Groupe Guma Guar

2003-2009

CELLmixed media installation Gallery JELEN, prague, CZ 15.12.2003 26.01.2004

BBC10 posters 110 x 56cm or stickers 11 x 5,6cm 2003

RECONSTRUCTING THE UTOPIA SYSTEM RULESmixed media installation (video, photography) gallery A.M.180 17.12.2003 08.01.2004 prague, CZ

2631 FRAMESvideo, approx 2min, 2003 each minute is lled with the 25 portraits of the czechtekk festival participants one frame equal one face every snaps from the festival which were accessible on the net were used for croping the faces from so its the maximaly complete archive of the people which participated at czechtekk in two minutes video

FEEDphotography 200x150 cm

JARDAS END (OFFSIDE)mixed media installation - TV and sculpture jaromir jagr commited suicide using a tv instead of chair tv is playing distorted czech anthem Within reach, gallery HOME, prague, 05.05.2004 17.06.2004, CZ

FLAG500 towel from asia market, installation Within reach, gallery HOME, prague, 05.05.2004 17.06.2004, CZ

IN/OUT FESTIVALperformance, prague, 2003 happening that went for almost a week in prague and ended on the free tekkno festival czechtekk photo from the illegal audiovisual performance at the old town square

POWER NOISE6x photography fake photographs of tortured prisoners, video Well known, gallery art factory, prague 27. 05. 2004 09. 09. 2004, CZ

THE SALEmixed media installation big bazaar, gallery la fabrika prague, 2004, CZ

2631 FRAMESvideo, 2003

2573 FRAMESvideo, 2004 2 video-slideshows of the czechtekk festival participants from the year 2003 and 2004 NEUTRAL, motorenhalle, dresden, 14.10.2004 18.11.2004, D

BELIEVE THIS...exhibition in industrial space tranzit SK, 26.11.2004 20.12.2004 bratislava, SK

MEDIOCRACYvideo loop, 2 secs. george w. bush giving a nger

BRATISLAVAvideo, 30 min. video documentary from the streets of bratislava simulating recordings of the group of terrorists preparing themselves for a bomb attack in the city places which would be ideal for the explosion to kill the huge amount of people were recorded - like airport, supermarkets, centre of the city, also american embassy arabian voiceover was suplemented

POWER NOISEprint, 400x120 cm fake photos from abu ghraib

FUCKERS! (ANARCHY IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER)video, 63 min. state ags of every 192 states of the world were burned in alphabetical order

BIEN2ALEindependent open source newspapers 1000 pieces the newspapers were open to the artists, curators and journalists from the czech art scene to discuss about the fact there are two biennales in prague, about the rivality of mr. politi and mr. knizak

praguebiennale2 (www.praguebiennale.org) 26.5.2005 15.9.2005, prague, CZ

T.A.Z.MANIA (AFTER CZECHTEKK)mixed media installation ( 3 x video with dolby surround, wall paint, stroboscope, orange beacon) FUTURA gallery, 21.09. - 6.11.2005, prague

2631 FRAMESvideo, 2003

2573 FRAMESvideo, 2004

2288 FRAMESvideo, 2005 3 video-slideshows ( 25 faces in one second) of the czechtekk festival participants from the year 2003, 2004 and 2005

HUMAN MEATmixed media installation (100 cans with human meat, three different types, lightbox 90x90) Beauty free shop, Jungmanova 29, Prague 1, 9.12. 2005 - 31.12. 2005

JAK JSI SPADL Z NEBE, TPYTIV HVZDO (LUCIFEE), JITENKY SYNUsatanistic / capitalistic relic, real waiting ticket from bank Fear in the city or Prague underground, 21.12. 2005 - 15.1.2005, Palace Adria, Prague, CZ

Stop domestic violence Amnesty internationalClapi sob /Guys for themselfs - video in refrigerator Stickers theme - Violence in beer advertisement 9.3. 2006 - 31.3. 2006, C2C gallery, Prague, CZ

Stop domestic violence Amnesty internationalSegregation - man/woman, big stickers on the oor town hall in st nad Labem, 2006, CZ

Fog for LebanonFog machine in window, every visitor can push a button. theme - war in Lebanon 2006 NoD gallery, Prague, CZ

WSZYSCY JESTECIE CIOTAMI ! (YOU ALL QUEERS !)Large digital print and spray paint notice on the wall Bad news, Kronika gallery, 19.05.2006 30.06. 2006, Bytom, PL

Naomi /reconstruction/installation - Naomi Klein - No logo and Coca Cola Plastic people, Gallery C2C, 25.08-09.09.2006, Prague, CZ

CAPTAINmixed media installation, contains 40 sec. video with beating policeman and 3 large digital prints theme - police violence Tina B - Festival of contemporary art, Karlin hall, 18.05.2006 - 27.06.2006, Prague, CZ

GEOMETRICAL FUNDAMENTALISMvideo, 2min. 40 sec, 2006 Vcn stavy - Fact states, 24.02.2006 14.03.2006, Karlin studios, Prague, CZ Television show, MNAC / Mediateque, 10.05. 2006 - 02.06.2006, Bucuresti, RO

CIVILISATION CRASHmixed media installation, contains 40 min. video and sculpture with original sound of shavers Between us groups, 26. 10. 2006 - 19. 11. 2006, Dm umn msta Brna, Brno, CZ

Pit Bull / Umbro / Lonsdale / Fred PerryWall paint by real blood theme - Nazi fashion companies Proces - international symposium for inerdiscipinary process in contemporary art in Prague, Holeovece market, 3.11. - 31.12. 2006 http://proces.artia.org

FLAGManipulated Czech ag - print on textile theme - critics of Czech/American cooperation Czechpoint - Gallery NOD Prague, 2.11. - 30. 11. 2006

Billboard for Bucharest in RomaniaRoamnia, 2006

Czechs about Polish45 min. video interwiev with 150 people in Prague streets questions: 1. First thing what you imegine when you hear Poland? 2.What is tipical polish chratacter? Wydarzylo sie dzisiaj - gallery Arsenal, Poznan, PL 22.01. 2007 - 11.02. 2007

These two which stole...lightbox with the manipulate picture of young polish president and prime minister Kaczinsky (twins) from old polish movie (original name of movie is These two which stole the moon) 90 x 90 cm

Polish about Czechs46 min. video interwiev with 80 people in Poznan streets questions: 1. First thing what you imegine when you hear Czech republic? 2.What is tipical czech chratacter? Wydarzylo sie dzisiaj - gallery Arsenal, Poznan,PL 22.01. 2007 - 11.02. 2007

FUCKERS! (ANARCHY IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER)video, 63 min. state ags of every 192 states of the world were burned in alphabetical order, 2005

MADE IN CHINAstencil grafti in the Bansk Bystrica town, 2007 /Ne/moc /Sub/domanancia, Middle-slovakia gallery, Bansk Bystrica, 8.2. 2007 - 18.3. 2007, SK

SIGNATURE OF BLOODY HUMANISTBillboard, Tina B - Billboard Text Art, 2007, CZ

SUMMER DAYVideo, 45 minutes, 20 photos in green frames Regime, Trafo gallery, 2007 I Dont Exist When You Dont See Me, Futura gallery, 2. 12. - 10. 2. 2008

THIS GALLERY IS PAID BY ADVERTISING COMPANYReaction on exhibition about advertisment, painting on the wall 30% OFF, Spalova gallery, Prague, 2008, CZ

MILAN KNK - CURIOUS KELTfake exhibition of Milan Knk (director of National gallery and artist) www.myspace.com/milanknizak Vernon gallery, Prague, 2008, CZ

Limits of toleranceTheme: Freedom of speech Exhibitin was destroyed by uknown persons and than closed by director of gallery. Prague city hall, 2008, Prague, CZ

Colletive identityOn billboards was chnged czech celebrities for czech biggest economic criminals Exhibitin was destroyed by uknown persons. Artwall, 2008, Prague, CZ This page - originals of billboards advertise olympic games in Prague

Zbigniew Libera and Guma Guar12x Untitled, digital print, 120x90 cm, 2008 Portraits of real czech anarchist and antifascists Gallery Futura 24.9. -30.11.2008

Swines!installation - video, digital print, real pig head, segway, spray on the wall Galerie G99, Brno 6.5. 14.6. 2009

Solutions instead of hauntingCzech exprimeminister and chief of ODS Mirek Topolanek in Berlusconis vila and his fuckfinger in czech parliament

collage, elections to the European Parliament, 2009

STREET ART40 paper posters, illegal activity new bridge in Bratislava, 2003

STREET ART

BILLBOARDSbratislava 2004

CZECHTEKKillegal festival of electronic music

LIVE ACTSmusic and video performances

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Guma Guar is group of visual artists and experimental electronic musiciansSolo exhibitions: Guma Guar - Live Grill, 30.09. 30.10. 2003, Gallery U Mloka, Olomouc, CZ Guma Guar - Cell, 15.12. 26.01. 2004, Gallery Jelen, Prague, CZ Guma Guar - Reconstruction the utopia system rules, 17.12. 08.01. 2004, Gallery A.M.180, Prague, CZ Milan Knk - Podivn Kelt, Vernon Gallery, 19.1. - 15.3. 2008, Prague, CZ Guma Guar - Meze tolerance/ Limits of tolerance, 2008, Old town hall, Prague, CZ Guma Guar - Collective identity, Artwall (www.artwall.cz), 2008, Prague, CZ Guma Guar - Swines, 2009, Gallery G99, 6.5. - 14.6. 2009, Brno, CZBrno Selected group exhibitions: Within Reach, 05.05. 17.06. 2004,Gallery Home, Prague, CZ IN/OUT festival of digital picture, 2003, Prague, CZ Art Prague, Contemporary Art Fair, 25.05. 30.05. 2004, Vclav pla Gallery, Prague, CZ Europa Jetzt, 01.05.2004, MAK, Vienna, A Obsession of Collecting, 2004, Jihlava Art gallery, Jihlava, CZ Well known, 27.05. 09.09. 2004, Gallery Art Factory, Prague, CZ Big bazaar, 2004, Gallery La Fabrika, Prague, CZ Kulturjahr der Zehn, 03.09. 30.10. 2004, Gallery Kai Hilgeman, Berlin, D Neutral, 14.10. 18.11. 2004, Motorenhalle, Dresden, D Tomu ver ty, Suden 12 & Tranzit SK, 26.11. 20.12. 2004, Bratislava, SK Frisbee, 2004 - 2006, MNAC / Mediateque, Bucharest - RO, Brno - CZ, Amsterdam, NE Multiplace, festival of culture and new media, 17-24.4. 2005, Brno CZ, ilina, SK Entermultimediale, international festival of new media, 9 12. 05. 2005, Prague, CZ Praguebiennale2, (www.praguebiennale.org) 26.5. 15.9. 2005, Prague, CZ T.A.Z.mania (after czechtekk), 21.09. - 6.11. 2005, Gallery Futura, Prague, CZ ZOOM - festival of digital culture, 26. - 30.10. 2005, Brno, CZ Publish and be damned - neosmizdat, 2005, Gallery Display, Prague, CZ Beauty free shop, Human meat, 9.12. - 31.12. 2005, Jungmanova 29, Prague, CZ Fear in the city or Prague underground, 21.12. - 15.01.2005, Palace Adria, Prague, CZ Man, hero, soul, machine, 20.01. - 20.02. 2006, Gallery Medium and Gallery Hit, Bratislava, SK Stop domestic violence, Amnesty international, 9.3. - 31.3. 2006, C2C gallery, Prague, CZ Vcn stavy - Fact states, 24.02. - 14.03. 2006, Karlin studios, Prague, CZ Shadows of humor, BWA Gallery, 7.4. - 12.5. 2006, Wroclaw, Bielsko Biela, Poland, Moscow, RU Bad news, Kronika gallery, 19.05. - 30.06. 2006, Bytom, PL Tina B - Festival of contemporary art, Karlin hall, 18.05. - 27.06. 2006, Prague, CZ Television show, MNAC / Mediateque, 10.05. - 02.06. 2006, Bucharest, RO Rok polski na Madagaskaze, 2006, Madagascar - Africa, MA Rok polski na Madagaskeze, Gallery Atlas, 13.10. - 19.11. 2006, Lod, PL Between us groups, 26. 10. - 19. 11. 2006, Dm umn msta Brna, Brno, CZ Stop domestic violence, Amnesty international, 2006, st nad Labem /town hall/, CZ Resident ghters, 2006, Gallery Futura, Prague, CZ Czechpoint, 2006, Gallery NOD, Prague, CZ Proces - international symposium for inerdiscipinary process in contemporary art in Prague, http://proces.artia.org, Holeovece market, 3.11. - 31.12. 2006, CZ Wydarzylo sie dzisiaj - Gallery Arsenal, Poznan, 22.01. - 11.02. 2007, PL /Ne/moc /Sub/domanancia, Middle-slovakia gallery, 8.2. - 18.3. 2007, Bansk Bystrica, SK Regime, Trafo Gallery, Prague, 2007, CZ HDP, City Gallery Prague, 4.5. - 19.8. 2007, CZ I Dont Exist When You Dont See Me, Futura Gallery, 12. 12. - 10. 2. 2008, Prague, CZ 30% OFF, Spalova Gallery, 25.1. - 28.2. 2008, Prague, CZ Partisan, Merchandise Hall, 2008, Chicago, USA Zbignew Libera and Guma Guar, Gallery Futura 24.9. -30.11.2008, Prague, CZ

Guma Guar - Media: Umlec 1/2004, Ji Ptek - Al Hurra Guma Guar, p. 88 - 91 Umlec 3/2004, Ivan Mel - Rouhn, p. 40 - 50 Atelir 1/2005, p. 11 Rock&pop, 5/ 2005, Xelectronic made in CZ, p. 40 - 42 Prol 1/ 2005, Tri otzniky na dvomi vstavami Tranzit.sk Prol 2/2005, Suboj praskch binale, p. 40 - 41 D-art 1/2005, Druh pohled, kolumbrium a otzky umleck morlky, p. 8 Atelier 7/2006, Frisbee - contemporary videoart and new media, p.16 Respekt 13/2006 - Dvka s otcem v koupeln, p.22 A2 10/2006 - Jak zavt tlamy lvm, p.8 Respekt 42/2006, Zuzana tefkov, Cenzura po polsku, p.22 Atelier 22/2006, Mezi nmi skupinami II., p. 16 Centropa (USA), Beyond democracy, Piotr Piotrowski, 2007 A2 7/2008, New new Knk, p. 14, 15 Lidov Noviny, 23.1. 2008, Skupina Knk se pedstavuje, p.20 Hospodsk noviny, 25.-27. 4. 2008, Mlad komunist pronikli na radnici, p. 11 A2 /11/2009 http://www.advojka.cz/archiv/2009/11/ze-pry-jsme-to-prehnali Contact: gumaguar@gmail.com gumaguar.bloguje.cz www.myspace.com/groupegumaguar www.myspace.com/gumaguar http://strictlycritical.blogspot.com/