Pavel Dušek

Bio

Pavel Dušek (*1992) works on the borderline between painting, object and installation. His works are based on an intense physical contact with the material, layering, disrupting and reassembling forms. Dušek is a painter who is fascinated by material - cement, concrete, metal and acrylic - both in form and content.

Dušek explores the relationship between the inner space of man and the outer world - between construction and decay, between intuitive gesture and rational composition. He is characterized by expressive structures, the rawness of materials and the play with residues, traces and fragments. He also likes to place his work in public spaces and urban landscapes. He has installed his paintings on buildings in Athens, Paris, London, Venice and Barcelona.

From 2012 to 2018 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in Michael Rittstein's Studio of Painting III. In 2016 he completed an internship at ISI Yogyakarta in Indonesia, which contributed to his international artistic outlook. His works have been presented in solo and group exhibitions in the Czech Republic and abroad. And in 2021, he was awarded the Critics' Prize for Young Painting.