1954 | Born in Krnov, Czechoslovakia |
1968 | Flight with his family to Germany |
1976-1978 | Studies art in Cologne, Frankfurt am Main and in New York at the Cooper Union with the conceptual artist Hans Haacke |
since 1980 | Member of the Cologne artist group "Mülheimer Freiheit" |
1982 | First exhibition of paintings with Walter Dahn and participation at the documenta 7 in Kassel |
| 1983-1984 | Professorship together with Walter Dahn at the "Staatliche Kunstakademie" Düsseldorf |
| 1984 | Represented at "Von hier aus - Zwei Monate neue deutsche Kunst in Düsseldorf" |
| since 1989 | Dokoupil teaches at the "Circulo de Bellas Artes", the academy of fine arts, in Madrid |
Lives and works in Berlin and Prague |