National Identity – Chinese student poster in connection with the international project Virtual Biennial Prague
19. 11. – 14. 12. 2019
curator: Lenka Sýkorová
cooperation on workshops: Tereza Nováková and Viktor Čech
photo: Filip Vido

It was the theme of identity that became the core of the workshops that took place under the leadership of Lenka Sýkorová, Viktor Čech and Tereza Nováková in Autumn 2018, in China at three Chinese Academies of Fine Art (Shandong University in Jinan, Hebei Academy of Fine Arts and Shanxi University in Taiyuan) in connection with the Virtual Biennial Prague project.

22. 10. – 16. 11. 2019
curator: Lenka Sýkorová
photo: Jana Kasalová

In the work of Jana Kasalová, it is important that we not only see the drawings themselves, as an independent artistic language, but beyond this form, albeit experimentally conceived, that we also read the concept—the idea itself, which in this case is many-layered, with references to human experience in the given place. The work on exhibit here gives us a sense of the period at the close of classicism and the birth of romanticism, the Biedermeier period, both through direct references to a map of Prague from 1820, the year of the gazebo’s construction, and through decor from this period.

24. 9. – 19. 10. 2019
curator: Lenka Sýkorová
photo: Markéta Bendová

His artwork oscillates between an artistic and naturalist perspective of the world. Jan Trejbal is an artist, a city planner, an educator and the founder of the project Neolokator.cz. It has been already nine years since he first used his own method called GPS sketching that uses digital technologies to map the human body’s movement in the countryside or city for the purposes of a sensational analysis in man’s scale.

12. 9. – 21. 9. 2019
curator: Šárka Koudelová
gallery curator: Lenka Sýkorová

Klaudie Hlavatá’s exhibition perfectly fits the natural potential of the gallery for intimate presentations of drawings and paintings. Although Klaudie Hlavatá’s artworks are on a classical two-dimensional medium, their installation in the gallery space directly confronts viewers with their physicality. Klaudie lets viewers examine the painting layers and search in the tangle of limbs. The artificial colorfulness and extra body parts make us check our own body. Whose arm is this? Yesterday I had only two arms… Or not? Do you remember that too?

25. 6. – 29. 6. 2019

curator: Lenka Sýkorová
photo: Markéta Bendová

Mihaela Mihalache graduated from the University of Art and Design in Cluj Napoca, Romania. Her artwork reflects her research of a space and the movement of man within the space, while searching for self-knowledge by means of paintings. In the Altán Klamovka Gallery, she presented a series of paintings – her PhD project – that focuses on architecture that affects and forms us. She analyzed a limited space on several levels – in terms of time and location. Her interface points for grasping reality are physical, idealistic and psychological boundaries that she sets for a living space from the perspective of both an intimate space and a public space.

20. 5. – 22. 6. 2019
curator: Lenka Sýkorová
photo: archiv autora

Drawing as a cornerstone of all visual art media is crucial for Frank’s artwork. He circles around it while crossing over to other media, in particular performance that often includes sound experiments. Watching his closest environment and reflecting on permanent everyday changes generates a lot of inspiration for him that becomes bewildering and confusing when overlaid. Yet, Matěj Frank keeps the form or process simple in his artwork.

 30. 4. 18. 5. 2019
curator: Lenka Sýkorová

In the Altán Klamovka Gallery she exhibited a new project that is called Malé spúšte (Small Triggers) and portrays flashes from the past that often seems dead to us yet it still affects our present. This unease, the personal experience of the author, who for some time lived nearby the Altán Klamovka Gallery, and the analysis of newly acquired family relationships have become inspirational sources for her exhibited cycle.

 2. 4. – 27. 4. 2019
curator: Lenka Sýkorová

Humor, hyperbole and banality are the points of departure for his exhibition in the Altán Klamovka Gallery. In the end, we have decided for an older series of drawings that better fits the curator’s gallery intent, with a focus on drawings designed as a post-conceptual gesture.  The artwork called Homework was created in 2010 when Martin Kochan had a part-time job at the Polytechnic High School in Trnava, while also working as a part-timer sorting and assembling television sets.

5. 3. – 30. 3. 2019
curator: Lenka Sýkorová

In recent years, Daniela Krajčová has worked with the theme of migration through a direct interaction with immigrants living in Slovakia and includes them in the creative process. A geographical mapping of relationships is the first phase where immigrants draw a map of friends living in other regions while describing what unites them and where they met. After that, the author creates another drawing network that represents her own interpretation of the immigrants' stories and creates loosely stylized associations that illustrate their stories.

4. 2. – 2. 3. 2019
curator: Lenka Sýkorová
photo: Karolína Bílková

The exhibition “The Border of Shadow” includes two monumental and three small drawings where Pavel Trnka develops the theme of an imaginative landscape with industrial architecture looming like a ghost. The indicated situation takes us to some interim period of an apocalypse of a devasted urban landscape that nature is reclaiming.