Juraj Meliš

Juraj Meliš – biography

1942 born in Nové Zámky
1960 66 - Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava (prof. Jozef Kostka)
1989 founds the group Gerulata
1990 – 2009 teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design
1992 appointed as a Professor
2003 monography Juraj Meliš by Katarína Bajcurová and Ivan Jančár issued
2016 Died in Bratislava, 22. 11.

Solo exhibitions (selection)
1970 Environment I., the Youth Gallery, Bratislava
1971 Environment II., the Gallery of Cyprián Majerník, Bratislava
1988 Fila, Jankovič, Meliš, University of Houston
1993 Balance, the State Gallery, Banská Bystrica
1998 Hulík and Meliš, Helmut Servas, Kunsthalle, Rodalben, Germany
2002 The Anvil of Dreams, the Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava                                                                                                    2011 The Orava Gallery, Dolný Kubín                                                                                                                                               2012 „Dies irae“, Gallery Nová síň, Prague                                                                                                                                               2012 Juraj Meliš and the Slovak-Hungarian Relations, Kassak Múzeum, Budapest

Collective exhibitions (selection)
1970 Polymusic space, Piešťany
1970 I. Open Atelier, Bratislava
1972 Hommage á Kassák, Kassák Museum, Budapest
1975 12 tschechoslowakische Kunstler, EP Gallery, Berlin
1981 XVI. Bienal (Arte postal – Convite), Sao Paulo, Brasil
1982 Aktuelle Kunst aus Osteuropa, Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany
1986 Fila, Fischer, Hulík, Jankovič, Meliš, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia
1987 Art´88 Basel, Switzerland
1989 Torta Vladimírovi Precíkovi (A Cake for Vladimír Precík), GMB, Bratislava, The House of Slovak Culture, Prague
1990 Art Against Totality, Bratislava
1991 Oscillations, Budapest
1992 Arte contemporanea ceca e slovacca 1950-1992, Novara, Italy
1995 The Sixties, The Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava
1996 Slovak Graphic Art of the Nineties, Centraľnyj dom chudožnikov, Moscow
1997 Slovak Graphic Art of the 20. Century, the Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava
1998 Sound off, Mucsarnok, Budapest
2000 Samizdat, Akademie der Kunste, Berlin
2002 Acquisitions, The Slovak National Gallery 1989 – 2001, Bratislava                                                                                         2008 Slovak Picture – Anti-picture, Riding-hall of the Prague Castle, Prague                                                                                  2015 Conceptual Art and Communism 1965 – 1989, BBLA Galley, New York                                                                                 2016 The XXL views of Contemporary Slovak Art, GASK, Kutná Hora, Czech Republic

Appears in following collections – the Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava; The Collection of the First Slovak Investment Group, Bratislava; the National Gallery, Prague; Stadtiche museum, Heilbron; Kassák múzeum és archivum, Budapest; CYAC, Buenos Aires; MAC, Sao Paulo; Del Bello Galleri, Toronto; The University Museum of Art, Tuscon, Arizona; and dozens of private collections in Europe and the USA.

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