INTRODUCTION


 

Rosana de Montfort was born in 1973 in Ostrava and has been artistically productive since early childhood under the influence of mentors, role models and teachers such as Karel Žaluda, Věra Špánová-Boudníková, Jiří Stejskal, David John Lloyd, Jaroslav Domiter and Ladislav Maria Wagner.

Her driving engine is the observation of the civilisation tendencies. The testimonies she leaves in the canvases are based on her own view of the world through contradictions. “What exists may be an illusion; what is an illusion, may actually be real.” Rosana is a curator, founder of the art group Magnus Gradus with Jaroslav Jerry Svoboda (Prague) and Radomír Bárta (Brno) and owner of ArtGalerie Moritz.

 

After 12 years of attending private lectures in the studio of akad.mal. Karel Žaluda and 6 years of studying at Art School in Ostrava, she progresses to the Ostrava-Hladnov College. Feeling out of place in the curriculum, which focuses on exact science, she then transfers to Median Art School. In her second year, she goes abroad to work in order to avoid complications during the time of her parents' divorce.

 

Life abroad

Permanent life abroad since 1992 offers her a diverse development through interactivity with a multicultural society, thanks to which she speaks many languages fluently, such as German, Italian, Spanish, English and Farsi.


In Munich, she first runs the Matador club in the Kunstpark Ost, where she creates her first gallery and later becomes a co-owner. In 2003, after the divorce, she moves to London for a job offer at the recording company JPM Recordings, where she is engaged in the production and promotion of music projects. It was in Great Britain, where she is able to reach the widest audience while developing her style with several new modern techniques and media. In addition to classical painting, she also creates sculptures, street art and large-scale murals. This is followed by exhibitions and commissions for artistic as well as musical productions for British television channels such as Channel U, BBC Channel 4 and Lion TV. Since 2009, she is successfully leading the new media and project management company DE MONTFORT Ltd. and in 2014 founds its subsidiary DE MONTFORT ART Ltd. focused on artistic activity.

 

Creating styles

When it comes to styles, she is not limited to a trend or fashion wave. Sometimes she chooses a realistic painting of unreal things, and on the contrary, the real world she depicts with fast, dynamic spatulas. The media she uses for her paintings are mostly canvas, acrylic, oil paints, synthetics, sand and plaster, lacquers and pencils. In sculpture and sculpture, she prefers materials such as expansion foam, acrylic, glass, cement, polyurethane, aluminium and wood.

 

Due to her fantasque, slightly commix like style, her work is gaining popularity among collectors of contemporary art not only in Europe, but also overseas. With her latest work called "PEACEFUL ALTERNATIVE" and "BACK TO THE ROOT" measuring 520 x 150 cm, she confirms her neo-dystopian post-humanist direction. The aim in her work is to preserve her small world and draw attention to our rapid evolutionary shift, where, with the advancement of technology, the organic form of life disappears and artificial intelligence is being smuggled into our daily decision making.


Rosana currently exhibits around 80 paintings nationwide, organizes art courses, and occasionally teaches art at a college.


Awards and merits

As co-owner of DE MONTFORT ART Ltd. she collaborates with international institutions, galleries and collectors. Her participation in charity projects in Europe and the US, earns her awards by City Councillors of San Francisco and the White House. Together with other awarded participants she is given the International Prize Velazquez 2019 in MEAM European Modern Art Museum Barcelona on the 06.04.2019, International Prize Michelangelo received in Brancaccio Palace in Rome on the 14.07.2019 and two Awards of Excellence as the finalist of INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY MASTERS in Santa Barbara (CA). In her spare time, she helps in the development of the cultural program of the city of Bílovec, for which she was awarded by the city council in 2020 as an Honorary Citizen.


Galleries, expositions and curatorium

Nowadays she is managing and curating art projects and exhibitions in Gallery MonAmi, Gallery MORITZ and the Chateau Bilovec. Her newly acquired premise of Comunity Centre PAVILON t is undergoing a vast reconstruction and will be officially open to public in May 2025. In 2024 she won a selection for a government property tennant with her and her husbands project DE MONTFORT art and education centre in the historical heart of Nový Jičín and collaborates with the local townhall to build a new flagship premise, which is planned to be opened in summer 2025.


Rosana is personally involved in on average 8 art projects per year, exhibiting her art collection or creating artworks for the National Heritage Institute. In her further engagement with artists and gallery owners in 2020, she organises 10 to 14 art exhibitions per year, where she applies her understanding and appreciation of their working methods and visions.


In 2022 Rosana realises she is more and more demanded the field of art management and moves more intensely into the position of an art curator for other artists, focusing on the approach and human touch in the encounter between the artist and the appreciating audience. Although the development of cultural domain in the Moravian region is her latest calling, her own creation persists in a steady paced cognitive manner.

 

(Edward Charles Marsh, London 2024)

EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS


Exhibitions 1993-1999 Munich, Prague, London


• Matador, Kunstpark Ost, Grafinger Str., Munich, various art projects
• Garden exhibition at the corporate party of Faber A.G., Grűnwald
• Jugend Zentrum, Garmisch Pattenkirchen, joint exhibition, art show, cooperation with children
• Gallery Modrý Samet, works in commission sale
• Street Art jam Barrandov, art show, cooperation with youth
• Street Art jam Orionka, art show
• Vila Tauber and Fischl, Vysočany, collective exhibition Urban Art
• Channel U, independent Street Art exhibition, spray on billboard 3 pieces
• BBC4, Hip Hop Nights, a creative collective project for the Hip Hop Nights documentary series
• Ferrier Point Art, Canning Town, solo exhibition in collaboration with London Borough of Newham
• East London Art Fair Shoreditch, collective exhibition
• Beecroft Art Gallery Southend-on-Sea, solo exhibition
• Great Malvern, The Pastures, private sales show
• ING Creatives Festival 2017 Dubai, world competition, collective


Exhibitions and projects 2018-2025

• 03.10.-30.11.2018 Art center Martello Tower, group exhibition, Essex, United KIngdom
• 03.08-05.08. 2018 Bílovec Castle, solo exhibition and lecture at PARCON 2018
• 21.02.-25.03. 2019 Mlej Museum and Gallery, "Revelation" solo exhibition, curator. Eda Riedl, Ostrava
• 27.04.- 31.08. 2019 Bílovec Castle, solo exhibition for the 10-year anniversary, cur.rdm
• 01.06.- Vinárna pod Pálavou, Dolní Náměstí, Olomouc, permanent solo exhibition
• 01.09.-31.10. 2019 Galerie Chagall, solo exhibition, curated by Alena Stodolová
• 16/10/2019 Yacht Club, Frinton-on-Sea, UK, Group Sales Show
• 21/09/2019 Essex County ART REVIEW, UK, benefit group exhibition "Hello Harwich"
• 07.12.2019 Ceremonial unveiling of the reproduction of the original painting Bl. Česlava Odrowas, Bílovec Castle
• 13/12/2019 Martin Café, Nový Jičín, permanent solo exhibition

• 01.08.2019-01.07.2020 Petr Brandl Gallery, Prague 1, selected works
• 13.06.-31.08.2020 Bílovec Castle, solo exhibition "Addresses" cur.rdm
• 12.06.-03.09.2021 ROMY&ROSE, exhibition with Romana Štryncl, Bílovec Castle, curator R. deMontfort
• 18.07.-30.10.2021 Mezisvěty, Rosana and Russell de Montfort, Paintings, Kunín Castle, cur.rdm
• 05/09-05/10/2021 Benefit exhibition, triptych "3 Women", Skalka Monastery, Mníšek pod Brdy
• 04.09.-8.11.2021 Educational program for children at the Mikoláš Copernicus Gymnasium in Bílovec
• 01.10.-31.1.2022 Bárta-Montfort-Kořistková, painting exhibition, Silvie Kořistková Gallery, Orlová
• 11.11.-31.05.2022 ARTVÁRIUM project, Curator PhDr. Renáta Mužíková, PhD. , Passage of Czech Design Prague, exhibition of conceptual large-format triptych "PEACEFUL ALTERNATIVE"
• 20.02.-20.03.2022 "TROLLING IN THE CITY" solo exhibition, MonAmi Gallery, Bílovec, kur.rdm
• 29.03.-5.04.2022 Educational program for teenagers at the Mikoláš Kopernik Gymnasium in Bílovec
• 21.05.-24.6. 2022 Lysice Castle - 2nd year of the ROMY&ROSE project exhibition with Romana Štryncl, cur.rdm
• 10.5.-11.7. 2023 Gallery for oncology patients and their supporting artists, independent exhibition "LOOK FORWARD", Prague

• 01.08.-30.09. 2022 House of Culture Kroměříž, solo exhibition "DULCE DYSTOPIA", curator Robert Rohál
• 11.08.- 9.9.2022 Gallery Art Mozaika, group exhibition "ART SALON" Curator Michal Fryč, Prague
• 17.9. – 31.10 2022 Bílovec Castle, ArtGalerie Moritz, group exhibition under the title "MEETING IN TIME", Jaroslav Jerry Svoboda, Michal Janovský, Radomír Bárta, Rosana de Montfort, cur.rdm
• 3.9. – 31.11.2022 Gallery FELIDAE, Café Schrödinger Brno, "SHIFT OF TIME", solo exhibition, curated by Romy Štryncl
• 10.10. 2022 "GIVE US A CHANCE" project – management and sponsorship of a charity project to support the Gallery for Oncology Patients, Prague
• 24.11.-28.1.2023 Gallery Hřivnáč, Philosophical - humanistic conceptual project of Libor Hřivnáč "ON ONE BOAT. ON ONE SHORE.", group exhibition, Opava
• 5.12. -31.12. 2022 Silvia Kořisková Gallery, solo exhibition of paintings, Orlová
• 1.11.-14.3. 2023 ArtGalerie Moritz – winter depository of his large-format paintings, Bílovec Castle
• 16.03. - 22.04.23 Hřivnáč Gallery, "TIME AXIS", solo exhibition of paintings and sculptures, curator Libor Hřivnáč, Opava

• 1.5.-22.4. 2023 ROOF Cultural House, "JISTÉ KROKY", solo exhibition of paintings, curator Milan Fíšr, Vrbno pod Pradědem
• 5.5.-27.5. 2023 Gallery Crears, Philosophical - humanistic conceptual project of Libor Hřivnáč "ON ONE BOAT. ON ONE SHORE.",Rožnov pod Radhoštěm
• 5.5. – 30/06/2023 Gallery for oncology patients, "LOOK FORWARD", solo exhibition of paintings and sculptures, curator Irena Kraftová, Prague
• 1.8.-31.8. 2023 Archbishop's Castle "ROMY&ROSE" 3rd annual charity project/exhibition with Romana Štryncl, Kroměříž, curator R.deMontfort
• 2.10.- 5.12. 2023 MonAmi Gallery, Philosophical - humanistic conceptual project of Libor Hřivnáč "ON ONE BOAT. ON ONE SHORE.", group exhibition, Bílovec
• 14.9.-19.11. 2023 Silesian Ostrava Gallery "POLOČAS", solo exhibition of large-scale paintings and sculptures, Ostrava, cur.rdm

• 14.12.- 31.12.2023 ZaZa Gallery, Philosophical - humanistic conceptual project of Libor Hřivnáč "ON ONE BOAT. ON ONE SHORE.", group exhibition, Ostrava
• 6.3.-23.3. 2024 Olomouc City Gallery "FIVE SENTENCES" Jaroslav Jerry Svoboda, Ingrid Kitzbergerová, Vincent Chignier and Radomít Bárta, Olomouc
• May 2024 Lysice Castle - 4th year of the ROMY&ROSE project exhibition with Romana Štryncl, cur.rdm
• 1.5.-31.5. MonAmi Gallery, "3R" Radomír Bárta, Russell de Montfort, Rosana de Montfort
• 22.6.-4.8.2024 TUFEST - art festival in the premises of the Monastery in Šternberk, multi-genre exhibition
• 4.9.- 27.9. 2024 Křížová chdba Brno, art project "NINE SENTENCES" cur. Kateřina Dubovcová/rdm
• 1.12.-11.2. 2025 KD Kroměříž, "UN VOYAGE" Bárta, Chignier, de Montfort, curator Robert Rohál, Kroměříž


Press & media

https://www.kultura21.cz/component/content/article/23638?fbclid=IwAR0KsTGgmN9zCqWKaYhqumdQBHCQ12k1LUv_McNsyJggUPZq9bErWFfzKU0

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Prizes and Awards

INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY MASTERS August 2019 - FINALIST


The painting "Source Found" is in the final for INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY MASTERS in Santa Barbara (CA) from total of 3962 artworks submitted by 1287 artists, 


Certificate of Honour

Awarded by the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco for charitable community projects.

INTERNATIONAL PRIZE MICHELANGELO 2019
ROME


The painting "SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE" was awarded International Prize Michelangelo, received in Brancaccio Palace in Rome on the 14.07.2019 .

Presidential Voluntary Service Award


Presented by The White House for community projects.


INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY MASTERS June 2019 - FINALIST


The painting "Shower Time" is in the final for INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY MASTERS in Santa Barbara (CA) from 4,185 works and 1,427 artists


Award of the city Bílovec


Presented by townhall for cultural merits in art and community projects.


INTERNATIONAL PRIZE VELAZQUEZ 2019 BARCELONA


The painting "SPACE CHERRY" was awarded the International Prize Velazquez 2019 in MEAM European Modern Art Museum Barcelona on the 06.04.2019.

Artist of the month

competition finalist


Presented by the CEO of  Circle Art Foundation in global art competition