galerie etc.
Galerii etc. založili umělci Jiří Skála a Jiří Franta v roce 2004 jako prostor určený především k výstavám mladých umělců.
Franta a Skála utvářeli výstavní program spolu s kurátorkou Markétou Vinglerovou až do roku 2011, kdy galerii přenechali Markétě Vinglerové. Následně se do vedení galerie zapojili Radim Langer, Tereza Stejskalová a Martin Prudil.
Galerie se během dosavadních devíti let své existence několikrát přestěhovala: její začátky jsou spojené se studiem Dravec Vladimíra Strejčka v Jaromírově ulici, v roce 2007 využívala prostor při galerii NoD a od podzimu 2008 ji najdeme ve stávajícím přízemním prostoru s výlohou o velikosti přibližně 11m2 v Kateřinské ulici na Praze 2.
Výstavní plán zahrnuje standardně osm výstav ročně, realizuje se jich ale většinou víc. Převážně jde o autorské výstavy. Představováni jsou jak umělci čeští a slovenští, tak zahraniční. Galerie etc. uspořádala výstavy řadě dnes již dobře etablovaných tvůrců v době jejich výstavních začátků (např. Anežka Hošková, Evžen Šimera, David Böhm, Mark Ther ad. ad.)
Ve stávajícím programovém zaměření chtějí kurátoři kontinuálně pokračovat v prezentaci začínajících tvůrců s osobitým uměleckým projevem, současně je ale jejich pozornost také věnována těm umělcům, kteří jsou v rámci aktuálního dění v centrech umělecké scény poněkud upozadění nebo pozapomenutí. Snahou galerie je utvářet a podporovat mezigenerační dialog s důrazem především na kvalitu umělců bez ohledu na aktuální trendy. Současně je prostor pravidelně věnovaný také kurátorským výstavám, které vznikají mimo stálý galerijní tým.
Galerie proklamuje svou roli jakožto multifunkční platformy s důrazem na teoretickou reflexi. Kromě výstav se zde odehrávají diskuse, promítání, workshopy a další akce. Kurátorský tým prohlašuje: „Galerie by měla být funkčním konfrontačním prostorem skrze přednášky, semináře nebo umělecké prezentace. Chápeme ji nejen jako laboratoř pro umělce, ale i jako výzvu k dílčím aktivitám, které mohou pojem samotného vizuálního umění překračovat a dotýkat se šířeji jiných oblastí kultury, politiky a společnosti.“
Tereza Jindrová
- The gallery was founded in 2004 and it used to be00:00:01.970
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- in Jaromírova street 28 within the Predator studio00:00:06.572
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- with the kind support of Vladimír Strejček who later expanded and00:00:09.271
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- it was't possible anymore. So the boys found a new space in 2007.00:00:13.603
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- Jirka Ptáček from former NOD helped us00:00:19.056
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- and in autumn 2008 we acquired this space.00:00:22.725
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- And we have been here since 2008, which is almost five years...00:00:28.454
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- Our plan is eight exhibitions, but we usually overtake it.00:00:37.668
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- Another opportunities we find important appear during the year so we usually00:00:41.789
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- make arrangements with one or two artists and we supplement the eight exhibitions.00:00:53.242
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- I don't think it's very unusual.00:01:01.365
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- This is our only exhibition space and in the back is our hinterland.00:01:05.168
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- So this place is the only one of the ETC Gallery at the moment.00:01:12.825
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- It can be used as a small lecture hall, we can have projections there as well,00:01:16.868
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- we had pictures here, classic paintings, so it's a really variable space.00:01:24.984
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- It can also be all enclosed. We provide the artists00:01:32.358
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- with freedom as long as they don't destroy it here completely.00:01:37.421
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- We are open to everything.00:01:47.863
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- The most important or rather interesting is the moment when the gallery00:01:50.696
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- stops being classic and predictable gallery space.00:01:58.967
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- Our gallery was formally transformed into a curious, almost film scene00:02:05.163
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- when Anders Gronlien and Michael Gimenez exhibited here.00:02:13.188
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- They made our access to the back part of the gallery impossible,00:02:19.522
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- we participated in the installation as curators as they manipulated us.00:02:23.922
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- Then Saša Vajd and Hynek Alt experimented here for two weeks00:02:27.503
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- and the gallery became a laboratory.00:02:34.525
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- And the third was an absolute manipulation of an artist00:02:38.344
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- who remote instructed the gallery curators.00:02:43.385
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- The American artist Emily Verla Bovino sent us forty steps00:02:47.669
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- and we had to install a technically very demanding exhibition.00:02:53.948
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- It was a connection of sound, light and frequency transmission00:02:59.930
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- the viewers were to tune in on a transistor they brought with them.00:03:04.545
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- These were two fundamental interventions into a classic expositional space.00:03:09.237
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- The programme we deal with at the moment and00:03:17.891
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- we would like to follow in the next two or three years00:03:23.308
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- consists of three categories I guess...00:03:30.901
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- The first is that we purposely look for artists who are rather overshadowed.00:03:36.110
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- We are not the young generation gallery anymore,00:03:42.498
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- we rather intend to expand the link between generations00:03:50.544
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- and look for people who used to be significant artists at one time,00:03:59.254
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- or they appeared somewhere and then suddenly disappeared00:04:06.055
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- but still perform as artists even they are not so well-known00:04:09.549
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- as they don't follow any tendentious or trendy wave.00:04:15.876
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- We are interested in the young generation as well,00:04:22.003
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- we look for individuals for authorial exhibitions.00:04:26.008
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- Important is how strong is the artist's work and personality00:04:29.467
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- and not how strong is the artist's activity at some trendy circle.00:04:38.875
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- The third category are curator exhibitions,00:04:44.409
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- at least once we include in our programme an exhibition00:04:49.395
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- which is made by an external curator, who is provided with an opportunity00:04:56.622
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- to create his own project structured by his own theoretical parameters00:05:05.877
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- and his own curator experience.00:05:15.193
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- The most interesting is the part when we quarrel over the names00:05:19.919
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- as well as our attempt to be different from other galleries00:05:26.079
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- and to find some original attitude that would be characteristic of us.00:05:36.463
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- We want our selection to be contributing somehow00:05:47.593
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- and to express our point of view, to show something new within our programme...00:05:53.140
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- I'm not sure if we are successful as everyone intends to do so...00:06:09.421