exhibitions
The Art Wall Gallery, which is located on the Letna park wall along the Vltava River embankment, was established by the Center for Contemporary Arts in 2005 with the aim of revitilizing public space and encouraging debate about what is "public art". The frames that now host the Art Wall Gallery were built into the walls in the early 1950s, just under the former Stalin monument, and originally served as a showcase for communist propaganda posters. One of the main goals of the Center for Contemporary Arts, Prague is to support the social impact of works of art and public art as it is defined by Patricia C. Philips (editor-in-chief of Art Journal): "Public art is not public because it is exhibited outdoors ... but because it is art for which the understanding of "public" is an ongoing process, the genesis and subject of inquiry and analysis."
Program for 2008:
Guma Guar, May - Jun
Vendula Chalánková, Jun - Jul
umenimamrad.cz (Silvie Milkova), Aug - Sep
Marketa Kinterová, Sep - Oct
Tamara Moyzes, Oct - Nov
Lukas Kubec, Sumava Safari
July 16th - August 12th, 2007
Stork on a meadow, butterflies, man with a rake, stream of the Vydra creek – these motifs are just a fragment of an extensive series which Kubec dedicated to his native Sumava mountains, in which he tries to evoke the various styles of, and approaches to, photography ranging from pop-culture to the allusions of fine art. Our intention was to smuggle the romantic photographs of Lukas Kubec into the public space in order to create an illusion of a trip throughout the idealized landscape of the Southern Bohemian countryside.
press release [ .pdf ]| tisková zpráva [ .pdf ]| photos
Michaela Thelenová, Na chvili.../ For a while...
April 30 - June 3rd, 2007
"I am interested in the mechanism of manipulation and control that functions in our mind as a subconscious process. To manipulate or to be manipulated, the desire and the need to control, is a part of our thinking and our behavior. In my pictures I try to catch the very moment when we lose our freedom slowly and unknowingly and when the boundary of our tolerance starts to change..."
press release [ .pdf ] |tisková zpráva [ .pdf ]|photos
Matky & Otcove/Mothers and Fathers: Family Art Crimes
4 September - 31 October 2006
A reflection on the relationship between parents and their children and the attempt to find a common language which appropriates the form of graffiti.
Pode Bal: Flagellants
29 May - 2 July 2006
The art group Pode Bal was founded in 1998 and from the start brought attention to our unresolved communist past. A whole series of their actions referred to the suppressed Czech national consciousness and this project was not an exception.
Martin Zet: Destiny of the Nation - Sculptor Otakar Svec
4 April - 5 May, 2006
The photographic series of Martin Zet paid tribute to the work of the forgotten artist Otakar Svec. Six sculptural busts of Czech artists made by Svec evoked not only the personal tragedy of a modernist sculptor but also questioned his banishment from history, an act typical of the collective memory of the Czech nation, which often suppresses the dark side of its own history