Artist talk: "A Drifter's Songs of Life and Death" | Vienna Art Week 2025

EVENT LANGUAGE: ENGLISH AND GERMAN

Prague Art Week in cooperation with the Czech Centre Vienna is pleased to present the exhibition A Drifter`s Songs of Life and Death, which presents works by several generations of artists who worked in Bohemia and the former Austria-Hungary. Jiří Karásek from Lvovice, Štěpán Brož (Berlinskej Model), Adam Holý (Polansky Gallery), Lindal Morell, Anna Ruth (Bold Gallery), Petr Strouhal, Tereza Zelenková and antique items loaned by Art House Hejtmánek.

The exhibition, which is curated by Lenka and Richard Bakes, is named after the collection of Jiří Karásek from Lvovice, a classic of Czech Romanticism and Decadence. The theme of the exhibition is wandering, a journey through landscapes, natural, cultural, mental, but also post-industrial landscapes of intelligent machines and dangerous hyperobjects.

The journey – the “escape” can be seen as escapism from this ” complicated” world, but at the same time it can be a renewed attempt at the renaissance of man and humanity as such through transcendence, nomadism. There is only one world – be it the “real” one or the one in our most secret imaginations.

“Man should be the creator and author of the map defining the parallels and meridians of his own life – and thus open up space for his own independent action, individuality and wonder at the world in a mechanized age.”

R. W. Emerson

Artist talk at 5 pm

Opening ceremony at 6.3o pm

Exhibition lasts from 10. – 30. November 2023

More information on: https://wien.czechcentres.cz/de/

ART SPACE

Herrengasse 17, 1010 Wien

wien.czechcentres.cz

01 535 23 61

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Tschechisches Zentrum Wien

The Czech Center Vienna, the cultural department of the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Vienna, was opened in 1994 in the city center, in the immediate vicinity of the Hofburg and Burgtheater, and is in dialogue with the Austrian public and media landscape. Both in the capital and in the provinces, the Czech Center Vienna organizes events (including exhibitions, readings, discussions, concerts, film screenings) and cooperates with cultural institutions to present the Czech Republic as a country with a rich culture.