Marian Volráb | Czech Republic

* 30. 8. 1961 in Příbram

Education:

1978 - 1982	Studied at the SUPŠS Kamenický Šenov
1982 - 1988	Studied at the Academy of Art and Design, Prague
Since 1990 works as assistant of professor Vladimír Kopecký at the Academy of Art and Design, Prague

Solo Exhibitions

(C – catalogue)
1994	Marian Volráb - Eliška Rožátová, Galerie Stodola, Český Krumlov, Czech Republic
1995	Setkání dvou cest/Meeting of two ways, Karlovarské muzeum, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, with Eliška Rožátová (C)
1998	Marian Volráb, Galerie Půda, Lomnice nad Popelkou, Czeh Republic (C)
1999	Jan Jelen, Marian Volráb, Sklo, obrazy kresby, Městská Galerie, Kladno, Czech Republic, with Jan Jelen
1999	Jan Jelen, Marian Volráb, The Exhibition Room of the IPB Bank, Prague, Czech Republic, with Jan Jelen
2003	Setkání/Meeting, Kamenický Šenov, Czech Republic, with Pavel Werner, Vladimír Klein, Ivan Mareš, František Janák, Marian Volráb
2005	Marian Volráb: New Work, Studio Glass Gallery London
2008	Marian Volráb: Obrazy a skleněné objekty / Marian Volráb: Paintings and Glass Works, Galerie Moderního umění v Roudnici nad Labem / Gallery of Modern Art Roudnice nad Labem, Czech Republic (C)
2009	Marian Volráb: Glass and Paintings, Museum of the Eastern Bohemia, Pardubice, Czech Republic

Participation in Exhibitions

1990	The International Exhibitin of Glass, Kanazawa, Japan (C)
1991	Všeobecná československá výstava, Výstaviště Praha, Czech Republic
	4. Mezinárodní sklářské sympozium, Nový Bor, Czech Republic (C)
	Sklářský ateliér VŠUP 1982-1990, Mánes, Praha, Czech Republic (C)
	Sklářská cena Praha ´91, Mánes, Praha, Czech Republic, (C)
1992	Talentbörse, Handwerkmesse, München, BRD
	Souvstažnosti, Dům umění Brno, Czech Republic (C)
	Súhry 1992, Simoneglass Art Gallery, Bratislava, Slowakia
	Sklodola, Galerie Stodola, Český Krumlov. Czech Republic
1993	Galerie Vetro, Frankfurt am Main, BRD
	Glass now 15th, Yamaha, Japan
	Výsledky sympozia tabulového skla, Glavunion Teplice, Regionální muzeum Teplice, Czeh Republic
	Fascination Glass, Gewerbemusum Winterthur, Winterthur, Swiss (C)
	Bohemia Cristal, Real Fábrica de Cristales de la Granja, Segovia, Spain (C)
1994	Obrazy, sklo, plastiky, Muzeum skla a bižuterie, Jablonec nad Nisou, Czech Republic (C)
	Glass Now 16th, Yamaha, Japan
	Prag Glaskunst, Historischen Residenz Bamberg, Bamberg, BRD (C)
2000-2001	Transfiguration of Light: Czech Contemporary Glass Sculptures, Japan.
2001-2003	Stanislav Libenský a jeho žáci/Prof. Stanislav Libenský and his pupils, Národní technické muzeum Praha (2001), travelling exhibiton/putovní výstava: Tai-Wan (2002), New York (2003) and so on/a dále (C)
2002	International Symposium of Engraved Glass, Kamenický Šenov, Czech Republic (C)
2004 – 2005	Expo 2005 Aichi: Captured Light and Space: Czech Contemporary Glass /České současné sklo: V zajetí světla a prostoru, Nosticky Palais, Prague, Czech Republic; Toyama, Tokyo, ad. Japan (C)
2006	Coburger Glaspreis 2006, Museum der Veste Coburg, (C)
	Glass and Light, Exhibition for 150 jubilee of the High school for Glassmaking in Kamenický Šenov, Museum of Decorative Arts Prague
	1+2+8 /School of Kopecký, Gallery 10 – Waldesovo muzeum, Prague (C)
2007	Osm sklářských výtvarníků / Eight Glass Artist, Gallery 10 – Waldesovo muzeum, Prague (C)
	Skláři Mánesa / Glass-Artists of the SVU Mánes, Gallery Diamant, Praha 1.
2009	„Figure“, The Group „Rubikon“, Gallery „Diamant“, Prague, Czech Republic
	Connections: Contemporary European Glass Sculpture, Exhibition Hall Mánes, Prague, (C)
	Crossing Borders, Bornholm, Denmark (C)
2011	Internationale Glaskunst: Gruppe Rubikon, Neues Rathaus Weiden, Germany

Commisions for Architecture

• Prague, Restaurant Madrid
• The Main Building of the Czech National Bank (with V. Tesařová), Prague
• The main entrance of the Gallery Zlatá Husa building (with Aleš Vašíček)

Public Collections

• Glass Collection from Inter-Glass-Symposium in the Castle Lemberk Czech Republic
• Glass-Collection of the Czech Sawing Bank, Czech Republic
• National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic
• Museum of North Bohemia, Liberec, Czech Republic
• Gallerie Internationale du Verre, Biot, France
• Victoria and Albert Museum, London, GB
• RPG Foundation, India
• Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, BRD
• Museum of the Eastern Bohemia, Pardubice
• Gallery of Modern Art Roudnice nad Labem
• Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague

Price

• Coburger Glaspreiss 2006, Honourable Mention

Marian Volráb
Tyršova 267,
252 16 Nučice,
Czech Republic

a.volrabova@gmail.com