Jiří Krejčiřík
WebsiteFacebookInstagramJiří Krejčiřík is a designer focusing on furniture, glass, lighting, installations, product and interior design. His work covers a wide range of disciplines and methods. Krejčiřík’s work is characterized by a coherent visual style that connects history with the present. His art-design objects, furniture and lighting fixtures are characterized by impeccable craftsmanship and attention to detail.
During his studies at the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design in Pilsen, Jiří completed a six-month internship at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. In 2012 he received the Dean’s Award. He also received the Award of the Director General of the National Technical Museum in Prague. And a nomination for the National Student Design Award for his bachelor thesis. In 2015 he was one of the six winners of the prestigious international competition iF Design Prize. This was followed by a win in the international Forum Junge Kunst Bayern – Tschechien CEBB project.
From Designblok 2019, he won the Best New Designer category and in 2021 he won the Best Lighting Collection category, and last year he won the Best Installation award. He has been nominated four consecutive times for the Czech Grand Design in the Designer of the Year category – in 2021 he was one of three finalists and the winner of the EDIDA Awards, in the Designer of the Year category. Krejčiřík’s bachelor thesis was purchased by the National Technical Museum in Prague for its collection.
The Odyssey table from the Eclecticism collection is in the permanent exhibition of Czech design at the Museum of Decorative Arts – Moravian Gallery in Brno. Outside of Czech galleries, he is represented by the famous Italian gallerist Rossana Orlandi, who presents his work in her gallery in Milan and Sardinia. He also collaborates with the Parisian gallery Boon_Room, the American gallery Garde and the Australian gallery Finkelstein. Jiří has sent other tables and glass objects to collectors in Germany, Great Britain, USA, France, Italy and Austria.
Artist's exhibitions
Prague Art Week 24
Adam Vačkář conceptually crosses the boundaries of visual art, biology, ecological thinking and biosocial themes. He explores how relationships between humans and non-native plants influence politics, society and spirituality, while finding parallels with human migration.
His work explores the Bolshevik magnificent, examining issues from both human and non-human perspectives. His earlier work focuses on identities in Central and Eastern Europe.
Jiří Krejčiřík is a product and interior designer who reinterprets European cultural heritage through a contemporary lens. His work includes furniture, lighting and glass art objects that connect the past and present through his unique visual language. All products are handmade in the Czech Republic, in limited editions, and exhibited in carefully selected galleries and design showrooms in Europe, Australia and the USA.
Sára Drobíková is a designer who works with space and physical materials. She experiments with traditional craft practices and explores the limits of machine and technology. She is always looking for an ecological and human footprint in her work.
Kristýna Mikolášková and Tereza Drobná studied together at the Czech Technical University in Prague. Kristýna then continued her studies at UMPRUM in the K.O.V. studio under the guidance of Prof. Eva Eisler, while Tereza started working as a designer for Preciosa Lighting. Since 2021 they have been a design duo Mikolášková&Drobná. Their first collection, Scene Collection, presented at Designblok 2021, earned them a nomination for the Designblok Awards in the Best Installation category. They were also included among the young talents in the Erste Premier Talent Display and won the Best Installation award at Czech Design Week 2021. They were also finalists in the Czech Grand Design 2021 in the Discovery of the Year category.
Slow Panache of Solitude
All three artists work at the intersection of art and design and have a distinctive style that comments on the contemporary world.
The authors of the exhibition Slow Panache of Solitude are:
Jiří Krejčiřík
Alexandr Martsynyuk
Tomáš Kurečka
