Galerie Magnus Art
The Essential Happens Incidentally
May 20 – August 15, 2026
Curator: Valérie Horváth
The exhibition To podstatné se děje mimochodem at Galerie Magnus Art presents the public for the first time with a representative selection from Rony Plesl’s private collection. Alongside his own glass sculptures, works by Josef Bolf, Ivan Pinkava, Milan Knížák, Patrik Adamec, Dan Võ, Jan Merta, and Vendula Chalánková enter into a finely balanced dialogue about transience, beauty, and death.
Plesl’s collection reveals a less known collecting practice shaped by a personal sensitivity to existential fragility and moral questions. The exhibition shows how this layer naturally intertwines with his own artistic practice, where strength confronts fragility, transparency meets invisibility, and material gesture opens into a metaphysical dimension. The whole project creates an environment of quiet contemplation in which individual works become part of a broader reflection on the relationship between life, art, and finitude.
Galerie NoD
Alice Nikitinová: Consolation in Staring into Holes
May 21 – June 12, 2026
Curator: Pavel Kubesa
Opening: May 20, 2026, 6:00 PM
The exhibition Útěcha v zírání do děr by Alice Nikitinová develops a painterly language in which everyday reality is transformed into a system of flat signs, structures, and reduced forms. The artist has long drawn from banal visual situations of workplaces, infrastructure, or discarded objects, translating them into precisely organized pictorial structures.
In the current series, motifs of shop windows, windows, niches, and empty or semi-transparent surfaces come to the forefront. These elements oscillate between fullness and emptiness, between form and its absence, becoming sites where pictorial certainty constantly dissolves and reassembles. Nikitinová works with the tension between legibility and ambiguity, between object and its absence. Emptiness here is an active element of the image—a space that enables the emergence of meaning and its simultaneous questioning. The exhibition can be visited only until June 12.
Ethera Gallery
Phila Primus: Nearness, Elsewhere
June 10 – August 2, 2026
Opening on June 10 at Ethera Gallery, Nearness, Elsewhere by Phila Primus builds on the line as it detaches from drawing and takes on the role of a structuring principle. Layered forms assemble and reattach without a fixed center, guided by an internal logic that replaces traditional composition.
In Phila Primus’s work, the body appears as outline, cross-section, layer, and empty space. The human figure alternates with organic forms reminiscent of maps, inner landscapes, or recordings of movement—traces of physical and mental experience in which bodily awareness becomes a starting point for further exploration. Transparency, overlap, and subtle color accents shift the image between lightness and construction. Here, the line does not describe a finished form but follows its emergence and transformation—separating, connecting, and disappearing again.
