The photographer Jaroslav Kučera is represented by Leica Gallery Prague.
He was born on 19 December 1946 in the village of Ředhošť in the Litoměřice district. From 1962 until 1966 he studied at Secondary School of Civil Engineering in Mělník. In 1973 he completed his studies at College of Civil Engineering in Prague and became a civil engineer. Immediately after the state examinations he started to earn his living as a „freelance“ photographer.
During the normalization period he was taking photohraphs for some magazines and state enterprises. Following the velvet revolution he stood at the emergence of the Signum Photographic Group, and in 1996 he became a member of Bilderberg Hamburg agency. In 2006 he founded the Jakura publishing.
2016 – Prague – Sudetenland, Czech Photo Centre Gallery
2014 – Písek – Meetings, moments of solitude, Prácheň Museum
2013 – Prague – As I met people, Old Palace, Prague Castle
2013 – Bielsko-Biala – As I met people, B&W Gallery
2013 – Prague – Face to Face, Chlubilové, Lucerna, Klub Koníček
2013 – Blatná – Meetings, moments of solitude, Castle in Blatná
2011 – Moravská Třebová – Selection of works, Moravská Třebová Museum
2010 – Praha – Black-and-White
/Prague 1969-2010/ – Leica Gallery Prague, Prague
2010 – Prague – Meeting
Post Minigallery of the Gentlemen´s Club Žižkov
2010 – Hořice v Podkrkonoší – Meetings, Moments, Solitude
Hořice Museum
2010 – Levice – Jaroslav Kučera
Doboóvský mansion (kaštěl)
2009 – Praha – 10 Portraits
Literary Coffee Lounge U Řehoře Samsy
2009 – Praha – Black-and-White
Literary Coffee Lounge U Řehoře Samsy
2009 – Roztoky – Tavern gaieties
Academic Gallery
2009 – Praha – People I have met
/with sculptor Václav Frydecký/ – 32nd Saloon Zentiva
2009 – Praha – Totality (Totáč)
/with Jiří Egert/ – Gallery Smart
2009 – Praha – New Old Photos
Gabfest (Beseda) – Ars Pragensis
2006 – Brussels – People I have met
Prague´s House
2004 – Lvov – Bohemia is also like this
Palace of Arts
2003 – Praha – Selection from People I have met
Galerie Na schodech / Mironet /
2003 – Berlin – 1970s and Communist Holidays
Czech Cultural Centre
2002 – Kladno – From Prague´s taverns
Little Gallery of the Savings Bank
2002 – Praha – People I have met
Old Town Hall
2001 – Praha – World Web Photo Gallery
www.wwg.cz
2001 – Plzeň
Town Hall
2001 – Sarajevo
Gallery of Coffee Lounge Čulhan
2000 – Praha – 1970s
Amadeus Prag
2000 – Berlin
Czech Cultural Centre
1999 – The Hague
Consulate of the Czech Republic
1999 – Duisburg – Sudetes
Wasserturn Gallery
1999 – Wessel – Sudetes
Wasserturn Gallery
1999 – Bratislava
House VPN / with Jan Šibík /
1998 – Berlin – Prague is also like this
Czech Cultural Centre
1998 – Dresden – Prague is also like this
Neue Zeiten Gallery
1998 – Vilnius
Lithuanian Photographic Company Gallery
1996 – Praha – Sudetes
“13” Gallery
1996 – Praha – Prague is also like this
Prague House of Photography
1995 – Amiens
Jacques Tati Gallery
1995 – Kladno
Little Gallery of the Savings Bank
1995 – Cheb – Sudety
G 4 Gallery
1994 – Freiburg – Sudety
Schwarzeskloster Gallery / with Dana Kyndrová /
1994 – Basel
No Name Gallery
1994 – Denver
Temple Emanuele
1992 – Brno
House of Arts
1990 – Basel
No Name Gallery
1990 – Freiburg – Wie durch ein Wunder
Stadtbibliothek
1983 – Praha
Fotochemy Exhibition Hall
1979 – Olomouc
Arcade Gallery
1977 – Praha
Unicorn Gallery (galerie U jednorožce) / with Jan Všetečka /
1977 – Brno
Funk´s study
1975 – Praha
Fotochemy Exhibition Hall
1975 – Olomouc
Arcade Gallery (galerie V podloubí)
1969 – Praha
Strahov campus
Exhibitions of Topics of Historic Architecture
1990 – Praha – Trade-Fair Palace
1989 – Dortmund – Town Hall
1989 – Helsinki – Town Hall
1988 – Bologna – Palazzo de Renzo
1988 – Moscow – Trade-Fair Palace
1987 – Rome – Palazzo Barberini
Publication – Author´s Photographs
2002: People I have met – Publisher KANT
2009: Fishermen in the Třeboň Region – published by JAKURA
2013: As I met people – texts PhDr. Jan Kříž, PhDr. Daniela Mrázková, Dušan Veselý – JAKURA
2014: Meetings, moments of solitude – text PhDr. Jan Kříž – JAKURA
2016: Sudetenland – text PhDr. Daniela Mrázková – JAKURA
Author´s Publications – Architecture
1983: National Theatre 1983
1990: Historical and Present-Day Prague 1
1996: From the UNESCO map
1998: Dientzenhofers
1999: National Theatre, History and the Present-Day Building
2002: Wallenstein Palace (Valdštejnský palác)
2005: České Budějovice
2006: Spa of West Bohemia (Západočeské lázně)
2007: Karlovy Vary
Publications published by JAKURA Publishing House
2007: Liliana Maftei, text Jiří Karbaš
2007: František Ronovský, text Jiří Urban
2009: Through World War I on foot – Through Objective by Unknown Soldier
2009: Václav Frydecký, text Prof. František Dvořák
2009: Fishermen in the Třeboň Region, text Miroslav Hule
2010: Black-and-White ( Prague 1969 – 2010 ), text Josef Chuchma
2011: War’s Photographs ( 1914 – 1918 )
2013: Jaroslav Blažek, photography Jaroslav Kučera
2013: As I met people, texts PhDr. Jan Kříž, PhDr. Daniela Mrázková, Dušan Veselý
2014: Devil Centrifuge – Josef Váchal
2014: Ninety Hindsight, text Dušan Veselý
2014: 77 Jewish Jokes, MUDr.Miloš Jetel ( Moše Jajteles )
2014: Meetings, moments of solitude, text PhDr. Jan Kříž
2015: The Old Man Lying In Wait, text prof. Miloš Hoznauer
2015: Premonstratensian Monastery in Teplá
2016: Prague, London, Heaven And Back, text Pavel Hokynek
2016: Chess Queen Věra Menčíková, text Jan Kalendovský
2016: Sudetenland, text PhDr. Daniela Mrázková
Moravská galerie Brno (Moravian Gallery Brno)
ICP New York
Life magazine New York
Colorado Photographic Art Center Denver
Czech Photographers´ Association
Gallery of the Capital of Prague
National Museum of Photography in Jindřichův Hradec
