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Art in Czech Public Space after 1989
The art of the temporary and permanent, monuments and performances highlighting current issues. Visual art that has impacted or is impacting and influencing the Czech public space in modern history is the theme of the current exhibition at the Jaroslav Fragner Gallery. The exhibition will be accompanied by a more than three hundred-page Czech-English catalog, contributed to by a dozen experts. The book launch will take place on Thursday, August 4, at the Jaroslav Fragner Gallery. The presentation of the book will be preceded by the premiere of the documentary film by Jan Strejcovský titled Out of the Gallery!, at the nearby NFA Ponrepo Cinema. The exhibition will run until September 4, 2022.
The exhibition from the gallery Out of the Gallery! Art in Czech public space after 1989 presents sixty artistic works in four sections, created after 1989, with a brief historical introduction recalling older periods from the 1960s. The exhibition does not shy away from works that provoke controversial reactions for various reasons. In addition to photographs and sketches, visitors can look forward to models of sculptural works such as a segment from the Family ready to leave (1969) by Karel Nepraš, the iconic Letná Metronome (1990), Tribute to Karel Hubáček (1987) by Vratislav Karel Novák, Memento Mori by Krištof Kintera (2011), or Caterpillars of early capitalism (1997) by Kurt Gebauer. Festivals dedicated to art and performance art are presented through video medallions prepared for the exhibition by their organizers (Festival of Naked Forms, 4+4 Days in Motion, Festival m³ – Art in Space, Brno Art Open, Festival Kukačka, Performance Festival Malamut, Signal Festival, Landscape Festival, Artwall Gallery).
“Public space and art have one thing in common – they serve communication. The city provides public space for physical movement, walking, transportation, but also for social interaction and establishing social contacts; it is a place of both spoken and silent mutual communication among people. The artworks displayed in the open air play an important role in shaping this public space of communication. They engage passing viewers, reminding them of something from the community's shared past and thus strengthening the identity of the place, or conversely, they awaken public debate with provocatively new topics. However, they communicate not only with people but also with the surrounding buildings and the physical space of the city, which they imprint with important accents, elevating its aesthetic level. These two roles of artworks in public space are the axis of this exhibition. We were interested in how artworks bring themes of public interest into public space and how they shape the physical face of the city, whether through permanent objects, temporary artistic interventions, outdoor galleries, or sculptural festivals,” describes the exhibition one of its curators, architectural theorist Petr Kratochvíl.
Director Jan Strejcovský filmed the documentary Out of the Gallery! for the exhibition, in which he, as he says, “ventured into the open air, exploring the boundaries of space, the public, and art with artists, curators, historians, and passersby.” This documentary (with English subtitles) will be screened on August 4 at 18:00 at the Ponrepo Cinema, followed by a discussion with the director. At 19:00, the book launch will take place at the Jaroslav Fragner Gallery, with contributions from editors as well as Ludvík Hlaváček, Denisa Václavová, Radoslava Schmelzová, Marie Foltýnová, Radek Horáček, and Tomáš Knoflíček.
The richly illustrated Czech-English publication, in addition to its selected catalog of over 60 works, festivals, and performances since 1989, presents selected artworks or happenings from the 1960s to the end of the 1980s (i.e., art out of galleries), but also contains essays focused on various aspects of art in public space (role of art in public space, official and unofficial scenes, temporary architectural interventions, artistic interventions as dramatization of place, art in the landscape, financial support, etc.) or insights into the history and current situation in Prague, Brno, Liberec, and Ostrava.
The exhibition and accompanying catalog were prepared by Dan Merta, director of the Jaroslav Fragner Gallery, which has long been dedicated to the topic of public space, for example, through a decade-long organization of the Landscape Festival or holding exhibitions on this topic in collaboration with Petr Kratochvíl from the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (co-author of the exhibition and publication Public Space CZ at GJF 2017, author of the book Urban Public Space), and sculptor Petra Vlachynská, who, along with Jan Stolín, leads a studio in the Department of Art at FUA TU in Liberec and focuses on art in public space.
Organizers /
Jaroslav Fragner Gallery
Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Faculty of Arts and Architecture, Technical University of Liberec
Curators /
Petr Kratochvíl, Dan Merta, Petra Vlachynská
Exhibitors /
Matěj Al-Ali, Ateliér SAD, Tomáš Beneš, David Böhm, Eugen Brikcius, Ondřej Císler, Lubomír Čermák, David Černý, Jiří David, Federico Díaz, Lea Dostálová, Petr Dub, ellement architects, Epos 257, Václav Fiala, Jiří Franta, Vojtěch Frölich, Vladislav Gajda, Kurt Gebauer, Guma Guar, Miloslav Sonny Halas, Radim Hanke, Stanislav Hanzík, Lucie Havlová, Jan Hladík, Lukáš Houdek, Dalibor Chatrný, Miloslav Chlupáč, Anna Chromy, Petr Janda, Magdalena Jetelová, Miroslav Jírava, Pavla Voborník Kačírková, Čestmír Kafka, Ivan Kafka, Petr Kameník, Marian Karel, Krištof Kintera, Ivo Klimeš, Lenka Klodová, Eva Kmentová, Milan Knížák, Josef Kocián, Ivar Kodym, Marius Kotrba, Jiří Kovanda, Aleš Kubalík, Kuba & Pilař architects, Dominik Lang, Milan Mikuláštík, David Moješčík, Tomáš Moravec, Jakub Našinec, Jan Nálepa, Jakub Nepraš, Karel Nepraš, Jiří Novák, Vratislav Karel Novák, Libor Novotný, Ivar Otruba, Petr Pištěk, Jiří Příhoda, Rafani, Karel Rechlík, Lukáš Rittstein, Jaroslav Róna, Štěpán Rubáš, Viktor Rudiš, Oldřich Rujbr, Tomáš and Ivan Ruller, Zorka Ságlová, Veronika Sávová, Pavla Sceranková, David Sivý, Skupina Ládví, Colina Spofforth, Jan and Petr Stolín, Zdeněk Sýkora, Kateřina Šedá, Miloš Šejn, Jan Šépka, Ivana Šrámková, Šrámková architects, Dagmar Šubrtová, Benedikt Tolar, Vladimír Turner, Jiří Valoch, Petr Váňa, Maxim Velčovský, Margita Titlová-Ylovsky, Aleš Veselý, Dušan Záhoranský, Olbram Zoubek, Václav Zůna, Ztohoven; Artwall Gallery, Brno Art Open, Kukačka Festival, Malamut Performance Festival, m3 – Art in Space Festival, Naked Forms Festival, Landscape Festival, Signal Festival, 4+4 Days in Motion
August 4, 2022 /
18:00 Cinema Ponrepo / Bartolomějská 291/11
Presentation of the documentary with the participation of director Jan Strejcovský
26 minutes, English subtitles
19:00 Jaroslav Fragner Gallery / Betlémské nám. 5a
Book launch, guided tour of the exhibition
The exhibition is held under the auspices of the Minister for European Affairs, Doc. PhDr. Mikuláš Bek, Ph.D.
The exhibition from the gallery Out of the Gallery! Art in Czech public space after 1989 presents sixty artistic works in four sections, created after 1989, with a brief historical introduction recalling older periods from the 1960s. The exhibition does not shy away from works that provoke controversial reactions for various reasons. In addition to photographs and sketches, visitors can look forward to models of sculptural works such as a segment from the Family ready to leave (1969) by Karel Nepraš, the iconic Letná Metronome (1990), Tribute to Karel Hubáček (1987) by Vratislav Karel Novák, Memento Mori by Krištof Kintera (2011), or Caterpillars of early capitalism (1997) by Kurt Gebauer. Festivals dedicated to art and performance art are presented through video medallions prepared for the exhibition by their organizers (Festival of Naked Forms, 4+4 Days in Motion, Festival m³ – Art in Space, Brno Art Open, Festival Kukačka, Performance Festival Malamut, Signal Festival, Landscape Festival, Artwall Gallery).
“Public space and art have one thing in common – they serve communication. The city provides public space for physical movement, walking, transportation, but also for social interaction and establishing social contacts; it is a place of both spoken and silent mutual communication among people. The artworks displayed in the open air play an important role in shaping this public space of communication. They engage passing viewers, reminding them of something from the community's shared past and thus strengthening the identity of the place, or conversely, they awaken public debate with provocatively new topics. However, they communicate not only with people but also with the surrounding buildings and the physical space of the city, which they imprint with important accents, elevating its aesthetic level. These two roles of artworks in public space are the axis of this exhibition. We were interested in how artworks bring themes of public interest into public space and how they shape the physical face of the city, whether through permanent objects, temporary artistic interventions, outdoor galleries, or sculptural festivals,” describes the exhibition one of its curators, architectural theorist Petr Kratochvíl.
Director Jan Strejcovský filmed the documentary Out of the Gallery! for the exhibition, in which he, as he says, “ventured into the open air, exploring the boundaries of space, the public, and art with artists, curators, historians, and passersby.” This documentary (with English subtitles) will be screened on August 4 at 18:00 at the Ponrepo Cinema, followed by a discussion with the director. At 19:00, the book launch will take place at the Jaroslav Fragner Gallery, with contributions from editors as well as Ludvík Hlaváček, Denisa Václavová, Radoslava Schmelzová, Marie Foltýnová, Radek Horáček, and Tomáš Knoflíček.
The richly illustrated Czech-English publication, in addition to its selected catalog of over 60 works, festivals, and performances since 1989, presents selected artworks or happenings from the 1960s to the end of the 1980s (i.e., art out of galleries), but also contains essays focused on various aspects of art in public space (role of art in public space, official and unofficial scenes, temporary architectural interventions, artistic interventions as dramatization of place, art in the landscape, financial support, etc.) or insights into the history and current situation in Prague, Brno, Liberec, and Ostrava.
The exhibition and accompanying catalog were prepared by Dan Merta, director of the Jaroslav Fragner Gallery, which has long been dedicated to the topic of public space, for example, through a decade-long organization of the Landscape Festival or holding exhibitions on this topic in collaboration with Petr Kratochvíl from the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (co-author of the exhibition and publication Public Space CZ at GJF 2017, author of the book Urban Public Space), and sculptor Petra Vlachynská, who, along with Jan Stolín, leads a studio in the Department of Art at FUA TU in Liberec and focuses on art in public space.
Organizers /
Jaroslav Fragner Gallery
Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Faculty of Arts and Architecture, Technical University of Liberec
Curators /
Petr Kratochvíl, Dan Merta, Petra Vlachynská
Exhibitors /
Matěj Al-Ali, Ateliér SAD, Tomáš Beneš, David Böhm, Eugen Brikcius, Ondřej Císler, Lubomír Čermák, David Černý, Jiří David, Federico Díaz, Lea Dostálová, Petr Dub, ellement architects, Epos 257, Václav Fiala, Jiří Franta, Vojtěch Frölich, Vladislav Gajda, Kurt Gebauer, Guma Guar, Miloslav Sonny Halas, Radim Hanke, Stanislav Hanzík, Lucie Havlová, Jan Hladík, Lukáš Houdek, Dalibor Chatrný, Miloslav Chlupáč, Anna Chromy, Petr Janda, Magdalena Jetelová, Miroslav Jírava, Pavla Voborník Kačírková, Čestmír Kafka, Ivan Kafka, Petr Kameník, Marian Karel, Krištof Kintera, Ivo Klimeš, Lenka Klodová, Eva Kmentová, Milan Knížák, Josef Kocián, Ivar Kodym, Marius Kotrba, Jiří Kovanda, Aleš Kubalík, Kuba & Pilař architects, Dominik Lang, Milan Mikuláštík, David Moješčík, Tomáš Moravec, Jakub Našinec, Jan Nálepa, Jakub Nepraš, Karel Nepraš, Jiří Novák, Vratislav Karel Novák, Libor Novotný, Ivar Otruba, Petr Pištěk, Jiří Příhoda, Rafani, Karel Rechlík, Lukáš Rittstein, Jaroslav Róna, Štěpán Rubáš, Viktor Rudiš, Oldřich Rujbr, Tomáš and Ivan Ruller, Zorka Ságlová, Veronika Sávová, Pavla Sceranková, David Sivý, Skupina Ládví, Colina Spofforth, Jan and Petr Stolín, Zdeněk Sýkora, Kateřina Šedá, Miloš Šejn, Jan Šépka, Ivana Šrámková, Šrámková architects, Dagmar Šubrtová, Benedikt Tolar, Vladimír Turner, Jiří Valoch, Petr Váňa, Maxim Velčovský, Margita Titlová-Ylovsky, Aleš Veselý, Dušan Záhoranský, Olbram Zoubek, Václav Zůna, Ztohoven; Artwall Gallery, Brno Art Open, Kukačka Festival, Malamut Performance Festival, m3 – Art in Space Festival, Naked Forms Festival, Landscape Festival, Signal Festival, 4+4 Days in Motion
August 4, 2022 /
18:00 Cinema Ponrepo / Bartolomějská 291/11
Presentation of the documentary with the participation of director Jan Strejcovský
26 minutes, English subtitles
19:00 Jaroslav Fragner Gallery / Betlémské nám. 5a
Book launch, guided tour of the exhibition
The exhibition is held under the auspices of the Minister for European Affairs, Doc. PhDr. Mikuláš Bek, Ph.D.
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