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.
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.
Photographer Bára Prášilová’s first book includes the artist’s photographs created during the last 15 years. The book's editor, Thomas Beachdel, characterizes her work as "images of wonder" teetering on the edge of beauty and strangeness, reality and fantasy, tenderness and violence, which are all rooted in the artist's sense of the absurd. This visual artist's imaginative photographs are created as carefully planned productions which are based on sketches and include props that she designs and often makes herself. They express her desire to bring the world of dreams and illusions into tangible reality. In her work, for which she has won numerous international awards, we can find a number of motifs that are obsessively repeated not only in her photographs, but also in her videos and objects.
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.
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.
15 years of work by the Prague-based architectural studio City Work Architects that specializes in comprehensive architectural design and project documentation for a wide range of projects including residential buildings, mixed-use developments, schools, hotels and office buildings, as well as construction supervision and technical studies. Editor Petr Volf.
The texts were composed from March 2021 to March 2022 as a result of mostly e-mail based communication between co-authors and close collaborators. During this period of time, the covid pandemic was replaced by a pandemic of war madness after Russia's aggression against Ukraine. The authors were drawn into the event from the first moment aware of its fundamental and historical character. The central motif of their reflections are national myths and prejudices. The book is significantly accompanied with illustrations by Kristián Štupák.
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.
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.
