Biographie / Biography
1955
Geboren in Prag, Tschechoslowakei (heute Tschechische Republik)
Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)
Lebt und arbeitet in Montreal, Kanada und in Barcelona, Spanien
Lives and works in Montreal, Canada, and Barcelona, Spain
Nationaltät: Kanadisch und Tschechisch
Nationality: Canadian and Czech
1973-1974
Vancouver School of Art, Vancouver, Canada
1974-1975
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
1977
Université Concordia University, Montréal (B.F.A.), Canada
1980-1982
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Preise und Auszeichnungen / Awards and Distinctions
2012
Governor General Arts Award, Canada,
2000
Prix National Jean A. Chalmers d‘arts visuels,
Arts Council of Ontario, Toronto, Cananda
1996
Prix Ozias-Leduc,
Fondation Émile-Nelligan, Montréal, Cananda
1994
Prix Lynch-Stauton,
Conseil des Arts du Canada, Ottawa, Canada
1993
Prix Guichard,
Muséé des Saint-Étienne, Saint-Étienne, France
1991
Prix John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York, USA,
Einzelausstellungen (Auswahl) / Selected Solo Exhibitions
2018
Musee d’Art, Rouen-Noranda, Quebec
2017
Life Size. Lebensgröße. Retrospektive,
Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg, Germany
2016
Jana Sterbak: LIFE-SIZE,
Galerie im Taxispalast, Innsbruck, Austria
Identity,
Galerie Barbara Gross, Munich, Germany
2014
A Presence,
Museu de Monsterrat, Monsterrat, Spain
2013
Human condition: the limits of our freedom,
Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy
2012
Back Home,
Galerie Laroche/Joncas, Montreal, Cananda
2011
Planetarium,
Musée Reattu, Arles, France
2010
Through the Eye of the Other,
Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Teatro La Fenice, Venice, Italy
2009
Waiting For High Water,
Fonderie Darling, Montreal
Septentrionale,
Raffaella Cortese, Milano
2008
From Here to There,
Musée du Bas-Saint-Laurent ,Riviere-du-Loup, France
Seasons,
Galerie Erna Hécey, Brussels, Belgium
2007
Dissolution,
Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec Galeria Toni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain
2006
Condition contrainte,
Carre d ́Art Nimes, Nimes, France
Waiting for High Water,
Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris, France
De la performance al vídeo,
Artium, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
About Winter,
Galerie Erna Hecey, Brussel, Belgium
From here to here,
Palais des Beaux-Arts Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium
Raffaella Cortese Gallery, Milano
Dress Code,
Historisches und Volkerkundemuseum, St Gallen
2004
Jana Sterbak. Videoinstallations.,
Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense
Planetarium,
Galeria Toni Tàpies, Barcelona
From Here To There,
Musée des Beaux Arts de Nantes (La Chapelle), Nantes, France
From Here To There,
Brandt‘s Kunsthallen Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark
2003
From Here To There,
Biennale Venedig, Kanadischer Pavillon, Venice, Italy
Musée d ́art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
2002
Jana Sterbak. Penser tout haut/Thinking Out Loud,
Galerie de l’UQAM, Université du Québec à Montréal; Salle Alvin, Hamilton, Canadische Botschaft/The Loft, Peking / Beijing, China (Cat.)
Jana Sterbak,
Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden; travelling to Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (Cat.)
Jana Sterbak,
Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany
Jana Sterbak: Photopractice,
Art Gallery of Sudbury, Sudbury, Canada
La Lune à l‘école et planétarium de Jana Sterbak,
École nationale supérieure des beaux arts, Paris, France
Pensare ad alta voce,
Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea, Università di Roma "La
Sapienza", Roma
2001
Dissolution,
Galerie Herba Hécey, Luxembourg
Faradayurt,
Galeria Toni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain (Cat.)
2000
Jana Sterbak. Penser tout haut = Jana Sterbak. Thinking Out Loud,
Salle Alvin Hamilton,
Ambassade du Canada, Beijing; The Loft, Beijing; Galerie de l'UQÀM, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal; Galerie L'OEuvre de l'autre, Pavillon des arts de l'UQÀC,
Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Chicoutimi; (sous le titre Pensare ad alta voce /
Penser tout haut / Thinking Out Loud ); L'École, Saint-Jean-Port-Joli
Jana Sterbak: Oasis (part II),
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphie, Penn.,
États-Unis
Direccions,
Centro Cultural de la Fundació «la Caixa» de Lleida, Lleida
Centre International de Recherche sur le Verre et les Arts plastiques (CIRVA), Marseille
Jana Sterbak,
Galerie Erna Hécey, Luxemburg
Jana Sterbak,
Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany
1999
Jana Sterbak: Early Work (part I),
The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, USA
1998
Jana Sterbak,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA (Cat.)
Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, Canada
Galeria Toni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain
1997
Jana Sterbak: Metamorphosis,
David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, USA (Cat.)
1996
Jana Sterbak: New Photoworks,
Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, USA
Trichotilomania III,
Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, Canada
1995
Jana Sterbak,
Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, USA
Jana Sterbak: Velleitas,
Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Étienne, France
Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain
Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
1994
Déclaration ,
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal
Jana Sterbak: Déclaration,
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Nantes, France; Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Canada (Cat.)
1993
Jana Sterbak,
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark (Cat.)
I Want to Feel the Way I Do,
Fundació la Caixa, Barcelona, Spain (Cat.)
Jana Sterbak: Lénine rétréci,
Galerie René Blouin, Montreal, Canada
1992
Project Room,
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (Cat.)
Galerie Crousel-Robelin/BAMA, Paris, France
1991
Jana Sterbak: States of Being/Corps à corps,
Musée des Beaux-Arts du Canada, Ottawa; MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge; Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati; Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary; San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, (1992)
Jana Sterbak: Sisyphe, II,
Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, Canada
1990
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, USA
Jana Sterbak ,
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
Jana Sterbak,
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
1989
The Western Front, Vancouver, Canada
Jana Sterbak,
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Canada (Cat.)
Galerie René Blouin, Montreal, Canada
1988
Jana Sterbak,
The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
1987
The Ydessa Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Galerie René Blouin, Montreal, Canada
1986
Jana Sterbak / Krzysztof Wodiczko ,
49 eParallèle, Centre d'art contemporain canadien/49th Parallel, Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art, New York; Nexus Gallery of Contemporary Art, Atlanta
1985
Ida Applebroog / Jana Sterbak ,Glendon Gallery,
Glendon Gallery, Glendon College, Toronto
The Ydessa Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1982
Golem: Objects as Sensations,
Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada
1981
How Things Stand Up,
Main Exit, Vancouver, Canada
1980
YYZ, Toronto, Canada
Travaux récents,
Optica, Montréal, Canada
1978
Drawings,
Pumps Art, Vancouver, Canada
Gruppenausstellungen (Auswahl) / Selected Group Exhibitions
2017
Eat Me ,
Traphold museum of Art and Design, Denmark
Conversation Piece ,
La Galleria Nazionale d’Arte, Rome
Intuition,
Palazzo Fortuny, Venice
Second Skin ,
Schloss museum, Moyland Germany
Accumulations ,
Laroche/Joncas, Montreal
Female eroticism ,
Stadtgalerie, Saarbrücken, Germany
Art in Art ,
MOCAK, Kracow, Poland
Maison de Verre ,
Musee Cantini, Marseille, France
2016
My body is a cage ,
Grand Hornu, Boussu, Belgium
Les parfums d’intranquilite ,
Hotel des arts, Toulon
Righi Collection, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
EveryBody ,
LAAC, Dunkerque, France
FRAC – DC, Rouen, France
2015
A bruit secret - la collection du Cirva ,
Pavillon de Vendôme à Aix-en-Provence, France
VIVACE,
Galerie Steinek, Vienna, Austria
Arts & Foods,
Expos Milano 2015, Triennale di Milano, Milano, Italy
Belle Haleine - The Scent of Art,
Museum Tinguely. Montreal, Canada
La Répétition,
FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
Entre Ciel et Terres,
Villa Bagatelle. Quebec, Quebec, Canada
2014
The paradox of Sculpture,
Nation Academy Museum, New York, USA
Entre Ciel et Terres,
Musèe du Bas-Saint-Làurent, Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, Canada
Chairs,
Large Glass. London UK
Des rècits ordinaires,
Villa Arson, Nice, France
A book between two stools,
Villa Empain - Boghossian Foundation, Brussel, Belgium
La disparition des lucioles, Collection Lambert en Avignon and Enea Righi Collection,
Sainte-Anne Prison, Avignon, France
1994-2014 Twenty year of editions (part I),
Galeria Toni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain
De la naturaleza humana,
MACA, Alicante, Spain
1+1=1: When collections collide,
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montrèal, Canada
2013
Au bazar du genre, féminin/masculin,
MuCEM, Marseille, France
Retour a l'intime, la collection Giulina et Tomaso Setari,
La maison rouge, Paris, France
Les Papesses d‘Avignon (with Camille Claudel, Louis Bourgeois, Kiki Smith, Berlinde de Bruyckere),
Palais des papes et La Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
DISABLED BY NORMALITY,
DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic
L‘île de Montmajour par Christian Lacroix, avec le Cirva,
Abbeye de Montmajour, Arles, France
Sylvie Readman and Jana Sterbak,
Galerie Laroche, Joncas, Montreal, Canada
Murano-Murano,
kunst Meran, Meran, Italy
2012
Interactions,
Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal, Canada
Portrait/Landscape: Genre Boundaries,
Moscow Museum of Modern Art, MMOMA, Moscow, Russia
Acció! Group exhibiton,
Galeria Toni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain
The Governor General`s Awards in Visual and Media Arts 2012,
National Gallery of Canada, Musée des Beaux Arts du Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Learning Photographie,
FRAC Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France
2011
The Collection in Action: Media works from Vito Acconci to Simon Starling,
MUSEION - Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst, Bozen, Italy
Fresc!,
Galeria Toni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain
DÉJÀ,
Musée d‘art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
Tous cannibales,
La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
Le Beau Est Toujours Bizarre C.B.,
FRAC Haute Normandie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France
2010
21st Century: Art in the First Decade,
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Transformation,
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo - MOT, Tokyo, Japan
EAT ART.Vom Essen in der Kunst,
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Exposición colectiva de verano 2010,
Galeria Toni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain
Eröffnung in den Neuen Räumen,
Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany
Das im Entscwinden Erfasste - Videokunst im Museum Folkwang,
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
The Glass Delusion,
National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK
2009
Niet Normal,
Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, NL
Eating the Universe. Vom Essen in der Kunst,
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
The Art of Fashion,
Museum Boljmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NL
Face Off,
Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich, Germany
Tier-Werden, Mensch-Werden,
Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin, Germany
Manouvres/Maniobres,
Galeria Toni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain
Pot Luck, Touring Exhibition,
New Art Gallery Walsall, Aberystwyth Art Centre, PM Gallery & House, London
2008
Intros,
Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec, Canada
Peripheral Look and Collective Body,
MUSEION, Bozen, Italy
Ne pas jouer avec des choses mortes,
Villa Arson , Nice, France
La Grande Traversee, Horizons photographiques,
Musée du Bas-Saint-Laurent , Riviere-du-Loup, France
Yalos, Claudia Gian Ferrari Studio,
Milano and Caterina Tognon Arte Contemporanea, Venice, Italy
Hysteria and the Body,
Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
Intrus/Intruder,
Musee national des beaux-arts du Quebec, Quebec, Canada
Caught in the Act: The Viewer as Performer,
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
2007
Projections: An exhibition of the development of projection-based installations in the history of contemporary art in Canada,
Doris McCarthy Gallery, Scarborough Campus, Ontario, Canada
KaDeOs - Kaufhaus des Ostens, Konsum-Ladenzeile, Erfurt,
Galerie im Kunsthaus Erfurt, Germany
De l’écriture – Œuvres choisies de la Collection du MACM,
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Canada
Collection d'art verrier contemporain,
MUDAC - musée de desing et d'art appliques contemporain, Lausanne, Switzerland
Numerica,
Palazzo delle Papesse, Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy
Sélest’art 07,
Biennale d’art contemporain de Sélestat, France
Tout Contre ,
Manufacture nationale de Sèvres , Sèvres, France
2006
Dress Code. Dress as an Artistic Symbol,
Historisches und Völkerkundemuseum, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Canadian Art in the 20th Century,
Palazzo Reale, Milano, Italy
MUDAC, Lausanne, Switzerland
2005
Citizens,
PM Gallery & House, London, Great Britain; The City Gallery, Leicester, Great Britain; The Ormeau Baths, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Strange Familiar and Unforgotten,
Galerie Erna Hecey, Brussels, Belgium
Interntaional Biennale of Contemporary Art,
National Gallery Prague, Czech Republic
Visions of the Body,
Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea
Bing Bang. Destruction et création dans l ́art du 20ième siècle,
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2004
La grande bouffe en français,
Bordeaux, France
2003
Metabolismus und Kommunikation,
Bankett, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
2002
Le Dépeupleur/The Lost Ones,
Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal, Canada
Perturbamento,
Galerie Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy
2001
2001 Paradis insaisissable... Elusive Paradise,
Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Unbearable/Unwearable,
Museum für angewandte Kunst, Cologne, Germany
2000
Body: Body in art from 1950 to 2000,
Arken, Copenhagen, Denmark
Magnetic North,
Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, USA; Harvard Film Archive, Boston, USA
Die verletzte Diva,
Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany
TRANS GLOBE,
Manès, Prague, Czech Republic
Luis Buñuel: Los enigmas de un sueño,
Diputacion de Huesca, Museo Serrano de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
Egg DreamMuseum,
Food Pavilion of the Universal Exhibition, Hanover, Germany
1999
Dobles Vides,
Institut de Cultura de Barcelona: Museo de Geologia, Museo de la Musica, Barcelona, Spain
Visions of the Body: Fashion or Invisible Corset,
The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Un certain art de vivre,
ATA Centre d’art contemporain, Sofia, Bulgaria
Skin-deep,
The Israël Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Denúncies,
Galeria Palma Dotze, Villafranca de Penedès, Spain
As Above, So Below: The body at work,
The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, USA
Rosso vivo: Mutazione, Trasfigurazione e sangue nell’Arte Contemporanea,
Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milano, Italy
1998
Spectacular Optical,
Thread Waxing Space, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, USA
Disidentico: maschile femminile e oltre,
Palazzo Branciforte, Palermo, Italy
The Secret Life of Clothes,
Mitsubishi-jisho Artium/The Nishinippon,Fukuoka, Japan, Brisbane City Gallery, Australia Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand, The John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia
The Quiet in the Land,
Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, USA; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
1997
Fifth International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
Love Hotel,
The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia; Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania; Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
Floating Images of Women in Art History: From the Birth of the Feminism toward the Dissolution of the Gender,
Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi, Japan
Le songe de Constantin,
Villa de Noailles, Hyères, France
Introvertions,
Musée d’art contemporain, Barcelona, Spain
L’Écart,
Centre d’art contemporain de la Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel, France
1996
Il tempo e la moda,
Biennale di Firenze, Florence, Italy
Embedded Metaphor,
Independant Curators Incorporated, New York, USA
NowHere,
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
L’Art au corps,
MAC, galeries contemporaines des musées de Marseille, Marseille, France
1995
Fémininmasculin: le sexe de l’art, Musée national d’art moderne,
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Muse?,
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris; Thaddeus Ropac Gallery, Salzburg, Austria
Beyond the Borders,
Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, South Korea
PerForms: Janine Antoni, Charles Ray, Jana Sterbak,
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Rites of Passage,
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Inside the Visible,
Kunststichtung Kanaal Art Foundation, Courtrai, Belgium; ICA, Boston (1996); Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (1996);Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth (1997)
Images in Perspectives,
Zerynthia, Serre di Rapolano, Italy
Chocolate!,
The Swiss Institute, New York, USA
Bildende Künstler im TAT,
Phase 1, Theater Am Turm, Frankfurt, Esprits à la croisée, voyageurs aller-retour de nulle part: l’art contemporain au Canada, 1980-1994/Spirits on the Crossing, Travellers to/from Nowhere: Contemporary Art in Canada, 1980 - 1994, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto,Japan; Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan
1994
Heart of Darkness,
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterloo, The Netherlands
Hors limites: L’art et la vie, 1952-1994,
Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
ou les oiseaux selon Schopenhauer,
Musée des beaux-arts d’Agen, Agen, France
1993
Über Leben,
Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany; Gallery, New York; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, USA
De la main à la tête, l’objet théorique,
Centre d’art contemporain du domaine de Kerguéhennec, Locminé, France
Elective Affinities,
Tate Gallery Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Ordnung und Zerstörung,
Lothringer 13, Munich, Germany
At the Edge of Chaos: New Images of the World,
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
1992
Générique 1: Désordres,
Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
Third International Istanbul Biennial,
Istanbul, Turkey
Between the Sheets,
P.P.O.W., New York, USA
Internationale Künstlerplakate,
Saarbrücken, Germany
Power Play,
The Betty Rymer Gallery, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
1991
The Wealth of Nations,
Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
Un-Natural Traces: Contemporary Art from Canada,
Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
With this ring...,
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, USA
Vanitas,
Galerie Crousel-Robelin/BAMA, Paris, France
1990
Goya to Beijing/Goya à Beijing,
Centre international d’art contemporain, Montréal, Canada; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Pour Cities Project,
Newcastle, UK
Figuring the Body,
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
Aperto ’90,
Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Sammlungen (Auswahl) / Collections (Selection)
Musée des beaux-arts de l‘Ontario/Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Musée des beaux-arts du Quebec (formerly Musée du Quebec), Quebec, Canada
Museu d‘Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona, Spain
National Galery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, Mexico
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Centre Georges-Pompidou, Musée national d‘art moderne, Paris, France
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina
Museion, Bolzano
MAXXI, Roma
Centre Georges-Pompidou, Musée national dʼart moderne, Paris
Fonds National d‘Art Contemporain (FNAC), France
Fonds Regional d‘Art Contemporain (FRAC), Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier, France
France Fonds Régional dʼArt Contemporain (FRAC) Corse, Corte
France Fonds Régional dʼArt Contemporain (FRAC) Normandie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Canada-China Foundation, Montréal, Canada
Fundació „la Caixa“, Centre Cultural de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Caja Madrid, Madrid
MAC-galeries contemporaines des Musées de Marseille, Marseille (deposit), France
Miami Art Museum (MAM), Miami, USA
Musée dárt contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
Musée des beaux-arts du Canada/National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Musée d‘art moderne de Saint-Étienne, Saint-Étienne, France
Musée départemental de Rochechouart, Rochechouart, France
Musée des beaux-arts de Nantes, Nantes, France
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
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