Czech artist David Helán, born in 1979 in Brno. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, and completed study stays at the prestigious Cooper Union in New York and Middlesex University in London, among others. His portfolio includes independent projects and exhibitions in the Czech Republic, but also in a number of foreign institutions and galleries. David Helán’s artistic personality synthesizes two different influences in an original way, artistic performance and cabaret entertainment. His live events, which always result in careful video or photographic documentation, move on the border of absurd theater with an overlap with purely contemporary themes and also serious questions. He creates a specific aesthetic atmosphere of comedy, melancholy and existential poetics imbued with material objects and symbols of everyday life, which serve him as quite practical tools in a given situation. Helán’s statement is imbued with creative lightness and playful imagination always underlines things that are essentially serious. His work is far from being limited to art institutions, but he is open to interaction and improvisation with any environment and audience. A civil level of humanity and at the same time conscious work with a serious artistic identity are a very fresh combination, which is rather rare in the art world today.
David Helán
David Helán, from the cycle Wing shure things
David Helán, from the cycle Všeumětelex alergenius skodolibal
David Helán, from the cycle Vasilonosič
David Helán, from the cycle Šprimadona.
David Helán, from the cycle Koktagon nostairartruth.
David Helán, from the cycle Klepnobank.
David Helán, from the cycle Healen, 2024-08-25 v 22.26.54
David Helán, From the cycle A letter you will always remember-David Helán_Z CYKLU A LETTER YOU WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER
David Helán, Cactus - Christus.
David Helán, Alteregoism.