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Jan Ambrůz, Daniel Balabán, Bubánová Tauchmanová Simona + 31 more
The Grey Brick 34/1993 exhibition, included works by 34 artists born between 1941 and 1964 chosen by the jury whose members were Jana Geržová, Mahulena Nešlehová and Petr Nedoma. This successful summer exhibition took place in the gallery U Bílého jednorožce (At the White Unicorn) in the square in Klatovy and also in the Chateau Klenová and its park.
Monika Abbott, Ladislav Alp-Krtil, Josef Andrle + 63 more
Seventy eight artists were introduced by a reproduction of their work and a short text. This team aimed at confronting the artists and creating a parallel to work of artists who could exhibit their work officially. However, there were different limiting factors.
Avdej Ter-Oganian
School of performance is a part of an extensive project called School of avant-garde which Avdej Ter-Oganjan started in 1995 and which continued until 1998. The first group of students he worked with included students of different ages with non-artistic backgrounds and their cooperation did not last long. The second group included mostly Avdej´s son´s David´s friends who were of more or less the same age. The project was an experimental introduction of inexperienced and naïve teenagers into the world of art.
Jiří Ševčík
In their introductory text Jana and Jiří Ševčík wrote: “There was a collapse of alternatives, a loss of interest and only a marginal position remained. Seen from inside, the problem East-West still exists. For the West eastern art is interesting only if it is compatible production or produce of victims.
Aleš Záboj
The shop with off-price drugstore products used to be in Bayerova street in Brno between 1986–1989 and it also served as an independent exhibition place.Its conception was created by Petr Oslzlý and Rostislav Pospíšil who represented the fine art and theatre area and its technical support was provided by the drugstore manager Drahomír Svatoň.
Why did Jarmila B. disappear? And why should we be interested in it? Jarmila B. was a ceramist, who did not leave any interesting art work behind, only many rather messed up projects and involuntary, unexceptional compromises. What really matters is what she did not create – her radical visions, which are captured in her diaries (and which bear a striking resemblance to projects of some radical conceptual artists and performances of contemporary artists). In a way she was ahead of her time.
Bohumil Vostal
The film shows the members of the art club of the Bedřich Václavek Community House in Třebíč with Antonín Kybal during their outdoor painting trip which took place in the countryside around Ptáčov in 1959. This club was founded in 1953 for mostly amateur painters and a number of professional painters were involved in their training and education.
Vojtěch Adamec, Zdeněk Beran, Jiří Beránek + 59 more
The initial idea behind this project was to show the work of artists who were not allowed to display their work freely before 1989 or who belonged to the semi-official art scene. Shortly after the aim was to transform the exhibition into a representative show of contemporary art.
The mini-symposium “Bauhaus and Functionalism” examines the reception and interpretation of the emergence of Functionalism in Czechoslovakia in the interwar period and connections with Bauhaus in Germany. The leading theorist of the modernist avant-garde Karel Teige and his teaching at the Bauhaus are ideal examples of networking between these countries.
Michal Baumbruck, Michal Blažek, Pavel Büchler + 12 more
The film shows the house of Čestmír Suška and Naďa Rawová, where one of the first unofficial symposiums took place in July 1980 and which was soon followed by others (Netvořice 81, Mutějovice 83 and others). This led to a series of Confrontations (1984–1987) – exhibitions of the youngest generation of artists.
Jiří David
Probably the only film footage from unofficial Confrontations, the exhibitions organized by students of Prague´s art academies in 1984-1987.The second exhibition of the six took place in 1984 in a house rented by a student of the Academy of Fine Arts, Petr Petr, in Krymská 21, Praha-Vršovice. The participants were students from the Academy of Fine Arts, Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design and two foreign visiting students who covered not only the walls of the house, but also space in the yard and on the porch by their artworks.
Edit András
Edit András mainly follows engaged, socially sensitive and critical works of Hungarian art. She is interested in the changing social position of art and the ways in which it adapts to or resists the current situation. She looks at how post-socialist culture deals with its own past, the gendered aspects of Hungarian art, the relationship between culture and power, and how easily cultural and historical issues can be exploited politically.