The exhibition space of Adam Gallery will be taken over by Fait Gallery from January

Brno - After ten years, Adam Gallery (AG) is leaving the premises of the former engineering shop and passing the baton to another Brno investor and art lover - Igor Fait. AG, which primarily presented contemporary Czech and world painting, intends to deepen its collaboration with young artists in the future, expand its collection of modern art, and promote Czech talents in foreign galleries.

"On Monday, December 21, 2015, we signed an agreement under which, starting in January, Fait Gallery will take over our exhibition spaces. Over ten years of operation, we have allowed top Czech and foreign artists to present themselves to the public and at the same time introduced gallery visitors to various forms and positions of art. We managed to prepare more than 72 exhibition projects with 130 artists," says AG director Petra Lekešová.

The AG collection, which comes from the private collection of collector Richard Adam and has no equivalent in the Czech visual scene, will have its place in Brno. According to the AG director, its content should continue to expand and be presented within artistic and exhibition projects in the Czech Republic and abroad. It contains over 1200 works, from abstract paintings to postmodern, conceptual and post-conceptual works, imaginative currents to "street" techniques. Works from the collection were presented at the Akné exhibition in 2006 at the Rudolfinum in Prague, at the House of Art in the "Czech Painting of the 1990s" exhibition in 2011 in Brno, and at the National Gallery in the exhibition "Between First and Second Modernity 1985-2012."

In the premises of the former factory, Jiří Černický, one of the key authors of the artistic generation of the 1990s and one of the most significant contemporary creators, presented his work several times. People had the opportunity to become acquainted with his work, in which painting and drawing, the creation of artistic artifacts and objects, action art with overlaps into photography, literature, and even acting have alternated since the 1980s. "Jiří Černický’s works are inseparably linked to the gallery. It is significant that his current exhibition Dolby Painting will very dignifiedly conclude AG's activities in these spaces," notes the gallery's artistic director Richard Adam, who will continue as the gallery's artistic director.

In recent years, AG also provided space for young artists who are just entering the scene. Most recently, at the exhibition "Black Horses," 24 students from the Academy of Fine Arts, the AAAD and the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Technical University presented their work. This exhibition was key to the decision to return to collecting, supporting young artists, and discontinuing the operation of the gallery.

The gallery was a long-term partner and member of various cultural events such as Brno Museum Night, Week of Visual Culture, Night of Literature, City Week, and the Festival of Modern Dance - Tanec Praha and KoresponDance. It collaborated in charitable partnership projects with the Tereza Maxová Foundation, the Wheelchair League, the Emil Foundation, Blue Hippo, the Partnership Foundation, and others.

Adam Gallery also held a strong position in educational and animation programs for all levels of schools. Annually, dozens of schools and educators, as well as parents with children in art workshops, visited its educational programs. It is worth mentioning the long-term project of collaboration between the gallery and ZUŠ "There Is No Ringing in the Gallery."