Milan Kunc b. 1944
° Prague, CZE
Lives and works in Prague, Czech Republic.
Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague.
and at the Staatliche Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Milan Kunc emigrated to Germany, where he was educated at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in the 70s under Joseph Beuys and later Gerhard Richter. In Dusseldorf, he made name for himself with a classical style of painting and a dissident attitude towards the existing conventions. Born in Czechoslovakia, Kunc was astonished at Western morals and consumption habits, which he scrutinized and criticized in his paintings. Kunc has been known for his eccentric and controversial works of art; large colorful paintings and drawings with a fascination for details which, through closer inspection, turn out to be ingeniously constructed moralities.
Recent exhibitions of Milan Kunc include ‘From Utopia to Dystopia and Back’, Galerie Andrea Caratsch, Switzerland, 2020; ‘K-K Collection, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, The Netherlands, 2022; ‘The Show Must Go On’, Groninger Museum, The Netherlands, 2021; ‘Nur nichts anbrennen lassen’, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany, 2020; ‘Marabu’, Badischer Kunstverein, Germany, 2019; ‘The 80s’, Städel Museum Frankfurt, Germany, 2015.
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Sacrament, 2015 -
Mother with children on the seaside, 2008
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Nude fragment, 2007
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Roman Cat, 1988
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Princess and spider, 1987
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Goldene Gedanken, 1986
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Brita Polzer, 1977
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Claude(with wineglass), 1977
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Elke Scheu, 1977
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Student aus Düsseldorf, 1977
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Selected solo exhibitions |
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| 2021 |
"Za hranicí představivosti," 2021, HYB4 Galerie, Prague, CZ |
| 2020 |
'From Utopia to Dystopia and Back', Andrea Caratsch Gallery, St. Moritz, CH |
| 2019 |
"BMW i8 Roadster 4 Elements," 2019, Mánes Gallery, Prague, CZ and BMW Museum Die Welt, München, DE |
| 2019 |
"Paintings and Drawings," 2019, Galerie Corridor, Reykjavik, IS |
| 2019 |
"Sculptures & Paintings," 2019, Gallery Andrea Caratsch, St.Moritz, CH |
| 2015 |
"Milan Kunc: Pop Surrealism - New York - Cologne," Cermak Eisenkraft Gallery, Prague, CZ |
| 2014 |
"Global Success," 2014. Fondation Speerstra, Apples, CH |
| 2014 |
"Gold Paintings (and Sculptures)," 2014, Galerie Caesar, Olomouc, CZ |
| 2013 |
"Drawings 1972-2012," 2013, Arkitektvägen 44, Stockholm, SE |
| 2012 |
"Gold Paintings," 2012-2013, Galerie Andrea Caratsch, St. Moritz, CH |
| 2012 |
"Milan Kunc 1979–1989," 2012-2013, Zonca&Zonca Arte Contemporanea, Milano, IT |
| 2012 |
"New sculptures," 2012, Galerie Andrea Caratsch, Zürich, CH |
| Selected group exhibitions |
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| 2022 |
"K-K Collection", 2022, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, NL |
| 2021 |
"The Show Must Go On," 2021, The Groninger Museum, Groningen, NL |
| 2021 |
"Vanitas," 2021, Centrum současného umění DOX, Prague, CZ |
| 2020 |
"Nur nichts anbrennen lassen," 2020, New presentation of the collection, Kunstmuseum Bonn, DE |
| 2019 |
"Bonum et Malum,“ 2019, Villa Erxleben, Berlin, DE |
| 2019 |
"Marabu," 2019, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, DE |
| 2019 |
"The Power of Act. Jan Palach and Jan Zajíc in arts in years 1969–2009," 2019, Museum Kampa, Prague, CZ |
| 2019 |
"Vrcholení," 2019, Galerie Sklenář, Prague, CZ |
| 2018 |
"Soft revolution,“ 2018, Triennale di Milano, Galleria Franco Toselli, IT |
| 2018 |
"Libres Figuration Années 80," 2018, Fonds Hélène & Édouard Leclerc, Capucins Landerneau, FR |
| 2018 |
"Winter Landscapes," 2018, Castle Klenová, Klenová, CZ |
| 2018 |
"Soft revolution," 2018, Galleria Franco, Triennale di Milano, Toselli, IT |
| 2017 |
"La 'Solarità' nella Pittura," 2017, Galleria Giamdiero Biasutti, Torino, IT |
| 2017 |
"Total Global: Milan Kunc and Jiri Černický," 2017, Smetana Q Gallery, Prague, CZ |
| 2017 |
"Krajina," 2017, Nová galerie, Prague, CZ |
| 2017 |
"Rustle of angel wings," 2016-2017, Muzeum umění, Olomouc, CZ |
| 2016 |
"Keramika a kresby: Milan Kunc and Olga Maler," 2016, Galerie Rudolfinum, Mikulov, CZ |
| 2016 |
"Všichni svatí," 2016, Nová galerie, Prague, CZ |
| 2016 |
"Akt 2016," 2016, Nová galerie, Prague, CZ |
| 2016 |
"New Wild Painters German Neoexpressionism From The 1980's," 2016, Groninger Museum, Groningen, NL |
| 2016 |
"Potato Salat," 2015-2016, Galerie Mariánská, Prague, CZ |
| 2015 |
"The 80s," 2015, Städel Museum, Frankfurt, DE |
| 2015 |
"The 80s: Figurative Painting in West Germany," 2015, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, DE |
| 2015 |
"Neo-Expressionism in the 1980's," 2014-2015, Groninger Museum, Groningen, NL |
| 2014 |
"Neuland! - Macke, Gaugin Und Andere Entdecker," 2013-2014, Kunsthalle Emden, Emden, DE |
| 2013 |
"Critique and Crises. Art in Europe Since 1945," 2013, Kumu Art Museum - Art Museum Estonia, Tallinn, EE |
| 2013 |
"Verführung Freiheit. Kunst in Europa seit 1945," 2012-2013, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, DE |
| 2012 |
"German art from Kiefer to Henning," 2012, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NL |
| 2012 |
"Art Prague: International Contemporary Art Fair," 2012, Galerie Caesar Olomouc, Prague, CZ |
| 2012 |
"GOLD," 2012, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, AT |
| 2012 |
"Schlachtpunk - Malerei der Achtziger Jahre," 2012, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt, DE |