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Svatopluk Slovenčík – Field of Presence
13. 10. 2024 — 02. 03. 2025

Svatopluk Slovenčík – Field of Presence

Although a recognised figure of Zlín’s cultural identity, Svatopluk Slovenčík and his artistic legacy have remained relatively marginal within the broader perception of Czech art of the last decades. Marking the ninetieth anniversary of Slovenčík’s birth and the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death, the exhibition Field of Presence and the new monograph The Silence of the Studio aim to rectify this situation. The exhibition at GASK places special emphasis on Slovenčík’s work on paper (drawings, collages) that most clearly manifest the ‘source trinity’ of his artistic idiom: space, rhythm and shape.

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Watch Out, He’s Here… Vratislav Nechleba (1885–1965) A Verist Ensnared by Modernism
13. 10. 2024 — 02. 03. 2025

Watch Out, He’s Here… Vratislav Nechleba (1885–1965) A Verist Ensnared by Modernism

The painter Vratislav Nechleba (1885–1965) lives on in the Czech cultural consciousness mainly thanks to the short stories of Ota Pavel – specifically the legendary character of the temperamental portrait painter Nejezchleb. Unlike the First Republic portraitist, however, his work is essentially unknown in professional circles or by the public. Although he spent four decades teaching at Prague’s Academy of Fine Arts and served several terms as the school’s rector, he spent his entire life as an artistic outsider who pointedly kept a distance from his progressively oriented generational peers and their endeavours at developing a modern form of expression. His works relating to the era’s social elites were admired for their consummate technique and draughtsmanship, as well as for their masterful execution, naturalism and sense of detail.

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PRASKLO – Beyond Time
22. 09. 2024 — 02. 02. 2025

PRASKLO – Beyond Time

Beyond Time is presented in the form of a down-to-earth site-specific installation inspired not just by nature but also by brutalist architecture. Some of the vases are founded on the beauty of minimalism, but mostly they are dominated by deliberately imperfect or organic forms, in reference to the primitive origins of stone.

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Kryštof Netolický – Basic Education
22. 09. 2024 — 02. 02. 2025

Kryštof Netolický – Basic Education

is a representative of Brno’s young art scene. His long-term projects include a series of murals, paintings and drawings depicting scenes from a crazy world full of various beings and animals. GASK presents his painted work, which draws on graffiti and comic book art.

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TEREZA BRICHTOVÁ – TEREZA A GIARDINO
08. 09. 2024 — 16. 02. 2025

TEREZA BRICHTOVÁ – TEREZA A GIARDINO

The exhibition Tereza and the Giardino presents paintings by Mikulov native Tereza Brichtová (1978), a graduate of professor Adéla Matasová’s Studio of Conceptual and Intermedia Tendencies at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. The exhibited large-format watercolours were made as part of a nine-month conceptual project during which Brichtová created an entirely new garden in order to reflect various aspects of utility, durability and beauty.

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Marta Morice – The Man in the Background 2012–2015
08. 09. 2024 — 12. 01. 2025

Marta Morice – The Man in the Background 2012–2015

The exhibition The Man in the Background 2012-2015 will present the interrelated comic and free works of the Czech-French painter Marta Morice. The viewer is thus confronted with two seemingly unrelated artistic approaches, which are in fact evidence of a subconscious intermingling and interference.

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DISEGNO INTERNO – EVA ŠVANKMAJEROVÁ / JAN ŠVANKMAJER
02. 03. 2024 — 04. 08. 2024

DISEGNO INTERNO – EVA ŠVANKMAJEROVÁ / JAN ŠVANKMAJER

Held in the year of Jan Švankmajer’s 90th birthday, the exhibition covers all the areas in which this internationally acclaimed Surrealist has worked (collage, printmaking, objects and sculpture, book illustration, automatic drawing, tactile experiments, collecting and, of course, film). The exhibition’s central theme is the concept of disegno interno or ‘inner ordering’, in other words how the artist sees the essence of a given subject in their mind’s eye. In Švankmajer’s work, this notion links Rudolphine Mannerism with Surrealism’s ‘inner model’. A presentation of paintings by Švankmajer’s wife Eva Švankmajerová (1940–2005), which continues to engage in an original dialogue with his own work, will form an important part of the exhibition. The diverse programme of events accompanying the exhibition will focus on a variety of themes that Švankmajer’s unique imagination has explored over the years.

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Martina Skala – Voyage
18. 02. 2024 — 18. 08. 2024

Martina Skala – Voyage

Martina Skala is known in the Czech Republic primarily as an author and illustrator of children’s books. The exhibition presents her original drawings for children’s books along with some of her fine art works, all of which explore her travels to different cultural realms, from Prague’s Lesser Town all the way to Native American villages.

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Vratislav Karel Novák – Still Moving
18. 02. 2024 — 08. 09. 2024

Vratislav Karel Novák – Still Moving

Vratislav Karel Novák (1942-2014) was a sculptor, designer of original jewellery and a teacher. His work defies clear categorisation; it transcends the boundaries of individual disciplines and thus represents a wholly unique phenomenon in Czech art since the late 1960s. In Novák’s work, the geometric rationality of Constructivism is juxtaposed and intermingled with subversive irony; likewise, the hardness and sharpness of metal and glass is contrasted with the vulnerable sensuality of the human body.

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JIŘÍ STRAKA – SILENCE
04. 02. 2024 — 18. 08. 2024

JIŘÍ STRAKA – SILENCE

In his art, Jiří Straka, a performer, sinologist and painter inspired by calligraphy, focuses on the clash of cultures, specifically the spread of Catholicism into foreign environments such as China and Japan in the 17th century. He does so while drawing on his academic studies and personal experience, having lived long-term in Beijing. In combination with these ideas, his exhibition Silence, fittingly installed in the Baroque spaces of the former Jesuit College, focuses on today’s pressing issues connected with the ideology of globalism. The exhibited paintings don’t provide any universal answers or solutions; instead, they sensitively encourage us to think and ask new questions.

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ABOUT YOU / Young Women Painters and Sculptors
04. 02. 2024 — 18. 08. 2024

ABOUT YOU / Young Women Painters and Sculptors

This exhibition presents a curated selection of works by the youngest women painters and sculptors, with a focus on the figure and figuration. Its central motif is the presence of a strong generational statement and a reassessment of the media of painting and sculpture in the post-information age, when works have naturally come to integrate the influence of social networks in particular.

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