Organized by the National Gallery in Prague and UMPRUM in connection with a research project supported by the Czech Ministry of Culture (NAKI)
With select exhibits of various art media on display, this exhibition shows the ways in which Czechoslovakia was presented in 1918–1939 and 1945–1992 as a state entity, and how the visual arts and its institutions played a role in representing the country. The list of art media is extremely broad and ranges from small- and large-scale oil paintings and bronze sculptures to prints, photographs, installations, and architectural models and plans, to films and even product design, exhibition design and organization, and the clothing made by the Centre for Folk Art Production. Instead of the usual art-history canon, this exhibition will present a cross-section of the true form of the period’s visual history.
The exhibition will include the publication of a large catalogue with abundant pictorial documentation and interesting essays. Accompanying programs will be geared toward both children and youth, and the older generations – the witnesses of Czechoslovakia.
Authors: Milena Bartlová, Karel Císař, Anna Hejmová, Lada Hubatová-Vacková, Kaliopi Chamonikola, Johana Lomová, Martina Pachmanová, Veronika Rollová, Cyril Říha, Jindřich Vybíral, Jan Wollner, cooperation Katarína Bajcurová
Curated by: Milena Bartlová
Architect: Tomáš Svoboda
Design: Jan Čumlivski
Photography: Ondřej Přibyl (CZ), Olja Triaška Stefanovič (Slovakia)
Timeline: proposal - Karel Šima and Milena Bartlová, realization - Tomáš Svoboda
**Entrance fee**
Basic: 180 CZK (citizens of 15 to 64 years)
Reduced: 90 CZK (children of 6 to 15 years, students up to 26 years with valid certificate of study and holders of discount cards)
Seniors citizens over 65 years: free entry
Family: 350 CZK
School group: 20 CZK/pers.
