[vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text="8/2 - 21/4 2025" font_container="tag:h3|text_align:left" use_theme_fonts="yes"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text="Tomáš Rajlich – the Sculptor" use_theme_fonts="yes"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column][vc_column_text]While Tomas Rajlich is known today mainly as a minimalist painter, he originally studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. An exhibition at former stables of Museum Kampa in early 2025 will focus on Rajlich’s sculptural work from the 1960s. Three dozen of his metal and plastic sculptures and several early geometric drawings will be on display, all are works from before 1969, when he went into exile in the Netherlands. Tomas Rajlich, who will celebrate his 85th birthday during the exhibition, was, together with Jiří Hilmar, Radek Kratina and Arsén Pohribný, one of the founding members of the Concretists Club (Klub konkretistů) in 1967. In the Netherlands, he worked as a teacher at the Academy in the Hague and collaborated with the Yvon Lambert Gallery in Paris. He returned to the Czech Republic for good in 2010. A comprehensive retrospective of his paintings, in which his work gradually evolved from black geometric rasters to shimmering monochromes of pastel colours, took place at the Museum Kampa in 2017. Partners of the exhibition: [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column][vc_single_image image="8416" img_size="full" onclick="custom_link" img_link_target="_blank" link="http://www.lkpumpservice.cz/"][vc_single_image image="8860" img_size="full"][/vc_column][/vc_row]

9/12 2023 – 10/3 2024

10/2 – 1/4 2024

[vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column][vc_raw_html]JTVCem9icmF6X2RhdHVtX2tvbmFuaSU1RA==[/vc_raw_html][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text="Preparing for Darkness, Vol. 8" use_theme_fonts="yes"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column][vc_column_text]About the exhibition / curator’s statement It’s time for a divorce. A divorce from a type of contemporary art and especially painting that seems suspended in eternal post-modernity; one that, through a marked lack of artistic skill, can’t seem to reference anything but itself. This state of modern art can be experienced as a “pluriverse” of styles, citations, and allusions without a semblance of internal coherence.  With my exhibition series “Preparing for Darkness”, I would like to pose a counter concept. The 8th edition of the series takes place at Museum Kampa and presents 13 artists - mostly painters - who stand as examples of a generation marked by an exceptional intellectual approach to artistic practices. The resulting profound examination of art history, paired with extraordinary artistic skill, can be seen as veritable and imminent, as they each, through their own unique style, offer a real, pictorially comprehensible and perceptible dialogue between past art and their own inscribed emotional world. What unites them is a resurrection of melancholy, which returns to highlight the magical in a viewing experience. In that sense, my chosen metaphor “Preparing for Darkness'' is meant to describe both melancholy and the state of the world. Uwe Goldenstein Artists Nicola Samorì (I), Enrico Minguzzi (I), Flavia Pitis (RO), Radu Belcin (RO), Adela Janska (CZ), Richard Stipl (CZ), Daniel Pitín (CZ), Adam Magyar (H), Attila Szűcs (H), Inna Artemova (D), Adam Bota (A), Liu Langqing (CH) & Rafael Megall (ARM / in collaboration with Demetrio Paparoni) [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

[vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column][vc_raw_html]JTVCem9icmF6X2RhdHVtX2tvbmFuaSU1RA==[/vc_raw_html][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text="Jan MERTA - Petr VESELÝ" use_theme_fonts="yes"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Both Jan Merta and Petr Veselý are prominent artistic personalities belonging to the generation of artists who entered the art scene in the 1980s. Although they are almost the same age (Jan Merta was born in 1952, Petr Veselý in 1953), their professional careers have been quite different. After having graduated from the Prague Academy, Petr Veselý returned to his native Brno in the late 1970s, where he worked as a secondary school and university teacher at various art schools. Jan Merta did not graduate from the Academy until several years later. Since the 1990s, he has been heavily involved in gallery operations and his paintings have attracted the attention of foreign gallerists. While Petr Veselý tends towards maximum abstraction and simplicity, Jan Merta works with varied colours and develops a certain narrative in some of his paintings. Even in his themes, Merta may seem more ‘playful’ than Veselý, but this is far from setting the rule. Both artists also like to step outside the field of what one is expecting of them. To both of them, painting is, above all, an expression of something that cannot be communicated in any other way. In their understanding, a painting has meaning only when it cannot be retold, when every brushstroke has its own meaning and importance. Their joint exhibition does not aim at looking for external similarities in their canvases; rather, it seeks to draw attention to the internal affinity of their respective works. It is not about their sharing certain themes, but about their sharing the elementary approach to painting as a unique language of knowledge and naming the surrounding world. The selection of the exhibited paintings was guided by the leitmotif of home, with all its intimacy and spontaneity,

[vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column][vc_raw_html]JTVCem9icmF6X2RhdHVtX2tvbmFuaSU1RA==[/vc_raw_html][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text="Zdenka RUSOVÁ: Between the mysterious and the obvious" use_theme_fonts="yes"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Zdenka Rusová is a graphic artist, sketch artist, teacher, the first female professor of graphic art in Norway and first female rector of an art school in all of Scandinavia. Working in ink and pen drawing, as well as the graphic techniques of drypoint and etching, she has also tried other printing techniques and painting. In Norway, she sparked a great discussion about the possibilities of teaching, which led to the reform of the local art education. She was born in Prague on 21 July 1939. In a number of interviews, Rusová says she was born with Hitler and grew up with Stalin. She graduated from UMPRUM in the studio of Antonín Strnadel, specializing in book illustration. The first important exhibition of Zdenka Rusová’s work was organized by Jaromír Zemina in October 1966 at Galerie mladých. Her first exhibition at the Galerie mladých in 1966 was seen by Ole Henrik Moe, a Norwegian art critic and later director of the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in Høvikodden, who recommended the artist to obtain her first grant for a stay in Norway. She was enchanted by this northern country, with its rugged landscape and sea on the distant horizon, and in 1970 she returned there to settle permanently. In the interim period, she continued her education at the academy in Stuttgart. In Czechoslovakia, she made paintings of ambivalent female heads with mysterious smiles, and worked on print graphics revolving around circus motifs. In 1967, she created an extensive series of graphic prints featuring female heads in various in profile, some broken and others ‘unlaced’. Following this series, she drew heads without hair, and that appeared rather like lumps growing from the shoulders. In her Norwegian stage, she created abstracted paintings, adding

[vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text="The Goose in Kampa / the Collector Vladimír Železný" use_theme_fonts="yes"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column][vc_column_text]The somewhat cryptic title The Goose in Kampa heralds a representative exhibition of Vladimír Železný’s collection, in which visitors will encounter artworks by the most prominent personalities of Czech modern art. Displayed will be works by Jan Zrzavý, Emil Filla, Toyen, Jindřich Štyrský and Jiří (Georges) Kars. The post-war art will be represented by works by Květa Válová, Jan Koblasa, and especially Mikuláš Medek. The collection is curated by the Zlatá Husa Gallery, which celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary this year; thus the title of the exhibition refers to the name of the gallery. The works for the exhibition were personally selected by Vladimír Železný, a key figure in contemporary Czech art collecting. According to his own words, he wants to show the transformation of Czech art during one’s lifetime, from Merging of Souls by Max Švabinský from 1901 to the top informel canvases by Mikuláš Medek from the mid-1960s.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

10/10 – 19/11 2023

9/12 2023 – 10/3 2024

[vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column][vc_raw_html]JTVCem9icmF6X2RhdHVtX2tvbmFuaSU1RA==[/vc_raw_html][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text="KaŽDý MůŽE být umĚLCEm" use_theme_fonts="yes"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Exhibition of paintings by people with mental disabilities. KaŽDý MůŽE být umĚLCEm is an international art competition organized by the Sulická Home for people with disabilities for all the people with mental disabilities from Czech Republic. The aim of the competition is to make their art visible. "This is a unique project in which we involve people with mental disabilities from all over the Czech Republic and, thanks to the participation of authors from Slovakia, we are becoming international. I've been saying for many years that everyone can be an artist, regardless of health status. I have personal experience with people with mental disabilities who paint brilliantly. Their works are often breathtaking," explains Lenka Kohoutová, the director of the Sulická Home, which is the organizer.    192 works of art from all over the country entered the competition, created by authors between the ages of 5 and 84 with various forms of mental disability.    Topic: NATURE THROUGH MY EYES 7th October 2024 Charity online auction of paintings on the Livebid.cz.  This year, for the third time, authors can offer their works for sale, and the vast majority of painters took advantage of this opportunity. Almost 170 paintings can already be viewed in the catalogue of the Livebid.cz auction portal. The end of submitting limits to the auction is 7/10/2024 at 5 pm. The starting prices start at 100 CZK. The entire amount for which the painting is auctioned will go to support the author of the painting.    Thanks to the partners without whom the entire project would not have been possible: The “Everyone Can Be an Artist” competition will take place under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, under the auspices of the city districts of Prague 1 and Prague 4. The partners of the competition the auction