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Zbyněk Baladrán
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Zybněk Baladrán acts as an archeologist of knowledge, unearthing images, fragments and narratives from his country’s past. His installation presents animations, documentaries, found footage and propaganda films that are edited and re-assembled with vintage soundtracks and mysterious noises. Enveloping the viewer in dream-like recollections and historical moments, the work travels across history and memory as displayed through the collective unconscious of cinema.
Ruins, Archeology and the Gap Between Images, Zybněk Baladrán, text to the exhibition The Need to Document, 2005 [.pdf file ]
The Practice, Theory and Exposition of Zybněk Baladrán, by David Kulhanek, Umelec magazine, 3/2004 [.pdf file ]
Projection & Past, Interview with Zybněk Baladrán by Ingrid Commandeur, Metropolis M magazine, Utrecht, 2004 [.pdf file ]
Born 1973 in Prague. Studied art history at Charles University in Prague from 1992-2007 and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague from 1997-2003 (studio of visual communication under J. David, painting studio of V. Skrepl and new media under V. Bromová). He is one of the co-founders of Galerie Display, established in Prague in 2001, and continues to work closely with its sucessor Tranzit-Display, which was established in 2007. He one of the co-curators of the multi-faceted exhibition project Monument to Transformation, a 3-year research project on social transformation, and of Manifesta 8, which was held in Murcia, Spain in 2010.
Baladrán has exhibited extensively in the Czech Republic - Biennale of the Young (2005, 2008; Prague Biennale (2007, 2009), Chalupecky Award Finalists (2004, 2005, 2007, 2008), Prague City Gallery (2007), Ceske Budejovice House of Art (2008), as well as internationally - Manifesta 5 (2004), Kunsthaus Basel (2005), Apex Art in New York (2006), Frankfurter Kunstverein (2006), Index Foundation Stockholm (2007), Secession Display Case in Vienna (2008), and the 11th Biennale de Lyon(2011).