GASK presents the art of Veronika Bromová, Markéta Othová and Kateřina Vincourová

On 12 April, the Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region launched the highlight of its spring season, Horn of Cape. The exhibition brings together the work of three friends who in the 1990s introduced a new artistic position onto the Czech art scene that explored strong women’s themes and opened up Czech contemporary art to the world. All three artists have been finalists for the Jindřich Chalupecký Award, and in 1996 Kateřina Vincourová became its first ever female laureate. Markéta Othová won the award in 2002. Veronika Bromová’s multimedia installation Earthzoo, which is included in the exhibition at GASK, was shown at the Venice Biennale in 1999. Horn of Cape, which was created specifically for GASK’s main exhibition space, presents works from the 1990s alongside more recent creations while also juxtaposing the artists with one another with the goal of tracing their transformation during the digital age. Curated by Adriana Primusová (GASK) and Daniel Vojtěch, this largest joint exhibition by the three artists will celebrate its opening at 4pm on 12 April in the GASK refectory.

Horn of Cape brings together three artistic positions representing the first generation of distinctive female artists to emerge onto the Czech art scene in the 1990s with experiments involving new media, installation art and materials. In their work, they responded to the temptations as well as risks of the new reality. Through digital painting, performance, photographic picture poems, sculpture and spatial drawing, they developed three distinct forms of artistic sensitivity. In an environment of increasing social freedoms, these approaches reflected the fundamental transformation in our perception of the world, a perception that is increasingly shaped by digital technologies.

The metaphorical title Horn of Cape emerged during the mutual discussions that were a part of the dynamic creative process of preparing the exhibition and formulating its themes. According to Markéta Othová, this malapropism evokes the image of a wandering path, while for Veronika Bromová it is a game in which things are turned inside out, a play on the theme of worlds behind the curtain. For Kateřina Vincourová, Horn of Cape represents disinformation, a ‘bad code’ on a journey with an uncertain destination. And according to curator Adriana Primusová, ‘Horn of Cape is a journey of the imagination – dynamic, fragile and uncertain, with surprises and an open-ended destination.’

The exhibition at GASK opens with a ‘remake’ of Kateřina Vincourová’s View of Captain Nemo’s Chamber (1996/2025). Other featured works include Veronika Bromová’s multimedia installation Earthzoo (1996), which GASK acquired for its collections last year, and Markéta Othová’s series of nine large-scale black-and-white photographs titled Utopia (2000). In addition to the artists’ early works, the 700 m² exhibition presents several of their most recent works as well, some of which are being shown to the public for the first time ever.

The exhibition’s rich programme of accompanying events includes guided tours and art workshops led by the artists themselves. The closing ceremony will feature a discussion with the artists and curators on the main theme of the exhibition, meaning the transformation of the artistic imagination from the analogue era into today’s digital age. Children and youth aged 5 to 19 can look forward to summer art workshops organised by the GASK Learning Centre in association with the exhibition, and a comprehensive exhibition catalogue is in the works as well. A full list of accompanying events can be found below.