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Ján Mančuška

1972 born in Bratislava, lives in Prague and Berlin


Selected solo exhibitions

2010 Everything that really is, but has been forgotten, Meyer-Riegger Berlin, Berlin
A Never Ending Story, Calanda, Spain, (curated by Chris Sharp)
This is how it re­al­ly hap­pened, Georg Kargl Box, Vídeň
2009 Tíseň z nejprve vymyšleného/Bange vor dem zuerst Ausgedachten, (with Jeanne Faust) Galerie Karin Guenther, Hamburg
2008 Actor: “Have you been there…?” Actress: “He said after a while”, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
Southwest pillar and its shadow at the beginning of the novel, tranzitdisplay, Prague
Only those wild species that appeal to people will survive, Kunsthalle Basel
2007 Sorry for Being so Late, West London Projects, London
A Gap, Galerie Meyer-Riegger, Karlsruhe
2006 The First Minute of the Rest of a Movie (with Jonas Dahlberg), Neue Kunsthalle St. Gallen, St. Gallen
2005 Home Alone, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
The First Minute of the Rest of a Movie (with Jonas Dahlberg), Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
True Story, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
Time in Sequences, City Gallery Bratislava, Palffy Palace, Bratislava
2004 Ján Mančuška, Marc Foxx (West Gallery), Los Angeles
Read it…, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
2003 Jan Ondreicka Boris Mancuska, with Boris Ondreicka, Centre for Contemporary Art and NoD – universal space, Prague
2002 Love, with B. Ondreicka and J. Alvaer, Open Gallery, Bratislava
Prague 13, Gallery V. Spala, Prague
2001 Me, gallery MXM, Prague


Selected performances

2010 Reverse Play, HAU2, Berlin
Hra Pozpátku, Archa Theatre, Prague
2009 Invisible – Acting in Sequences, 4+4 days in motion, 14. international theatre festival, former Federal Assembly building, Prague
Civic Play, part of Place and Formula performance festival, GASK, Kutna Hora
2008 Reverse play –Theatre, Takkelloftet, The Royal Theatre Copenhagen, as a part of U-Turn, The Quadrennial of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
Falls an mir was Gutes ist, dann bin nur ich das, der das weiss, Stadtkino Basel (in callaboration with Kunsthalle Basel a Theater Basel), Basel
2007 If there is anything good about me, I’m the only one who knows, Světozor cinema theatre / tranzit.cz, Praha
The Invisible – Acting in sequences, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm
The Invisible – Acting in sequences, Frankfurter Kunstverien, Frankfurt an Main


Selected group exhibitions

2010 Fisch Leave No Traces, Künst­ler­haus Bre­men, Bremen
East Bound, KAI 10, Raum für Kunst, Düsseldorf
Reel Subjects, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
Photo I, Photo You, Calvert 22, London
2009 Transformation formates – identities, The Brno House of Arts, Brno
Where is the wind when it isn’t blowing?, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg
After Velvet, Permanent Exposition of Czech Art, City Gallery Prague
Die Welt als Bühne, Neue Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
Je est un autre, Galerie Meyer-Riegger Berlin
The Matrix: An Unstable Reality, 28th Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana
curated by_ Vienna 09, Engholm Engelhorn Galerie, Vienna
Windows upon Ocean, 8th Baltic Biennial of Contemporary Art, Szczecin
Any-Instant-Whatever, Photomonth in Krakow and Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow
The Eventual, from the collection FRAC Bourgogne, Futura, Prague
Compass In Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2008 Zvon 2008, Prague City Gallery, Prague
Other than Yourself. An Investigation between Inner and Outer Space, Thyssen – Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
Scene Missing, Galerie Georg Kargl, Vienna
2007 Pratiques du (Non) Visible, FRAC Lorain, Metz
Against time, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm
The word in art. Research and the avant-garde in the 20th century. Mart – Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Roveretoin, Italy
There is no Border, Galerie in Taxipalais, Insbruck
Made in Germany, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover
Between Two Deaths, ZKM, Karlsruhe
2006 tranzit: Auditorium, Stage, Backstage. An Exposure in 32 Acts, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main
Riss, Lücke, Scharnier A, Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Rosmarie Swarzwälder, Vienna
This is Not for You, Discurse der Skulptur, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
I/Ich, Performative Ontology, Secession, Vienna
Yes Bruce Nauman, Zwirner and Wirth, New York
Undo Redo, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel
Of Mice and Men, 4th Berlin Biennale, Berlin
Kontakt, MUMOK Vienna and tranzit studios, Bratislava
2005 Model of Word – Quadrophonia, La Biennale di Venezia – 51. Esposizione Internationale del’ Arte, Czech and Slovak Pavilion, Venice
The Last Generation, Apex Art, New York
Wall Pieces, Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels
Déjà vu, Atelier Augarten, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Wien
Narrow Focus, tranzit studios, Bratislava
Zvon 2005, Biennial of Young Art, City Gallery, Prague
2004 Passage d’Europe, Musee d’Art Moderne, St. Etienne
The Ten Commandments, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden
Time and Again, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Open, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Pennsylvenia
Hot Destination – Marginal Destiny, House of Art, Brno
2003 Things you don´t know, K&S Galerie, Berlin
Prague Biennale 1, National Gallery, Veletrzni Palac, Prague
Balkan Consulat, < rotor > association, Graz
2002 Centre of Attraction, 8th Baltic Triennial of International Art, Vilnius
Pass me the Butterfly, d.u.m.b.o. Arts Centre, New York
Manifesta 4, Frankfurt am Main
Fourth Biennial of Young Artists, City Gallery Prague
2000 Laboratory of Contemporary Tendencies, National Gallery, Veletrzni Palac, Prague
Überlebenskunst, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
1999 Distant Similarities – Something Better than Cosmetics, National Gallery,Veletrzni palac, Prague