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prof. Jaroslav Malina

prof. Jaroslav Malina

scenographer, member of the Artistic Council of the Academy of Arts in Prague

Born: 5th December 1937, Prague

Biography

2003
commissioner-in-chief of the Prague Quadrennial 03

2002
Doctor Honoris Causa, (Doctor of Design), The Nottingham Trent University, England
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, designing and lecturing

2001-2002
Exposition (retrospective) and lecture at the Symposium – San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum

 
2001
University of Kansas in Lawrence - teaching and designing;

2000
Ohio State University, Columbus – teaching and designing
- Central Ohio Critics Awards in Columbus (set of Orpheus Descending and the exhibit Metaphor and Irony)
- member of Art-board of Academy of Fine Arts in Prague
- member of Art-board of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague

1999
chairman of the Art-board of the National Gallery in Prague commissioner-in-chief of the Prague Quadrennial 99

1998
appointed Professor by President Vaclav Havel
study visit to Israel

1997
Ohio State University, Lima – lecturing and designing

1996
elected and appointed by President Václav Havel Rector of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
visit to Japan on the invitation of The Japan Foundation

1995
chairman of the international jury at the Prague Quadrennial
Ohio State University, Lima – teaching and designing

1993
habilitation of studies as docent at The Academy of Performing Arts in Prague

1992
University of Kansas, Lawrence – teaching and designing; lecturing at Ohio State University, McNeese University, Lousiana and The University of Missouri
teaching visit at The Trent University, Nottingham, England

1991
commissioner-in-chief of the Prague Quadrennial 91

1991-1999
chairman of the National Centre of the O.I.S.T.T.
- exposition of stage design and lecture at the Symposium of the Future of Theatre Architecture in Evora in Portugal

1990
invitation of students to teach at the Theatre Faculty of The Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
- major one-man exposition in Los Angeles; lecture tour LA-California Institute of Arts, universities in Stanford, Berkeley, Sonoma, San Francisco

1987
on the invitation of Professor Delbert Unruh of the University of Kansas in Lawrence, was realized one man exposition which combined or confronted stage design, painting and graphic art;
at the same time taught stage design

1986
study visit with lectures for set designers and directors in Cuba

1984
Gold Medal at the 7th International Triennial of Stage Design and Theatrical Costuming at Novi Sad (Yugoslavia)

1982
thanks to Professor Eric Sinkkonen, first exposition abroad arranged at the San Francisco State University;
teaching engagement at the same university lecture tour to other universities (resulting in other offers);
visit to New York

1982-1990
part-time engagement at the Workers‘ Theatre, Gottwaldov (1990 onwards the Municipal Theatre, Zlin)

1981
birth of the daughter, Anna

1980-1984
part-time engagement at the Theatre Victorious February, Hradec Kralove

1976
birth of the daughter, Marie

1975
married Milada Pravdova

1971
odvolán s exekutivního výboru OISTAT

1969
lectured at the University of Tampere in Finland, met Professor Eric Sinkkonen

1968
elected representative on the executive committee of the Czechoslovak Centre of O.I.S.T.T.; study visit to Germany, Belgium, France and Britain

1967
began a long-term cooperation in book illustration with the North Bohemia Publishing House

1964-1980
employed at the Salda Theatre in Liberec in North Bohemia

1961-1964
Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Faculty of Theatre, field of stage design under Professor Frantisek Tröster

1957-1961
studied at the Faculty of Education of the Charles University, in the fields of Russian language and art education under Professors Cyril Bouda, Martin Salcman, Karel Lidicky and docent Zdenek Sykora

1955
began tu study painting privately with Professor Zdenek Sklenar

1952-1956
1st High School for Industrial Engineering, Bethlehem Street, Prague 1

 

Home Address: Kubelíkova 29, 130 00 Praha 3
Phone: 0042 02 22711869, 0042 0602-965123
e-mail: j.malina@tiscali.cz