Publications

Jindřich Chalupecký Award 2025

The catalog was published by the Jindřich Chalupecký Society on the occasion of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award 2025 exhibitions at the National Gallery Prague.

Jindřich Chalupecký Award 2024

The catalogue was published by the Jindřich Chalupecký Society on the occasion of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award 2024 in Moravská Gallery in Brno.

Beyond Nuclear Family

The project Beyond Nuclear Family from 2020–2023 included several large-scale art projects and four international exhibitions, two of which took place in Prague, one in Berlin and the last in New York. The presented artworks were united by an overarching theme, i.e. a view of the family and its forms and alternatives in a changing world. The publication consists not only of visual documentation of events, but above all of a series of copyrights, reflections and reports, from the SJCH collective and five invited foreign authors.

Islands of Kinship: A Collective Manual for Sustainable and Inclusive Art Institutions

In collaboration with Mousse Publishing, the book Islands of Kinship: A Collective Manual for Sustainable and Inclusive Art Institutions was published in 2024, concluding the international project Islands of Kinship. The manual serves as an inspiring guide for contemporary art and cultural institutions that want to be more sustainable and inclusive.

You can read excerpts from the manual at the link below.

Jindřich Chalupecký Award 2023

The catalogue was published by Jindřich Chalupecký Society on the occasion of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award 2023 in PLATO Ostrava.

Jindřich Chalupecký Award 2022

The catalogue was published by Jindřich Chalupecký Society on the occasion of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award 2022 in National Gallery Prague.

Jindřich Chalupecký Award 2021

Jindřich Chalupecký Award 2020

Tai Shani

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.

Interconnection

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.

(Dis)connection

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?

Kateřina Vincourová: Arteria

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.