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Jan Šimánek

*20. 09. 1981 in Turnov, Czech

Contact

Tel: +420 776 713 697

Email:ian.simanek@gmail.com

http://jansimanek.blogspot.com/

Driving licence A, C, D, T

Education

2005 – 20011 Film and TV school of academy of performing arts in Prague

MgA in Photography

Group exhibitions /selection/
2012 - Zootropio videoart festival, Porto, Portugal

2011 - Young Emerging Artists, Chung Ang art centre, Seoul, Korea

2011 – 2011 - Flaming, cruel, beautiful and light pink, Embassy of Czech Republic in Berlin

2011 – Unbearable lightness of being, AM 180, Prague

2010 – Paper Heads, Trafačka Gallery, Prague

2010 – Lidice, (exhibition of FAMU), Lidice Gallery

2009 - Traces&Records, 8th Funke’s Kolín photography festival, Školská 28, Prague

2009 – Cesta s BP, Gallery GAMU, Prague

2008 – Tints of communism, gallery GAMU, Prague 

2008 – GAME, Gallery GAMU, Praha

2007 – Six, Czech Schools of Photography, House of  Photography, Prague

Solo Exhibitions

2011 - Dark, (in colaboration with Ondřej Bouška), Knight Gallery, Liberec

2010 - Silence suivant, ESAV Gallery, Toulouse, France

2009 - Injury, Kolín Gallery, Kolín

2009 - ///////// /, (in colaboration with Vojtěchech Fröhlich), Gallery GAVU, Prague

2008 - 41% OUCH 51%YEAH (in colaboration with Ladislav Babuščák), Gallery Školská 28, Prague

Projects

2003 – 2004 production of KULTUDUMDUM festival, Turnov

2010 – founding of Kletterkiddies production, platform specialized in extreeme sports documentations

Audiovisual activities

Several short climbing documents made for the Czech climbing union /production, photography, editng/

2012 - The man of the full moon – director of photography - in editing process.

Work experience

Art director in Kletterkiddies productions since 2010, working with various subjects on the market of photography and web

Computer skills

Microsoft: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro

Foreign languages
English: experienced level

German: experienced level