S.P.A.C.E - Otis Laubert

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Otis Laubert

Otis Laubert

Born in 1946 in Valaska near Banska Bystrica, SlovakRepublic. Lives and works in Bratislava, SlovakRepublic. He graduated from the Secondary School of Applied Arts and Industrial Design in Bratislava, Slovak Republic.

Otis Laubert belongs among the founders of Conceptual Art in former Czechoslovakia. The beginnings of his work stretch back to the period of "alternative art" presented exclusively in unofficial spaces, outside the official context of art of communist doctrine - social realism. His work is characterised by combination, manipulation and transformation of found objects.

Selected Solo Shows:

2008 Crumbs from Knulp`s Purse, GPMB, Liptovsky Mikulas, Slovak Republic

2008 MECCANICHE DELLA MERAVIGLIA VI, Monastero di San Pietro in Lamosa, Iseo, Italy

2004 Fessel g.f.K, Vienna, Austria

2001 Before Book, SPACE Gallery, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

1998 Butterflies - Those have Not Even Been Touched, Tatrasoft Gallery, Bratislava, SlovakRepublic

1997 What to put on?, Tatrasoft Gallery, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

1996 Was anzieh in…?, KulturKontakt, Vienna, Austria

1996 Alphabet, At Kunsthaus Raskolnikov, Dresden, Germany

1996 Light of Things, GJK, Synagogue - Centre for Contemporary art, Trnava, Slovak Republic

1996 Frontal Attack on Venice, Aspekt Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic

1995 Blue Period of Picasso, Galerie o zwei, Berlin, Germany

1994 Themes, State Gallery, Banska Bystrica, Slovak Republic

1993 Outside the Framework, Chateauroux, France

1992 Vaclav Spala Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic

1992 Probes, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

1992 Knoll Gallery, Vienna, Austria

1991 Witzenhausen - Meijerink Galerie, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

1991 Knoll Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

1987 A Yard in the Gallery of Youth, Brno, Czech Republic

1986 Club on Chmelnica, Prague, Czech Republic

1983 Krenova Club, Brno, Czech Republic

1979 Three-Dimensional Interpretations, private exhibition in artist`s apartment in Moskovska ulica, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Selected Group Shows:

2008 PULSE art fair, SPACE Gallery, Miami, USA

2008 Between Concept and Action, Sonia Rosso Gallery, Turin, Italy

2005 Prague Biennale 2, Prague, Czech Republic

2004 A-R, UBS, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

2004 City Gallery Pilsen, Czech Republic

2003 A-R, Gallery Via Larga, Florance, Italy

2002 70ies, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

2001 Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary

2000 20th Century Slovak Art, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

1998 Cartographers, Ujazdowsky Castle, Warsaw, Poland

1998 Cartographers , Ernst Museum, Budapest, Hungary

1998 Cartographers , Umeinostna galeria, Maribor, Slovenia

1997 Out of Limits, Kunsthalle, Dresden, Germany

1997 Cartographers, Muzej Suvremene Umjetnosti, Zagreb, Croatia

1995 Artists of Central and Eastern Europe, Mattress Factory, Pittsburg, USA

1995 6th Trienale of Small Plastic, Stuttgart, Germany

1995 Der Riss im Raum, Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

1995 Pars pro toto, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovak republic

1994 Gap in Space, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany

1993 Mona Lisa, Gallery Surrey Art, Vancouver, Canada

1992 Triolog, Moltkerei Werkstatt, Cologne, Germany

1992 Gruppe A-R, Museum of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

1992 From Object to Installation, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany

1992 Hills + Mills, Arti et Amicitae, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

1991 Pentagonale Plus, Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

1991 Metropolis, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany

1990 Coupole du Printemps, Galerie Art Defence, Paris, France

1989 Hommage to J. Chalupecký, National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic

1987 Hommage to L. Kassak, FMK Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

1970 1st Open Studio, Tehelná 32, Bratislava, Slovak Republic