24.–27. 9. 2026 – 20% off admission for PAW visitors during the festival
ANDROS – THE MALE BODY IN CONTEMPORARY CENTRAL EUROPEAN ART
| Artists: | Patrik Adamec, Mirosław Bałka, Simona Blahutová, János Brückner, Jakub Čuška, Michal Czinege, Andrej Dúbravský, Jiří David, Ester Knapová, Ondřej Filípek, Pavel Forman, Andros Foros, Andrej Haršány, Matouš Háša, Tomáš Honz, Matthias Herrmann, Michal Heriban, Siegfried Herz, David Javorský, Václav Jirásek, Ruprecht von Kaufmann, Kateřina Komm, Karolína Koblen, Samuel Kollárik, Tomáš Kubík, Zbyněk Linhart, Jiří Marek, Michal Macků, Ivana Mojšová, Gábor Nagy, Tomáš Němec, Karolína Netolická, Ivan Pinkava, Gábor Pintér, Jiří Petrbok, Ondřej Přibyl, Mai, Karol Radziszewski, Spyros Rennt, Thomas Riess, Wilhelm Sasnal, Adam Šakový, Antonín Sondej, Alois Stratil, Attila Szűcs, Alexander Tinei, Juraj Toman, Jan Uldrych, Katalin Verebics, Ágnes Verebics, Stefan Wimmreuter |
| Curator: | Vratislav Maňák |
| Text by: | DOX |
| Address: | DOX Center for Contemporary Art, Poupětova 1, Prague 7, Prague, 170 00 |
The only thing that contemporary Western society has at its disposal is a torso—the torso of a lived world in which the one shared meaning has been lost, as well as the torso of an individual who can only long for complexity because language and ossified social roles constantly push him away from it. This inadequacy undoubtedly concerns masculinity today. In recent decades the re-evaluation of established norms and the relaxation of rigid gender roles have intensified discussions about the nature of masculinity, inevitably leading to existential questions. Who is a man, really? And what defines him?
