As we choose artists

Selection

We want our selection to truly reflect the contemporary Czech art scene.

We choose living artists mostly younger and medium painting generation.

The artists with whom we establish cooperation:

- have completed the Academy of Sciences, UMPRUM or similar type of academic art education 

- They have been devoted to fine art for a long time and feed on artistic activity

- work with leading curators

- They are subject to professional criticism, are laureates or finalists of art prizes, participating in important artistic symposia

- publish monographs, catalogs, are represented in art publications

- actively and abundantly exhibit in recognized galleries in the Czech Republic and abroad 

- are represented in collections of private collectors and public institutions

100pcs cooperate with renowned curators of contemporary art, who have long been watching artists more generations and their work qualified by the public about the state of contemporary painting and fine arts.

Petr Vaňous

Mgr. Petr Vaňous, Ph.D. (1975), Czech art historian, art theorist, critic and curator of exhibitions. He focuses on the relationship of traditional art media (especially painting and drawings) to new visual trends and monitoring of the transformation of painting and drawings in the conditions of information society and widespread new media. He is the author of a number of exhibition projects and books on contemporary art.

You can find more about it at Wikipedia

Karina Kottová

Karina Kottová (1984) is a curator and theorist of contemporary art. Since 2007 she has been a curator, editor or director in leading Czech art institutions. Since 2010, she has prepared more than 60 exhibitions in Czech and foreign galleries and museums, such as New York, Washington D.C., Berlin, Helsinki, Dutch Diepenheim or Gdansk, Poland. In 2019, the Display publishing house published a monograph of the institution and viewer. She is a graduate of the Bachelor's Program Study of Humanities at FHS UK, Master's Master's Studio in Arts and Heritage: Policy, Management and Education at the Universiteit Maastricht and the doctoral program theory and art history at the Faculty of Arts. She graduated from Fulbright-Massaryk Research stay in Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts in New York, Curatorial Program for Research in South America and. 

Jan Čejka

Jan Čejka (*1996) began with curatorial work as a student of the grammar school, while gathering experience during the bachelor's degree in aesthetics at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University. In 2015–17, he operated a website that he connected to the exhibitions of Prague cafes and in 2017 founded his own gallery, supporting beginning authors. Today it focuses on the representation of selected artists linked to the landscape and the provision of student internships. Since 2022 he has been one of the production in the Rudolfinum Gallery and since the same year he manages the Gallery of the Postal Museum. At the same time, he continues to perform as a curator across Prague and regional institutions, and has prepared, for example, a quarterly exhibition cycle for the hell of the hell sled - spring 2024. As a curator, he focuses on a wider range of themes related to the authenticity of human experience through art. It cooperates not only with Czech but also Slovak authors and for 100pcs is mainly selected by those works that are not available.

Kristýna Jirátová

Kristýna Jirátová (1985) studied art history at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University, where she also completed his doctoral studies in 2018. He is currently engaged in curatorial, lectures and pedagogical activities. It is closely connected with the Pilsen cultural space of DEPO2015, which was created as a member of the Pilsen 2015 team - the European capital of culture, and where it organized a number of art and thematic exhibitions. Since 2020 she has been curator of Pilsen Street Art Festival Wallz. As an external curator, she prepares exhibitions for various state and private institutions. Its largest project was the exhibition of loneliness in the middle of the crowd: Charles Baudelaire and Czech art in the Central Bohemian Region Gallery in Kutná Hora, which won the third place of the Gloria Musaealis 2021 Award. in Prague.

Silvia L. Čúzyová

Art historian and independent curator. She graduated from the Faculty of Arts of Trnava University in Trnava at the Faculty of Arts of Trnava University in Trnava. PHD title. She received at the Department of theory and History of the Arts of the University of Fine Arts in Bratislava. She also worked as director of the Medium Gallery and was a scientific employee of the VŠVU Research Center. Currently, he also lectures at Trnava University, reviews, publishes, cooperates at home and abroad at home and abroad. He specializes in the history and theory of modern and contemporary visual art and the history and present of art criticism. She is a member of the Slovak section AICA (International Association of Art Critics).