Jan Karpíšek


Jan Karpíšek is a Czech contemporary painter, known for his cooperation with bees. Karpíšek studied at the of Brno University of Technology, at a studio led by Professor Martin Mainer.
He then spent a half year in the art studio of performance of Professor Tomáš Ruller.
Karpíšek's work is characterized by topics such as, effluxion, the erotic, and, above all, spirituality. He is deeply concerned with meditation and a number of his paintings are records of perception of the body system and soul; however, his paintings show no formal unity. Karpíšek's style sometimes evokes naivism or the grotesque, and at other times is similar to a gestic abstraction. Karpíšek is also concerned with action painting, natural pigments and conceptual performance painting. As a matter of fact, the topic of his bachelor and master work was time. He won the Prize of Dean 2003 for his bachelor work; his large-format paintings that might be reminiscent of works by Gerhard Richter and Barnett Newman In 2004, Karpíšek was awarded second place in the students' competition Artkontakt. His work was bought in the same year by the National Gallery in Prague and presented in IBCA 2005 in Prague. Karpíšek participated on Václav Cílek's book Orfeus in 2009. In 2015 he was selected as a finalist of Dave Bown Projects, New York.
Karpíšek practices Zazen as taught by Master Dōgen and .
He is an active beekeeper and permaculture gardener.

Solo exhibitions