Current Monuments and Public Space - Invitation to Discussion

If the theme of the exhibition “Place of the Monument” is memorials and monuments, do we know how to build them meaningfully today? What is the practice of using public competition tools and public space manuals in relation to art? Does public space need a curator? In the discussion, we will explore the contamination of public and private interests, professional roles, and responsibilities that the emergence of new monuments evokes.



Come on Thursday, April 21, 2016 at 7:00 PM to the VI PER gallery at Vítkova 2 in Prague's Karlín for an open discussion as part of the accompanying program of the exhibition Place of the Monument with all participants.



Confirmed Discussants

Anežka Bartlová (art historian and critic, UMPRUM, Skutek Association, curator of the exhibition Place of the Monument)

Pavla Melková (architect, director of the City Detail Section, Public Space Office, IPR)

Svatopluk Sládeček (architect, New Work studio, Brno)



Moderated by Maria Topolčanská (architecture critic, ARCHIP)




Place of the Monument

The exhibition Place of the Monument is the inaugural exhibition of the Gallery VI PER in Prague's Karlín (Vítkova 2, Prague 8) and will be accessible until May 7, 2016.

Memorials and monuments are important and at the same time completely specific objects in the public space of cities and landscapes. Due to their intrinsic character that connects political gestures with artistic creation, they often become the foundation for discussions and disputes: for one, they represent a place of remembrance, while another feels it pulls skeletons out of the closet, and a third considers it an outdated format. The decision to erect a monument carries many questions addressed in the newly published book Manual of the Monument. The exhibition aims not only to provide a space for a monument but primarily a place for debates.


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