Jakub Reken

Jakub Reken
I focus on the issue of my own improvisation and spontaneous processes without any previous visual concepts or sketches. The spontaneity is supported by the imagination and associative principle. In my creation combines various structural aspects, which recreate the shapes, objects with ambiguous character. Structurally pillars of my visualisation are reverie, atmospherics, space and depth. I work also with the acquired intuition and my
primary destination is the creation of imaginations of the real things moving on the edge of recognizability. Primary, I try to capture fleeting moments to get to know indistinct, opaque story and subsequently decode it. For my work is characterized initial fascination with detail, which usually represents selected cutouts made of reality. Then added to it complex story extending in colorful language, rotating shapes and dynamic spaces by “ Assembly“ free style manner. Mainly, I reinterpret backgrounds of Renaissance and Baroque paintings , which are for me particularly fascinating by the atmosphere of the background themes, motives beyond the main theme. These unidentified
sceneries, with their uncertainties and secrets, offer me the possibility of the paraphrasing and linking the ...

Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava,
Department of Painting and Other Media, studio of
Prof. I. Csudai. 2017 Academic titul Phd.

Selected group exhibitions

2008, VŠVU / VŠUP, Galeria VŠUP, Praha, Česká Republika
2008, 2 DOLLAR 4 ALL we are so small. galéria Bastart, Bratislava,
2009 PARALELS, Budapešť, Maďarská Republika
2011, SKUTER III Bienále súčastného umenia, galéria Jána Koniarka, Trnava
2011 po SKÚ3, Bienále súčastného umenia, Východoslovenská galéria, Košice
2011 Consistent, Oravská galéria v Dolnom Kubíne, Dolný Kubín
2012 Magisterské diplomové práce 2012, Dom Umenia, Bratislava
2012 Maľba roka Cena Nadácie VÚB, Dvorana Ministerstva kultúry, Bratislava
2012 Christmas Bestseller, galéria Soda, Panská 16, Bratislava
2012 Bratislava Accessible Art Fair, Crowne Plaza, Bratislava
2013 Medzinárodná kolektívna výstava umelcov, Riverpark Gallery, Dvořákovo nábrežie 8,
Bratislava
2013 SPPirit, Galéria SPP, Mlynské nivy 44/c, Bratislava
2013 FAKT / FIKCIA, Galerie Sýpka, Valašské Meziříčí, Česká Republika

SOLO exhibition
2010, Jakub Reken TIGHTEN THE BOLTS, Galéria SODA, Bratislava
2010, Jakub Reken ČASOZBERY, Galéria Jána Koniarka, Trnava
2010, Jakub Reken, Galéria divadla Malá Scéna STU, Bratislava
2012, BLUR MINDS CLEAR SIGHTS, galéria Stanica Žilina žárečie.
2014, BA-ROK, Galéria Alfa, Kasárne/Kulturpark, Košice