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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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Stanislav Podhrázský and friends
22. 10. 2023 — 04. 02. 2024

Stanislav Podhrázský and friends

In 2020, the centenary of the birth of one of the most distinctive Czech artists of the post-war generation, Stanislav Podhrázský (1920–1999), passed almost unnoticed – in part because of the limitations on cultural life resulting from the anti-Covid measures. According to Marie Klimešová, Podhrázský is one of just a few Czech artists who – had it not been for Communism – would undoubtedly have achieved European fame thanks to the unique and timeless nature of their work. His unusual lyrical form characterised by a distinctive sense of unease combines artistic trends of that period such as Surrealism, abstraction and New Figuration, while at the same time its spontaneous expression preserves Podhrázský’s characteristic personality.

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František Kupka – Biblioman
08. 10. 2023 — 14. 01. 2024

František Kupka – Biblioman

The title of the exhibition Biblioman (Bookworm) is a reference not only to František Kupka’s (1871–1957) eponymous crypto-self-portrait from the year 1897, but also to his lifelong searching and tireless and systematic study of science and the humanities, which influenced his progressive views of painting and his informed approach to illustrating historical texts. Kupka’s illustrations from the first half of the twentieth century and their place within the oeuvre of this ‘pioneer of abstraction’ form the main focus of this exhibition, which also presents an extensive set of fine press editions from the GASK collections within the context of works influenced by the classical tendencies found in his work in the first decade of the twentieth century.

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Threads of Resistance – Rufina Bazlova
08. 10. 2023 — 21. 01. 2024

Threads of Resistance – Rufina Bazlova

Rufina Bazlova (born in Hrodna, Belarus) is an artist, illustrator, and stage designer. She graduated from the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen and Alternative and Puppet Theater at the Theater Department of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. She has been active in the Czech art scene for over a decade. She uses the traditional craft technique of embroidery, which she doesn’t employ decoratively, but as a medium of ironic expression in protesting against totalitarian power represented primarily by the ‘last European dictator’ Alexander Lukashenko. Currently, Rufina Bazlova is working on a social art project dedicated to political prisoners in Belarus called #FramedinBelarus. This project will be the focus of Bazlova’s exhibition at GASK, which she conceived in collaboration with curator Sofia Tocar.

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Santini through the Lens of Vladimír Uher
01. 10. 2023 — 14. 01. 2024

Santini through the Lens of Vladimír Uher

No publication on Baroque architecture in the Czech lands would be complete without the photographs of Vladimír Uher (1925–2016). Uher inherited his love for photography and a close relationship to nature and music from his father. Although his hopes and dreams for the future were initially tied to music, after the war his professional life would revolve around photography.

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Jaroslav Prokeš and Petra Vlachynská – Disposition
10. 09. 2023 — 14. 01. 2024

Jaroslav Prokeš and Petra Vlachynská – Disposition

Petra Vlachynská and Jaroslav Prokes’s joint exhibition project with the simple yet ambiguous title DISPOSITION works consequently with the specific layout of the ground floor spaces in the north wing of the Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region. Through the use of elementary forms, both installations respond to the spatial axes of the former Jesuit College. Petra Vlachynská works with a horizontal view down the north wing’s main corridor, while Jaroslav Prokeš responds to the glass areas to the left of the main entrance from Smíškova Street (Projectroom). In their work, both artists have taken into account the building’s cultural and spiritual history. Quietly and contemplatively, yet also sculpturally and as installations, their works emphatically transform the space and how it is perceived. Their works speak in a language of elemental forms, symbolic intersections and archetypes. A shared theme, one that adds an additional layer of meaning, relates to the phenomenon of attention and the possibilities of perception.

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Markéta Váradiová – DAILY DREAMING
10. 09. 2023 — 14. 01. 2024

Markéta Váradiová – DAILY DREAMING

Sculptor and multimedia artist Markéta Váradiová (born 1973) creates objects and installations in which she uses physical phenomena to produce a specific visuality that stimulates the viewer’s imagination and uncovers hidden layers of a space or place. For GASK’s Experimental Space, she has put together two unrelated installations whose common denominator is the concept of ambivalence: an ambiguous interpretation of the primary visual situation and its shifting meaning – a single theme explored in two places and in two different ways.

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František Štorm – Maldorör Disco
27. 08. 2023 — 28. 01. 2024

František Štorm – Maldorör Disco

Název nejnovějšího projektu typografa, malíře, grafika, zakladatele legendární Střešovické písmolijny, ale i hudebníka a textaře v jedné osobě Františka Štorma Maldorör Disco spojuje zdánlivě nespojitelné – zcela v duchu příslovečného „náhodného setkání šicího stroje a deštníku na pitevním stole“. Autor dovolí návštěvníkům nahlédnout do svého ateliéru, kde práce kvasí zároveň na několika frontách – paralelně s hudebními experimenty, společnými zkouškami a demonahrávkami vzniká série divoce barevných psychedelických maleb, které tvoří podklad pro Štormovu grafiku s výrazným podílem autorského písma.

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