Czech Republic's 10 Contemporary Artists and Where to Find Them — theculturetrip.com

Born into the then socialist Czechoslovakia of 1965, Marek Schovánek emigrated to Canada in his youth – though later resettled in Europe – and now divides his time between Prague and Berlin, where he regularly curates exhibitions at the project space Spreeviera Gallery. It is this multicultural experience and immersion into many forms of art that informs many of Schovánek’s paintings, sculptures, installations and photographs – his art traverses cultural and temporal boundaries and raises questions as to the purity of identity and art itself, while offering insightful commentary on the human consequences of globalization, as with his 2014 exhibition Pharmatopia at Prague’s DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, examining notions of utopia peddled by the global pharmaceutical industry.

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