The photographer Jiří Hanke is represented by Leica Gallery Prague.
J. Hanke was born in Kladno, April 15th 1944. He graduated from the Kladno Grammar School and in 1962 he commenced work at the Kladno branch of the State Savings Bank. During his compulsory military service he first published his photographs. At that time he performed as a singer /songwriter of protest songs.
In 1977 Hanke started his Small Gallery in the premises of the then State Savings Bank, gradually the dramaturgy oriented exclusively on photography. He lives in Kladno, his wife Jiřina Hankeová is the photographer and the artist.
Jiří Hanke arranges exhibitions regularly. Since 1978, until now, he has had seventy individual exhibitions in the former Czechoslovakia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Slovakia, France, Denmark, Scotland, and Austria. He has taken part in more than one hundred group exhibitions both in the Czech Republic and abroad. His works are a part of collections in the National Gallery in Prague, Museum of Arts and Crafts in Prague, Moravian Gallery in Brno and other prestigious institutions in the Czech Republic and abroad (the U.S.A., Germany, France). He has published 8 photography publications (e.g. Views from my flat window, People from Podprůhon, and Stop Time).
2010 Parisian Fragments
České Budějovice, Café Au Chat Noire
2010 Jazz for Three
Kladno, The Small Gallery of the Savings Bank (with
J. Beneš and V. Frolík)
2009 Views From the Window of My Flat
Pardubice, Gallery GM
2009 Search for America
České Budějovice, Gallery Bazilika
2009 Velvet
Kladno, The Small Gallery of the Savings Bank
2009 Stop time
Jazz festival, Polička
2008 Two Views
Lidice Gallery, (with Jiřina Hankeová)
2008 My Still-lifes
Kladno, The Small Gallery of the Savings Bank
2008 Vues de ma fenétre
La Galerie de photographie Metropolis, Charleville-Meziéres
2008 Views From the Window of My Flat
AMU Gallery, Praha
2007 Echoes of a Generation
Uherské Hradiště, Hvězda Cinema (Summer Film School)
2007 Periphery, Hradec Králové
Exhibition Hall Foma Bohemia (with Jiřina Hankeová)
2007 Before the Exhibition
Nové Město nad Metují, Gallery of V. Sedláček, Zámek Bartoň-Dobenín
2006 Echoes of a Generation
Terezín, Small Fortress, Memorial
2006 Periphery – Kladno – Periphery
Kladno, The Small Gallery of the Savings Bank
2006 Echo de Generation
Rouen, Centre Photographique de Normandie, Francie
2006 Jiří Hanke – Photography
Ostrava, Art center Chagall
2006 The Small Gallery of the Savings Bank 1977–2006
Kladno
2005 Stop Time
Hluboš, the castle
2004 Jiří Hanke 60 Portraits from 1974–2004
Kladno, The Small Gallery of the Savings Bank
2004 Echoes of a Generation
Mariánská Týnice, Museum and Gallery of Northern Plzeň Region
2004 Echoes
Prague, Prague House of Photography
2004 Blicke aus meinem Fenster
Vienna, Galerie auf der Pawlatsche
2003 Another Views From the Window
Kladno, The Small Gallery of the Savings Bank (with poetry of J. Hankeová)
2003 Jiří Hanke Photographs 1980–2003
Příbram, F. Drtikol Gallery
2002 Blicke aus meinem Fenster
Postdam, Galerie im Mobilcenter
2001 Enterpreneurs, Echoes of a Generation
Ostrava, J. Myron Theatre
2001 Views From the Window of My Flat
Prague (Interkamera 2001)
2000 Jazz for Two
Kladno, The Small Gallery of the Savings Bank
2000 Stop Time
Prague, Gallery FOTO-MAX
1999 Stop Time
Hradec Králové (Jazz Goes To Town)
1999 Face for the Year 2000
Kladno, The Small Gallery of the Savings Bank
1998 Echoes of a Generation I
Prague, Mánes
1998 Entrepreneurs
Prague, the National Technical Museum
1998 Echoes of a Generation II
Kladno, The Small Gallery of the Savings Bank
1995 Echoes of a Generation
Glenrothes, Scottland, Corridor Gallery
1995 Jiří Hanke Entrepreneus Kladno 1992–1995
Cheb, Gallery 4
1994 Jiří Hanke (Flashback)
Kladno, District Museum
1994 Echo de Generation
Rouen, Centre Photographique de Normandie, France
1994 Jiří Hanke senior [ Jiří Hanke
Kladno, The Small Gallery of the Savings Bank
1994 Pod Podprůhonem People (selection)
Kladno, Gallery of Kladno News
1993 Echoes of a Generation
Perth, Scotland, The Sandeman Library (Fotofeis 1993)
1993 Echoes of a Generation
St. Andrews, Scotland, Crawford Arts Center
1992 New York / Texas, Plzeň, Divadlo Kruh
1992 Views from the Window of my Flat
Aarhus, Denmark, Galerie Image
1991 New York & Texas
Kladno, The Small Gallery of the Savings Bank
1991 Views From the Window of My Flat
Praha, Prague House of Photography
1991 New York / Texas
Příbram, Castle Ernestinum (with Z. Lhoták)
1991 New York / Texas
Kralupy nad Vltavou (with Z. Lhoták)
1990 Jiří Hanke „Blicke aus meinem Fenster“
Stuttgart, H. Lindemanns Galerie und Buch handlung für Fotografie und Film, Germany
1990 Views From My Flat
Reims, Mais de la Photo, France
1990 Hanke – Stano – Svolik, Trois photographes de Tchécoslovaquie
Lyon, La Fondation Nationale de la Photographie, France
1989 Jiří Hanke
Brno, Dům pánů z Kunštátu
1989 Echoes of a Generation
Bratislava, Komorná galéria Spoločenského domu v Trnávke, Slovakia
1989 Widoki z okna
Wroclaw, Foto-Medium.Art
1989 Jiří Hanke Photographs from 1974–1989
Cheb, Gallery 4
1988 Jiri Hanke – Kladno, CSSR
Berlin, Kleine Humboldtgalerie
1988 Jiří Hanke – 2 x 15 (Kladno 1973–1988)
Kladno, The Small Gallery of the Savings Bank
1987 Jiří Hanke Echoes of a Generation
Prague, Fotochema
1986 Pod průhonem People
Prague, Small gallery of Čs. spisovatele
1985 Pod průhonem People
Kladno, District Museum
1984 Stop Time
Kladno, Gallery 55
1983 Views From the Window of My Flat
Kladno, The Small Gallery of the Savings Bank
1983 Parisian Fragments
Ústí nad Labem, Gallery Na terase
1982 Parisian Fragments
Kladno, District Museum
1982 Jiří Hanke Photographs
District Muzeum, Kolín
1981 Jiří Hanke Photographs 1975–1980
Praha, Fotochema
1981 Jiří Hanke Photographs
Litvínov, Club ROH Benar
1980 Photographs from Rožmitálsko
Rožmitál pod Třemšínem, Brdy Memorial
1979 Jiří Hanke Photographs
Kladno, District Museum
1979 Jiří Hanke Photographs
Kralupy nad Vltavou, ROH Kaučuk Club
1978 Jazz Portraits
Kladno, The Small Gallery of the Savings Bank in Kladno (with Josef Blecha)
Views From the Window of My Flat, District Museum in Kladno (Okresní muzeum v Kladně), 1994
People from Podprůhon 1974–1989, District Museum in Kladno (Okresní muzeum v Kladně), 1995
The Small Gallery of the Savings Bank in Kladno 1977–1997, Kuklik Praha, 1997
The Echoes of a Generation, Kuklik Praha,1998
J. + J. Hankeovi = Pohledy, Praha 2002
Stop Time, Knihovna Jana Drdy Příbram, 2003
The Small Gallery of the Savings Bank in Kladno 1977–2006, Job Příbram, 2006
Jiří Hanke Photographs, Job Příbram, 2008
National Gallery in Prague, CZE
Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague, CZE
Moravian Gallery in Brno, CZE
The University of Texas (Gernsheim Collection), Austin, USA
The Witkin Gallery, New York, USA
Gallerie und Buchhandlung fur Fotografie und Film, Stuttgart, DEU
Museum Ludwig, Koln am Rhein, DEU
International Center of Photography, New York, USA
Fondation Nationale de la Photographie, Lyon, FRA
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, GBR
Center of Photography, New York, USA
Maison Européene de la Photographie, Paris, FRA
The Anne & Jacques Baruch Collection, Chicago, USA
Prague House of Photography, Prague, CZE
National Museum of Photography, Jindřichův Hradec, CZE
District Museum in Kladno (Okresní muzeum v Kladně), CZE
Gallery of Visual Arts Benešov, CZE
Lidice Collection, Lidice Gallery, CZE
