Prague, February 1 – March 7, 2017, http://www.dscgallery.com Entering Viktor Freso’s show felt not like being in Prague, but rather at some international art fair location, somewhere, someplace on the annual trajectory followed by the nomadic art crowd of gallerists, dealers, curators and collectors. The sculptures were large, bright and assertive, pointing to a capital-intensive…
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Dancing House Gallery: Jan Kaplicky “JKOK”
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Prague, November 8, 2016 – March 12, 2017, https://www.galerietancicidum.cz/ Jan Kaplicky is a Czech emigree architect and designer who spent most of his life in the UK. He is mostly known for buildings that he did not build, and a retrospective showcase of these comprised the core of the exhibition. In the latter part of…
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Trafo Gallery: Mark Ther “Zeichnungen 1928-“
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Prague, December 7 – January 15, 2016, http://trafogallery.cz Trafo Gallery is located within a warehouse and street market district (Holesovicka trznice). The way there leads past street stalls selling cheap clothes, food and other daily necessities. Mark Ther is a well-known face of the Czech art scene. A few years ago he has been awarded…
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Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague (upm): “Czech Cubism”
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Ferdinand Baumann Gallery: Martin Lukac & Martin Groch “Prima Tunes”
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Prague, December 14, 2015 – ?, http://fbgallery.cz The exhibition combines sculptural elements and graphic design: Two fans animate some dry cut straws enclosed in the large display of the gallery, creating a permanently mutating configuration of parts. The front glass is covered by a black flat shape, reminiscent of a drapery of a baroque sculpture.…
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DOX Centre for Contemporary Art: Marek Schovanek “Propaganda”
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Prague, October 30, 2015 – January 11, 2016, http://www.dox.cz The exhibition statement introduced Marek Schovanek as “the best unknown artist in the world”. The word “best” is of course very elusive and subjective, but maybe it was used to elucidate Schovanek’ attempts to cover a range so vast that the endeavor proved superhuman, and thus…
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DOX Centre for Contemporary Art: “Brave New World”
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Prague, September 11, 2015 – January 25, 2016, http://www.dox.cz Artists: Barbora Balkova (CZ), Zarko Baseski (MKD), Denis Beaubois (AUS), William Betts (USA), Hans Jürgen-Burkard (GER), Bureau d’Etudes (FR), Michal Cimala (CZ), Paolo Cirio & Alessandro Ludovico (USA/IT), Sylvie Fleury (CHE), Farma v jeskyni / Farm in the Cave (CZ), Jason Florio (UK), Douglas Gordon (UK),…
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GHMP: Milan Grygar “Visual and Acoustic”
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Center for Contemporary Art Futura: Jan Pfeiffer “Hidden Power”
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Center for Contemporary Art Futura: COMET
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Prague, October 1, 2014 – January 4, 2015, http://www.futuraproject.cz, exhibition press release: cz / en Artists: Zbyněk Baladrán, Václav Girsa, Isabela Grosseová, Dominik Hejtmánek, Nikola Ivanov, Stanislav Karoli, Barbora Kleinhamplová, Jan Kolský, Pavel Sterec, Vojtěch Rada, Rafani, Sláva Sobotovičová, Jan Šerých, Lenka Vítková, Junsheng Zhou; Curator: Edith Jeřábková