The opening will take place on Tuesday 24 June at 5 p.m.

With the defence and public presentation of their final diploma works, graduates of the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music at the University of Ostrava step onto the uncertain ground of everyday life and artistic practice outside the walls of their alma mater. This is a moment that undoubtedly requires a degree of courage – and the artists presented here certainly do not lack that quality. Through their art, they explore both inner and outer worlds – and those that touch them, surround them and absorb them. In this way, the artists offer their audience a chance to refine and expand their own fields of perception into the realm of the subtle and even the inconsequential – which nevertheless carries its own not inconsiderable importance. 

The exhibition is held at the House of Art, the Gallery of Fine Arts in Ostrava, and the Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery.

Šárka Zahálková

Exhibited authors:
Jan Antoš, Zuzana Čerbáková, Valeryia Dzektsiarova, Romana Floreková, Bianka Ivanová, Elizabeth Kanabe, Orhan Kavas, Magdaléna Khýrová, Kateřina Krupová, Veronika Kuricová, Jakub Kurtulík, Natallia Luksha, Tamara Masnicová, Antónia Morihladková, Kristián Novák, Dominik Pohludka, Andrea Polakovičová, Simona Pospíšilová, Magdalena Prášilová, Tereza Řezáčová, Jaroslava Sikoňová, Marie Staníková, Simona Ticháčková, Anna Treterová, Vendula Váňová, Petr Vašinka, Nevena Živković

Curator: Šárka Zahálková
Text: Šárka Zahálková
Translation: Christopher Hopkinson
Graphic design: Vojtěch Kwolek
Promotion: Jana Malášek Šrubařová, Magdaléna Staňková

The Gallery of Fine Arts in Ostrava is opening up a space that used to be a lecture hall as a new venue for short-term independent interventions and projects by young and middle-generation artists. The aim is to create a kind of lab for experimenting, playing and creativity – all of which are natural attributes of Ostrava’s young artists. The concept will further enhance the gallery’s long-standing collaboration with the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music at the University of Ostrava, offering students the opportunity to gain hands-on experience of the art scene. We are confident that the broad platform offered by the faculty (encompassing not only fine art, but also production and performing arts) will help to create a multidisciplinary, open community environment. The second exhibition will present the work of the photographer Terezie Foldynová.

Jiří Jůza