Photo: Tomáš Souček
Center for Contemporary Arts, Prague
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David Fesl
I will watch with you
I met Esther Kläs in 2011 at her studio in Brooklyn and David Fesl as a student in 2017 in Prague. Over the years I have collaborated with both artists several times and we have become friends. We have often talked about the artistic process and artworks, which mostly come into being as a result of something we as viewers cannot see.
Both artists work with a different scale. Their works seem to exist on different levels. The installation is subtle, the works keep their distance and communicate with each other rather internally, as if two close acquaintances share the space of one room, each doing their own thing, but present together.
The sculptures and objects on display can be approached with visual understanding. Indeed, they attempt a certain independence from narrative or explanation. Escape from language can be irritating. At this very moment there is a change in perception and a slightly different reality appears, and we are able to re-establish a relationship with what is in front of us.
Curator: Zuzana Blochová
Collaboration: Marek Meduna
Graphic design: Jan Šerých
Biography
Born 1995 in the Czech Republic, lives and works in Prague
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024
I will watch with you, with Esther Kläs, Center for Contemporary Arts, Prague
2023
Hello Yuko, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
The Clumsy Imitator of Artificial Life, Fait Gallery, Brno
2022
David Fesl, ADZ, Lisbon
David Fesl, Sperling, Munich
2021
David Fesl, Also on View, T293, Rome
David Fesl, Lulu, Mexico City
2020
The Concrete Boy, Georg Kargl BOX, Vienna
The Weakest Nest Robber, Karlin Studios, Prague
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
Unfolding Currents: The Pulse of Time, Autostrada Biennale, Kosovo
2024
You You, curated by Kate Sutton, Lombardi—Kargl, Vienna
2022
I Had a Dog and a Cat, curated by Hana Ostan Ožbolt, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
Do Animals Go to Heaven?, organized by Collezione Agovino, Chiesa del Purgatorio, Matera
2021
Ester Krumbachová, curated by Edith Jeřábková and Kateřina Svatoňová, House of Arts Brno, Brno
Remembering What Never Existed, curated by Suzanne Friedli and Andreas Furrer, annex14, Zurich
2016
Against Nature, curated by Edith Jeřábková and Chris Sharp, National Gallery Prague, Prague
Artistic Conception
2024
20 years of Kontakt, Secession, Vienna
Selected Exhibition Display
2023
Touching Time that Stands Still, curated by Pavlína Morganová, hunt kastner, Prague
2022
I Had a Dog and a Cat, curated by Hana Ostan Ožbolt, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
First Book of Emblems: Lenka Vítková, Fait Gallery, Brno