiterer / Alfred Resch Diaz / Ira Schneider Michael Schuster / Thomas Stimm / Uta Weber

 

Group exhibition

Duration: May - Juni 2020

Artelier Contemporary

Griesgasse 3, 8020 Graz

 


Diario di Maggia. Eliska Bartek (New book release)

 

This new edition contains 56 watercolours from the Maggia Valley in Switzerland. With an introduction by Andreas Schwab
Hardcover. 24,2 x 34,5 cm. 128 pages.

German / italian / english
Photo Edition Berlin ISBN 978-3-947451-03-6
The book will be available from November 2019.

To see a preview click here.

 


 

Artelier Contemporary @ Vienna Contemporary 2019

 Stand / Booth B02

 

Gruppenaustelung. Dauer: 26.09-29.09.2019

Vienna contemporary

Marx Halle

Karl-Farkas-Gasse 19, 1030 Vienna


Too much is not enough!

The donation "Artelier Collection"

 

Group exhibition. Duration: 15.02.-25.08.2019

Neue Galerie Graz. Joanneumsviertel 


Pensieri - a life story in pictures

 

Solo exhibition until 16 December 2017

Spazio Arauco, Via dell' Acqua 27, Minusio, Switzerland. 


vienna-contemporary

From 21 to 24 September 2017

 

With ARTELIER CONTEMPORARY, Graz / Austria


Double - Exhibition

ALUAN ARGÜELLES & ELIŠKA BARTEK

Cuban impressions

Inauguration: Dr. Elisabeth Fiedler, Universalmuseum Joanneum Graz. 
Duration: 14/09/2017 - 14/11/2017

ARTELIER CONTEMPORARY, Graz / Austria


New book release

 

Eliska Bartek. Havanna, die Diva der Antillen.

Fischer Verlag. ISBN 978-3-86455-071-3

 

Presentation at Frankfurt Book Fair 2016 and

Leipzig Book Fair 2017

 

 

 

 


Video

 

Presentation of her book 

Havanna, die Diva der Antillen

at Frankfurt Book Fair 2016

 

 

 


VIDEO

 

Havana, the Diva of the Antilles, 2016

A drive through Havana with the artist.

 


FOTOFEVER PARIS

 

Photo Edition Berlin Show with Eliska Bartek at the 
4. Fotofever, Paris. 13. -15. November 2015.

Carrousel du Louvre, Paris


CONFERENCE

Rotary Club Henningsdorf-Oranienburg

 

Art as Investment

Speaker: Eliska Bartek

2015


PHOTO BASEL 2015 

 

 

The Photo Edition Berlin shows positions of concrete photography and the artist Eliska Bartek 


GROUP EXHIBITION at the Museo di Roma in Trastevere in cooperation with PHOTO EDITION BERLIN and Centro Sperimentale di Fotografia Adams "CZECH FUNDAMENTAL -  With Frantisek Drtikol, Jaroslav Rossler, Jaromir Funke, Ladislav Emil Berka, Josef Sudek, Miroslav Tichy, Jan Saudek, Aleš Kuneš, Suzanne Pastor, Nadia Rovderova, Jiri Sigut, Eliška Bartek, Ivan Pinkava. From 27. May bis 19. July 2015


VIDEO

 

Video from the Catalogue Czech Fundamental.

 


Guest invitation

 

Artist Eliska Bartek presents her painting

at Volksbank AG in St. Margrethen, Switzerland. 

June - December 2015

 


BOOKPUBLICATION: 

ELISKA BARTEK - Secret Photography

Chliché Verre and photograms

 

With an introduction by Prof. Dr. Eugen Blume

hardcover 24,2 x 34,5 cm

96 pages thereof 76 colour illustrations

German / English

ISBN 978-3-00-048105-5

 


SOLO EXHIBITION

in the Gallery for Photography - PHOTO EDITION BERLIN

 

Secret photography.
Chliché Verre and photograms with book presentation 

From 07 February to 18 March 2015


VIDEO

 

Video of the solo exhibition "Secret Photography"

at the Gallery Photo Edition Berlin, 2015. 


SOLO EXHIBITION

 

Secret photography 

Chliché Verre and photograms with book presentation 

11 February to 15 March 2015

Gallery ARTELIER CONTEMPORARY, Graz, Austria


The world of small things

 

Lecturer in photography: Eliska Bartek.

 

17th International Dresden Summer Academy of Fine Arts, 2014.27.07. - 09.08.2014 


group exhibition

 

Flowers & Mushrooms

at the Museum der Moderne, Salzburg

27.7.2013 - 27.10.2013

       


PRAGUE PHOTO FESTIVAL 2013

Photography Fair Prague Photo

23. - 28. 4. 2013

Mit Galerie Photo Edition Berlin


Interview with Eliska Bartek.

Graz, Austria.


Beauty | Flowers in Contemporary Photography

7 April - 24 Juni, 2012

Tokyo Art Museum

Künstler: Nobuyoshi Araki, Eliška Bartek, Wilfried Bauer, Jessica Backhaus, Michael Wesely a. o.

 


group exhibition

Art photography shows life elementary

 

Representation Rhineland Palatinate 

27 May to 13 June 2011

With Eliska Bartek, Thomas Florschuetz, Lina Kim, Knut Wolfgang Maron, Joachim Richau, Michael Wesely and others. The exhibition was curated by Christoph Tannert.