JIRI
ZMETEK
VINTR
Tattoo Artist
BRNO & COPENHAGEN
BRNO & COPENHAGEN
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I create personal, detailed, and timeless tattoos in a calm studio environment. Each design has its own meaning, and every client deserves full respect and an individual approach.
BIO
Tattoo as art, not just as
Craft.
Twenty-one years I've dedicated to a single craft – and I still enjoy it more than at the very beginning.
I started in Brno, where I opened my first studio at the age of eighteen. My secondary school education in building and subsequent studies in furniture design gave me a different perspective on form, structure, and proportion – an architectural mindset that still shapes how I perceive space, form, and story. Since 2010, I have also been active in Copenhagen, and from 2015 to 2024, I concurrently collaborated with studios in London, Los Angeles, and Liechtenstein.
Today I'm working between Brno and Copenhagen. My speciality is black and white realism – work that stands and falls with precision and patience. I seek out challenging projects and clients who know what they want, or are looking for someone to help them find it.
I find inspiration in travelling the world. I prefer quality over quantity – both at work and outside of it.
Services
Realism &
Photorealism
Black and white realism is my primary language. I work with any photographic reference – portraits, animals, architecture, landscapes. I also combine motifs into collages, where multiple references form one common story. Each design is born from meticulous work with light, shadow, and contrast – tattoos that look just as convincing even after several decades.
Large format
tattoo
I enjoy large formats the most. Many of my clients wear my work on most of their body – and it's in extensive projects that it becomes apparent whether a tattoo artist truly understands composition, rhythm, and proportions. I welcome challenges.
Cover-up
Cover-up is a discipline that requires experience and honesty. Not every tattoo can be covered up – if the original work doesn't allow for it, there's an option to lighten the tattoo with a laser first, paving the way for a better result. A solution can always be found. If it's not possible to cover it up even then, I'll say so straight away.
PORTFOLIO
AWARD
Seventeen awards across the world. I competed on stages in London and Los Angeles
alongside the best tattoo artists in the world — and I brought back more than just the experience.
alongside the best tattoo artists in the world — and I brought back more than just the experience.
2007 — Brno, CZ
1st Best of Show
Reject Holidays Tattoo Festival
2009 — Prague, CZ
2nd Colour Sunday and 2nd Best of Crazy Saturday
11th International Tattoo Convention Prague
2010 — Poysdorf, AT
3rd Best of Realistic
Starfire Tattoo Weekend
2010 – Opava, CZ
3rd Best of Colour
Tattoo Session Silesia
2010 — Prague, CZ
Second Most Crazy
12th International Tattoo Convention Prague
2011 — Prague, CZ
2nd Ornamental Saturday & 2nd Small Sunday
13th International Tattoo Convention Prague
2012 — Prague, CZ
3rd Saturday of the month
14th International Tattoo Convention Prague
2016 — Hämeenlinna, FI
1st Best Vintage & 1st Best of Friday & 1st Best of Saturday
Unique Art Festival
2016 — Aarhus, DK
1st Best of Show
Aarhus Art Convention
2017 — Brno, CZ
2nd Large Black & Grey
Tattoo Grand Prix
2018 – Copenhagen, DK
Ink King
50 Shades of Ink
2018 — Brno, CZ
1st Best Realism & 2nd Large Black & Grey
Tattoo Grand Prix
2018 — London, UK
1st Best Realism
The Great British Tattoo Show
2019 - Brno, CZ
3rd Large Black & Grey
Tattoo Grand Prix
2019 — London, UK
1st Best of Sunday & 1st Best Black & Grey
The Great British Tattoo Show
2019 — Los Angeles, USA
2nd Best Original
Golden State Tattoo Expo
2019 — London, UK
2nd Best Backpiece / Coverage
The London Tattoo Convention
2021 — Olomouc, CZ
2nd Best Black & Grey (feat. Tomáš Bastard)
Tattoo Expo Haná
RESERVATION
Book an appointment
VOUCHER
Gift voucher
Vouchers are valid for the studio in Brno. I will send them the same day, within 24 hours at the latest.
CONTACT
Let's create together.
BRNO
Z. Tattoo Company
Křídlovická 11
603 00 Brno-střed
Czech Republic
jirivintr@gmail.com
ztattoo.co.uk
Copenhagen
Bespoke Ink
Turesensgade 29
1368 Copenhagen K
Danmark
jirivintr@gmail.com
custommadeink.dk
