"Michal Koleček established himself in the 1990s as a unique curator for the Emil Filla Gallery in Ústí nad Labem, CZ. As a result of his efforts, many artists from the former Eastern Bloc are not only finding a place in Ústí, but also in Prague.In your work as a curator you mostly focus, as few here do, on post-communist art. How did you first become interested in something so specific? First,…
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Jan Stolín, 5.2m per second. Curated by Monika Mitášová, Pecka Gallery, Prague, 7 February – 16 March 2001Though he’s not well known in Prague, Jan Stolín was right there in the trenches for last year’s Jindřich Chalupecký Award. Following a tight race, the award was spirited away by his more popular peer, David Černý, who, incidentally, was his classmate at Kurt Gebauer’s sculpture studio in the…
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"The American novelist Walter Abish has described the work of the younger writer Jürg Laederach (who wrote the novel Wie Deutsch Ist Das on the German psyche) as capturing “the spirit of the new Europe”: “A Europe to come, when borders dissolve [...] Characters vanish, reappear. The short segments are sharply defined. There is something relentless about the build up... Everything is transitory.…
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