Krištof Kintera

Krištof Kintera in 2020

Bike to Heaven

Red is coming

Krištof Kintera (born 20 September 1973 in Prague) is a Czech artist and sculptor.[1] He was nominated for the Jindřich Chalupecký Award three times.[2] He was one of the co-creators of the Entropa sculpture, which was displayed in Brussels as part of the Czech Republic's Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the first half of 2009.[3]

Kintera was awarded the Personality of the Year award for living artists in 2011 thanks to his monument to suicide under the Nusle Bridge,[4] and again in 2012, this time shared with fellow artist Pavel Mrkus.[5] In 2013, his 14 metres (46 ft) high Bike to Heaven monument, which commemorates all cyclists killed on the streets of Prague, was unveiled in the Holešovice district of the city.[6]

References

1. "Major solo exhibition by the Czech artist Krištof Kintera opens at Kunsthal Rotterdam". ArtDaily. 28 February 2015. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
2. "Krištof Kintera věří na sílu nesmyslu" [Rištof Kintera believes in the power of nonsense]. iDNES (in Czech). 11 August 2007. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
3. "Krištof Kintera: "Entropa je pitomá, ale také krotká"" [Krištof Kintera: "Entropy is stupid, but also tame"]. Hospodářské noviny (in Czech). 15 January 2009. Archived from the original on 26 January 2016. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
4. "Kintera je výtvarnou Osobností 2011 - za pomník sebevrahům" [Kintera is an artistic Personality of 2011 - for the monument to suicides]. ČT24 (in Czech). 19 January 2012. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
5. "Cena Osobnost roku našla dva příjemce" [The Person of the Year award found two recipients]. ČT24 (in Czech). 21 January 2013. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
6. "Kolo letí do nebe, cyklisté mají konečně svůj důstojný pomník" [The bike flies into the sky, cyclists finally have their worthy monument]. ČT24 (in Czech). 7 September 2013. Retrieved 31 August 2015.

External links

• Official website