Filip Raclavský
born 1976 in Olomouc, Czechoslovakia
lives and works in Velký Týnec, Czech Republic

solo exhibitions
2025 Moment of Balance, CAESAR Gallery, Olomouc
2020 Unstable Alliance (?), JANÁČEK Gallery, Přibyslav
2017 Energy, GalerieZET, Velká Bystřice
2016 Painting No. 344, ZÁMECKÁ Gallery PRO JEDEN OBRAZ, Velký Týnec
2007 Return of the Energy, PATRO Gallery, Olomouc

group exhibitions
2024 Ateliers/24, Olomouc City Gallery
2024 Pre-auction exhibition, ETCETRA ART, Praha
2022 Ateliers/22, Olomouc City Gallery
2020 10. Anniversary, GalerieZET, Velká Bystřice
2020 30. Anniversary since UVUO foundation, Olomouc City Gallery
2020 New Members UVUO, Olomouc City Gallery
2019 Road to Freedom, PAVELČÁKOVA, Olomouc
2019 Moravian Theatre and Philharmonic, 8 UVUO members selection, Olomouc
2019 White Red Blue, Gallery BAVIERA, Centro Cultural de la República Checa, Málaga, Spain
2018 Ateliers 2018, Olomouc City Gallery
2008 Gallery selection, Galerie SKÁCELÍK, Olomouc

paintings in collections
Robert Runták collection
Municipality Velký Týnec collection
Filip Raclavský is collected by various private collectors in Czech Republic, Germany, Spain, Hungary and USA

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Hejčín High School, Olomouc (1990-1994)
Palacky University - Faculty of Education (2001-2006)
UN mission in Kosovo (1999-2000)
EU mission in Afghanistan (2007-2009, 2010-2012)
Member of Union of Fine Artists of Olomouc (2018-2025)
War veteran

publications and press
Filip Raclavský is offering energy; Galerie PATRO exhibition review, olomouc.cz, 2007
Energie – exhibition catalogue; published city Velká Bystřice, 2017
10 years galeriezet; published city Velká Bystřice, 2020
POST-WAR & CONTEMPORARY ART AUCTION; ETCETRA ART, Praha, 2024
CAESAR Gallery Olomouc, exhibition Moment of Balance, 2025
Video: Report from the exhibition Moment of Balance, 2025; TV Morava


Filip Raclavský spent more than 25 years in the law enforcement agencies. He completed a one-year UN mission in Kosovo, worked for almost 4 years in Afghanistan as a police advisor and participated in the implementation of the Witness Protection Program in the Czech Republic as a member of the Special Operational Department. As part of Probation and Mediation Service he coordinated a project focusing on helping crime victims and as a social worker of Child Protective Services, he worked with abused and neglected children. He has experienced and seen a lot; beautiful stuff, sad, evil and also tragic.

Freedom of painting

For Filip, the initial impulse can be anything. He never knows in advance what will catch his attention. Each painting is a fresh beginning, the early morning of a new day. There is no system, there are no rules. He intuitively and spontaneously layers colors on top of each other and gradually composes various ideas into overlapping collages. The result can subsequently seem primitive, naive or even childish, but it is all the more sincere.

In expressive gestures, scratches or random splashes, Filip's inner world is then hidden, penetrating us through individual layers of colored paint, and in which the boundaries between foreground and background, as well as between the dreamlike atmosphere of the imaginary world and reality, are blurred. The resulting symbolism appeals to a whole range of our emotions, to individual freedom, authenticity, to the search for meaning in our meaningless and chaotic world, and to our connection with nature, which is the basis of our existence.