Pavel Korbička

Bio

Pavel Korbička (*1972, Brno) graduated from AVU in Prague (1992–1998: Studio of sculpture-space-installation of prof. Stanislav Kolíbal; Studio of Conceptual Tendencies of prof. Miloš Šejn). In his work, Korbička is concerned with considerations of space and the possibilities of its perception, while his main means of expression is light. He is interested in uncovering not only the hidden orders and meanings of specific places, but also inscribing completely new spaces into them, which creates synergy with them or, on the contrary, changes the perspective for their perception. Distortion of space disrupts symmetrical perception and becomes a source of psychophysical imbalance. Part of his reflections on space are also recordings of the dancer's movement reduced to the form of interrelated light lines, the shape of which is always an expression of specific spatial limitations.
He has exhibited here and abroad since 1990, of which independently since 1998, and is represented in Czech and foreign private and public collections. In 1995, he was selected for the Czech Republic at "European Projects for Young Artists - GERMINATIONS IX", as part of which he completed a residency in Delphi and exhibitions in France and Luxembourg; in 2006, as part of a sculpture symposium in Schwerin, he realized the metal sculpture Phase of the Sphere, which is permanently located in the sculpture park of Willigrad Castle; in the years 2015-2017 and 2022 he received a creative scholarship of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic; in 2019, he completed an artist residency at SCOPE in Berlin, during which he realized the permanent light installation Structure of Space, and in 2020 he received an annual creative grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in New York. Among his other permanent realizations in architecture are, for example, the Wrong Angle (2008) in the staircase hall of the House of Masters from the Arts in Brno, or Composition K (2022) on the facade of the Ján Koniark Gallery in Trnava. He participated in international light festivals, such as SKYWAY in Torun, Poland (2011), White Night in Bratislava (2017) or Signal Prague (2019). He works as an associate professor in the Studio of Spatial Design at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the VUT in Brno.