Prague, 19 October 2023 – 21 January 2024, https://www.galerierudolfinum.cz The spacious and beautiful halls of Rudolfinum Gallery were adorned with a small number of large artworks, giving each individual work space to breathe. This was about minimalism and its heritage, but it was also about the effects that objects have on a space. Where is…
Prague, January 21 – August 8, 2021, https://www.galerierudolfinum.cz/en/ A video art exhibition organized around a theme that was not completely clear to me. “Compassion Fatigue” was still a term I understood. It means being tired of feeling empathy for others, a term firstly applied to those whose job is to do so, but indirectly applying…
(10/3/2013 – 1/5/2014) Alsovo Nabrezi 12, Prague 1, http://www.galerierudolfinum.cz Rudolfinum Gallery is a large art space located in a beautiful historical building (something one would call a “Kunsthalle” – a place for temporary exhibitions without own collections, state-funded). Rudolfinum is doing quite a good job over the years bringing over some big names in the…
Gallery Rudolfinum, Prague, May 7, 2009 – Aug 16, 2009 The show displays recent works of four middle-aged artists, three painters and one sculptor. “What all of the artists have in common is a firm basis of deeply understood and mainly experienced history of European culture and the artistic legacy with which they work.” –…
Gallery Rudolfinum, Prague, Sept 25, 2008 – Nov 28, 2008 The Chinese painting display in Rudolfinum was rather a disappointment. I want to stress that I mean the display. The featured superstar-artists names gave on show what you expected: Zhang Xiaogang’s existential portraits of individuals and families, drawing from recent Chinese historical experience, surrounded by…