Online verze katalogů Ceny Jindřicha Chalupeckého, výroční publikace Mezera a další publikační projekty Společnosti Jindřicha Chalupeckého.
Multidisciplinary project Tragodía by the British artist Tai Shani, a foreign guest artist of 2019 exhibition of the finalists of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award, combines spatial installation, sound and virtual reality, develops a story about family ties, traumas and (im)possibilities of coping with them against the background of the autobiographical elements.
The Interconnection exhibition (2019) held at the Swimming Pool focuses on aspects of coexistence and collectivity that go beyond the human level. The exhibition thus employs a planetary, interspecies perspective which interweave the entire Islands project, addressing themes such as sustainability, ecology, utopia vs dystopia, ethics, communication and symbiosis. The catalog presents artwork by Catherine Biocca, Valko Chobanov, Nona Inescu, Maria Nalbantova, Jakub Nepraš, Petr Nikl, Tabita Rezaire, Karolína Rossí, Pavel Sterec, Johana Střížková, and texts by curators Tereza Jindrová and Veronika Čechová.
Jindřich Chalupecký Society and Kunstvereniging Diepenheim (The Netherlands) proudly present the group exhibition (Dis)connection, with installations, sculptures and video works by eleven international artists. The exhibition brings together various artistic positions that are connected by a shared concern: how can we live together in today’s uncertain times?
The publication for the exhibition of Kateřina Vincourová, who was the first woman to receive the Jindřich Chalupecký Award in 1996, presents a cross-section of the artist’s recent works. The commodified body and consumer goods play an important role in Vincourová’s practice, besides the poetics of domesticity and passing materials traditionally linked to a “woman’s” world. The artist creates monumental compositions as well as minute realizations which strongly communicate both with the architecture of the exhibition space and with the physical closeness of the viewers. The exhibition focuses on the fragile nuances of interpersonal relations while abstracting itself from these terms towards the exploration of space and time. Curator of exhibition was Karina Kottová.
This publication follows up the public event by Pablo Helguera titled The Mayfly Conference, which was a part of the Café Chalupecký program series and took place at the Trade Fair Palace – National Gallery in Prague on 9th December 2016. The performance of Pablo Helguera held in collaboration with Czech artists and curators, as well as the general public, had a form of a 60-minute conference dealing with socially engaged art. The title of the event (referring to The Mayfly Manifesto from 2013) alludes to the exceptionally short life of a mayfly as a metaphor of the ephemeral experience of a particular art event; which, however, can have a long-lasting effect. In this way, Helguera expressed the tension between time and experience, which is peculiar to socially engaged art whose qualities significantly depend on the amount of time invested in a particular project.
The publication provides an overview of all years and laureates of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award from its inception until 2009. It also includes interviews concerning both the Award itself and their perception of nowadays position of contemporary art. Introductory texts, summarizing and evaluating the current work of the Award, were written by Charlotte Kotíková, chairwoman of the board of Jindřich Chalupecký Society, and Lenka Lindaurová, former executive directress.
