TOMÁŠ GABZDIL LIBERTÍNY (1979)

Currently living and working in Rotterdam, through his art, Tomáš Libertíny continually explores the beauty and intelligence of nature as well as probing into the existential questions of the human mind.

Born in Slovakia, son of an architect and a historian, he studied at the Technical University Košice in Slovakia focusing on engineering and design. He was awarded George Soros’s Open Society Institute Scholarship to study at The University of Washington in Seattle, where he focused on painting and sculpture. He continued his study at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava in painting and conceptual design. After receiving the prestigious Huygens Scholarship, he enrolled in the Masters program at the Design Academy Eindhoven where he received his MFA in 2006.

Libertiny’s fascination with the beauty and intelligence of nature fuels his work with timeless yet relatable emotions. The relationship between Man & Nature, both psychological and physical, serves as a constant source of inspiration.

COLLECTIONS

• MoMA, New York, USA
• Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, NL
• The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, IL
• Cincinnati Art Museum, USA
• MAD / Palais de Louvre, Paris, FR
• MUDAC, Lausanne, SUI
• Corning Museum of Glass, USA
• Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, NL
• Museum Het Nieuwe Domein, NL
• Lakeside Collection, NL
• AkzoNobel Art Foundation, NL
• Henraux Foundation, IT
• Berengo Foundation, IT
• Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, UK
• Dacra Art Collection, USA

EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2024

• Of Time and Other Demons / Ron Mandos Gallery (January - February 2024), Amsterdam, NL
• Artistic Matter / solo at Art Rotterdam (February 2024), Rotterdam, NL
• Bees and Blues / solo at Galerie Weisbard (January - February 2024), Rotterdam, NL
• Crafted by Bees / solo show at The Israel Museum (April - October 2024), Jerusalem, NL
• True Colors / Kunstmuseum Den Haag (June - September 2024), Den Haag, NL
• Harvest 2024 / Lakeside Collection at DEPOT Museum Boijmans van Beuningen (August - October 2024), Rotterdam, NL

2023

• Live And Let Live / Museum Jan Cunen (January - May 2023), Oss, NL
• BLISS / Rademakers Gallery (February - March 2023), Amsterdam, NL
• Softer Stronger Together / Solo Show / Axel Pairon Gallery (18.03 - May 2023)
• Creative Nature / Castillo de san Jorge (March - May 2023), Sevilla, Spain
• Droog 30 / Triennale Milano (April 2023), Milano, Italy
• Droog 30 / Het Nieuwe Institute (May - August 2023), Rotterdam, NL
• UNIQUE(S) / Centre Albert Marinus, Musée de Woluwe Museum (April - June 2023), Brussels, Belgium
• Spiritual Urgency / Stedelijk Museum Schiedam (November 2022 - April 2023)
• Musee Royal de Mariemont (September 2022 - April 2023)
• CAN REON (May 2023), Casino de Tiana, Spain
• Taste the World, The Banquet of Wonders, The Champagne Wine and Regional Archaeology Museum of Epernay (September - December 2023), Epernay, France
• Dawn & Dusk / Duo Show Libertiny & Vaitovic / Mina Art Space (September - October 2023), Košice, Slovakia
• DE BALIE (December 2023), Amsterdam, NL
• Life Cycles / MoMA (September 2023 - April 2024), New York, USA
• Iris van Herpen / Sculpting The Sense / Musée des Arts Décoratifs / Palais de Louvre (November 2023 - April 2024), Paris, France

2022

• Glasstress / Fondazione Berengo Art Space (June-November 2022) / Venice, Italy
• HOMO FABER / Fondazione Giorgio Cini (April-May 2022), Venice
• World Bee Day / Guerlain / Worldwide (20.05.2022)
• Révélations / Grand Palais (June 2022), Paris, France
• Expedition 10 / Slovak Institute (March-June 2022), Jerusalem, Israel
• Listening To The Earth / MUDAC (June - September 2022), Lausanne, Switzerland
• Brno Art Open / House of Arts (June - September 2022), Brno, Czech Republic
• DEA 75 years (7-12 June 2022), Milano, Italy
• Egypt - Everlasting Passion / Royal Museum of Mariemont (December - April 2023), Morlanwelz, Belgium
• Design Academy Eindhoven / Salone del Mobile (07 - 12 June, 2022), Milano, Italy
• Permanent Collection / Musee des Arts Decorative / Palais de Louvre (from June 2022), Paris, France
• Unknown Unknowns / 23rd International Exhibition / Triennale Milano (June - December 2022), Milano, Italy
• Harvest 2022 / Collection Lakeside / DEPOT Boijmans (August - September 2022), Rotterdam, The Netherlands
• Wild Summer of Art / Brutus (August - September 2022), Rotterdam, , The Netherlands
• Creative Nature / Anciens Abattoirs (November 2022 - February 2023), Mons, Belgium
• Corporate Offsite Dwelling A / CODA Museum (September - December 2022), Apeldoorn, The Netherlands

2021

• 17th International Architecture Exhibition / Arsenale (May - November 2020) / Venice, Italy
• HOMO FABER by Michelangelo Foundation / Fondazione Giorgio Cini (September 2021), Venice, Italy
• Quand la matière devient art / Maison Guerlain (October-November 2021), Paris
• 85th International Handicraft Exhibition / Emporio MIDA (April - May 2021) / Florence
• Design by Nature / Museum De Fundatie (July - October 2021) / Zwolle

2020

• 17th International Architecture Exhibition / Arsenale (May - November 2020 CANCELLED) / Venice, Italy
• Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research / Permanent Art Installation (unveiled February 2020), Utrecht, The Netherlands
• Melancholia / Solo Show at Rademakers Gallery (November - January 2021), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Radical Curiosity. In the Orbit of Buckminster Fuller / Fondación Telefónica (September 2020 - March 2021), Madrid, Spain
• Into the Nature of a Gallery (December 2020 -February 2021), Nitrianska galeria, Slovakia
• La Manufacture, A Labour Of Love / Gare Saint Sauver / part of World Design Capital Lille Métropole 2020 (September - November 2020), Lille, France
• We Are Nature by Rossana Orlandi (September/October 2020) Museo Scienza and Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, Milano, Italy
• MAK Design Lab (May 2019 - May 2023), MAK Vienna, Austria
• Nature Calls / Rademakers Gallery (January - February 2020), Amsterdam

2019

• La Fabrique du Vivant / Centre Pompidou (February/April 2019), Paris
• Vienna Biennale For Change 2019 / MAK Vienna (May/October 2019)
• Kunsthal Rotterdam / Solo Project “Eternity” (May/September 2019)

2018
• Twelve Paintings (December/February 2018), Rotterdam / Solo exhibition
• Ghent Design Museum (permanent display), Ghent

2017
• Twelve Paintings (December/February 2018), Rotterdam / Solo exhibition
• Melancholia (September/December 2017), Rotterdam / Solo exhibition
• National Design Prize (September/November 2017), Bratislava, Slovakia
• Earth Matters (June/September 2017), Textiel Museum, Tilburg
• Work Exhibition (Pracovná výstava) (June/July 2017), Nová Synagóga, Žilina, Slovakia
• Chronosophia (May/September 2017), Spazio Nobile, Brussels / Solo exhibition
• Rotterdam Contemporary (February 2017), Rotterdam / Solo presentation

2016
• Slowtime (September/December 2016), Rotterdam / Solo exhibition
• Progressland (May/September 2016), Chamber, NYC
• Glassfever 2016 (May/November 2016), Dordyart, Dordrecht, The Netherlands

2015
• Glasstress 2015 Gotika (May/November 2015), Palazzo Franchetti, The Venice Biennale, Italy
• FAD - Foment de les Arts i del Disseny (June/October 2015), Barcelona, Spain
• Beeldentuin Ravesteyn (May 2015), Netherlands
• Making a difference / A difference in making (April/June 2015), Bozar Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels
• Wallpaper Handmade (April 2015), Milano, Italy
• Living Glass II (March/November 2015), MUDAC Lausanne, Switzerland
• Earth Matters (February/May 2015), Artipelag, Sweden

2014
• Lausanne Jardins (June/October 2014), Lausanne, Switzerland
• MAK Design Laboratory (May/open 2014), Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria
• Hit the future - Design beyond borders (February/March 2014), Munich, Germany

2013
• Rotterdam Centraal (November/December 2013), Vivid Gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
• The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things (July/October 2013), De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-sea, UK
• The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things (April/June 2013), Nottingham Contemporary, UK
• The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things (February/April 2013), the Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK
• Glasstress 2013 (June/November 2013), The Venice Biennale, Italy
• En Vie, Espace Fondation EDF (April/August 2013), Paris, France
• Museo Bagatti Valsecchi w/Rossana Orlandi (8th-14th of April, 2013), Milano, Italy
• Applied Design (March 2013 / January 2014), MoMA, New York, USA
• Nourritures Premieres / Maison&Objet (January 2013), Paris, France

2012

• The Exhibition Road Show / public art installation (July/August 2012), The Exhibition Road, London, UK
• The Etende Mens (July 2012/January 2013), Designhuis, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
• Glasstress Beirut (July/September 2012), Beirut Exhibition Center, Lebanon
• Glasstress New York (February/June 2012), Museum of Art and Design, New York, USA

2011
• New Energy In Design and Art (October/February 2011/2012), Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, The Netherlands
• Now/The Experience of Time (September/November 2011), MARTa Herford, Germany
• Mistakes (September/October 2011), Vivid Gallery, The Netherlands
• Glasstress Riga 2011 (August/December 2011), Latvian National Museum of Art, Latvia
• Glasstress 2011 (June/November 2011), The Venice Biennale, Italy
• Post Fossil (January/April 2011), Holon Design Museum, Israel

2010
• Action!Design Over Time (February 2010/ January 2011), MoMA, USA
• Post Fossil (April/June 2010), 21_21 Design Sight, Tokyo, Japan
• Design by Performance (March/May 2010), Z33 art center, Belgium
• Le Fabuleux Destin Du Quotidien (February/May 2010), MAC’s Grand Hornu, Belgium

2009
• Moss Gallery, Design Miami, Miami, USA, 2009
• Slash : Paper under the Knife, Museum of Arts and Design (October 2009), NYC, USA
• Cheongju International Craft Biennale (September 2009), Cheongju, Korea
• Telling Tales, Victoria & Albert Museum (June 2009), London, UK
• Designer of the Future Award (June 2009), Design Miami/Basel, Switzerland
• Craft Punk (April 2009), Spazio FENDI, Milano, Italy
• Over Design Over (March/April 2009), Rocca Paolina Perugia, Italy
• Archeology of the Future (January/March 2009), The Institut Néderlandais, Paris, France

2008
• Tomas Libertiny (February 2008), VIVID, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
• Object Rotterdam (February 2008), Las Palmas, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
• Casa Rotterdam (November 2008), Torino, Italy
• Graduation Gallery, Villa del Grumello (October 2008), Como, Italy
• Dutch Design Port (October 2008), Antwerpen, Belgium
• Design Miami/Basel (June 2008), Basel, Switzerland
• Moss (May 2008), NYC, USA
• Spazio Rossana Orlandi (April 2008) Milan, Italy
• Design And The Elastic Mind (February 2008) MoMA, USA
• Small Show Huge Talent (January 2008), London, UK
• Family of Form (January 2008), Designhuis, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

2007
• Design Miami (December 2007), Miami, USA
• This side up (September 2007), Valencia, Spain
• Smart Deco 2 (April 2007), Droog Design, Milan, Italy

2006
• Lichting 2006, Kunstpaviljoen, Nieuw Roden, The Netherlands
• Graduation Galleries 2006, The Design Academy Eindhoven

• “Master Pieces 2006” (July-August 2006) DROOG gallery, The Netherlands