GASK presents Marcela Vichrová’s I’ve Gone to Visit the Butcher

The Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region in Kutná Hora presents I’ve Gone to Visit the Butcher, a new exhibition by Marcela Vichrová. The exhibited paintings and drawings draw on everyday life, personal memory and the artists’s relationship to family and the landscape. The exhibition opening was held on 28 February 2026.

Marcela Vichrová: I’ve Gone to Visit the Butcher

Café Fatal | 1 March – 31 May 2026

Curator: Mgr. Vanda Skálová

In her work, Marcela Vichrová has long explored the folk art and spiritual and artistic traditions of the original cultures of Australia, Africa and the Americas, which have been a source of inspiration for her since her student days. She is also drawn to the works of untrained artists, and over the past several decades she has created a whole series of works inspired by the childlike drawings of her sons. As a result, and despite her academic training, her works have much in common with some examples of art brut. ‘For Marcela Vichrová, a basic and dominant element in the painting is the line. In the alternation of bright colours, her curves repeat and return, one following another. The structures that emerge resemble embroidery, layers of quartz in agate, print matrices or maps’, says exhibition curator VandaSkálová.

Illustrations form an entirely separate chapter in her work. ‘Here, colours tend to recede into the background, although the dominant line remains’, adds Skálová. Besides the children’s stories and tales of Josef Krešnicka, whose writings are associated with the Podlesí region, she has also illustrated the short stories of Leonid Andreyev and the prose writings of Vratislav Brabenec, among others.

The exhibition at GASK’s Café Fatal takes a concentrated look at Vichrová’s most recent work in the form of large-format paintings as well as more intimate drawings on paper. The exhibitio runs until the end of May.

Fore more on the exhibition, see HERE.