USELESS | exhibition

An exhibition designed according to the criteria of uselessness, unworkability, inadaptability, and self-destructive obstinacy. Created by women artists who have the potential of being a disaster of epic proportions for curators and exhibition organizers. There exists a group of women artists to whom we have an ambivalent relationship. Their creations strike us as strange, incomprehensible, complicated – and at the same time fascinating. We have responded by categorically labeling their art with the seemingly offensive term “useless”, to which we can add “impracticable” and “unusable”.

Then we discovered that the concept of uselessness/unusability provides practically the only criterion for understanding art at a time when it is surrounded by incomprehension, and that it is rejected by the art world precisely for being inappropriate. These artists ignore the gallery’s technical capabilities, the laws of physics, the public mood, the mental processes of their loved ones or the intellectual constructs of curators and organizers, and take an idealistic approach to the possibilities of the contemporary exhibition industry. They almost always end up in conflict with the exhibition’s vision, and test the goodwill of the hosting organizations. They are constantly exploring what the world can handle: as if it was all their own personal experiment. And yet, we find not a trace of selfishness, just the immense effort at creating a miracle.

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Useless artists: Darina Alster, Kateřina Olivová, Blanka Jakubčíková,Karolína KohoutkovÁ, Šárka Mikesková, Jana Kochánková, Klára Břicháčková, Marie Štindlová and Lenka Klodová

Useles from The Life Brada without Brad Pitt: Eva Jaroňová a Pavla Kantorová, Klarisa Kleinerová, JanaP, Lucie Sedláková, Anita Somrová, Barbora Trnková a Barbora Zelničková

Music: Barbora Zelničková - Ticho de rouge and Sitcom and Sonja Neverstop

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