Roman Štětina was born in Kadaň (CZ) in 1986. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in 2015 after spending two years on the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main in the classes Judith Hopf and Douglas Gordon.
Roman Štětina’s work investigates the ways in which broadcast media including film, television and radio are created. His videos, installations and sculptures foreground the props, studios and technologies that are otherwise hidden behind the sounds and images received by an audience. This does not involve displaying the “unseen”, but rather the staging of typical production methods like editing or creating disruptions in absurd contexts. Another area to which Roman Štětina sometimes turns is genre cinematography. Re-edits which he creates through editorial interventions remove or, conversely, select one of the formal (pictorial or audio) components. The common feature of both of these lines is the discovery of new transformations in the viewer’s experience and shifts in the image, as well as “sidestepping” between divergent modes of presentation.
Roman Štětina has shown his work in exhibitions around the world including at the Trafó Gallery in Budapest in 2020, Tenderpixel in London in 2019, National Gallery in Prague in 2018, Spike Island in Bristol in 2016, NEST in Den Haag in 2016, MNAC in Bucharest in 2016, Manifesta 11 in Zurich in 2016 and James Cohan Gallery in New York in 2015. His films and video works were presented at International Film Festival Karlovy Vary, LUX London, Close_up Film Centre London, Anthology Film Archives in New York, Delfina Foundation London, PAF Olomouc, IDFF Ji.hlava, goEAST Wiesbaden, Modern Art Oxford, etc.
STUDIES
2013 – 2015 Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Judith Hopf class, Douglas Gordon class
2009 – 2015 Academy of Fine Arts, Prague (AVU), studio of Tomáš Vaněk
2006 – 2009 Institute of Art and Design, Pilsen, studio of Michal Pěchouček
2005 – 2006 University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Faculty of Philosophy and Arts – Humanity studies
AiR PROGRAMS & EXCHANGE STUDIES
2017 LUX, London
2016 Residency Unlimited, New York
2016 Artist-in-residence at Q21 MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, August 2016
2012 Studio of Guest Professor AVU Prague, Florian Pumhösl
2012 Atelierhouse Salzamt, Linz, Austria
2012 Egon Schiele Art Centum, Cesky Krumlov (CZ)
2010 – 2011 Studio of Guest Professor AVU Prague, Marcus Geiger
2008 Academy of Fine Arts and Design Bratislava, studio of Kisspal Szabolcz
AWARDS
FilmPreis, Staedelschule Rundgang, 2015
Dean's Award for the Best Diploma Work, AVU Prague, 2015
Jindrich Chalupecky Award, 2014
FilmPreis, Staedelschule Rundgang, 2014
Open Frame Award, goEAST Film Festival Wiesbaden
Shortlisted for the HENKEL ART.AWARD. 2013
ESSL ART AWARD CEE 2011
COLLECTIONS
National Gallery Prague (CZ)
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (Austria, Spain)
Prague City Gallery (GHMP)
Deutsche Telekom Art Collection (Germany)
European Central Bank Art Collection (Germany)
Magnus Art Collection, Prague
Vehbi Koc Foundation, Istanbul (Turkey)
8smička Foundation, Humpolec (CZ)
Collezione Valentini, Italy
Havrlant Art Collection, Prague
Museum of Modern Art Olomouc (CZ)
Miura Art Collection (CZ)
A4 Arts Foundation, Cape Town (South Africa)
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Polansky Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic