By interacting with Eloïse Bonneviot and Anne de Boer’s spatial installation in Prague, viewers create speculative scenarios for an ecologically aware city.
Czech Republic
Pauline Curnier Jardin and the Feel Good Cooperative Collaborate on Roman Parties
Videos and prints by Curnier Jardin and the collective of sex workers, artists, and architects are on view in this exhibition at Prague City Gallery.
Jonas Staal’s Propaganda Station Premieres at PLATO Ostrava
Ten years of artistic research on propaganda and counterpropaganda went into the installation, which explores the mechanisms maintaining the status quo. On view in Ostrava, Czech Republic.
Islands of Kinship: A Collective Manual for Sustainable and Inclusive Art Institutions
Six visual arts organizations across Europe are collaborating on a new project addressing togetherness, fairness, responsibility, and kindness.
Prague’s First Private Museum Is Haunted by the Specter of Communism
Kunsthalle Praha is determined to walk the line between East and West, past and present.
Provocative Art about Blood and Masks
Daniel Pešta’s paintings refute the conventions of classical beauty but their nightmarish imagery can be exquisite.
Czech Artists’ Radical Book Designs of the Early 20th Century
The founding of the Republic of Czechoslovakia in 1918 also led to a cultural renaissance in the region, with a desire to create a distinctive Czech culture spurring decades of artistic experimentation and creativity.
The Allure of Czech Modernist Posters
Last Sunday, the Dutch Poster Museum in Hoorn, The Netherlands, opened its doors for a special exhibition of Czech Modernist posters from the collection of the Lowry Family of New York City.
A Print-based Resistance Movement
One of the most difficult things to evoke in an art show is a snapshot of a culture. On the other hand, when I write about zines, I find it difficult to separate the object itself from the ephemeral culture that surrounds it. In Samizdat: The Czech Art of Resistance, 1968-1989, curator Daniela Sneppova brings American viewers in to the heart of a print-based resistance.
At Prague’s Veletrzni Palac
Prague itself is like a museum, where contemporary architectural gems are situated next to old landmarks. It’s an embarrassment of riches. One day we walked through Prague’s 10th century castle district, then went down the hill a couple of blocks to find a Frank Gehry-designed office complex, and continued throughout the city to see Baroque, Gothic, Art Nouveau, and Cubist buildings. But if you had to visit just one Prague museum, it would have to be the Veletrzni Palac (Fair Trade Palace), a truly massive collection of Czech and European work originally built in 1925 for trade fairs.