Daniel Vlček

The painter, musician and experimentator Daniel Vlček (1978) focuses especially on the artistic combination of sound with his personal visual expression. He visualises a record of sound, vibration, and its expansion in space in subjective pictures, where the emergent shapes are often reminiscent of technical drawings of sound waves. The themes of his works often have to do with researching ecosystems. In recent years he has been fascinated by the world of mushrooms and mycelia, and its significance for our planet.

Daniel Vlček is a member of the Guma Guar art grouping and a co-founder of the Prague galleries Berlínskej Model and Ferdinand Bauman Gallery. In the role of curator, he has prepared two group exhibitions devoted to reflection of sound in contemporary visual art (16–20,000 Hz, Meetfactory, Prague, 2013, with M. Vojtěchovský; In the Beginning Was the Silence, Pilsen City Gallery, 2014).

He is also engaged in original music production, appearing in the electroacoustic duo Ba:zel, and solo under the name Relaxcore. Daniel Vlček is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. He studied under Martin Mainer and Vladimír Skrepl, completed New Media under Veronika Bromová, and also spent a semester at the Accademia di Brera in Milan under Diego Espozito.

“I focus my work on connection between sound and its visual manifestation. Next to visual art, music is my second favorite expression. Lately, they are beginning to overlap or blend. Originally my inspiration came from music subculture such as techno, noise, breakcore, etc. As time went on, these influences were becoming less obvious as graphic expression of musical elements surfaced. On canvas, using an old record in place of a brush, I am making simple geometric patterns with circular motives. As I move this template along in the same rhythm I create structures which remind one of technical drawings of a sound wave”.

Bio

Education

  • 2001—2004 Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, CZ
  • 2000 Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milano, IT
  • 1998—2001 Faculty of Fine Arts, VUT, Brno, CZ

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2024 Liquid Grid , Miroslav Kubik Gallery, Litomysl, CZ
  • 2021 Works On Paper. Drdova Gallery, Prague, CZ
  • The Next Song (with Josef Bolf), Galerie Františka Drtikola, Příbram, CZ
  • 2019 Cause And Effect. Drdova Gallery, Prague, CZ
  • 2018 Dark Wave Deco. Berlinskej Model, Prague, CZ
  • 2018 Visually Addictive. Gallery 17/18, Ottawa, CA (with Ron Martin)
  • 2017 Terminate Sleep Mode. Třinec Municipal Gallery, CZ
  • 2017 Through the Eye of Mechanical Reproduction. Galerie NoD, Prague, CZ
  • 2017 CHa0s_Ch0r3o. Industra Art, Brno, CZ (with Šimon Kadlčák)
  • 2016 A Floating Gap. SET Gallery, Liberec Regional Gallery, CZ
  • 2016 Speed Index. Školská 28: Communication Space, Prague, CZ (Daniel Vlček and guests)
  • 2016 Hidden Settings. Gallery of Contemporary Art and Architecture — House of Arts České Budějovice, CZ
  • 2015 Further and Higher. Kabinet T Gallery, Zlín, CZ
  • 2015 Minimal Manual. W7 Gallery, Olomouc, CZ
  • 2015 After the End of Art. Drdova Gallery, Prague (with Levi van Veluw)
  • 2014 If You Record a New Loop Backwards, It Will Still Be Stored in Forward in Memory, But It Will Behave As If It Was Stored Backwards. Drdova Gallery, Prague, CZ
  • 2013 Correct Formula. Entrance Gallery, Prague, CZ
  • 2013 A Display of Time in a Track’s Final Moment. Galerie Na shledanou, Volyně, CZ
  • 2013 Heard, But Not Listened To… Prokopka Gallery, Prague, CZ
  • 2013 Frozen Arpeggio. Zutý Mánes, České Budějovice, CZ
  • 2012 Groove Is in the Heart. A. M. 180, Prague, CZ
  • 2012 Singing Ear… Galerie sam83, Česká Bříza, CZ
  • 2011 Untitled (Overlay). Gallery 207, Prague, CZ
  • 2011 Kindly Familiar. Trafo Gallery, Prague, CZ (with Matyáš Chochola)

Group Exhibitions (2021—2011)

  • 2024 Confluence, Venice, IT
  • 2024 Planet ID, Galerie Roudnice, CZ
  • 2021 Second Tongue, Prague House, Brussells, BE
  • Reality Do You Need Me? 4+4 Days in Motion, Prague, CZ
  • Resolution, Galerie U Bílého Jednorožce, Klatovy, CZ
  • 2020 Last Aid, Pragovka Gallery, Prague, CZ
  • Still, Stillness Is A Form Of Action. What Is There To Learn?
  • Hope For Mutation. Drdova Gallery, Prague, CZ
  • 2018 Homage to Broadcloth. Textiles in the Context of Art. 8smička, Humpolec, CZ
  • 2017 AMIWHATIAMTHINKINGABOUT?, 4+4 Days in Motion, Prague, CZ
  • 2015 Exakta. Galerie NoD, Prague, CZ
  • 2015 Geo Ego. NTK Gallery, Prague, CZ / Czech Centre Berlin, DE
  • 2014 7th New Zlin Salon. Regional Gallery of Fine Arts in Zlín, CZ
  • 2013 Re-Construction of a Mosaic. Hilger Next, Vienna, AT
  • 2011 Pseudoscience. NTK Gallery, Prague, CZ

Curating

  • 2014 In the Beginning Was Silence
  • 2013 16—20 000 Hz (with Miloš Vojtěchovský)

Member

  • Groupe Guma Guar (2003 — now)
  • Reverend Dick (music project, 2011 — now)
  • Střešovická kramle (music project, 2012 — now)
  • ba:zel (music project, 2014 — now)

AIR Residence

  • 2024- Mc Kinley Visiting Artist , Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture and Design, US
  • 2023 — The Emily Harvey Fondation, Venice , IT
  • 2022- Guild Hall/William P. Rayner, East Hampton, US
  • 2019 — S1, Synth Library Portland, US
  • 2014 — Egon Shielle Art Centrum, Český Krumlov, CZ

Co-founder and curator of the Ferdinand Baumann Gallery

Co-founder of Berlinskej Model

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