Enter the Room

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Year of publication: 2025
Number of pages: 212
Size: 130 x 220 mm
Language: Czech-English

ISBN: 978-80-7010-206-0

Editors and texts: Sandra Baborovská, Ondřej Trhoň & Filip Hauer, Martin Netočný, Tjaša Pogačar

Editing of texts: Kristýna Jelínková

Translation from Czech: Becka McFadden
Translation from English: Tomáš Míka

Photos: Jan Kolský

Grafic design: Lê Thị Hoài

Sources of additional images:
BCAAsystem, Jan Boháč & Viktor Dedek & Jonáš Richter, Eloïse
Bonneviot & Anne de Boer, Filip Hauer & Philipp Kolychev, Herdek
kolektiv, Tomáš Moravanský, No Fun kolektiv, OMSK Social Club, Lukáš
Prokop, Vojtěch Radakulan, Natália Sýkorová & Valéria Dinková

Production: Lucie Skopcová, Petra Bezděková

Print: H. R. G. spol. s r.o.
Náklad: 400 ks

Publishing by Prague City Gallery

The publication Enter the Room coincides with the exhibition of the same name, organised by Prague City Gallery in the spaces of the Stone Bell House (28 March — 14 September 2025). Its content thus not only focuses on descriptions of the exhibited works or presentations of the participating artists and collectives, but also presents the entire curatorial concept of the project. The core of the book is formed by Ondřej Trhoň and Filip Hauer’s text, which outlines the critical strategies of contemporary game art and thus defines its positions in the broader context of artistic production.

Dragon and Fish

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Publisher: GHMP
Year of publication: 2023
Number of pages: 56
Size: 23 x 31 cm
Language: in Czech
ISBN: 978-80-7010-196-4

Editors: Jitka Hlaváčková, Karina Kottová
Text: Marie Lukáčová
Illustrations: Marie Lukáčová
Editing of texts: Ondřej Krochmalný
Graphic design: Filip Kraus
Print: Tiskárna Helbich, a. s.
Production: Katarína Valentová

Thinking Through Film

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Publisher: GHMP
Year of publication: 2023
Number of pages 192
Size: 165 x 240 mm
Language: in Czech, in English
ISBN: 978-80-7010-194-0

Editors: Jiří Anger, Sandra Baborovská
Texts: Jiří Anger, Sandra Baborovská, Georges Didi-Huberman, Sergej Ejzenštejn, Noemi Purkrábková, Ondřej Vavrečka
Editing of texts: Klára Krásenská
Translation to Czech: Patrik Felčer (Sergej Ejzenštejn), Josef Fulka (Georges Didi-Huberman)
Translation from Czech: Kryštof Herold, Becka McFadden, Tomáš Pártl, Eva Ullrichová
Graphic Design: Anymade studio (Petr Cabalka, Filip Nerad)
Prepress preparation: Studio Marvil
Print: Tiskárna Helbich, a. s.
Production: Kateřina Šlaufová

Film is “a form that thinks,” as director Jean-Luc Godard once noted. Montage of images and sounds enables us to express certain ideas but also to reflect on the material, formal, and narrative elements that define the film medium. But does thinking through film survive in the digital and post-cinematic era? The Thinking Through Film project focuses on the ways in which contemporary audiovisual art not only pushes the film language forward but also brings it back to its roots.

Thinking through Images The Visual Events of Miroslav Petříček

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Publisher: GHMP
Year of publication:  2023
Number of pages: 224
Size: 21 × 28 cm
Language: in Czech, in English
ISBN: 978-80-7010-193-3 (CZ), 978-80-7010-195-7 (ENG)

Graphic design: Adéla Svobodová
Editor: Jitka Hlaváčková
Texts: Milena Bartlová, Jitka Hlaváčková, Václav Janoščík, Miroslav Petříček, Jiří Přibáň
Photos: Jiří Thýn
Editing of texts: Lenka Jindrová
Print: Tiskárna Helbich, a. s.
Production: Katarína Valentová

“Images are names for we cannot name,” says the philosopher, teacher, and translator Miroslav Petříček, who written on visual art for several decades. He has summarized his observations in, among other things, the book Thinking Through the Image: A Guide to Contemporary Philosophical Thought for the Non-Intermediate (2009), which formed the impulse for the 2023 exhibition at Prague City Gallery. The main idea behind the exhibition and its accompanying publication is was the presupposition that an encounter with an image is primarily a visual event. The aim is to emphasize that the languages of words and of images are closely related but that their material is different: an image or expression cannot be simply translated into words or concepts. An image does not show; it causes something. It is more than an illustration, nor is it a mere visual mediator of an idea; it is a specific way of inciting the mind to think of what has been painted. Thinking through the image is a response to the encounter with a visual event. By engaging in a dialogue with works by more than forty artists, the publication’s five authors (Miroslav Petříček, Jitka Hlaváčková, Milena Bartlová, Jiří Přibáň, and Václav Janoščík) present their views on the language of visual art, its history, and brand-new approaches balancing on the line between real and digitally manipulated sensory input. Along with original photographic documentation by Jiří Thýn, they guide the reader through a labyrinth of visual events, from abstract sensory percepts via the search for shapes and concepts all the way to the construction of an idea: from the mysterious interface between chaos and order or light and darkness to metaimages of the contemporary world.

The publication features work by the following artists: Karima Al-Mukhtarová, Zbyněk Baladrán, Mária Bartuszová, Jana Bernartová, Rudolf Fila, Tomáš Hlavina, Václav Janoščík and Adam Trbušek, Magdalena Jetelová, Magdaléna Kašparová, Michal Kindernay, Julie Kopová, Zdeněk Košek, Tom Kotik, Eva Koťátková, Václav Krůček, Kristina Láníková, Jiří Matějů, Maxmilián Aron Mootz, Pavel Mrkus, Jiří Načeradský and Jaroslav Nešetřil, Jaromír Novotný, Milan Paštéka, Ondřej Přibyl, Jiří Skála, Kateřina Šedá, Miloš Šejn, Adriena Šimotová, Josef Šmíd, Kateřina Štenclová, Studio of Joyful Creation (Marie Kúsová, Lukáš Paleček, Vojtěch Proske, George Radojčić), Dagmar Šubrtová, Eva Vápenková, Vladimíra and Miroslava Večeřová, Martin Velíšek, Petr Veselý, Lenka Vítková, Martin Zetová

SCULPTOR AND ARCHITECT. Correspondence between František Bílek and Josef Fanta.

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Publisher: GHMP
Year of publication: 2023
Number of pages: 368
Size: 210 × 279 mm
Language: Czech, English
ISBN: 978-80-7010-182-7

Editor: Martin Krummholz
Text: Martin Krummholz
Photos: Archiv architektury Národního technického muzea, Archiv GHMP, Archiv Národní galerie Praha, Josef Jindřich Šechtl, Literární archiv Památníku národního písemnictví, Státní okresní archiv Nymburk – Archiv města Poděbrady, Uměleckoprůmyslové museum v Praze, Tomáš Souček
Translation to English: David Vichnar
Editing of Czech text: Eva Hrubá
Editing of English text: Jeffrey A. Howe
Graphic design: Anymade studio
Produktion: Anna Kulíčková
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The title of the publication Sculptor and Architect: Correspondence Between František Bílek and Josef Fanta paraphrases the title of the 1948 publication of Bílek’s correspondence with the poet Julius Zeyer. It was through Zeyer and Zdenka Braunerová that the young Bílek also met the architect Josef Fanta (1856–1954).

The nature of their brief (and characteristically ambivalent) friendship and its significance for Bílek’s work has not yet been the subject of scholarly interest. Their mutual correspondence
contains a wealth of previously unknown information concerning the sculptor’s early creative period and sheds light on the circumstances of some of his important commissions. The annotated edition of both artists’ letters is introduced by a collection of several selected, previously unpublished documents describing Bílek’s difficult beginnings, including his own description of the legendary fateful confrontation with Josef Václav Myslbek in September 1892. In order to make Bílek’s remarkable personality and his work accessible to foreign scholars, the entire publication is bilingual; the transcribed letters have been translated into English.

The edition of the previously unpublished mutual correspondence between the sculptor František Bílek (1872–1941) and the architect Josef Fanta (1856–1954) contains a wealth of previously unknown information about Bílek’s early creative period and some of his important commissions. Although Fanta was one of Julius Zeyer’s close friends, his relationship with Bílek was nevertheless characteristically complicated and controversial. The annotated and contextualized edition of both artists’ letters is accompanied by an introductory study and several other documents – here newly published – that shed light on Bílek’s troubled beginnings, including his fateful clash with Myslbek in September 1892.

WAS IST KUNST? Dragoljub Raša Todosijević

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Publisher: GHMP
Year of publication: 2023
Number of pages: 72
Size: 210 × 310 mm
Language: Czech, English
ISBN: 978-80-7010-192-6

Editors: Jakub Král, Matěj Smrkovský
Text: Jakub Král
Photos: Adriana Vančová
Translation to English: Tomáš Míka, Bernadette Higgins
Editing of Czech texts: Ondřej Krochmalný
Graphic design: Studio Zdaar (David Šrot a Kryštof Novák)
Produktion: Katarína Valentová
Print: Indigoprint

 

This catalogue follows up on the exhibition of Raša Todosijević to the fullest extent possible in terms of making the exhibition accessible while respecting the nature of the artist’s work.

Just as his work is very broad in terms of the themes used and the respective media, this book is also a reflection of the artist’s strategies accentuated in the exhibition.

In fact, the exhibition itself was not a retrospective show, but rather an update and execution of the themes that the artist has been dealing with from the late 1960s to the present.

The dynamics of both the exhibition and the catalogue is not subject to the strict logic of dates and timelines, but far more represents a secondary authorial and curatorial narrative about the artwork and art, the essence of which Todosijević has been constantly exploring for literally more than half a century.

Raša Todosijević (*1945) is a Serbian artist belonging to the first generation of neo-avant-garde artists of the so-called New Art Practice which began to develop in the relatively liberal environment of the former Yugoslavia in the early 1970s.

Both he and Marina Abramović, an internationally respected artist who, like Todosijević, emerged from the Belgrade art scene of the second half of the twentieth century, are among the most prominent artists of the former Yugoslavia and today’s Serbia.

 

Jitka Svobodová: Beyond the Edge of the Visible

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Publisher: GHMP
Year of publication:  2023
Number of pages:  156
Size: 210 × 279 mm
Language: in Czech, in English
ISBN: 978-80-7010-191-9

Editor: Helena Musilová
Texts: Helena Musilová, Martin Nitsche a Josefína Formanová, Josef Pleskot
Photos: Matěj Bárta, Kateřina Fialová, Michal Hančovský, Hana Špačková, archiv Jitky Svobodové
Translation: Jean‑Gaspard Páleníček
Editing of texts: Ondřej Krochmalný
Graphic design: Matěj Bárta
Production: Anna Kulíčková
Print: H.R.G. spol. s.r.o.

The Prague City Gallery has is introducing the long-awaited retrospective exhibition of painter and creator of drawings and spatial objects Jitka Svobodová, one of the most authentic artists of Czech and international art. Since the mid-1960s, when she entered the art scene, she has been systematically exploring the reality she sees, transforming it into distinctive works of art in a unique – and for the viewer often unsettling – way. Jitka Svobodová started out as a painter of abstract landscapes and natural elements. In the first half of the 1970s, she decided to abandon painting and devote herself to drawing; through this medium, in flat and spatial creations, she depicted both everyday objects, constructions, various types of connections, as well as phenomena such as smoke or the movements at the surface of the sea. In her work, she has touched on fundamental issues related to both creation itself and the process of knowledge. The exhibition and the catalogue (the exhibition guide) present her work from the period of her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, which she graduated from in 1967, to her works from 2023. The architect of the exhibition was Josef Pleskot, and the catalogue is based on photographs from the installation, showing a remarkable dialogue between those two personalities. Josef Pleskot is also the author a text in which he describes his creative approach.

In addition to texts by curator Helena Musilová, the catalogue also includes an original essay by philosophers Martin Nitsche and Josefina Formanová entitled Half-shrouded windows of the phenomenological: Jitka Svobodová as a philosopher, in which they reflect on Svobodová’s work from the perspectives of thought, look and experienced reality.

Jitka Svobodová graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (1961-1967 Monumental Painting Studio, 1973-1976 Restoration Studio). She worked as a freelance restorer and artist. After the Velvet Revolution she was appointed professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in 1991 and until 2012 she headed the studio – school of drawing. She has prepared several solo exhibitions in Czech Republic and abroad and participated in many collective exhibitions. Her work is represented in important public and private collections.

Margita Titlová: Vertical Purple

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Publisher: Aparat. ve spolupráci s Galerií hlavního města Prahy a Etcetera Art
Year of publication: 2023
Number of volumes: 3
Language: in Czech, in English
ISBN: 978-80-7010-187-2, 978-80-908472-2-4

Editor: Miroslav Jiřele
Introduction text: Magdalena Juříková
Complementary texts and interviews: Barbara Benish, Vlasta Čiháková-Noshiro, Václav Erben, Vladimír Hanák, Věra Jirousová, Marie Klimešová, Jana Machalická, Jiří Machalický, Elissa Lin Meyers, Pavlína Morganová, Andrew Nairne, Hana Rousová, František Šmejkal, Jiří Valoch, Josef Vomáčka
Photos: Vladimír Kiva Novotný, Fabiana Hrubiš Mertová, Oto Palán
Period and complementary photographs: Kurt Gebauer, Hana Hamplová, Bohdan Holomíček, Radek Koděra, Petr Kuklík, Vladimír Merta, Oto Palán, Miroslav Vránek, author’s archive
Editing of texts: Kateřina Danielová
Translation: Zdeněk Havlíček
Graphic design: Tomáš Vrba, Aparat.
Print: tiskárna Helbich, a. s.
Edition: 1.
Number of pieces: 300

 

Prague Pallas & Moravian Hellas 1902: Auguste Rodin in Prague and Moravia

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Publisher: Galerie a nakladatelství Stará pošta
Year of publication: 2023
Number of pages: 223
Size: 185 × 245 mm
Language: in Czech
ISBN: 978-80-908084-3-0, 978-80-7485-268-8

Editor: Helena Musilová
Texts: Hana Dvořáková, Magdalena Juříková, Helena Musilová, Vít Vlnas
Photos: Rudolf Bruner-Dvořák, Oto Palán, Hana Hamplová, Archiv hlavního města Prahy, Galerie KODL, Národní galerie v Praze, Moravské zemské muzeum v Brně, Galerie hlavního města Prahy, Středočeské muzeum v Roztokách u Prahy, Galerie výtvarného umění v Hodoníně, Sbírka Scheufler, Miroslav Potyka, Hana Dvořáková, Josef Fantura–GVU Hodonín
Odpovědná redaktorka: Kateřina Mikšová
Translation from English: Štěpán Kaňa
Basis for maps: Ivo Habán
Graphic design: Jiří Mičkal
Print: tiskárna Helbich, a. s.

In 1902, the French sculptor Auguste Rodin visited Prague and Moravia. This trip, associated with his largest exhibition abroad at the time, it was important not only for the sculptor himself but also for the indelible traces he left at the place he visited. It was significant for the generation of painters and especially sculptors of the time, for whom it helped to clarify the path towards a modern artistic direction, while it also foreshadowed the future orientation of the art scene towards French art. On the other hand, from what the artistic and social elite of the time considered important to show to this important visitor, we can also deduce essential information about the priorities and character of the era.

The exhibition and publication project, prepared in collaboration between the Prague City Gallery, the Ethnographic Institute of the Moravian Museum in Brno and the Gallery of Fine Arts in Hodonín, will for the first time systematically address the “accompanying programme” that was prepared for Rodin.

Based on a new study of archival sources, i.e. magazines, correspondence, personal archives, etc., it will try to outline the reasons why – and this is one of the main themes of the book – August Rodin came to Moravian Slovakia, where he visited the Exhibition of Slovak and Moravian Artists in Hodonín and where an almost all-Moravian-Slovak festival took place on the occasion of his visit (“Near the villages we passed through, the village official representatives, school children, dressed-up girls and perhaps even the whole village were waiting.” Lidové noviny daily, 3 June 1902). The whole “festival” was an artificially prepared event made by request, unrelated to any specific events in rural life, such as holy days or other church festivals.

Ivan Meštrović (1883–1962). Sculptor and Citizen of the World

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Publisher: GHMP
Year of publication: 2022
Number of pages: 264
Size: 195 × 285 mm
Language: in Czech, in English
ISBN: 978-80-7010-184-1

Editors: Sandra Baborovská, Ondřej Vojtěchovský, Barbara Vujanović
Texts: Sandra Baborovská, Aude Chevalier, Irena Kraševac, Hana Larvová, Marijan Lipovac,
Alena Pomajzlová, Dalibor Prančević, Ondřej Vojtěchovský, Barbara Vujanović, Petr Wittlich
Resume: Barbara Vujanović
Biographical information: Barbara Vujanović, Ondřej Vojtěchovský
Photos: Anderson – Fototeka Galerije Meštrović; Barbara Šarić – Fototeka
Galerije Meštrović; Boris Cvjetanović – Fototeka Galerije Meštrović; Carl Thiefs – Fototeka Galerije Meštrović; Česká pošta, s.p.; ČTK; Eugène Druet – Fototeka Galerije Meštrović; Fine Art Archives of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts; Firšt – Fototeka Galerije Meštrović; Foto Tonka – Fototeka Atelijera Meštrović; Hervé Lewandowski – Musée Rodin, Paris; Christian Baraja – Musée Rodin, Paris; Institut za povijest umjetnosti; Jerome Manoukian – Agence Photographique du Musée Rodin; Josef Sudek; Moravská zemská knihovna v Brně; Moritz Nahr – Fototeka Galerije Meštrović; Museums and Galleries of Konavale; Muzej grada Beograda; Muzeji Ivana Meštrovića; Národní archiv; Národní galerie Praha; Národní knihovna České republiky – Slovanská knihovna; Svetozar Prodanović – Fototeka Atelijera Meštrović; Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Wien; The Cleveland Museum of Art; Uměleckoprůmyslové museum v Praze; Valentino Bilić Prcić – Fototeka Galerije Meštrović; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Vlado Bohdan – Ústav dějin umění AV ČR v. v. i.; Zoran Alajbeg – Fototeka Galerije Meštrović
Translation from Croatian and English: Lucie Vidmar, Branislava Kuburović
Translation into English: Lucie Vidmar, Branislava Kuburović
Translation from French: Michala Marková
Editing of Czech texts: Lucie Vidmar
Editing of English texts: Jodie Hruby
Graphic design: Robert V. Novák
Technical collaboration: Karolína Matušková, Ondřej Krochmalný, Darko Trempetić, Tanja Budimir Bekan
Prepress preparation: Tomáš Brichcín
Production: Anna Kulíčková
Print: H.R.G. spol. s.r.o.

The monograph, contributed by ten Czech and foreign authors, experts in the fields of art history and history, deals with various aspects of the artistic and political life of Croatian sculptor Ivan Meštrović (1883–1962). It focuses on the context of the development of sculpture during Meštrović’s artistic maturation, especially during his studies in Vienna and the time he spent in Paris under the influence of Auguste Rodin. It also focuses on the political framework of Meštrović’s work which shaped the visual form of the national and state ideology of the former Yugoslavia. Chapters on Meštrović’s links to the Czech environment and on Czech reflection on Meštrović’s work provide revealing insights. The authors unanimously point to Meštrović’s efforts to express, through particular national and religious motives, his views on general human topics and universal humanistic values. At the same time, they present Meštrović as a highly successful international artist breaking down the barriers between the supposed centres and peripheries of world art. The book is the most extensive scholarly publication devoted to this important sculptor in the Czech language to date. It brings together a number of previously unpublished images, especially photographs of Meštrović’s sculptures by the Czech photographer Josef Sudek. All texts are both in Czech and English. The book also includes a biographical chronology, reprints of texts on Meštrović by leading Czech art critics of the first half of the 20th century and a selected bibliography focusing on Czech books and essays on Meštrović. The book is published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name organized at the Prague City Gallery in cooperation with the Museums of Ivan Meštrović in Split and Zagreb.