Art news from ‘Czech Republic’

Futura, Prague: PAWEL DZIEMIAN : STUDIO ‘LÍTOST’ VOL.2

PAWEL DZIEMIAN : STUDIO ‘LÍTOST’ VOL.2 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28TH 2012 FROM 6PM TILL 9PM FREE ENTRANCE From beginning of January until end of March 2012, FUTURA Center for Contemporary Art is hosting Pawel Dziemian (PL, 1983) in the frame of A.I.R. FUTURA : artists in residency program in Prague. On Wednesday, 28th of March 2012, [...]

Galerie Rudolfinum-Bernd & Hilla Becher: Coal Mines. Steel Mills.

Bernd & Hilla Becher: Coal Mines. Steel Mills. 22. 3. 2012 – 3. 6. 2012 large hall Curator: Petr Nedoma The Bernd and Hilla Becher exhibition presents a unique collection of 95 black and white photographs of industrial landscapes. The Exhibition is organised in co-operation with Josef Albers Museum, Quadrat Bottrop. These important representatives of [...]

DOX, Prague: Light Sculptures

Light Sculptures: Czech table lamps 1950-1990 8. 3. – 26. 4. 2012 The creative collective of OKOLO presents the “Light Sculptures, Czech Lights 1950-1990” exhibition which comprises a curatorial selection of several table lamps made in 1950-1990 in former Czechoslovakia, or in the territory of the present-day Czech Republic. The exhibition is not a retrospective [...]

DOX, Prague: Confrontations – Close Encounters of Different Kind

Confrontations – Close Encounters of Different Kind 1. 3. – 31. 3. 2012 An art project in public space, DBK Budějovická,  Prague 4, 1 – 31.3. 2012 The exhibition consists of 36 panels that present pairs of documentary images, most often pictures found in the Czech Press Agency Image Bank (Fotobanka ČTK) or in newspapers [...]

DOX, Prague: Anastomosis

Anastomosis 1. 2. – 26. 3. 2012 In terms of its evolution, today’s Central European city is frozen in time. Its urban structure and infrastructure is rigidly defined. As a result, it responds all the more painfully to new challenges and demands. The Anastomosis project presents 65 architectural designs for regenerating the urban structure in [...]

GALLERY 1+(1+1)+1, Prague

GALLERY 1+(1+1)+1  Antoinette Nausikaa, Marika Asatiani, Nikola Čulík, Tibor Zsolt Opening: March 8th 2012 at 6 pm Curator: Karina Kottová Duration: 8. 3. – 18. 5. 2012 A Dutch artist Antoinette Nausikaa, who took part in the MeetFactory residency program in winter 2011, presents the work she has developed during her stay in Prague. The [...]

Galerie Jeleni: Jan Turner: Nýt

Jeleni Gallery, Prague 6.3. – 22.3.2012 Opening: Monday, March 5, 2012, 18:00 

Galerie Laboratorio, Prague: Beyond the Polyhedric Mirror

T o m á š  J e t e l a B e y o n d  t h e  P o l y h e d r i c  M i r r o r 8/3 – 20/4/2012 Painter Tomáš Jetela /1986/ presents his new series of paintings and collages at Galerie Laboratorio under [...]

Etc. Gallery, Prague: Compromise in Czech architecture

16/2/2012, 6 pm, Michaela Janečková / Barbora Klímová: Compromise in Czech Architecture in the 1970s and 1980s. Life under the so-called Normalization could be described by compromise and frustration resulting from unfulfilled expectations. The artist Barbora Klímová focuses on paradoxes present in building family housing projects during the era that has idolized collective living. The [...]

DOX, Prague: Middle East Europe

Middle East Europe 26/1/2012–20/4/2012 Today’s media reality is characterised by easy access to images depicting wars and ethnic conflicts taking place all around the world. A good example of this phenomenon is film shots from Israel and the Occupied Territories, which are familiar to most people from the ‘West’, despite the fact that they have [...]

Center for contemporary art FUTURA, Prague: CARE CRISIS

CARE CRISIS Opening: March 9th, 6pm                                                             The exhibition runs until May 27th, 2012 Participating artists: MIEKE BAL (NL), URSULA BIEMANN (CH), MARÍA GALINDO (BO), GABRIELA GOLDER (AR), ELŻBIETA JABŁOŃSKA (PL), GÜLSÜN KARAMUSTAFA (TR), ANDREJA KULUNČIĆ (HR), MAU MONLEÓN (ES), DANIELA ORTIZ (PE), LARISA SITAR (RO), ANNETA MONA CHISA & LUCIA TKÁČOVÁ (RO/SK) & SOCIOLOGISTS: [...]

Entrance Gallery, Prague: SUBMITTING

LADISLAV VONDRÁK / SUBMITTING ENTRANCE gallery invites you to the exhibition SUBMITTING Exhibition: 21. 02. – 18. 03. 2012 Open hours: wed – sun 12 – 6 pm Many have submitted to us. Heroes, artists, scientists, soldiers. Havel has submitted, too. We have submitted ourselves in our dwellings, relationships. We have submitted our homework. Text: [...]

Moravian Gallery in Brno: L’étude d’après nature

L'étude d'après nature 19th Century Photography and Art 24/2/2012 – 20/5/2012 Curator: Petra Trnková Building: Pražák Palace Date of exhibition opening: 23/2/2012, 17:00 Although the relationship to fine arts in the 19th century is a most remarkable area in the history of photography, the local artistic output which contributed to the forming of the relationship [...]

K4 Gallery, Prague: CO?

28/ 2 – 23/ 3/ 2012 CO? Lucie Linhová, Martin Krupa, Kateřina Samková, Martina Štochlová, Jiří Tajer, Kristýna Vraná, Tereza Valášková Galerie K4 The group „CO?“ is based on friendship of the members, who are not connected by a manifesto or collective artistic language, but by the need of communication and mutual reflection. The group [...]

Karlin Studios, Prague: SCLERA

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SCLERA VLADIMÍR HOUDEK & SLÁVA SOBOTOVIČOVÁ OPENING: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20TH 2012 FROM 6PM THE EXHIBITION WILL BE OPEN UNTIL: MARCH 18TH 2012 We are not the first, nor the last to try. Let the stories unroll.Keep a little space, not entirely empty. Stand back, do not resign. Do not supress the figures, let them. Our [...]

Petr Novotný Gallery, Prague: Don’t panic!

Ivan Vosecký Don't panic! 15. 02. – 22. 03. 2012

Galerie Jelení, Prague: Tumma

tumma Stanislava Karbušická 14/ 2 – 1/ 3/ 2012 Galerie Jelení Drtinova 15 150 00 Praha 5 Gallery hours: TUE – THU 3 – 6 PM www.galeriejeleni.cz

City Gallery of Prague: E. L. F.

Michal Nesázal, Love Potion, 2009 10/ 2 – 22/ 4/ 2012 Michal Nesázal / E. L. F. City Gallery of Prague Old Town Hall, 2 floor An exhibition offering a view of a fictional world disguised behind the initials E. L. F. . The show´s concept oscillates on the edge of reality and illusion. Michal [...]

Galerie 35m2, Prague: BACKSIDES

Dominik Gajarský BACKSIDES 10/ 2/ – 11/ 3/ 2012 Opening on Thursday 9/2 from 19 h Galerie 35m2 Víta Nejedlého 23 Praha 3 – Žižkov Mo–Fr 10–19 Sat–Sun 12–19 http://35m2.cz

City Gallery of Prague: Village

Petra Římalová / Village City Gallery of Prague House of the Golden Ring 9/ 2/ – 11/ 3/ 2012 Curator: Olga Malá opening wednesday 8/ 2/ 2012, 18.00 h — 19.30 h As part of the series of exhibitions focused on the output of young artists, Petra Římalová, freshly graduated from the Academy of Fine [...]