Michaela
Thelenová
C U R R E N T
HIDDEN
PUBLICS
Kunsthalle
Palazzo, Liestal bei Basel, Switzerland
www.palazzo.ch
August
21 - October 3, 2010
Concept: Dr. Walter Seidl (Austria),
Dr. Andrea Domesle
(Austria)
Cooperation partner: < rotor > association
for contemporary art, Graz, Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana
Laurence
Bonvin (Lausanne and Berlin), Walter Derungs (Basel), Markus Dorfmüller
(Hamburg),
Esther Hiepler und Max Phillipp Schmid (Basel), Sanja Ivekovic (Zagreb),
Martin Krenn (Vienna),
Jérôme Leuba (Genf), Ivan Moudov (Sofia), Tobias Zielony (Berlin),
Warren Neidich (New York),
Walter Seidl (Vienna), Michaela Thelenová (Ústi nad Labem)
A
R C H I V _ 2 0 10
FORMATE DER TRANSFORMATION
89-09
Museum
auf Abruf - MUSA, Vienna, Austria
www.musa.at
Info
February
25 - April 30, 2010
Concept: Vladimír Beskid, Karel Císař, Aneta Mona Chisa, Martina Pachmanová,
Marie Polášková,
Michal Koleček, Tomáš Pospiszyl
Coordinator: František Kowolowski, Rostislav Koryčánek
Jesper
Alvaer & Isabela Grosseová, Zbyněk Baladrán & Jiří Skála,
Blažej Baláž, Erik Binder, Erika Bornová, Jiří Černický, Anna Daučíková,
Milena Dopitová, Tomáš Džadoň, Pavlína Fichta Čierna, Sylva Francová,
Viktor Frešo, Matej Gavula, Jitka Géringová, Daniel Hanzlík, Pavel
Humhal, Aneta Mona Chisa, Radek Jandera, Tereza Kabůrková, Markéta
Kinterová, Barbora Klímová & Filip Cenek, Lenka Klodová, Martin
Kolář, Zdena Kolečková, Pavel Kopřiva, Eva Koťátková, Alena Kotzmannová,
Martin Kuriš, Marek Kvetan, Ján Mančuška, Svätopluk Mikyta (XYZ),
Silvie Milková, Michal Moravčík, Tamara Moyzes, Eva Mráziková, Martin
Mrázik, Pavel Mrkus, Radka Müllerová, Ilona Németh, Jan Řezáč, Miroslav
Rovenský, Nora Ružičková, Sláva Sobotovičová, Věra Stuchelová, Jiří
Surůvka, Blanka Svatošová, Kateřina Šedá, Erik Šille (Otex a owad),
Michaela Thelenová, Milan Tittel (XYZ), Markéta Váradiová, Tereza
P. Velíková, Kateřina Vincourová, Robert Vlasák, Mirek Vodrážka, Jana
Želibská, skupiny Matky a otcové, Podebal, Kamera Skura, Rafani, Billboart
Gallery
TVOŘENÍ SVĚTŮ / MAKING WORLDS
Emil
Filla Gallery, Gallery NF, Exhibit area Vitrínky, Ústí nad Labem,
Czech Republic
www.gef.cz,
www.gnf.wz.cz,
www.vitrinky.blogspot.com
February
3 - February 12, 2010
Concept: Silvie Milková, Veronika Daňhelová
Pavel
Baňka, Jana
Butzke,
Buxton
Bruce Nicholas,
Pavla Byrtusová, Veronika
Daňhelová, Claire Daudline, Michaela Dašková, Daniela Deutelbaumová,
Jaroslav Dufek, Jan Fabián, Miroslav Hašek, Pavel Havrda, Jan Hrubeš,
Tereza Honsová, Karla Hostašová, Tomáš Hrůza, Tereza Chlíbcová, Matyáš
Chochola, Radek Jandera, Antonín Jirát, Markéta Kinterová, Jiří Kirchner,
Barbora Kleinhamplová, Zdena Kolečková, Václav Kopecký, Pavel Kopřiva,
Jiří Kovanda a studenti at. Performance, Jan Kuntoš, David Landa,
Aleš Loziak, Tomáš Ludvík, Lubomír Lukčo, Vojta Marek, Barbora Martínková,
Pavel Matela, Silvie Milková, Eva Mráziková, Jakub Nitche, Martin
Novák, Yumiko Ono, Robert Palkovič, Kottie Paloma, Stanislav Pexa,
Jan Plesl, Jan Prošek, Luděk Prošek, Kateřina Průžková, Jan Přibylský,
Josef Rabara, Helena Račková, Lenka Reiterová, Barbora Seibrtová,
Tereza Stejskalová, Pavel Sterec, Blanka Svatošová, Filip Šách, Michaela
Thelenová, Kateřina Zochová
FORMÁTY TRANSFORMACE
89-09
The
Brno House of Arts, Brno, Czech Republic
www.dum-umeni.cz/cz
November
18, 2009 - January 17, 2010
Concept: Vladimír Beskid, Karel Císař, Aneta Mona Chisa, Martina Pachmanová,
Marie Polášková,
Michal Koleček, Tomáš Pospiszyl
Coordinator: František Kowolowski
Jesper
Alvaer & Isabela Grosseová, Zbyněk Baladrán & Jiří Skála,
Blažej Baláž, Erik Binder, Erika Bornová, Jiří Černický, Anna Daučíková,
Milena Dopitová, Tomáš Džadoň, Pavlína Fichta Čierna, Sylva Francová,
Viktor Frešo, Matej Gavula, Jitka Géringová, Daniel Hanzlík, Pavel
Humhal, Aneta Mona Chisa, Radek Jandera, Tereza Kabůrková, Markéta
Kinterová, Barbora Klímová & Filip Cenek, Lenka Klodová, Martin
Kolář, Zdena Kolečková, Pavel Kopřiva, Eva Koťátková, Alena Kotzmannová,
Martin Kuriš, Marek Kvetan, Ján Mančuška, Svätopluk Mikyta (XYZ),
Silvie Milková, Michal Moravčík, Tamara Moyzes, Eva Mráziková, Martin
Mrázik, Pavel Mrkus, Radka Müllerová, Ilona Németh, Jan Řezáč, Miroslav
Rovenský, Nora Ružičková, Sláva Sobotovičová, Věra Stuchelová, Jiří
Surůvka, Blanka Svatošová, Kateřina Šedá, Erik Šille (Otex a owad),
Michaela Thelenová, Milan Tittel (XYZ), Markéta Váradiová, Tereza
P. Velíková, Kateřina Vincourová, Robert Vlasák, Mirek Vodrážka, Jana
Želibská, skupiny Matky a otcové, Podebal, Kamera Skura, Rafani, Billboart
Gallery
A
R C H I V _ 2 0 0 9
SOMETHING
OF MYSELF: 23 self-portraits
Hunt
Kastner Artworks, Prague, Czech Republic
www.huntkastner.com
June
25 - August 26, 2009
Concept: Katherine Kastner, Camille Hunt
Zbyněk
Baladrán, Josef Bolf, Veronika Bromová, Tomáš Džadoň, Lenka Klodová,
Lena Knilli,
Viktor Kopasz, Eva Koťátková, Jan J. Kotik, Alena Kotzmannová, César
Martínez, Daniel Pitín, Podebal,
Jiří Příhoda, Jan Šerých, Štepánka Šimlová, Jiří Skála, Michaela Thelenová,
Jiří Thýn, Tomáš Vaněk,
Petra Vargová, Lenka Vítková
ON
THE TECTONICS OF HISTORY
ISCP,
New York, USA
www.iscp-nyc.org
May
30 - June 28, 2009
Concept: Andrea Domesle (Austria), Martin Krenn (Austria)
David
Adam, Pat Binder, Klaus vom Bruch, Lutz Dammbeck, Jochen Gerz, Hans
Haacke, Rafal Jakubowicz, Klub Zwei, Grzegorz Klaman, Zdena Kolečková,
Anna Konik, Anna Kowalska, Martin Krenn,
Monument für die Niederlage, Susanne Kriemann, Robert Kuśmirowski,
Pia Lanzinger, Boris Lurie,
Gustav Metzger, Lisl Ponger, Rafani, Anja Salomonowitz, Naomi Tereza
Salmon, Joachim Seinfeld,
Esther Shalev-Gerz, Tim Sharp, Michaela Thelenová, Maciej Toporowicz,
Arye Wachsmuth,
Peter Weibel, Artur Żmijewski
LAND
OF HUMAN RIGHTS - 3rd poster campaign
One integral part of the long-term project “Land of Human Rights”
is a poster campaign. Starting in September 2007, a set of 4 posters
will be printed every half a year. The front side of the posters will
present works of artists on current human rights issues and on the
back side there will be short texts of human rights activists, theorists
or people affected by human rights. The aim of the campaign is to
inform the people about their rights in connection with the human
rights and to raise awareness of current human rights issues in a
large part of the population.
www.landofhumanrights.eu
www.landofhumanrights.eu/eng/project/index.html
from
February, 2009
BEHIND
THE VELVET CURTAIN
Katzen Art Center
at American University, Washington, DC, USA
www.american.edu/academic.depts/cas/katzen/
April
3 - May 18, 2009
Concept: Martina Pachmanová (Czech Republic)
Erika
Bornová, Milena Dopitová, Lenka Klodová, Zdena Kolečková, Alena Kotzmannová,
Michaela Thelenová, Kateřina Vincourová
Seven Women Artists from the Czech Republic
The exhibition shows works by seven significant Czech women artists
who, with the means of different media (video, installation, photography,
drawing), challenge mechanisms of power related to gender, sexual,
ethnic and national identity. The title of the show Behind the Velvet
Curtain paraphrases the notorious concept of the Iron Curtain that
signified the impermeable border around the former Soviet Bloc, and,
at the same time, refers to the well-known cognomen of the political
changes in former Czechoslovakia in 1989, the Velvet Revolution. However,
both words – “velvet” and “curtain” – are commonly employed in a much
less symbolic way; they literally mean the fabric or cloth that is
soft, often used for women’s toilette or in the interior. The two
words thus carry strong connotations of the sphere that is traditionally
ascribed to femininity, i.e. the sphere of privacy, domesticity, sexuality,
fantasy, but also care-taking and luxury. And it is mainly this context
where intimacy and politics create an inseparable pair into which
the exhibition is framed.
The exhibition Behind the Velvet Curtain presents women artists who
entered the Czech and consecutively international art scene in the
last fifteen years (all of them were born in the 1960s and 70s). It
takes the viewers into the marginalized zones of the post-communist
society where female desire, sexuality, identity, maternity, family,
or age still subjected to many social and cultural prejudices, and
where the old communist patriarchal system that deprived women of
their privacy and got a total control of their bodies, behavior and
decisions, has transformed into a no less patriarchal capitalist imperative
of the production and consumption that publicly uses female sexuality
as a symbol of freedom and democracy. However, the exhibition also
touches upon much older traumas that still influence the personal
and collective identity of women but also men in this part of Europe,
such as the war experience, German occupation, and anti-German pogroms.
Although this exhibition is neither explicitly political nor explicitly
feminist, it has strong social dimension.
It aims to – metaphorically – undraw the curtain and disclose complex
and often complicated relationships between men and women, rationality
and emotions, reality and dream, “we” (“I”) and “they” (“Other”),
inside and outside, center and periphery. Yet, women, such as the
artists in this show and its curator, who spent up to now at least
half of their lives behind the Iron Curtain, know that clearly demarcated
polarities in life and society don’t exist and people’s roles change;
the subordination can generate strength, and domination and power
can quickly turn into weakness and marginalization. Everything flows;
iron and velvet are closer to each other than it seems at first sight…
Martina
Pachmanová
REBUS
SIC STANTIBUS
Emil
Filla Gallery, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic
www.gef.cz
April
29 - May 29, 2009
Concept: Michal Koleček (Czech Republic), Silja Lehtonen (Finland)
Jiří
Černický (CZ), Zdena Kolečková (CZ),
Pavel
Kopřiva (CZ),
Antti Laitinen (F), Renja
Leino (F),
Anni
Leppänen (F),
Silvie
Milková (CZ),
Harri
Pälviranta (F),
Hannele
Romppanen (F),
Jari
Silomäki (F),
Michaela Thelenová
(CZ)
VELMI
KŘEHKÉ VZTAHY - obraz rodiny v současném umění
Armaturka
Gallery, SCHIFR-AC, s.r.o., Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic
April
27 - May 28, 2009
Concept: students of Curatorship Studies, FAD JEPU
in Ústí nad Labem
Petra
Buzková, Radka Doležalová-Pavlíková, Vendula Fremlová, Jan Gemrot,
Jitka Géringová, Barbora Hapalová, Pavel Havrda, Tereza Chaloupková,
Lenka Klodová, Gabriela Kontra, Jan Kratochvíla, Ľubomíra Lavríková
Abt, Barbora Kuklíková, Richard Loskot, Radka Müllerová, Jana Pospíšilová,
Lucie Preissová, Dušan Skala, Barbora Stejskalová, Georgia Stuart,
Jana Štěpánová, Michaela Thelenová, Sára Venclovská, Libuše Vendlová,
Silvie Vondřejcová
PHOTOMONTH
IN KRAKOW 2009
Krakow,
Poland
www.photomonth.com
May
6 - May 31, 2009
Concept of part AKTUALIZACJA: David Korecký (Czech
Republic),
Sylva Francová (Czech
Republic)
THOUGHTS
OF A WIFE
Fiducia
Gallery,
Ostrava, Czech Republic
March
31 - April 28, 2009
Solo
exhibition
A R C H I V _ 2 0 0 8
The New
Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) Art Fair 2008 Miami
hunt
kastner artworks presenting works by
Josef
Bolf, Viktor Kopasz, Alena Kotzmannová, Daniel Pitín, Jan Šerých,
Michaela Thelenová
Booth
C8, The Ice Palace, Miami,
FL, USA
www.newartdealers.org
December
3 - December 7, 2008
IMAGE, COMMUNICATION, STYLE, FUNCTION, CONCEPT
(exhibition
of Faculty of Art and Design, Jan Evangelista
Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem)
National
Gallery, Collection
of Modern and Contemporary Art,
Prague, Czech Republic
www.ngprague.cz
November
26, 2008 - January 30, 2009
ME
AND THE OTHERS
Nitra
Gallery, Nitra, Slovakia
www.nitrianskagaleria.sk
May
6 - June 29, 2008
Concept: Barbora Geržová (Slovakia)
Michaela
Thelenová + Gabika Binderová, Eva Filová, Pavlína Fichta Čierna, Anton
Čierny, Peter Kalmus,
Marek Kvetán, Matúš Lányi, Stano Masár, Michal Murin, Dorota Sadovská
REBUS
SIC STANTIBUS
Aboa
Vetus & Ars Nova Museum, Turku, Finlandia
www.aboavetusarsnova.fi
April
11 - May 25, 2008
Concept: Michal Koleček (Czech Republic), Silja Lehtonen (Finlandia)
Jiří
Černický (CZ), Zdena Kolečková (CZ),
Pavel
Kopřiva (CZ),
Antti Laitinen (F), Renja
Leino (F),
Anni
Leppänen (F),
Silvie
Milková (CZ),
Harri
Pälviranta (F),
Hannele
Romppanen (F),
Jari
Silomäki (F),
Michaela Thelenová
(CZ)
HUNT KASTNER ARTWORKS AT VIENNAFAIR 08
Messe
Wien, Vienna, Austria
Messeplatz 1, 1020
Vienna
www.viennafair.at
www.huntkastner.com
April 24 - 27, 2008
HOT DESTINATION / MARGINAL DESTINY IV.
The aim of the long-term project HOT DESTINATION / MARGINAL DESTINY
is to map
the recent art production arising from the Central-European post-communist
space.
The project is structured as a series of exhibitions localized in prestigious
institutions
operating in regional centres with a strong affinity to the international
context
of the contemporary art. Individual exhibitions naturally relate to
the specific situation
of the site, for which they have been prepared, however at the same
time they are
interconnected and communicate to each other. The selection of artists
is focused
on the generation of the 20th century's last decade that most consistently
reflects
the process of political, economic and cultural transformation characteristic
for the post-communist region.
Motorenhalle,
Dresden, Germany
www.motorenhalle.de
November
10, 2007 - January 19, 2008
Concept: Michal Koleček (Czech Republic), Frank Eckhardt (Germany)
Janet
Grau (D), Frank Hermann (D), Martin Kuriš (CZ), Michal Moravčík (SK),
Michaela Thelenová (CZ), Dominik Hruza (A), Pavel Kopřiva (CZ), Barbora
Klímová (CZ),
Jiří Hladík (CZ)
photo
© Pavel Kopřiva
