Dagmar Hochová 7. 10. 2025 – 4. 1. 2026
Curator: Jiří Pátek
For twelve years, the photography department of the Moravian Gallery in Brno, headed by Jiří Pátek, has been processing the extensive estate of the important Czech photographer Dagmar Hochová (1926–2012). In 2024, part of this estate was presented at the Moravian Gallery.
The retrospective exhibition and the monograph that evaluated this material aimed to update the established image of the artist as a photographer of children—a legacy of the 1980s—and to present Hochová in the light of many other thematic areas that often relate to our national history.
Similarly, the Prague reprise, or rather the Prague version of the exhibition, will present a number of different images with an emphasis on the Prague environment. Visitors will have the opportunity to see reportage from pivotal moments in our history, pictures of important personalities from the domestic cultural and political scene, as well as materials that the artist created on commission for magazines and book publishers, and photographs of art objects that she took for her artist friends. Of particular interest to visitors will be her early works from the time of her studies at the State School of Graphic Arts and her camera studies at FAMU in Prague, or behind-the-scenes footage of the nascent domestic parliamentary democracy from the early 1990s, when she was a member of the Czech National Council, which ended her career as a photographer.
