Photography is what Jiří Macht credits for shaping his artistic career, which has brought him among the most sought-after creators on the Czech art scene by the professional public.

Already at the secondary art school popularly known as “Hollarka,” he mastered the secrets of photographic processes.

Right after graduation, he enrolled at Prague’s FAMU in the Photography Department, where he focused on advertising photography during his studies.

Over time, he left this way of making a living behind and began to gravitate toward purely artistic work, which over the last thirty years has gone beyond the boundaries of creative art photography, and he has become one of the leading Czech visual artists.

At present, he has held more than 50 solo exhibitions and around 150 group exhibitions at home and abroad.

His work is represented in private collections all over the world.

Among celebrities, he likes to mention his beloved Ennio Morricone, who visited his exhibition and owned one of his collages.

One of his favorite challenges is collaborating with hotels, shopping centers, banks, and other large public or private spaces.

He realized himself most extensively at the OREA Pyramida Hotel and the Holiday Inn Hotel in Prague, where he installed around a thousand photographic images and collages in each of them.

Another project he likes to talk about was his collaboration with Art Lines for the Grand Pardubice shopping center, for which he created a seven-meter-high collage portrait of architect Josef Gočár. The work is fully backlit, and nearby hang giant plexiglass spheres in which glowing Haribo gummy bears appear to levitate.

These installations took him a great deal of time, but the result is well worth seeing.

In the following year, he began collaborating with the prestigious international gallery Cyprián Fine Art, under which he will exhibit together with artist Marek Číhal in Qatar and in their new gallery in Prague.

In Qatar, his work is already hanging in the office of the Qatari Emir, for whom he created a collage for the FIFA World Cup.

This year he will also continue his cooperation with Art Lines on ongoing projects.

He is preparing a portrait exhibition based on collages drawn from the life of the person portrayed. One of these exceptional personalities is Josef Mašín, whom he recently photographed in Santa Barbara, California. He chooses this mix of people from his own life experience.

For Jirka, an extremely important exhibition will be created from series made during his travels across the USA over the last 35 years. With it, he would like to present America in a completely different light than we know from other authors.

His long-term plans are closely connected with curator PhDr. Renáta Mužíková, PhD., with whom he greatly enjoys working.

As a matter of course in his professional life, he also considers cooperation with charitable projects—especially in recent years with the organization Art of Sharing and the Pink Bubble Foundation, but often with others as well.