Luděk Rathouský

Luděk Rathouský (*1975, Broumov) is a painter, performer, curator, and educator. From 1999 to 2005, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in the studios of Jiří David, Vladimír Skrepl, Veronika Bromová, and Michael Rittstein, and completed an internship at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. He is a founding member of the art group Rafani, which has been working with social and political themes since 2000. He works as an associate professor and head of the Painting Studio 2 at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Brno University of Technology and has long served as a curator of the Luxfer Gallery in Česká Skalice. He has exhibited, among other places, at the Václav Špála Gallery, the Richard Adam Gallery, and the Prague Biennale. In 2026, the Egon Schiele Art Centrum in Český Krumlov presented his extensive exhibition Suspected Connections.