In the end, I came to the conclusion that it would be easier to start my own business outside
Leoš Válka was born on October 30, 1953 in Prague. His childhood was significantly marked by his father‘s chronic asthma, depressed family atmosphere, but also by tuberculosis, as a result of which he had to spend part of his sixth year of life in a hospital. After problems at the ČSAD vocational school, at the end of which Leoš successfully sued the company for unjustified dismissal from the school, he began making a living as a stoker at the Náprstek museum or as a night security man. He worked as a mountaineer from the mid-seventies. Later, he founded the work at heights operation at the District Construction Company Prague. In August 1981, he and his colleagues managed to escape from a trip to Italy. The pre-planned event continued with a short stay in the Traiskirchen concentration camp, work at heights in the vicinity of Vienna and a subsequent departure to the dream Australia. A group of Czech emigrants arrived there in the summer of 1982, and as soon as possible, they started a business in their field of mountaineering. As part of this, they also managed to certify their own technology, which they then applied to a number of skyscrapers, as well as state buildings and universities in the country. However, Leoš, who ran the company, decided seven years after the Velvet Revolution to return to the Czech Republic, where he founded and for some time ran a branch of the Australian company. After the floods in 2002, he bought a broken-down factory in Holešovice, which he transformed into the DOX gallery. It was opened in 2008 and Leoš has been its director since then.