Since the early 1950s, Stanislav Kolíbal, born in 1925, has created a sculptural and graphic oeuvre which, in its systematic reduction to simple structures and materials, occupies a strong conceptual position within the art movements of Minimal Art and Arte Povera. From 1990 to 1993, Kolíbal was a professor at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts.

Stanislav Kolíbal, who lives in Prague, was invited to many important exhibitions worldwide at an early stage, thereby consolidating his artistic reputation outside his own country. He has had solo exhibitions at the National Gallery, Prague (2005 and 2015), the Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (2000), the College of Art, Edinburgh (1998) and the Centre d’art Contemporain de Quimper (1993), among others. His works are represented in the collections of the Albertina, Vienna, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, the Metropolitan Museum and Guggenheim Museum, New York, as well as the Tate Gallery, London and the Lenz Schönberg Collection.

Recent major exhibitions include the large retrospective “Stanislav Kolíbal: State of Uncertainty” 2019 at the Center Pompidou in Paris. Further recent presentations of his works took place in 2022 at the National Museum in Prague, which was shown under the title “Formy a Procesy”.