To Be Someone Else, Somewhere Else, Sometime Else
Site specific exhibition of contemporary art for the former sports center Erpet Smíchov
OPENING 5. 10. 18:00 (free entry)
Walk through exhibition with curators Gabriela Kotiková and Denisa Václavová 16. 10. 2022 14:00
Curators Gabriela Kotiková and Denisa Václavová invited more than sixty Czech artists to create site-specific works inspired by the venue. In addition, the exhibition also includes paintings, sculptures, installations, photographs, and videos on the subject of the human desire to be in multiple places at once, to be someone else in another time.
This large exhibition of visual art, which also includes works on display in Erpet’s gardens, works with the festival’s motto while responding to the space itself. We invited a broad range of artists representing various age groups, viewpoints, and positions. Many of them responded to the apocalyptic artificial landscape inside the building with a sense of humor and exaggeration. Futurecide is here and now, and our ever more frequent tendency to run away from ourselves only increases the emptiness between who we are and where we belong.
Many of the exhibited works question all the things we are so often firmly convinced of: this empty building with no function, waiting for a new future, offers the possibility of relativizing time, place, and space.
An old flyer advertising team-building activities that we found in Erpet’s basement reads: “On your visit, you can defeat your business partners and family members, or you can let them win!”
Who will defeat whom, and who will win in the end?
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Artists:
Adéla Svobodová, Alena Kotzmannová, Aleš Novák, Aleš Zapletal, Anna Hulačová, David Adamec, David Možný, Dominik Gajarský, Dominik Lang, Dušan Zahoranský, Ester Knapová, Eva Jiřička, Eva Koťátková, Eva Melo, František Matoušek, Gabriela BK, Hynek Alt, Jakub Hons, Jan Boháč, Jan Haubelt, Jiří Černický, Jiří Thýn, Jonáš Richter, Josef Frühauf, Krištof Kintera, Kryštof Doležal, Lenka Tyrpeklová, Laďa Gažiová, Libor Novotný, Luděk Rathouský, Lukáš Procházka, Markéta Othová, Markéta Soukupová, Matej Al Ali, Matouš Lipus, Michal Adamovský, Milan Mikuláštík, Nikolas Šilar, Ondřej Basjuk, Ondřej Přibyl, Patricie Fexová, Pavel Příkaský, Pavla Sceranková, Josef Bolf, Jana Vojnárová, Petr Lysáček, Rafani, Ruta Putramentaite, Sofia Sováková, Tania Nikulina, StonyTellers, Tomáš Svoboda, Tomáš Vaněk, Tomáš Vobořil, unconductive trash, Vasil Artamonov, Zimologický spolek.
Curators: Gabriela Kotiková and Denisa Václavová
Walk through exhibition with curators Gabriela Kotiková and Denisa Václavová 16. 10. 2022 14:00
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