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Jiřina Hankeová – Nonverbal Communication
25. 06. 2023 — 10. 09. 2023

Jiřina Hankeová – Nonverbal Communication

Photographer Jiřina Hankeová (*1948) lives and works in Kladno. Her work is based on a contemplative observation of the world around her and within her. She incorporates details and sections of reality observed this way into thematic series of interlinked compositions whose sensitive precision and symbolic transcendence bring to mind the words of the Jesuit mathematician and poet Tommaso Ceva: ‘Poetry is a dream dreamed in the presence of reason.’

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Uncensored – Polish independent art of the 1980s
28. 05. 2023 — 17. 09. 2023

Uncensored – Polish independent art of the 1980s

Uncensored is a unique exhibition providing an overview of independent Polish art of the 1980s. It presents the Polish equivalent of the post-1968 Czech unofficial art scene, which in Poland responded to the reality of Solidarity and the state of martial law proclaimed in 1981. Though deeply rooted in a historical context, this socially engaged art also has topical relevance to the present day. The Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region will be showing around 130 works (paintings, sculptures, installations, posters, photographs and films) by 60 artists who, out of protest against martial law, boycotted the cultural policies of the Communist functionaries of the Polish People’s Republic. The exhibition is being staged in collaboration between the Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region, Ujazdowski Castle – Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and the Polish Institute in Prague.

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Jiří Surůvka – Architects of war
02. 04. 2023 — 17. 09. 2023

Jiří Surůvka – Architects of war

Architects of War presents the work of the Ostrava artist, performer, photographer, curator and university teacher Jiří Surůvka, who is also a co-founder of the ‘Předkapela Lozinski’ (Opening Band Lozinski) performance group, the ‘Přirození’ (The Natural Ones, 1988–1992) art group and the ‘Návrat mistrů zábavy’ (Return of the Masters of Entertainment) cabaret. The gallery’s Printmaking Crossovers exhibition space will show not only Surůvka’s prints but also his paintings and object art. Working with his typical sense for sarcasm and hyperbole, Surůvka creates works critiquing society. His main targets are people’s narrow-mindedness and limitations in relation to ideology and political propaganda. The artist will present several performances as part of the exhibition.

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Kateřina Štenclová – On the Surface of Time
02. 04. 2023 — 17. 09. 2023

Kateřina Štenclová – On the Surface of Time

Colour plays the main role in the work of painter Kateřina Štenclová, who uses colour in an abstract form to express her relationship to space. Štenclová has long been interested in so-called ‘spatial painting’, which she explores in her art and in the use of painting in site-specific installations made with plastic bags that capture the immediate creative process. The selection of recent works, combined with in situ installations transforms Café Fatal into a uniform visual whole.

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LLEV – NATURALLISM
26. 03. 2023 — 20. 08. 2023

LLEV – NATURALLISM

The term NATURALLISM encompasses the creative processes and methods used by the LLEV studio, comprising creative and life partners Eva Mochalová and Marcel Mochal. This designer couple experiments with the development of new materials, which they then apply to their unique collections. The exhibition at the gallery’s Whitebox reflects their typical site-specific approach, which is defined by the architecture of the exhibition space. The exhibited products made of mycelium, glass, paper, wood and metal are presented in the form of a still life – i.e., a primary painting genre. But there are also other layers of meaning that reveal themselves.

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Vojtěch Trocha and Vojtěch Hrubant – ZKUSMOS
26. 03. 2023 — 20. 08. 2023

Vojtěch Trocha and Vojtěch Hrubant – ZKUSMOS

The name of the exhibition, ZKUSMOS, is an original neologism invented to describe the working approach applied by the artistic duo and friends from Prague’s Academy of Fine Arts Vojtěch Trocha and Vojtěch Hrubant. Although at first glance Trocha’s art differs from Hrubant’s and vice versa, both artists produce works of an experimental nature that share a love for craftsmanship and an interest in history. Another important bond is their sense for humour and hyperbole, which permeates works made from a wide variety of often unusual materials. Each working in his own way, they seek and discover, explore, experiment, and arrange bits and pieces to create their own particular ZKUSMOS.

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The Expansion of Silence – Olaf Hanel
12. 03. 2023 — 11. 06. 2023

The Expansion of Silence – Olaf Hanel

The small exhibition and accompanying symposium, which will take place at GASK on Saturday 11th March with the participation of the artist’s contemporary and close collaborator Eugen Brikcius, will present Olaf Hanel as an artist and curator in the context of both totalitarian oppression and renewed democracy after 1989. The project is taking place to mark what would have been Olaf Hanel’s 80th birthday.

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Květa and Jitka Válovy – A Path Destined by Fate
06. 11. 2022 — 10. 04. 2023

Květa and Jitka Válovy – A Path Destined by Fate

The exhibition A Path Destined by Fate will present the life’s work of twin sisters Květa and Jitka Válová, two outstanding figures of Czech modern art, on the centenary of their birth. Selected works from the Válová sisters’ estate that was donated to the GASK collection in 2021 will form a key feature of the exhibition, which is conceived as a symbolic ‘pilgrimage’ divided into twelve thematic areas (reality, parallel lives, slaughter, struggle, burden, confinement, journey, conversation, touch, reconciliation, harmony, transformation). Following this ‘pilgrimage’, viewers can experience the Válová sisters’ profound testimony to both the drama and intimacy of human existence expressed in monumental canvases as well as in close-up drawings, sketches and prints.

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Šárka Trčková – Secrets
06. 11. 2022 — 12. 03. 2023

Šárka Trčková – Secrets

Šárka Trčková’s exhibition Secrets presents the artist’s delicate and immediate watercolours, small-format paintings and large-scale prints reflecting her obsession with work, her elemental relationship to colour and her mastery of a broad range of artistic techniques. Many of her works are records of the simple observation of everyday situations, captured with an uncommon sensitivity and passion, seriously but also with a sense for playfulness and detail. The silence of childlike wonder, the dynamic movement of playing tag, concentration, encounter and conspiracy, but also fear and worries. Trčková’s seemingly simple yet monumental compositions are a personal and unsentimental testament to the role of mystery and the ability to see miracles in everyday life.

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Robert V. Novák – Collector
23. 10. 2022 — 26. 02. 2023

Robert V. Novák – Collector

When and why does a person become a collector, and what can be called a collection? What relationship to the artefacts in a collection does the flow of time and personal memory have? Do the nature and choice of material reflect the person and the interests of the collector? How is the status of junk changed if it becomes an object of collecting interest or a part of the creative process? These and many other questions are raised by our exhibition of work by the artist, graphic designer, photographer and collector Robert V. Novák.

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Libor Lípa – Ordinary Things
23. 10. 2022 — 12. 03. 2023

Libor Lípa – Ordinary Things

In the gallery’s exhibition space next to its café, Libor Lípa (12 September 1963, Valtice), painter, designer, printmaker, musician and founder of the Mikulov Art Symposium, presents a series of his latest large-format paintings of soup bowls created specially for GASK. These paintings are accompanied by other images, all of which the artist has summed up with the title Ordinary Things.

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