21. 11. - 13. 12. 2023
curator: Lenka Sýkorová
photo: Markéta Bendová

Danish artist Maja Gade is fascinated by the landscape and the processes that create and change it. She perceives water as an element that moves through the landscape, shapes it, gives it life and models and creates it through the natural process of erosion and deposits.  Maja Gade in Altán Klamovka reflects that the gallery is set in Klamovka Park, which is a recreational oasis created by the cultivation of the previous landscape. The artistic creates a site-specific installation, where she builds on the history and immediate surroundings of the gallery. The Disintegrated sprouting cycle arose out of her interest in how minerals in the earth decompose and become building materials for new generations of plants, and after their demise, the cycle is filled again with a new cycle of plant life.

The exhibition was created in cooperation with Galleri CC in Malmö.

TRYST ALTERNATIVE ART FAIR, Torrance Art Museum
Del Amo Crossing, 21515 Hawthorne Blvd, Torrance

Thinking Through Drawing
27. –  29. 10. 2023

Artists: Darja Lukjanenko (UA), Veronika Holcová (CZ), Jiří Kovanda (CZ), Jan Pfeiffer (CZ), Dorota Sadovská (SK)
Curator: Lenka Sýkorová (CZ)
The graphic designer of the exhibition is Darja Lukjanenko
Photo: Altán Klamovka archive

Drawing provides space where you can slow down. We can also think through drawing. The combination of thinking and drawing became the basis for the creation of the curatorial project called Thinking Through Drawing. The drawing line, whether on paper or guided by matter in space, is a strong visual gesture of contemporary intermedia artists. Being an intimate gesture, drawing is perceived by many artists as the most direct medium for expressing experiences with a specific sense of sensitivity to noticing the great or small history that is currently taking place. A sketch of an idea has accompanied artists since time immemorial. By combining the mind, eye and hand, they can capture the world around us.

Durden and Ray Gallery, Los Angeles
1206 MAPLE AVENUE #832, LA, CA

Searching for lost worlds
OPENING RECEPTION OCTOBER, 21, 7-10PM

22. 10. – 4. 11. 2023

Artists: Jana Bernartová (CZ), Jorin Bossen (US), Petr Dub (CZ), Roni Feldman (US), Brian Thomas Jones (US), Jiří Kovanda (CZ,) Karolina Lizurej (PL), Darja Lukjanenko (UA), Jan Pfeiffer (CZ) and Hanna Råst (FI)
Curator: Lenka Sýkorová (CZ)
The graphic designer of the exhibition is Darja Lukjanenko.
Produced by Brian Thomas Jones.

 The present can be defined as an uncertain, rapidly changing reality. We lead its experience in parallel both in the physical and virtual worlds. We live in a time when the image is once again becoming the most readable carrier of information across cultures and continents. And our parallel digital identity brings a whole host of challenges to present ourselves and others. The present brings into the field of interest the aesthetics of dystopia, myths and the search for lost worlds.

6. 9. − 15. 11. 2023
curator: Lenka Sýkorová
photo: Markéta Bendová

The city is a constantly rewriting public space that we create and share. It provides visible and invisible faces and includes historical artefacts together with visions of the future. Romanian visual artist Lucian Sandu-Milea sees the city as a dynamic inspiration and challenge. Lucian was inspired for the current exhibition in Altán Klamovka by the original Palimpsest, so a manuscript that is reused after the original text was erased.

The exhibition was created in cooperation with  E T A J artist-run space.

Searching for lost worlds

Jana Bernartová (CZ), Petr Dub (CZ),
Darja Lukjanenko (UA) and Cameron Tauschke (AU)
11. − 14. 5. 2023

Curator: Lenka Sýkorová (CZ)
Photo: Studio Flusser

We see the twilight zone as the interface between day and night, but also as the interface between the physical and virtual worlds. The exhibiting artists reflect the uncertainty of the present and a certain search for lost worlds, where every shadow can be understood in the context of Plato's ideas as a reflection of the absolute truth of reality.

Catalogue-Supermarket-2023

26. 4. − 21. 6. 2023
curator: Lenka Sýkorová
photo: Markéta Bendová

In Scandinavian mythology, the tree of life Yggdrasil takes the form of a cosmic ash tree that connects our earthly existence, stretching vertically from the underworld to heavens. With its roots and branches it embraces both the inner and outer human world and is the source of cosmic wisdom. Alice Máselníková is inspired in her work by this very mythology, and through drawing and painting, she opens up possible ways of searching for the meaning of everyday life, the fragility of a moment of joy, or the all-embracing ordinary beauty that we are surrounded by.

8. 3. − 19. 4. 2023
curator: Lenka Sýkorová
photo: Markéta Bendová

In the Altán Klamovka Gallery Darja brings to life the mythical place Вирий/Irij, where, according to legend, birds spend the winter together with the souls of ancestors. In the spring, according to legend, they are transformed into birds returning home to bless the harvest and the family. That is why Ukrainians have traditionally prepared bread in the form of birds since pre-Christian times. Darja consciously works with this tradition and shared past, which she brings into the present.