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Contemporary Czech Art in Berlin Archiv

45 Episoden
20 Minuten
In the 29th issue of Contemporary Czech Art, we introduce you to visual artist Radek Brousil, whose works you can see in the current exhibition Deep rivers run quiet at our gallery.

Radek Brousil is a visual artist based in Prague. In his works, he refers to theproblematic effects of human behaviour towards nature and accentuates their influence on the human psyche. His work is characterised by the combination of interdisciplinary research, facts, photography, textiles and video format, which enables him to grasp the phenomena in a more complex way. In his compositions, he uses a very sophisticated yet clear visual language, which he combines with the installation of photographs within more complex objects.

Radek Brousil studied photography at the Academy of Art, Architecture and Design in Prague, and also completed an internship at Concordia University in Montreal and at the London College of Communication.

Currently, his works can be seen in the exhibition Deep rivers run quiet, which takes place in the gallery of the Czech Centre Berlin.
20 Minuten
In the 29th issue of Contemporary Czech Art in Berlin, we talk to Tina Poliačková, a curator and contemporary art critic based in Prague with Slovak roots.

Last year she received The Věra Jirousová award (for visual art critics) in the category of emerging art critics with her text The Search for the lost God (Hľadanie strateného Boha). As a reward, she received a few days' stay in Berlin in cooperation with the Czech Centre Berlin, which she visited in May this year. Currently, she is completing a PhD programme at the Academy of Fine Arts under the supervision of doc. Václav Magid, where she researches the phenomenon of "romanticism" in contemporary art. She contributes to various Czech magazines focused on visual art and co-curates exhibitions at independent contemporary galleries(Berlinskej Model, and Holešovická šachta). She also performs as a DJ under the pseudonym "dirrtina" as part of the DJ/AV collective Blazing Bullets, where she is involved in experimental and post-club music. She studied History of Art at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, and MA in Theory and History of Modern and Contemporary Art at UMPRUM in Prague.
24 Minuten
In the 28th issue of Contemporary Czech Art in Berlin, we talk to the visual artist and cultural organizer Alice Máselníková.

Alice Máselníková (b. 1989, Zlín, Czech Republic) is a visual artist, and an organizer of various artist-run initiatives based in Stockholm. She is one of the three creative directors of Supermarket – Stockholm Independent Art Fair, founder of the artist-run initiative Flat Octopus, project leader of ARNE (Artist-Run Network Europe), project manager at Intercult, while she also works independently as a curator, editor, and cultural funding advisor.

In her artistic practice which includes painting and writing, she deals with themes such as interactions of human bodies, the fragility of internal experiences and its external manifestation. Máselníková’s last solo exhibition titled Those games we fail to play took place in June in TOP project space in Berlin, and at the moment she is preparing her next solo exhibition in Frankfurt am Main at gallery Eulengasse opening on 2 September as well as another in Stockholm at Konsthallen Studio ABC in Vällingby in October. This year she also exhibited solo at KH7 in Aarhus, Denmark, and in a duo show with sculptor Tone Linghult at the Residency of the Czech Ambassador in Stockholm.

Alice holds a bachelor’s in Art and Philosophy from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Arts and Design, in Dundee, UK. Afterwards she received a master’s education in Curating Art from Stockholm University in Sweden. She also studied Fine Art at Universidad Politécnica de Valencia in Spain.
23 Minuten
In the 27th issue of Contemporary Czech Art in Berlin, we talk to the curators of the Jindřich Chalupecký Society.

The Jindřich Chalupecký Society is a platform for Czech post-revolutionary and contemporary art in an international context. In cooperation with a number of partner institutions in the Czech Republic and internationally, the society organizes exhibitions, public programs, residencies for artists and curators, and educational and publication projects. Since 1990, the society awards the Jindřich Chalupecký Award for visual artists up to the age of 35.

In this interview we focus on the current project of the Jindřich Chalupecký Society in Berlin, the exhibition Beyond Nuclear Family: Around the Family Table, which Barbora Ciprová, Veronika Čechová, Tereza Jindrová curated together with Katharina Koch and Sylvia Sadzinski for alpha nova & galerie futura in Berlin.
24 Minuten
In der 26. Ausgabe von Contemporary Czech Art in Berlin stellen wir die Künstlerin Nina Plášková (geb. 1997 in Brno) vor, die in Tschechien und der Schweiz aufgewachsen ist und seit 2018 an der Kunsthochschule Weißensee studiert.

Ihr Schaffen hat der Philosoph Knut Ebeling folgendermaßen charakterisiert: „Ihr von Ortswechseln und Umzügen geprägtes Aufwachsen verarbeitet die Künstlerin in der Form einer stark autobiographisch geprägten Kunst, die sich aus den Reservoirs von persönlichen Kindheitserinnerungen ebenso speist wie aus der Bewegung der Romantik und ihrem sozialen Umfeld. Eine zentrale Rolle spielen hier Ninas Träume, die den Dreh- und Angelpunkt ihrer Arbeit bilden und über die sie ein akribisches Traumtagebuch führt. Aus diesem bringt sie immer wieder Traumsequenzen zur Aufführung und Ausstellung in ihren solide und handwerklich gekonnt gearbeiteten Werken.“

Aktuell stellt Nina Plášková im Rahmen der Gruppenausstellung Asynchronicity of Now (12. 02. – 26. 03. 2022) in der Galerie Bernau aus. Im Gespräch mit der Künstlerin und der Leiterin der Galerie Bernau, Frederiek Weda, stellen wir Nina Pláškovás Arbeit sowie die aktuelle Ausstellung vor.
15 Minuten
In der 25. Ausgabe von Contemporary Czech Art in Berlin stellen wir den bildenden Künstler und Kunstpädagogen Ludvík Feller vor.

Ludvík Feller (*1929) studierte Malerei, Grafik und Psychologie an der pädagogischen Fakultät der Karls-Universität Prag. Er etablierte sich als Grafiker in Prag, nachdem er zahlreiche erste Preise auf dem Gebiet „Logo“ gewonnen hatte. Nach der Niederschlagung des Prager Frühlings und dem Einmarsch der Truppen des Warschauer Paktes verließ Feller 1968 die Tschechoslowakei. Er absolvierte zahlreichen Studienreisen und lehrte in Berlin am Schiller College Bildende Kunst und an der Universität der Künste visuelle Rhetorik und angewandte Semiotik.

Die Aufhebung der Grenzen zwischen freier und angewandter Kunst ziehen sich durch sein künstlerisches Schaffen. Die Verbindung zwischen Natur und Kunst und Überlegungen über den Ursprung und die Ausdrucksformen des künstlerisch-kreativen Schaffens ziehen sich durch sein Werk.

Feller lebt und arbeitet in Berlin und Prag. 2020 wurde ihm der europäische Trebbia-Preis verliehen, mit dem Künstler|innen und Kulturunterstützer|innen ausgezeichnet werden.

Contemporary Czech Art in Berlin: berlin.czechcentres.cz/de/projects/contemporary-czech-art-in-berlin
19 Minuten
In der 24. Ausgabe von Contemporary Czech Art in Berlin stellen wir die Kunsthistorikerin und Kunstvermittlerin Charlotte Esser vor und sprechen mit ihr über das Projekt „Wo-men beliefs“, bei dem sie eng mit dem Prager Künstlerinnenkollektiv Mothers Artlovers zusammengearbeitet hat.

Charlotte Esser hat Kunstgeschichte, Theaterwissenschaft und Japanologie in Bochum, Italien und Berlin studiert. 2010 hat sie das Bildungs- und Kunstvermittlungsprogramm des me Collectors Room/Stiftung Olbricht aufgebaut und mit verschiedenen Künstlerinnen interdisziplinär zusammengearbeitet. Anfang 2020 ist sie nach Prag gezogen und im September dieses Jahres nach Berlin zurückgekehrt. Aktuell ist sie als freie Kuratorin für die imagine future company tätig.

Vor kurzem hat Charlotte Esser in Berlin Neukölln das Projekt „Wo-men beliefs“ organisiert. Es handelt sich um ein transnationales Ausstellungsprojekt, welches sie gemeinsam mit Zuzana Stefkova, Darina Alster und Kateřina Olivová, sowie drei Künstlerinnen aus der Gruppe Mothers Artlovers und drei KünstlerInnen aus Berlin durchgeführt hat. Mothers Artlovers sind ein tschechisches Kollektiv, das aus visuellen Künstlerinnen, Kunsttheoretikerinnen, Kuratorinnen und Aktivistinnen besteht. Sie adressieren spezifische Probleme und Bedürfnisse von Müttern in der Kunstindustrie. Ein wichtiger Bestandteil des Projekts „Wo-men beliefs“ waren neben einer Ausstellung auch Workshops mit OberstufenschülerInnen des Albrecht-Dürer-Gymnasiums zum Thema Gender.

Das Projekt wurde unterstützt vom Deutsch-Tschechischen Zukunftsfonds, dem Kulturamt Neukölln und YoungArts Berlin Neukölln.

Die Ausstellung „Wo-men beliefs“ fand 25. 10. – 31. 10. 2021 in der Kiezkapelle in Neukölln statt und wird am Anfang des Jahres in Prag zu sehen sein.

Contemporary Czech Art in Berlin: berlin.czechcentres.cz/de/projects/contemporary-czech-art-in-berlin
13 Minuten
In the 23rd issue of Contemporary Czech Art in Berlin we present Paula Ďurinová.

Paula Ďurinová is a documentary filmmaker, visual artist and writer living and working in Berlin. She graduated from Documentary Filmmaking at the class of Olga Sommerová at the Academy of Arts in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia and spent a semester at AGRFT in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She was the participant of IDFAcademy (2017) and Summer School of Ethnographic Filmmaking in the Czech Republic (2013).

Paula produced and directed short documentary films in Georgia, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Moldova, Czechia and Slovakia and collaborated with various arts and human-rights institutions and collectives. In 2010, she co-founded a platform for documentary film Living documentary.

Her essays are published in Slovakia and internationally. She engages in research-based practices and collaborates with various disciplines - audiovisual performances, text and photography.

Paula works as anartistic director of ACUD Galerie in Berlin. She co-curated the exhibition, performance and reading program Do Not Touch (2020) and curated the last exhibition project at ACUD Galerie It's Not Your Fault. She is currently studying Experimental Film in the class of Nina Fischer at the UDK - Berlin University of the Arts.

Contemporary Czech Art in Berlin: berlin.czechcentres.cz/de/projects/contemporary-czech-art-in-berlin
14 Minuten
In der 22. Ausgabe von Contemporary Czech Art in Berlin stellen wir diesmal Renata Kudlacek vor.

Sie ist eine im tschechischen Zábřeh geborene Künstlerin, die mit Print und Fotografie arbeitet. Ihre Arbeit erforscht die uralte Geschichte unserer Vertreibung aus dem Garten Eden im Licht der wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse, durch welche wir heute das Leben, den Tod und Träume von Unsterblichkeit verstehen. Sie interessiert sich für den Ewigen Kampf zwischen Ethik und Wissenschaft – Glauben und Fakten – alten Standards und dem neuen Unbekannten.

Renata Kudlacek hat einen Master of Art in Fine Art / Printmaking vom Royal College of Art London. 2017 nahm Kudlacek an der Art and Ethics Research Group an der Edinburgh University teil. Renatas Arbeiten wurden in ganz Europa ausgestellt, während sie aktiv für verschiedene Kunst- und Bildungsinitiativen arbeitet, einschließlich Projektmanagement und Kuration. Sie ist Mitbegründerin und Direktorin der BBA Gallery.

Bis zum 16.10. können Sie ihre Ausstellung mit dem Titel Quest to Bloom in der BBA Gallery sehen.

Contemporary Czech Art in Berlin: berlin.czechcentres.cz/de/projects/contemporary-czech-art-in-berlin
17 Minuten
In der 21. Ausgabe von Contemporary Czech Art in Berlin stellen wir die konzeptuelle Künstlerin Klara Hobza vor.

Geb. 1975 in Pilsen, lebt und arbeitet sie inzwischen in Berlin. Aktuell stellt sie in der Gruppenausstellung "Swimming Pool - Troubled Waters" im Künstlerhaus Bethanien ihre langfristige Arbeit Diving through Europe aus, in der sie durch die brackigen, begradigten Wasserstraßen Europas neben gigantischen Schiffsschrauben durchtaucht und dadurch den Kontinent aus einem ungewohnten Blickwinkel erkundet und für den Betrachter erlebbar macht.

Contemporary Czech Art in Berlin: berlin.czechcentres.cz/de/projects/contemporary-czech-art-in-berlin
9 Minuten
In the 20th issue of Contemporary Czech Art in Berlin we introduce you to the young sculptor Dominik Adamec. Dominik Adamec graduated from the Academy of Arts in Prag in Sculpture last year and then moved to Berlin, where he just presented his work for the first time during the festival artspring. In his paper-sculptures he deals with the topic of genetic chimerism in biotechnology.

More about his work: https://dominikadamec.com and www.instagram.com/adamec_dominik

Recent presentation during artspring: https://www.artspring.berlin/portfolio/dominik-adamec

Contemporary Czech Art in Berlin: berlin.czechcentres.cz/de/projects/contemporary-czech-art-in-berlin
14 Minuten
In the 19th episode of Contemporary Czech Art we will present the young painter Gabriela Těthalová.

Gabriela Těthalová graduated from Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg, Painting / Drawing at Prof. Jutta Koether and Prof. Dr. Bettina Uppenkam in September 2020 and was e.g. represented at Academy POSITIONS 2020 in Berlin. Her aim is to expand the field of painting while commenting on the contemporaneity.

Before she decided to become an artist, she completed a master’s degree in Mathematics at Charles University in Prague. In addition to this interdisciplinary position, Těthalová often finds inspiration in other artistic forms such as music, poetry, or art history. Some of the recurring themes in her work are repetition and anachronism.

More about Gabriela Těthalovás work at her website: https://gabrielatethalova.art

Contemporary Czech Art in Berlin: berlin.czechcentres.cz/de/projects/contemporary-czech-art-in-berlin
21 Minuten
In the 18th issue of Contemporary Czech Art we speak with Anna Kubelík. She is an architect and artist. Science, music and architecture play an important role in her practice. Therefore, she often collaborates with musicians, dancers or specialists of diverse fields. The context always determines the content, form, material and dimension of her work. There is always a performative element to be found throughout all her projects.

Anna Kubelík has been raised in Switzerland, Italy, Germany, the USA and Austria. She studied in London and currently lives and works mostly in Germany. But members of her family are famous musicians from the Czech Republic. At this moment she has an exhibition together with Matthew Hawtin and Oliver Schmid at drj art projects in Berlin Schöneberg, based on her ongoing project of Well-Tempered Hygrometer.

More about the current exhibition at drj art projects: https://drj-art-projects.com/insights-unheard-of/

More about the work of Anna Kubelík: www.annakubelik.com

Contemporary Czech Art in Berlin: berlin.czechcentres.cz/de/projects/contemporary-czech-art-in-berlin
17 Minuten
In the 17th issue of Contemporary Czech Art in Berlin by the Czech Centre Berlin we spoke to Magdalena Jadwiga Härtelová. She is a curator and artist currently working between Berlin, Prague, and the Bay Area. She focuses on care and its ethics in action through exhibition and art making, writing, social practice projects and community organizing. Härtelová received her MA degree in Curatorial Practice at the California College of the Arts, where she wrote her thesis on "Curating and the Concept of Intersectional Care". As a curator she runs e.g. a gallery space located at Kottbusser Damm 68, 10967 Berlin, in her bedroom.

In the podcast you can learn more about the current program of the gallery on Kottbusser Damm, about the project the Hologram which was established as a reaction to today's crisis, what was crucial for Magdalena in the exhibition series she curated on accessibility for GAVU in Prague and also about her thoughts on identity and a project focusing on the possibility of communication in different mother tongues.

You can find more on each topic on her website: www.mjhartelova.com

Contemporary Czech Art in Berlin: berlin.czechcentres.cz/de/projects/contemporary-czech-art-in-berlin
12 Minuten
Graphic designer, illustrator and curator Barbora Demovičová is our guest of the 16th episode of Contemporary Czech Art in Berlin. She was born in Slovakia and is currently living in Berlin.

Barbora Demovičová studied graphic design at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno in the Czech Republic, and completed exchange years at the Akademie der Bildende Künste in Stuttgart and at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig.

The main topic of the interview is the exhibition Home-Topia with five artists with central Eastern European background that she curated and which is currently on display as a hybrid project of the Raum für drastische Maßnahmenin Berlin.

Contemporary Czech Art in Berlin: https://berlin.czechcentres.cz/de/projects/contemporary-czech-art-in-berlin
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