Jakub Havránek

I am a Prague-based painter and a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where I studied painting in the studio of Jiří Sopko. I also spent time working in the studio of Jan Merta.

My paintings are rooted in figurative imagery, with occasional still lifes and architectural subjects. I am particularly interested in capturing people in ordinary but strange, silent moments of activity, movement, or tension. I often work with images of anonymous figures situated within architectural or constructed spaces, using the painting process itself to shift the original image towards something more ambiguous and physical.

My work has been exhibited in Prague and elsewhere in the Czech Republic, including the 2013 Diplomanti AVU exhibition at Veletržní palác, National Gallery Prague. My paintings have also appeared in benefit auctions for Cesta domů.

2007–2013 Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (AVU), Painting Studio of Jiří Sopko. Master of Arts.

2010 Study / internship in the Painting Studio of Jan Merta, Academy of Fine Arts in Prague

2022 11th Benefit Auction for Cesta domů, Czech Republic

2018 8th Benefit Auction for Cesta domů, Czech Republic

2018 Domy, Castle Nebílovy, Czech Republic

2016 Stavby, Café Periferie, Prague, Czech Republic

2015 Baráky, pod Starými schody, Prague, Czech Republic

2013 Diplomanti AVU 2013, Veletržní palác, National Gallery Prague, Czech Republic

2009 Petr Krátký & Jan Zdvořák, Church of St. Lawrence, Klatovy, Czech Republic