Silent Spring: Art and Nature 1930–1970
This extensive exhibition project at the Trade Fair Palace of the National Gallery focuses on the transformation of the relationship to nature in Czechoslovak and Central European art between the 1930s and the period of Normalization. The core of the exhibition is sculpture, especially the phenomenon of organic abstraction—a formal language shaped between Surrealism and postwar sculpture. The exhibition addresses artistic responses to industrial modernity, loss of balance, and later environmental upheavals, symbolized by Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring, which gave the exhibition its name. The curatorial concept links an overview of nearly 100 works from the National Gallery’s collections and other European institutions with interventions by contemporary female artists. The past thus becomes a medium for reflecting contemporary issues.
UPDATE – Selection of the Contemporary Generation
Glorie Grunwaldová, Klára Korbelová, Roman Košťál, Josef Kukučka, Tomáš Kučera, Lucie Pouchová, Sára Soualmia, Ludmila Staňková, Natálie RyzáThe UPDATE exhibition at BOLD Gallery showcases a selection of the youngest generation of artists bringing new approaches, formal language, and themes resonating with today’s cultural and technological context. The title refers to the concept of updating—a process common in both software and personal transformations—and is applied here to the contemporary art scene. Curated by Radek Wohlmuth, the show presents nine artists whose work, despite its early stage, is exceptionally articulate. The exhibition acts as a probe into the visual thinking of the emerging generation: radically subjective, mutable, sensitive to the body, technology, and everyday life, which becomes their medium.
Exposition Dump – Klaudia Figura & Jáchym Šimek
In the Holešovice Shaft gallery, Klaudia Figura and Jáchym Šimek jointly stage an exhibition as a narrative mechanism that overloads, disintegrates, and recomposes itself. Curated by Tina Poliačková and Lumír Nykl, the exhibition’s title references the term “exposition dump,” describing overwhelming moments of exposition in fictional worlds—and it transfers this logic into the gallery space. Their works combine the logic of dreams with an attempt to grasp fragmented reality through pictorial and object forms. Šimek creates relief scenographies that tell stories without linear sequence, possessing their own enclosed order; Figura’s paintings and objects reflect on social dynamics and cultural changes. Together, their works form a space where numerous stimuli, unexpected meanings, and dense associations function as a gradual uncovering of events that have already occurred. The exhibition is open until August 27.
a-b-c-a – Madelen Isa Lindgren, Jan Bražina, Aleš Zapletal
The a-b-c-a exhibition at Berlinskej model gallery, curated by Karolína Voleská, is composed as a dynamic feedback system—loops that collect, modify, and retransmit materials, signals, and meanings. Madelen Isa Lindgren, Jan Bražina, and Aleš Zapletal act as sensory fields where repetition becomes a space for change. Lindgren’s metal objects recall arrested growth or organic mechanics; Bražina’s textile layers rewrite bodily memory through pins and recycled fabrics; while Zapletal’s drawings oscillate between cosmogram and algorithm. The exhibition explores error as a productive disruption, loops as a method of cognition, and material as a sensitive carrier of mutable consciousness. Visits are possible by prior arrangement until August 8.
