Kolíbal 100 – with the curator Jan Skřivánek 13 August 2025 from 5 PM

13/8 2025, 17:00

The Stanislav Kolíbal 100 exhibition is a reminder of the artist’s upcoming 100th birthday, which he will celebrate in December. The exhibition is planned to run until at least February of next year and its composition will be renewed during its run in order to present Kolíbal’s works as widely as possible.

The exhibition and its evolving form will be presented by the curator, Jan Skřivánek.

Stanislav Kolíbal (* 1925) is one of the most significant figures of Czech post-war art. In the context of world art, one can find parallels in his work to American minimalism and Italian arte povera, but his work grows from different roots and develops in the spirit of its own internal logic. Kolíbal, as demonstrated by his book illustrations and early works, is a sovereign draughtsman and model maker, but since the 1960s, questions of geometry and space have been central to his drawings and sculptures. The core of his work, however, is not form in itself but the tension between order and chance, duration and transience, being and emptiness.

The guided tour will be held in Czech.