Exhibitions

The exhibition of photographs by Slovak artist Andrea Kalinová brings somewhat unexpectedly a theme of skiing in the middle of summer. However, mud instead of snow dominates the photos.

The child's lifeless body floats as if levitating in a red empty space over a stylized children's drawings. A bicycle, a boat, a house, a tree, a bed. Fragments from a child's world shattered by war. Another child with a pacifier in his mouth. A hole in his chest, through which we can see a horizon of a desolate landscape.

At first glance, Michal Kindernay's compositions are reminiscent of abstract paintings, but their origin is quite concrete. They are sound imprints of Prague streets, squares and bridges.

The exhibition by Slovak artist Marcel Mališ is based on a series of paintings in which the artist critically yet with a dose of irony reflects on the present day society. The works depict human heads wrapped in the unbreathable atmosphere of plastic bags imprinted with logos of various companies.

#hereforyou is an exhibition about women trapped by social stereotypes and their own ideas of perfection, which are the result of the ubiquitous pressure on women, their appearance, behaviour and roles.

Yaara Zach's photographs are inhabited by figures draped in blue plastic overalls standing alone among the rocks, washed out on the sea beach, seemingly lost and abandoned. Their plastic skin with tubes and strange flapping extensions turns their bodies into something uncanny, simultaneously human and alien.

The exhibition With(out) Care is about the decriminalization of pleasure, the ecological impact of the global flower trade, and the relationship between the privileged and the marginalized artist.

Iranian artist Shadi Harouni's exhibition Žena . Život . Svoboda, a body of work created specifically for Artwall Gallery, is a tribute to this ongoing struggle for freedom from oppression. The work speaks the language of protest in public and private spaces.

The panels of Artwall Gallery are covered by fields of colour. A closer look reveals that we are looking at painted shop windows. The paint is sprayed over what was previously displayed in the windows: brands of clothes associated with the far right and its extremist ideology.

The focus of Insectopia is the artist's own body, through which he records the experience of dehumanization based on his Roma and queer identity.

In the middle of a hot summer, he squeezes his body into a miniature shade on a concrete patch in the suburbs. He walks through the center and the periphery, searching for the possibilities of hiding from the sun. He interacts with passers-by and the space and his search for a shadow takes on different forms and meanings.

Exhibiting artists: Yurii Ivantsyk, Dmytro Krasnyi, Kinder Album, Tasha Levytska, Sestry Feldman

Rufina Bazlova's exhibition Belarusian Folklore captures the alarming situation in contemporary Belarus.

On the panels of Prague's Artwall gallery, located by a busy road on the Vltava embankment, there are drawings of a city overwhelmed by cars. The exhibition by American cartoonist and comic artist Andy Singer draws attention to the unsustainability of the current mode of mobility.

Zdena Kolečková's exhibition Eroica captures in six photographs the story of an encounter with a heavily tested industrial landscape. In her work, the artist responds to the area of the foothills of the Ore Mountains, where she comes from.

The visual language of PXS is cultural codes from many disciplines, which capture the spirit of the time and act as links. Underpasses and passages in the city are filled with emptiness. The wind blows through their bowels and spreads leaves everywhere with pieces of paper, notes, fragments of slogans.

If the vaginas had dreams, they could take the form that Marie Lukáčová comes up with in a series called Vagina Fantasy. The vaginas in the images acquired wings, tentacles, braids and mouths.

Anna Beata Háblová wrote a set of short poems for the Artwall gallery dealing with climate change, devastation, deforestation, and dehydration of landscapes, but also the recent ecological catastrophe on the river Bečva. Artist uses poetry to describe the non-poetic reality of ecological destruction.

The exhibition project created for the Artwall Gallery is primarily an activist gesture of a young trans man and his mother, pointing towards a contemporary society in which trans people still find it difficult to find their place and are all too often exposed to humiliation, bullying, and discrimination.

The panels of the Artwall Gallery show devastated landscape with parched soil, smoking chimneys and dead trees. The photos are complemented by a text, which is familiar to all citizens of the Czech Republic: "Paradise on Earth at a Glance" – words taken from the national anthem.

An exhibition by Apolena Rychlíková and Vladimír Turner is focused on a critical reflection on contemporary changing conditions in Prague will launch at the Artwall Gallery in Prague. The exhibition deals with overtourism, gentrification, and the climate crisis among others.

In the photos of Dutch artist Jaap Scheeren, there are animals in their environment endangered by human activities. The artist's photographs convey what animals might think about us.

Thirty years after the Velvet Revolution, environmental issues remain marginalized by Czech political representation. Yet, it was the protection of the environment that, together with the strife for democracy and human rights, fueled the desire for change in 1989.

The collages on view at Artwall by Gergely László and Katarina Šević pose the distorted and grotesque body as the metaphor for the rise of violence and militancy apparent in today’s society.

In the photographs, naked bodies interweave in unusual poses. On closer look, we see missing limbs or – on contrary – limbs that are superfluous. Figures with arms in place of legs create peculiar beings.

The exhibition Everyday Sexism by Slovak artist Ivana Šáteková at the Artwall Gallery shows situations that women in our society face on daily basis. Comments regarding their appearance, maternity, behavior or means of expression accompany women from childhood to the old age.

Ján Triaška's exhibition Live Long and Prosper displays hand gestures expressing different ideological as well as general human attitudes and approaches. It depicts symbols that are phenomena of today's reality.

By means of her exhibition, Adéla Součková addresses the eternal theme of the relationship between human subjectivity, identity, and corporeality.

The exhibition Usually she is disappointed by an Irish artist Martina Mullaney borrows its title from the radical feminist manifesto, Dialectic of Sex, by Shulamith Firestone.

The exhibition is a result of a cooperation between comics author and street-artist Toy_Box and an international humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders.

In this extensive photographic series, the artist deconstructs stereotypization of Roma women in order to present the viewer with images produced from within the lived Roma experience rather than about it.

Where are the limits of normality? And is the concept of normality alone discriminatory for people that are so called neuroatypical? 

The exhibition of a prominent Slovak artist Rudolf Sikora in Artwall Gallery focuses on the dangers caused to our planet by human activity. The exhibited series “The Earth Must Not Become a Dead Planet” originated more than forty years ago (in 1972) yet it message is more pressing than ever before.

“They have no clouds there?” wonders Dunno in the book Dunno in Sun City by Nikolay Nosov. “Why not, they do,“ responds one of the residents of the sun utopia, “but our scientists invented this powder and just as a cloud appears, they powder it and the cloud immedately vanishes.”

Exhibiting artists: Markéta Garai, Blanka Jakubčíková, Jana Orlová, Helena Sequens and Adam Stanko, Ludmila Smejkalová

Curator: Filip Turek

in collaboration with MICHAELA ŠKVRŇÁKOVÁ

The wall of Letenské sady features images of famous Prague towers: Old Town Tower, Žižkov Television Tower, Powder Tower, Šítkov Water Tower and Towers of the Týn Church. Dominant features of Prague, which is also referred to as "The City Of a Hundred Spires", are easily recognized by locals as well as visitors.

The exhibition consists of a series 3D object based on real-life objects, photographs and memories of the artist and activist Alma Lily Rayner . Displayed items refer to the long-term sexual abuse, which the author experienced in childhood. Within Czech public space, this type of personal confession appears for the first time.

The exhibition the Slovak duo was created for the space of a wall under Letná park and responds to the theme of normalisation in history, present, and in the dystopian vision of the future. It shows a fictional world dominated by uniformity and ritualistic, irrational behavior.

In cooperation with Zachraň jídlo (Save Food) initiative Artwall Gallery introduces exhibition entitled Delicious.

Artwall in cooperation with Prague Pride is proud to present Slava Mogutin's first solo show in Czech Republic, which offers a truly unique perspective on this year’s Pride theme of LOVE.

Women without homes are the invisible superheroines of our time. Often they are seen through the prism of what they lack – i.e. a home. But they are women with a life story and some incredible experience, dreams, desires and skills. To survive homelessness demands a fair share of special powers.

What does solidarity mean to us in the times of danger? Ilona Németh responds to this question by paraphrasing a famous quote by a German pastor Martin Niemöller.

The title of the exhibition of Dan Perjovschi – For the Moment – describes very well the way he works. Perjovschi is an indefatigable commentator on current social events. His black and white drawings reflect on everyday reality, but also on important political issues.

When thinking about dead bodies on the beach, nowadays most people think of refugees whose boats sank during the dangerous sea crossing to the European Union.

Photos of people behind barbed wire, ruins of houses, crowded ships at the sea. These are the images that flood the media in connection with the refugee crisis. It is with these images German artist Mandy Gehrt works in her project Thousand and Two Nights prepared for the Artwall gallery.

Exhibition of the Slovak activist art group Kundy Crew has the form of monumental reproductions of embroidered slogans placed in a public space. Members of the group use the traditional technique in order to comment on current social issues: the role of women in society, homophobia, nationalism, or the right of women to revolt.

Why are so many houses in Prague unnecessarily falling into disrepair, when thousands of people have nowhere to live or are crammed in lodging houses? Under what circumstances should the state have the right to expropriate property?

A quarter century after the Velvet Revolution, it is increasingly apparent that the Czech society does not know what to do with its legacy. The Artwall Gallery is introducing a discussion about the legacy of the Velvet Revolution with a project by the Slovak artist, Martin Piaček, entitled Václav Havel / Washing Out.

Tomáš Třeštík’s project "Letná Residents" deals with homelessness and the place that homeless people occupy in public space. A series of photographs presents portraits of homeless people, who have long inhabited the hillside above the wall in Letná Park.

The artistic group Kassaboys created their work Verkhovina as a reaction to recent political events in Ukraine.

Erratum is a luxury brand of mass-produced dysfunctional objects, created by workers from factories across China, India, Poland, Turkey and Pakistan on artist's order. Jeremy invited those workers to insert an arbitrary error into one of the items they typically produce in bulk within their everyday working routine.

Lesbian mothers pose with their children in Jana Štěpánová’s photography. They have the usual motherly

The project Competition Procedure for Czech-Roma Flag critically reflects on the situation where members of Roma population aren't considered as Czechs by the majority of the society, and therefore find themselves in forced isolation.

Darina Alster, in her project Imago Dei, works with expressions of religious archetypal figures and offers viewers their own personal appropriation of early Christian gnosis, which she places in the context of a city in the 21st century.

The combination of words art and killing in the title of the exhibition suggests the contrast on which the art project of Lukáš Houdek is based. The artist is connecting documentary aspects with art: with the help of staged photography he reconstructs real events using dolls and toys.

Milan Kozelka’s project, Vox Populi (Voice of the People) responds to a theme that has gained significance in the context of the Czech presidential election. For the first time in Czech history “the people” are choosing the head of the state.

The Wealth of Nations project is a selection of themed photomontages of British newspaper Financial Times.

The exhibition of Tereza Janečková and Pavlína Míčová is rooted in the past of the Artwall Gallery space. The stone frames that host the gallery today, were built in the 1950s in relation to the changes made in Letná Park during the construction of Stalin’s monument.

On seven panels we can see the face of the author "fed" on paint by someone else‘s hand.

Project Voina Wanted, conceived directly for Artwall Gallery, is meant as a gesture of solidarity with two Voina members that were charged with assaulting and insulting a police officer. These acts were supposedly committed last March, during a demonstration in support of the right to peaceful assembly in Russia.