Fotograf Gallery

Finnur Arnar Arnarson, Karlotta Blöndal, Gunhild Enger, Þórunn Eymundardóttir, Monika Fryčová, Tommy Høvik, Elvar Már Kjartansson, Alena Kotzmannová, Iselin Lindstad Hauge, Julia Martin, Vladimír Merta, Pavel Mrkus, Greg Pope, Kristín Rúnarsdóttir, Ivar Smedstad, Vladimír Turner, Robert Vlasák, Diana Winklerová, Martin Zet
— Frontiers of Solitude


Opening: Thursday, February 4, at 6 pm
Curators: Dagmar Šubrtová, Miloš Vojtěchovský, Julia Martin, Ivar Smedstad

The exhibition, hosted by Školská 28 Gallery, Fotograf Gallery and the gallery Ex Post will present the artistic research by participants from Iceland, Norway and the Czech Republic. The project focuses on current transformations of the landscape and the close connections between our post-industrial civilization and nature. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue and an international symposium organized in collaboration with the French Institute in Prague and with the support of the Agosto Foundation. The exhibition also takes place at the Vysočina Regional Gallery in Jihlava from March 31 till May 29, 2016.

The two-day-long interdisciplinary symposium Frontiers of Solitude 
(February, 5-6) has been organized with the support and cooperation of the French Institute in Prague will offer an overview of the opinions, experiences, and viewpoints of artists, curators, and invited guests on the theme of transitions in the landscape in which we currently live and of which we are a part.

The symposium will search for relationships between the cultural, political, and economic aspects of contemporary concepts and our understanding of what is meant by such words as Earth, countryside, landscape, and land, including the topography of transitional zones, with an eye on both establishing and crossing over boundaries and limitations.

The project Frontiers of Solitude is a joint initiative of the Školská 28 Gallery Prague, Czech republic (Deai/setkání), the Atelier Nord, Oslo, Norway and the Skaftfell Center for Visual Arts in Iceland. It is supported by grant from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA Grants.

Guests and participants: Guy van Belle /BE/CZ/, Vít Bohal, Dustin Breitling /US/, Peter Cusack /GB/, Petr Gibas, András Heszky/HU/(Translocal Institute),Stanislav Komárek, Alena Kotzmannová, Julia Martin /IS/DE, Pavel Mrkus, Ivo Přikryl, Martin Říha, Ivar Smedstad /NO/, Matěj Spurný, Tereza Stöckelová,Martin Škabraha, John Jordan /FR/ a Isabelle Frémeaux /FR/GB/ (The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination).

Program, blog and archive: frontiers-of-solitude.org

The project Frontiers of Solitude is a joint initiative of the Školská 28 Gallery Prague, Czech republic (Deai/setkání), the Atelier Nord, Oslo, Norway and the Skaftfell Center for Visual Arts in Iceland. It is supported by grant from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA Grants.

Support and Partners: Agosto Foundation, Fotograf Gallery, Ex Post, French Institute in Prague, Hungarian Institute in Prague.

Media partners: ArtMap, A2, jlbjlt, kulturissimo.cz, Artalk, Skandinávský dům.

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Support

Fotograf Gallery is supported by the Czech Ministry of Culture and during the year 2021 by a grant from the City of Prague amounting to 630 000 CZK.