
Krištof Kintera
Krištof Kintera, son of Libuše Kinterová (née Pekárková) and graphic designer Vladimír Kintera, is a distinguished figure in the art community. His sister, Markéta Kinterová, is a visual artist, photographer, and author. Krištof's education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague was guided by Jiří Lindovský, Aleš Veselý, Michael Bielický, and Milan Knížák from 1992 to 1999, with further studies at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam from 2003 to 2004. Exhibiting solo since the mid-1990s, he has received three nominations for the Jindřich Chalupecký Award. Previously represented by Gallery Jiří Švestka, he was a key member of the theatrical-performative group Jednotka in the 1990s. In 1999, he was among the founders of Univerzální prostor NoD (now Experimentální prostor NoD) located above the ROXY music club, where he became the gallery's first curator. He regularly collaborates on the visual concepts and exhibitions of the 4+4 Days in Motion theater festival in Prague. He was the creative mind behind the visual concept for the 2006 One World documentary film festival. He also contributed to the controversial sculptural installation Entropa created by David Černý in 2009 for the Justus Lipsius building atrium in Brussels during the Czech Presidency of the Council of the European Union. Together with his life partner, Denisa Václavová, a cultural organizer and dramaturge of the 4+4 Days in Motion festival, they managed the ProLuka Gallery's art installation program in an undeveloped space in Prague's Vršovice from 2012 to 2017. Between 2009 and 2011, he led the sculpture studio at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. In 2007, he curated the collective exhibition Hrubý domácí produkt (Gross Domestic Product) in the exhibition space of the Prague City Gallery at the Municipal Library in Prague, where he also had one of his largest solo exhibitions, Results of Analysis, in 2012. Another significant Czech exhibition, Nervous Trees, took place five years later at the Galerie Rudolfinum in Prague. The 2010s brought opportunities for solo exhibitions at major international venues including the Museum Tinguely in Basel (2014), Kunstal Rotterdam (2015), and Kunsthalle Bratislava (2016). Krištof Kintera lives in Prague.