Filip Raclavský
born 1976 in Olomouc, Czechoslovakia
lives and works in Velký Týnec, Czech Republic
solo exhibitions
2025 Moment of Balance, CAESAR Gallery, Olomouc
2020 Unstable Alliance (?), JANÁČEK Gallery, Přibyslav
2017 Energy, GalerieZET, Velká Bystřice
2016 Painting No. 344, ZÁMECKÁ Gallery PRO JEDEN OBRAZ, Velký Týnec
2007 Return of the Energy, PATRO Gallery, Olomouc
group exhibitions
2024 Ateliers/24, Olomouc City Gallery
2024 Pre-auction exhibition, ETCETRA ART, Praha
2022 Ateliers/22, Olomouc City Gallery
2020 10. Anniversary, GalerieZET, Velká Bystřice
2020 30. Anniversary since UVUO foundation, Olomouc City Gallery
2020 New Members UVUO, Olomouc City Gallery
2019 Road to Freedom, PAVELČÁKOVA, Olomouc
2019 Moravian Theatre and Philharmonic, 8 UVUO members selection, Olomouc
2019 White Red Blue, Gallery BAVIERA, Centro Cultural de la República Checa, Málaga, Spain
2018 Ateliers 2018, Olomouc City Gallery
2008 Gallery selection, Galerie SKÁCELÍK, Olomouc
paintings in collections
Robert Runták collection
Municipality Velký Týnec collection
Filip Raclavský is collected by various private collectors in Czech Republic, Germany, Spain, Hungary and USA
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Hejčín High School, Olomouc (1990-1994)
Palacky University - Faculty of Education (2001-2006)
UN mission in Kosovo (1999-2000)
EU mission in Afghanistan (2007-2009, 2010-2012)
Member of Union of Fine Artists of Olomouc (2018-2025)
War veteran
publications and press
Filip Raclavský is offering energy; Galerie PATRO exhibition review, olomouc.cz, 2007
Energie – exhibition catalogue; published city Velká Bystřice, 2017
10 years galeriezet; published city Velká Bystřice, 2020
POST-WAR & CONTEMPORARY ART AUCTION; ETCETRA ART, Praha, 2024
CAESAR Gallery Olomouc, exhibition Moment of Balance, 2025
Video: Report from the exhibition Moment of Balance, 2025; TV Morava
Filip Raclavský created from the very beginning in a very expressive, abstract and free manner. His painting changed over time, but the basic characteristics remained (geometry, dynamic action painting, simple symbolism, gestural brushstrokes, elements of chance, chaos, strong colors).
For Filip, painting is not a choice, but an essential inner necessity and at the same time a kind of obsession; he thinks about painting constantly. When too many perceptions from the world around us accumulate in him, he must process this chaos. He transforms his personal world of emotions and thoughts into a visual form that makes sense to him and in which he assigns a specific place, shape and order to these feelings.
Filip never knows in advance what will catch his attention. The initial impulse for him can be anything. Each painting is a fresh beginning. There is no system, there are no rules. He intuitively and spontaneously layers colors on top of each other and gradually composes different ideas into overlapping collages. It is often a state where the hand is ahead of the head, and the color reaches the canvas immediately. The result can subsequently seem primitive, naive or even childish, but it is even more sincere. This entire immediate, sometimes rough process brings a certain freedom of painting to the creation. Result we see is a picture full of colors and energy, searching for its own balance.
In expressive gestures, scratches or random splashes, Filip's inner world is then hidden, penetrating to us through individual layers of colored paint and in which the boundaries between foreground and background, as well as between the dreamlike atmosphere of the imaginary world and reality, are blurred. The resulting symbolism appeals to a range of viewers’ emotions: individual freedom, authenticity, the search for meaning in our meaningless and chaotic world, and our connection to nature, which is the basis of our entire existence.