08.03.2008 - 01.06.2008




Curators Edith Jeřábková and Jiří Kovanda have created an exhibit which cannot be categorised into any typical genre. Although it will include the broadest possible range of works by Jiří Kovanda held by public and private Czech collections, and will include all areas of his work (drawings, collages, paintings, objects, installations, interventions, actions, performance) from the 1970s to today, it is not a classic retrospective. The exhibit's objective is to provide an "uncritical" view of his work and to allow for deeper contexts between the individual works of art and time periods to emerge on their own. In the end, the primary intention of this exhibit of exhibits by Jiří Kovanda finds full expression not in the exposition itself but in the accompanying catalogue, which also offers various texts on and viewpoints of Kovanda's work by Czech and foreign scholars, curators, gallery owners and artists. Another aspect of the exhibit is the artist's own curatorial input. With the aim of creating an "intervention" into his exhibit, Jiří Kovanda addressed several female artists to whom he feels a personal and professional affinity: Silvina Arismendi, Nina Beier and Marie Lund, Sylva Brodiová, Veronika Dolanská, Ladislava Gažiová, Eva Humlová, Alena Kotzmannová, Eva Koťátková, Denisa Lehocká, Jitka Mikulicová, Barbora Motlová, Markéta Othová, Adéla Svobodová and Toyen.


Jiří Kovanda (1953) is one of the most important representatives of contemporary Czech art. His works have appeared at some of the world's most prestigious exhibits (recently, for instance, at London's Tate Gallery and at Dokumenta 12 in Kassel). In particular his actions from the 1970s have received international acclaim. Since 1995, he has been assistant professor at Vladimír Skrepl's studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague.

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