MGA.MGR. PAVEL TRNKA

About the author

My main interests are drawing, painting, graphics and illustration. In recent years, I have been intensively engaged in large-format angular drawing depicting various forms of landscape. I would divide my work into two main branches: a more realistic drawing and a more experimental drawing, in which I use different materials such as rust, ash, copper, ink. In terms of subject matter, the most important for me now are trees, rocks, life underground, natural processes associated with impermanence, the transformation of the landscape. I like to be inspired by Chinese landscape painting and its philosophy emphasizing the harmonious relationship between man and landscape.

Recently, I have been working on a series of drawings inspired by plein air sketches from the Drahan-Troja Nature Park in Prague, which will be affected by the construction of the motorway bypass. I am trying to study the overall landscape as well as individual trees, stones, animals in the plein air. The series of drawings started with studying trees in small diary entries. The trees gradually became the main motif of several large-scale paintings. I am increasingly interested in brush and ink painting, which I work with in the plein air, but also on larger formats in the studio.

Biography

Born on 6 February 1981 in Pilsen. Lives and works in Prague and Pilsen.

Since 2008 he has been working as an assistant professor for drawing and painting at the Faculty of Design and Art Ladislav Sutnar ZČU in Pilsen. Currently, he runs a secondary drawing studio and teaches figure drawing, painting and illustration. Since 2016 he has been a member of the HOLLAR Association.

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

since 2008 / Faculty of Design and Art L. Sutnar, ZČU in Pilsen, assistant professor

since 2019 / preparation of own scripts for figurative drawing

EDUCATION

2009 / Institute of Art and Design, ZČU in Pilsen, major Illustration and Graphic Design (MgA.) 2008 / Faculty of Pedagogy, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Teaching of Professional Art Subjects for Secondary Schools (Mgr.)

2006 / Institute of Art and Design, University of Technology in Pilsen, Media and Didactic Illustration (BcA.)

REALIZATION / SELECTION

2023 / Illustration of the book History of Šumava.

from 2020 to 2022 / Set of wall drawings for the Kladruby Monastery, under the direction of the National Park Service

2018 / Illustration for the book Prisoners of Freedom by Petr Němec, published by Formal Group

2014-2015 / Design and realization of panoramic signs for the High Lookout Tower for the City of Tachov (engraved steel)

2014 / Creation of comics for Plzeňský deník

from 2012 to 2014 / Founder and contributor to Caves magazine, focusing on comics, illustration and drawing with the aim of highlighting the quality work of Czech and European authors

2011 / Illustration of the book Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Land of Fog, Volvox Globator Publishing 2011 / Illustration of a short story, XB1 science fiction, fantasy and horror magazine

RESIDENCE

2015 / One month residency and exhibition at KunstvereinGRAZ gallery, Regensburg, Germany

REPRESENTING GALLERIES

from 2019 / Galerie Zlatohlávek / doc. PhDr. Martin Zlatohlávek, Ph.D.

ART ASSOCIATIONS

since 2016 / member of the Association of Czech Graphic Artists HOLLAR Prague

SELECTION OF SOLO EXHIBITIONS SINCE 2010

2024/ (NE)STÁLOST, Dotyky a otisky ukryté v papíru, Galerie Hollar, Praha, s Evou Vápenkovou a Milanem Starým, (kurátor: Petra Polláková)

2024/ Organic Processes, Ladislav Sutnar Gallery, Pilsen, (curator: Vladimír Merta)

2020/ Juices - Salts, Pragovka Gallery / The White Room, Prague, with Maria Ladrova (curator: Vladimír Merta)

2020/ Between Heaven and Earth, Between Me and You, Between Myself, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany, with Kateřina Adamová (curator: Martin Zlatohlávek, Eliška Zlatohlávková) 2019/ Open Structures, DEPO2015, Plzeň (curator: Kristýna Jirátová)

2019/ Through and Through, GASK - Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region, Kutná Hora, with Richard Koci (curator: Veronika Marešová)

2019/ Borders of the Shadow, Altán Klamovka Gallery, Prague, (curator: Lenka Sýkorová)

2018 / Salis Succus, Studio Bubec, Prague, with Maria Ladrova (curator: Vladimír Merta)

2018 / Landscapes, Monastery Church of St. Anthony of Padua, Sokolov (curator: Josef Vomáčka)

2018 / Figure Landscape, Critics Gallery, Prague, (curator: Vlasta Čiháková Noshiro)

2017 / Theory of Vision, White gallery, Pragovka Art Discrict, Prague, with Karolina Rossí, (curator: Vladimír Merta)

2016 / Figura Mashina, Gallery of Critics, Prague, (curator: Vlasta Čiháková Noshiro, Vladimír Merta)

2016 / Futural, Artpoint, Prague

2016 / Figural Animal, Kotelna Gallery, Říčany u Prahy, (curator: Eva Kočová)

2015 / Ideas of Human Bizarrness, KunstvereinGRAZ, Regensburg, Germany, (curator: Renate Christin)

2015 / MIX 15, Michal Mine, Ostrava

2014 / Monkeys, Ladislav Sutnar Gallery, Pilsen

2014 / MIKX, Visio Art Gallery, Plzeň

2010 / In Pavel Trnka's studio, University Gallery, Pilsen

SELECTION OF COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS SINCE 2006

2024/ Planet ID, vzpomínky na Zemi, Galerie moderního umění Roudnice nad Labem, (kurátor: Petra Mazáčová)

2024 / Bytosti, Galerie Port 1560, Český Krumlov, (kurátor: Xénia Hoffmeisterová)

2023 / Peacock King of Wisdom and Flowers, Critics Gallery, Prague, (curator: Vlasta Čiháková Noshiro)

2023 / Excel, resident exhibition, Pragovka Gallery, Prague

2022 / Line, Color, Sign, Critics Gallery, Prague, (curator: Vlasta Čiháková Noshiro)

2022 / Hiltopia Art Shinjuku, Tokyo,

2021 / Co-laboration, Pragovka Art District, Prague, (curator: Petr Vaňous)

2019 / New Art on Paper, Galerie Zlatohlávek, Prague, (curator: Martin Zlatohlávek, Eliška Zlatohlávková)

2019 / Flying Inn, Pragovka Art District, Prague, (curator: Karel Srp)

2019 / Art Prague, 18th Contemporary Art Fair, Prague

2018 / regarding: paper, Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany, (curator: Andrea Lamest)

2017 / Hollar Today, Municipal House, Prague

2017 / With Wings, Pragovka Art District, Prague, (curator: Karel Srp)

2016 / International Biennial of Drawing, Osten Museum, Skopje, Macedonia

2016 / Trio, Blue Cat Gallery, Kherson, Ukraine

2016 / Drawing XXL, Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art, Pilsen

2016 / From the Depository, Miro Gallery, Prague

2016 / Figure in Motion, Critics Gallery, Prague, (curator: Vlasta Čiháková Noshiro)

2015 / Art Safari 30, DEPO2015, Plzeň

2015 / Forum of Young Art | Czech Republic - Bavaria 2015, Regensburg, Germany

2014 / 9th International Biennial of Drawing Pilsen 2014, Ladislav Sutnar Gallery, Pilsen

2013 / Pavel Trnka and Caves, International Festival: ComicsFest, MeetFactory, Prague

2006 / 5th International Biennial of Drawing Pilsen 2006, West Bohemian Museum in Pilsen, Pilsen

REFERENCES / SELECTION

2019 / Czech Television (iVysílání), Events in Culture, CT art (24.2.2019 20:00)

2019 / Artalk.cz / 19. 2. 2019

2019 / Czech Radio Vltava (archive), Mozaika (6.2. 2019 07:00)

2018 / Artalk.cz / 20. 9. 2018

2018 / Mittelbayerische, Kultur, 12. 4. 2018, Kunstwerke zu Papier gebracht

2018 / Onetz, kultur, Ausstellung "regarding: paper", Volles Haus bei Vernissage, 15 April 2018

2018 / Czech Radio Vltava (archive), Mozaika (24.01.2018 08:00)

2017 / Artalk.cz / 17. 8. 2017

2017 / Czech Radio Vltava (archive), Mozaika (08.08.2017 07:00)

2016 / Artalk.cz / 16. 7. 2016

2016 / Czech Radio Vltava (archive), Mozaika (29.06.2016 07:00)

2016 / Artalk.cz / 20. 1. 2016

2015 / Mittelbayerische, Kultur, 9. 8. 2015, Zusehen, wie die Kunst entsteht

2015 / Mittelbayerische, Kultur, 6. 9. 2015, Aliens an Kaffeehaustischen

2015 / WWW.BBKULT.NET CENTRUM BAVARIA BOHEMIA (CeBB), 7. 9. 2015, Tschechischer Künstler als artist in residence im Kunstverein GRAZ, Regensburg