Calligraphic abstraction recording time, consciousness and lived experience.
Maxim Havlíček’s paintings bring writing, gesture and material into open fields where thought becomes physical trace.
Painting as a Form of Thinking · Anna KodlCurrent work
2025—2026
The observer and the observed become inseparable. Writing expands across the canvas as an open field: a temporary order within constant transformation.
Enter Anima MundiThe Courage to Become
2026
M.A. Meditations
2025—2026
Anima Mundi
2025—2026
Exhibitions
Upcoming exhibition · Prague · 2026
Galerie Mánes, Prague
20 October—14 November 2026
Upcoming exhibition with Sharon Stone and Maxim Havlíček: a dialogue between individual practices and collaborative works.
Sharon Stone Studio Exhibition enquiryInternational exhibition history
Los Angeles · New York · Miami · Mexico City · Sydney · Melbourne · Singapore · London · Prague · Dublin · Pistoia
2025
Artefin Gallery
Prague, Czech Republic
Group · 25 September—23 October
2024
Galerie UFFO
Trutnov, Czech Republic
Solo · November
2023
Galerie 1
Prague, Czech Republic
Solo · 1—26 August
2026
SOLO-Arts Gallery
Long Beach, USA
Group · 6—21 March
2025
Coastline Art Gallery
Newport Beach, USA
Group · 5 February—21 March
2023
artworxLA · Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel
Los Angeles, USA
Group · 25 May
2023
Ad Lib Gallery
London, UK
Group · 18 May—18 June
2022
Red Dot Miami
Miami, USA
Art fair · 30 November—4 December
2022
PETROF / CzechTrade · Marina Bay Sands
Singapore
Design fair · 22—24 September
2022
Eleutheria
Pistoia, Italy
Group · 10—31 May
2022
Pablo Goebel Fine Arts
Mexico City, Mexico
Solo · 4 May—31 July
2021—2022
Gallery 11:11
Sydney, Australia
Solo
2018
Brown Thomas / MGS Gallery
Dublin, Ireland
Group · 10 October—4 November
2018
One Vandam
New York, USA
Group · 1—22 May
2017—2018
Tuck
Los Angeles, USA
Solo · 1 December—1 March
2017
Marie Baldwin Gallery · Bel Air
Los Angeles, USA
Solo · 10 September—15 November
2017
LA Brewery
Los Angeles, USA
Group · 15—16 April
2017
Knupp Gallery LA
Los Angeles, USA
Solo · 4 March—30 April
2017
Please Do Not Enter
Los Angeles, USA
Group · 1 March—30 April
2016
Fabrik Expo
Los Angeles, USA
Group · 29—31 January
2015
WestEdge
Santa Monica, USA
Group · 22—25 October
Biography
Born in Prague in 1974, Havlíček came of age between the discipline of graphic arts and the cultural rupture of post-Wall Europe. He moved to the United States in 1999 and settled in Los Angeles in 2011.
Across successive bodies of work, the written mark has evolved from language into a record of duration, movement and presence.
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Meet MAXIM: Visual Artist
Radio Prague InternationalInternational broadcast · English-language interview · 2018The Alchemist: a journey from Prague to Los Angeles
iDNESCzech Republic · Profile · 2023A Czech-American painter returns to Prague
Private enquiries
For information about selected works, exhibitions, institutional projects or appointments in Los Angeles and Prague, contact the studio directly.