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The South Bohemian Gallery presented an exhibition of Czech art by a generation of artists born between 1939 and 1953. This generation entered cultural life during the period of Normalization, when artistic production was often shaped by deep civilizational, cultural, social, and political contradictions, and frequently overlooked, censored, or condemned by official institutions of the communist regime. At the same time, artists born in the era of Hitler’s and Stalin’s totalitarian regimes faced the complex task of artistic restitution in the aftermath of historical ruptures caused by fascism, the Holocaust, and the dictatorship of the proletariat. The exhibition brought together more than 100 works and events by over thirty Czech artists, demonstrating the efforts of this generation to restore a sense of value to the natural world within a reality often perceived as absurd. Designed in collaboration with Karel Štědrý.

The book 1318 Minutes in Kutná Hora was presented at Designblok 2025 through an object created from aluminum printing plates that were used in its print production. The object was designed by ORA. The international Designblok 2025 jury awarded this project with the Designblok Impact Award.

Alexandr Skalický (*1932) is part of a small group of photographers who responded to the influences of conceptual art that seeped into the former Czechoslovakia from the West in the 1980s. With the Iron Curtain isolating it from the rest of world, the local environment interpreted everything coming from the outside through the lens of its own experience. This fact, together with the art photography concept dominating Czechoslovak photography at the time, created a constellation that gave rise to a unique oeuvre that provides an account of not only the artist and his work, but also of life under communism and of the thought and operating mechanisms in place in Czechoslovak photography. This book was conceived and written by Jiří Pátek, the curator of the Photography and New Media Collection at the Moravian Gallery in Brno.

The exhibition presents the artistic work of women from the Middle Ages to the end of the 19th century. Exhibited artworks will highlight the unique qualities of women’s work, particularly in painting, sculpture, drawing, and graphic art, as well as in the applied arts, revealing a lesser-known dimension within the history of art. Attention will be given to the description of the environment in which female artists worked; social connections and influences shaping their work and the themes women explored in their art. Exhibition photography by Filip Šach (NGP).

Exhibition graphics and visuals for the National Gallery's exhibition 1989 at the Trade Fair Palace in Prague. This exhibition was organised to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution as part of the project Havel na Hrad! (Havel to the Castle!). Architect Zbyněk Baladrán.

How did photographers reflect the year of 1989 in Czechoslovakia? This exhibition catalog commemorates the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution. It also seeks to examine 1989, a turning point in many respects, from the distance of the three decades that have passed. It was critical for both Czech society at large and photography in particular. It marked 150 years since the discovery of the medium, and probably without photographers suspecting this, it was the final year they would spend working in the institutional framework they had been used to for years. The lives of many changed radically after the revolution, as they could now enjoy the freedoms, engage in business, hold exhibitions and create freely. The very medium of photography dissolved in a syncretism of new approaches and shortly afterwards also underwent a transformation of its technological foundations.

Pass! Shoot! Goaaaaaaal! The catalog accompanying the exhibition NA LED! (GET ON THE ICE!) at the National Gallery Prague. Designed in collaboration with Laura Morovská.

The exhibition catalog presents the artistic work of women from the Middle Ages to the end of the 19th century. Presented artworks highlight the unique qualities of women’s work, particularly in painting, sculpture, drawing, and graphic art, as well as in the applied arts, revealing a lesser-known dimension within the history of art. Attention is given to the description of the environment in which female artists worked; social connections and influences shaping their work and the themes women explored in their art.

On the occasion of the 2024 Ice Hockey World Championship, the National Gallery presents an exhibition that opens up the theme of skating and hockey in visual art. The exhibition will feature approximately 100 works of art using various techniques. There will be paintings by old masters such as Pieter Brueghel the Younger and Norbert Grund, as well as by the most prominent figures of 19th-century Czech art and with a section dedicated to 9 contemporary artists who have created new works relating to hockey on the occasion of this year’s championship.

The exhibition and monograph about the prominent documentarian and representative of Czech humanist photography Dagmar Hochová (1926–2012) is reaching audiences forty years after the first concise monograph of this artist’s work was published as part of Odeon Publishing House’s Fine Art Photography series, and twelve years after her passing away. It examines Dagmar Hochová’s life and work through the recollections of her peers, historical documents, the artist’s archive of negatives, and publications about her work that came out after the fall of Communism. Written by Jiří Pátek, curator of the Moravian Gallery in Brno. Exhibition photography by Jan Kolský.