Julius Reichel

Julius Reichel (*1981) was born in Kaplice, Czechia, and he lives and works in Prague. After being expelled from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, he joined and graduated from the UMPRUM studio of Intermedia Confrontation under Jiří David. Ironically, in 2023 he returned to the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague as a professor. Reichel is an intermedia artist who deals with object creation and painting in a specific way. In his understanding, the canvas is not a defined and enclosed surface but rather a starting point or foundation for developing the potential of this medium.

Reichel moves within the physical boundaries of the painter's canvas with overlaps both mental and technological – he layers multiple perspectives and linear thought processes within one artwork. The resulting image blends a multitude of information translated into visual form from various spheres of the author's perception of reality and received stimuli. A certain schematism that unites Reichel's works becomes a clearly readable authorial handwriting, although decrypting its contents is often an impossible goal.

The playfulness of Reichel's works attracts attention and compels the viewer to decode the author's message. The ambiguity of reading his work is both unsettling and takes the viewer out of the stereotypical expectations they may anticipate in relation to the medium of painting. His works transcend the boundaries of its foundation and, depending on spatial possibilities, extend into other surfaces that create an expansion of individual visual interpretations alongside the canvases. The objects are entirely recycled giants of minimalism based on similar creative principles as his paintings, intertwining multiple layers and perspectives. Reichel's work is both fascinatingly unsettling and yet entirely consistent, remaining open to its own evolution.

Julius Reichel describes himself as an internet hitchhiker, seeking to subvert established practices and strategies with manic energy. Since the artist revels in the intensity of his visual message and a certain saturation, he eagerly overlays the current moment with another, new one.

SELECTION OF SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024

  • Happy Smiling Cheerful Joy Enthusiastic and Sad!, mimokolektiv, Olomouc (CZ)
  • 2024: Space Odyssey, GaP Znojmo (CZ)
  • Sorry bylo to rychlý ale mám peklo, Pekelné sáně Gallery, Kroměříž (CZ)

2023

  • Hard Core + Lobotomy = 20 / 20, Václav Špála Gallery, Prague (CZ)
  • 78 ČIN: Julius Reichel – Garage 2012, Garáž Gallery, Zlín (CZ)
  • Julius Reichel, LUXFER Open Space, Česká Skalice (CZ)

2022

  • SILLYICONE, UFO Art Gallery, Krakow (PL)

2021

  • Kalijuga 3D / Silicon Brain / Ragnarök 6G / Full of Pain / Dada Nihilist / Child of Rain / Marx Sifilis / Pelican Bay / Satellite Fly / Blackmarket Art / Amateur Star / Die Die Die Die / Jesus Superstar / Fenix /, Mikulovské výtvarné sympozium – Dílna, Míkulov (CZ)

  • Who – What – Why – Cry / NTF Boost Hipe – Global Zero Trust – 6G Netting Power Future – DEFI Boom – To The Moon – Global Hero -- 3G Netting Owner Ower – Bull Market Run Fun – Star Link – 10 000 % – CO2 – Black Market Hype – Mars Attack Drive – Blue Dragon Fly – Please Burn Your Nike – DNA – Whyte Horse – Death Earth – End Of Time – Contra All-- Sutech --, Karpuchina Gallery, Prague (CZ)

  • Winner takes all, DOT. Contemporary Art Gallery, Bratislava (SK)

2020

  • The Great Bright World, Aquarium Rhizome Karpuchina Gallery, Prague (CZ)
  • KŮROVČÍ HNÍZDO: REQUIEM ZA STROM, NoD Gallery, Prague (CZ)

2019

  • Julius Reichel, Okoširoko, České Budějovice (CZ)
  • 5G Painting Manifesto, Dolmen Gallery, Prague (CZ)

2018

  • Evolution = Evoluce / New = Nový, Gallery Dole, Ostrava (CZ)
  • CREW/ ní obraz, Regional Gallery of Vysočina in Jihlava, (CZ)
  • Julius Reichel: Fedex / Cash / Crypto / Sex, Gallery GAVU Cheb, (CZ)
  • DEATH ROW, NoD Gallery, Prague (CZ)
  • U.F.O . Efekt, Luxfer Gallery, Česká Skalice (CZ)

2017

  • White trash / Trash pop / FCK. YR. CSH, New Gallery, Prague (CZ)
  • Namby Pamby Nation, Galerie 101, Prague (CZ)

2016

  • WWW / KKK / 1492 / Area 51 / 9, 8, 1945 / Bitcoin / 7,295 miliard / Ph. D. / 6371 km / Cash., Měsíc ve dne, České Budějovice (CZ)
  • NEVER STOP 2, City surfer, Prague (CZ)
  • Top Pop / Pop Up / First Runer Up / Boost / Clip of the Week / Part Text Mising, Stolen Gallery, Český Krumlov (CZ)

2014

  • FIGHT WITH THE BEAR = BEAR FIGHT, Plateau Space, Berlin, (DE)

2013

  • Fuck cunts, Forbidden exhibition, Altán Klamovka, Prague, (CZ)

2012

  • BIG HEAD, École supérieure d’art & de design Marseille, Marseille (FR)
  • APPROPRIATION POSTPRODUCTION DEMENTIA, NoD Mini Gallery, Prague (CZ)

SELECTION OF GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024

  • Collusion of Fools, collaborative exhibition with Jáchym Pelikán, Dolmen Gallery, Prague (CZ)
  • Always Over Titled Dreamers Safari, collaborative exhibition with Roel van der Linden, Karpuchina Gallery, Prague (CZ)

2023

  • BALENSIAGA SS24 Cruiser Collection, collaborative exhibition with Petra Ptáčková, Karpuchina Gallery, Prague (CZ)
  • CLI-FI 2050, Kasárna Karlín, Prague (CZ)

2020

  • Lost Value Taxes, Gallery NoD, Prague (CZ)
  • Burial of the White Man, EXILE, Erfurt (DE)
  • BRRRAIN FREEZE !!! (new impresionism), VILLA PELLÉ Gallery, Prague (CZ)
  • View to the window, Fasáda Gallery, Prague (CZ)
  • Farewell to Melancholy, Holešovická Šachta, Prague (CZ)
  • C 1 1 1 R K U S ( 追魂者潛行於街區, 充滿希望地做生意 … ), Gallery 90°, Černošice (CZ)

2019

  • Make a Wish Lil Fish, curated by Caterina Antonaci, Label 201, Rome (IT)
  • VDIFF, Dům pánů z Kunštátu, Brno (CZ)
  • 999 % OFF, Kvalitář, Prague (CZ)
  • DARK Matter Does Not MATTER, White Pearl Gallery, Prague (CZ)
  • R. (OO) N. Y. (RV) LE C0NCEPT ST0RE (Global) (Namor Ynrobyv & Julius Reichel) White Pearl Gallery, Prague (CZ)

2018

  • 10 000 Racing Shivas (FüFü Poly-Ze1t) Feat. NY&JR, Hošek Contemporary, Berlin (DE)
  • JR / NY -/ LE Concept Store (Global ), White Pearl Gallery, Prague (CZ)
  • Dark energy / Egodeath /'Deathplanet /Trap void % Save the future !!, Holešovická šachta, Prague (CZ)

2017

  • Black Hole Group: Kings are back, The Dot Project, (UK)
  • Black Hole Group: KRYSÍ DÍRA, Prague (CZ)

2016

  • H.G : PURE HATE, Nevan Contempo, Prague (CZ)
  • BLACK HOLE GENERATION / NUANCE FRESHOVOSTI., LETO, Warsaw (PL)

2015

  • PARALLEL VIENNA 2015, ALTE POST Dominikanerbastei, Vienna (AT)
  • 2015, Fontána Gallery, Piestany (SK)

2014

  • TOWER EVA, in cooperation with H3T Architects, Sadská u Poděbrad (CZ)

ART FAIRS

2024

  • Contemporary Istanbul, Turkey, with Karpuchina Gallery

2022

  • SCOPE Miami Beach, USA, with Karpuchina Gallery

2021

  • Vienna Contemporary, Austria, with Karpuchina Gallery

2019

  • Vienna Contemporary, Austria, with Karpuchina Gallery

2018

  • Art Prague, Czechia, with Karpuchina Gallery
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