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House of Art
TUES–SUN 10:00–18:00

VIKTOR KOLÁŘ / Queuing for coupon booklets / Exhibition of a single work

7. 3. – 4. 6. 2023

The twenty-first work was selected by molecular biologist Dr. Lukáš Čermák, head of the Laboratory of Cancer Biology, Institute of Molecular Genetics, Czech Academy of Sciences.

"A photograph is the blink of an eye. A piece of light, a piece of time, the remnants of a world that was. The way Viktor Kolář captured it seems just right to me." (Lukáš Čermák)

The series of single-work exhibitions will continue until the completion of the Gallery’s new extension, designed by the architect Josef Pleskot, which will be evocatively named The White Shadow. The exhibitions aim to raise public awareness of the Gallery’s extensive collections, which currently cannot be exhibited in their entirety due to a lack of space. The project will also present our collection as a living organism, constantly growing and evolving.

Besides raising awareness of the Gallery’s collections, these single-work exhibitions will also play a key role in generating the visual style of the Gallery’s promotional materials. Based on the work currently displayed, the graphic design team will create a colour scheme that will feature on quarterly or monthly programmes, leaflets and other materials.

The curators of the single-work exhibitions will change like the works themselves. Instead of art historians, the curators will be drawn from a wide range of other creative professions – artists themselves, writers, actors and directors, architects, scientists and scholars, musicians, restorers, and more. Their artistic sensitivity and inventive approach will make them ideal ‘guest curators’ for this series. Each curator will prepare a talk, a reading or a different type of presentation to explain why they have chosen their particular work. The curators have a completely free choice – they can select works from any period and in any medium, so the exhibitions will feature a huge variety, ranging from 19th-century painting and drawing to contemporary photography.

Robert V. Novák and Zuzana Burgrová



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