Martin Praska

Mar­tin PRASKA was born in Wies­loch near Hei­del­berg in 1963. From 1985 to 1990, he stud­ied at the Acad­e­my of Fine Arts Vien­na. In 1986 he was award­ed the sil­ver Füger Prize. This was fol­lowed by a work­ing schol­ar­ship from Invest Kred­it AG in 1987, the Wer­fen Painters’ Sym­po­sium in Salzburg in 1993, a schol­ar­ship abroad in Krumlov, Czech Repub­lic in 1994 and in Lon­don in 1998. He has been a mem­ber of the MAERZ artists’ asso­ci­a­tion since 1995. In 1999 he found­ed the artists’ group Die Halbe Wahrheit. From 2002 to 2004 he was chair­man of IG BILDENDE KUNST Öster­re­ich. In 2008, he co-found­ed the artist group K2 Unit­ed Painters. Pras­ka has tak­en part in numer­ous exhi­bi­tions and par­tic­i­pa­tions in exhi­bi­tions at home and abroad, includ­ing in Aus­tria, Ger­many and Lux­em­bourg. In his for­ays through the his­to­ry of paint­ing, he delib­er­ate­ly draws on Old Mas­ters, Pop Art, Fluxus and Expres­sion­ism. The artist has lived and worked in Vien­na since 1992. 2008 – first exhi­bi­tion in the gallery Welz.