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First name
Evžen

Surname
Sobek

Born
1967

Birth place
Brno

Lives and works in
Brno

E-mail


Web
www.evzensobek.com

Keywords
photography
 

Info
The owner and teacher at the Brno Photo School, an external educator at the Institute of Creative Photography of the Philosophical-Natural Sciences Faculty at the Silesian University in Opava. He works as a freelance photographer as well. He is curator of the photographic galleries FOMA in Brno (1999-2001) and the Artists Gallery in Brno (since 2005).

Besides his earlier experimental work with the photogram technique, he also devotes his time to systematic documentaries – specifically to socially-oriented documentary photography similar to the works of J. Štreit (pictures from the life of the Premonstrate monks at the monastery in Želiv – the collection, Convent / Konvent (1993 – 1994) or the People of the Hlučín Area / Lidé Hlučínska from the 1990s (1994 – 1995). He then gradually moved on to much more ambiguous photographic messages – Roma in the City of Brno / Romové ve městě Brně (1998 – 1999). His work to date culminated in the subjective documentary shots, compiled into the collection, Ecce homo, and created gradually since 1999 in the Czech Republic, France, Portugal and Israel.

In recent years he has created primarily colour documentary series of photographs from the Czech Republic – My Country / Má vlast.

Author of the annotation
Tomáš Pospěch
 


CV
M.Sc., CAD Design, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Technology Brno, Czech Republic
M.A., Creative photography, Institute of Creative Photography, Philosophical Faculty, Silesian University Opava, Czech Republic

Member of art groups not included in ARTLIST.
člen fotografické agentury ChoiceImages

Solo exhibitions
2009
Hidden Landscapes, Reich Steinhof, Poysdorf
Life in Blue, Galerie Zluta Ponorka, Znojmo

2007
Life in Blue, Galerie Artistů, Brno
Home Sweet Home, Galerie113, Bialystok
Life in Blue, Home Sweet Home, Galerie Opera, Ostrava
Gypsies in Brno City, Galerie auf der Pawlatsche, Wien
Gypsies in Brno City, ONE WORLD documentary movies festival, Zlin

2006
War?, GM Gallery, Pardubice

2004
Ecce Homo, Leica Gallery Prague, Prague

2003
Ecce Homo, French Cultural Institute, Amman
Ecce Homo, Leica Gallery, Solms
Ecce Homo, Galerie Artistů, Brno
Ecce Homo, Summer Cultural Festival, Boskovice

2002
Ecce Homo, Fiducia Gallery, Ostrava
Ecce Homo, Many Gallery, Tel Aviv

2001
Ecce Homo, Velryba Gallery, Prague
Ecce Homo, MiO Gallery, Osaka
Ecce Homo, Das BildForum, 6. Internationale Fototage, Herten
Ecce Homo, Aero Gallery, Prague

2000
Sun and Shadow, Ambit Gallery, Praha
Ecce Homo, Zvíkov castle Gallery, Zvíkov
Ecce Homo, Fotogalerie Migros, Thun

1999
Gypsies in Brno City - second chapter, Gallery Špilar, Brno
Ecce Homo, FOMA Gallery, Brno
Ecce Homo, Moravian-Silesian National Theatre - Theatre of Jiří Myron, Ostrava

1998
Gypsies in Brno City, New Town Hall, Brno

Group exhibitions not included in ARTLIST.
2009
CHOICE Choice, Fotografic Gallery, Prague
Humor or Irony, Galerie 2piR, Poznan
Second Cities Project, Fotogalerie in Grazer Rathaus, Graz
Tschechische Fotografie des 20. Jahrhunderts, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Bonn
Czech It, Space Gallery, Pittsburgh
Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Fotografia. Festival Internazionale di Roma VIII.edizione

2008
Czech Press Photo, Old Townhall, Prague
Contemporary Czech Photography, PDNB Burt Finger Gallery, Dallas
Kaunas Photo08, Kaunas
Second Cities, Kosice
Who doesn't know history has no future, Leica Gallery Prague, Prague


2007
CHARTA77, Czech Centers, Budapest, ( Budapest, Warsaw, Wien)
Second Cities - Photo Project, Košice
We live here, House of Arts, Opava

2006
Choice, Puffin Cultural Forum, New Jersey
CHOICE - photo agency, Month of Photography, Bratislava

2005
Czech Photography of 20th Century, Městská knihovna, Galerie hlavního města Prahy, Prague
Backlight05, Museum Center Vapriikki, Tampere
National Museum of Photography Collection, Congres Centre of Czech National Bank, Prague

2004
City in Contemporary Czech Documentary Photography, Fotobienale / Month of Photography,
Museum of Russian History,Moscow
M.I.L.K. Exhibition, Las Vegas

2003
M.I.L.K. Exhibition, Waitemata Plaza, Auckland
Contemporary Czech Documentary Photography, Opera Gallery, Ostrava

2002
Junge tschechische Kunst, Kulturabteilung Bayer, Leverkusen
Photographs by the Next Generation: Young Portfolio, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Kiyosato
Being Black, Archa Theatre, Prague
Czech and Slovak photography of the 1980s and 1990s, Olomouc Museum of Art, Olomouc
Backlight02, Museum Centre Vapriikki, Tampere
Czech Documentary Photography, Leica Gallery, New York

2001
M.I.L.K. Exhibition, Vanderbilt Hall, Grand Central Station, New York
Talentinum, Center of Czech Photography, Prague
Das BildForum, 6. Internationale Fototage, Herten
M.I.L.K. Exhibition, Museum of Science, London
Czech Press Photo, Old Town Hall, Prague

2000
Gypsies in the Czech republic, Brussels
MiO Photo Award, MiO Gallery, Osaka

1999
Another World?, House of Arts, Opava
Czech Press Photo, Old Town Hall, Prague

1996
New names, Prague House of Photography, Prague
The Studio of Jindřich Štreit, Uherské Hradiště, Cheb, Košice, Cieszyn
On the Edge, Salzstadel Gallery, Regensburg, Český Krumlov, Augsburg
Contemporary Czech Documentary Photography, Fotogalerie Migros, Thun

Other realisations
2005
Advertising Campaign for Hospise in Rajhrad, Rajhrad, Czech Republic
Marta Dohnalova fashion - leading Czech fashion designer catalogue

2005 - 2007
Photographic stories for BLUE SKY - Sky Europe Airlines inflight Magazine covering flight destinations in Europe

2007
photographs for ENGLISH PAGES 2 – documentary film by Marek Sklář, Czech Television


Collections
Collection of Union of Czech Photographers, Prague
Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Kiyosato
Moravian Gallery, Brno
Museum of Aplied Arts, Prague
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Museum of Romany Culture, Brno
National Museum of Photography, Jindřichův Hradec
School of Visual Arts, Osaka
private collections in Europe, Israel, Japan and USA


Monography
2009
Who is Who in Czech Republic, Zurich

2008
Life in Blue - catalogue acompanying the exhibition, Brno
Old Age - Foundation of Tatana Kucharova Callender 2009, Praha
Second Cities, catalogue of the project's presentation, Kosice

2007
Second Cities - Photo Project, www.2ndcities.net, Košice
Greenpeace Czech Republic Callender 2008, Brno
Po meste, jez je mi souzeno - Brnenska zakouti v poezii, Weles, Brno

2006
Theory of Photography of the Czech Photographic Avantgarde, Master degree diploma work published as lecture notes, Institute of Creative Photography, Opava

2005
Czech Photography of the 20th Century - Guide, Museum of Aplied Arts Prague, Kant, Praha

2004
Photobiennale 2004 – Cinquiéme Mois International de la Photographie á Moscou, Moscow
Ecce Homo, catalogue acompanying the exhibition in Leica Gallery Prague, Brno
CHOICE - Credit Suisse Masterclass Portfolio, Cultural Exchange Foundation, Washington

2003
Institute of Creative Photography - Diploma and Final Portfolios 1998 - 2003, Institute of Creative Photography of Silesian University, Opava
2002
Photographs by the Next Generation: Young Portfolio, Kiyosato Museum of Photograpfic Arts, Kiyosato
Czech and Slovak Photography of the 1980s and 1990s, Olomouc Museum of Art, Olomouc
Who is Who in the Czech republic 2002, Praha
My point of view - Leica photographic diary 2003, Leica AG, Solms
Backlight02, Museum Centre Vapriiki, Tampere

2001
Ecce Homo, Galeria Velryba and FAMU, Praha
Das BildForum, 6. Internationale Fototage ,Herten
Das Jahrzehnt, Internationaler Preis fur jungen Bildjournalismus 1991 - 2001, BildForum and Agfa, Leverkusen
Love - a celebration of humanity, M.I.L.K. publishing limited, New York
Ecce Homo, catalogue acompanying the exhibition in MiO Gallery, Osaka, Brno

2000
MiO Photo Award, MiO Gallery, Osaka
SCRIPTUM - magazine for literature, arts and life, Olomouc

1999
People of Hlučín Region in 1990s, Institute of Creative Photography of Silesian University, Opava
Ecce Homo - Photographs by Evžen Sobek, Institute of Creative Photography of Silesian University, Opava

1996
Na rozhraní - Grenzbereiche, Galerie Salzstadel, Regensburg

Other critical texts
Pospěch, Tomáš: Dokument, jenž se hrdě vznáší. Ateliér, 2001, č. 7, s. 6.

Personal texts not included in database
Evžen Sobek: Teoretické práce české fotografické avantgardy. Magisterská diplomová práce publikovaná jako skriptum ITF FPF SU v Opavě, Slezská univerzita, Opava 2004. 120 s. ISBN 800-7248-280-7

Notes
Grant:
2004
Credit Suisse Masterclass for Photojournalists from Central and Eastern Europe, Budapest - New York,
curated by Robert Pledge, Contact Press Images

Awards:
2001
Talentinum, 2nd prize in documentary photography, Czech republic

2000
MiO Photo Award, Grand Prix Winner, Japan
M.I.L.K. competition, General winner in „Love“ category, U.S.A.

Teaching and Lectures:
2009
Workshop on documentary photography, National Gallery Prague, Czech Republic
Workshop on documentary photography, Cesky fortel, Lednice, Czech Republic

Od 2008
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic - lectures on history of photography

2006
Univerzita Tomase Bati, Atelier fotografie, Zlin, Czech Republic

2005
FAMU, Prague, Czech Republic - series of workshops on documentary photography & fiction

2003
Leica Gallery Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

2002-2008
teaching at the Institute of Creative Photography, Silesian University Opava, Czech republic - lectures on theory of photography, documentary portrait and documentary photography & fiction

2001
University of Arts, Osaka, Japan

2000
School of Arts, Osaka, Japan

1997
since 1997 teaching at Fotoskola Brno, Czech Republic - workshops and lectures on documentary photography

Commissions:
2007
photographs for ENGLISH PAGES 2 – documentary film by Marek Sklář, Czech Television

2005 - 2007
Photographic stories for BLUE SKY - Sky Europe Airlines inflight Magazine covering flight destinations in Europe

2005
Advertising Campaign for Hospise in Rajhrad, Rajhrad, Czech Republic
Marta Dohnalova fashion - leading Czech fashion designer catalogue


 
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  Selected works

Hidden Landscapes - Prague, 2009
 

Blue Life - Dolní Věstonice, 2008
 

Hidden Landscapes - Košice, 2008
 

Blue Life - Camping Merkur, Pasohlávky, 2008
 

Blue Life - Dolní Věstonice, 2008
 

Blue Life - Pavlov, 2007
 

Blue Life - Below Pavlov, 2007
 

Blue Life - Camping Merkur, Pasohlávky, 2007
 

Má vlast - Brno, 2004
 

Má vlast - Vřesník, 2004
 

Ecce Homo, 2000
 

Ecce Homo, 2000
 

Hidden Landscapes - Brno, 2009
 

 
 
 
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