Date: 3.-30.9.2024

On Tuesday, 3 September, from 18:00, a unique exhibition Art in Libeň will start and will run until 30.9.  

ART IN LIBEŇ: Marta GRUBER, Petr GRUBER, Jan HERES, Tomáš HONZ, David KOLOVRATNÍK, Hana SOMMEROVÁ

Curator's words:
For many years BESEDER Gallery has been operating in Libeň for years. Relatively nearby - a short walk from the Libeň railway station - there is the LIBEŇSKÉ ATELIÉRY. In the last decade, about three dozens of young artists. It is a whole one generation of art school graduates, mostly from the AVU in Prague, who are between thirty and thirty-five years old. Libeňské ateliéry are slowly but surely becoming a household name. That's why we thought to connect the two spaces and six young artists from Libeň to present in BESEDER Gallery.

As already mentioned - they have in common their studies, generational belonging and the environment of the Libeň studios. Most of them represent landscape, though each in a different way.

Jan HERES 

(graduate Michael Rittstein's studio, AVU) is an expressive figurative painter who began to use his "wild" colouring after his experience in Southeast Asia and took it to unprecedented proportions.

Tomáš HONZ

(graduate of Michael Rittstein's studio, AVU) draws on classical painting and depicts mainly landscapes, often dark and impenetrable, hiding untold secrets. He, too, is inspired by his frequent stays in the Far East.

David KOLOVRATNÍK 

has more than one location - he has devoted himself, for example, to collages that connect the present with worlds long past, and also the environment underground, full of symbols and metaphors. It is no coincidence that alongside visual arts, he plays in underground and metal bands.

MARTA GRUBER 

(a graduate of Jiří Petrboek's studio, AVU) focuses on landscape, which, unlike others, she perceives through her experiences and places to which she has a deep personal relationship.

PETR GRUBER 

(graduate of the studios of Zdeněk Beran and Jiří Sopek, AVU) is is an essential colourist. Inspired by his native Highlands, he draws us into deep monochromatic views and vistas in which the natural elements are sometimes confronted with civilization.

HANA SOMMEROVÁ
(graduate of the studios of Robert Šalanda and Dalibor Smutný, Academy of Fine Arts) is also a landscape artist. Unlike the others, she lightly and lyrically plays with nature, its details, structures, rhythms or illuminated valleys in all times of the day or season. 

Perhaps this exhibition is the first step towards making the art islands in Prague 9 will in the future connected more.

Miroslav Krupička

 

Admission free