Events: January 2013
December 2012
February 2013
David Němec: A Real Event
06/11/12 – 13/01/13
In his work, David Němec – who is showing his art from the last 15 years at Galerie Montmartre – primarily focuses on figural motifs, attempting to capture spiritual realities. His pictures come primarily from the Czech painting tradition of the 1960s. It could perhaps be said that they have been inspired by the work of the artists Mikuláš Medek and Otakar Slavík, close friends of Němec’s family who moved in the Charter 77 and underground circles centred on the legendary flat on Ječná St. where David Němec grew up. More
Returns to White Solitude – The Polar Underground
January 7, 2013, 19:00
An evening with Miroslav Jakeš, a traveler and conqueror of the North Pole. He is a “guardian angel of intellectuals” and has accompanied to the wilderness the likes of former editor-in-chief of Respekt Milan Šimeček, musician Tomáš Schill and firebrand poet Petr Placák… The Antarctic, Greenland, Tierra del Fuego and Svalbard, or: How to get there and above all how to get back. Karel Schwarzenberg has described Jakeš as “an extraordinary man who has achieved extraordinary things.”
Roman Trabura – Things are Starting to Happen...
January 14, 2013, 19:00
An exhibition of pictures from the post-apocalyptic workshop of a leading Czech creative artist. There will be a reading by the novelist Petr Pazdera Payne. More
Eighties: Roman Trabura - Things are starting to happen…
14/01/13 – 17/02/13
Roman Trabura (*1960 Vsetín) did not graduate from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague until the 1990s. As he put it himself: “With regard to studying, under the ‘Bolsheviks’ it didn’t even occur to me to give it a go. In those days, I was more underground, a rocker and nihilist.” His art has few peers on the Czech scene. He is constantly trying out new formal approaches, which he transforms like a snake shedding its skin. At the same time, he remains faithful to certain of his main themes, such as landscape painting. More
Eighties: Roman Trabura - Things are starting to happen…
14/01/13 – 17/02/13 Exhibitions
In 2013, the Václav Havel Library’s Galerie Montmartre is presenting an exhibition series entitled “Eighties” that presents the generation of artists born in the 1950s and ‘60s. Among those represented are artists from the underground and those who studied in the 1980s while also taking part in unofficial exhibitions, including the Confrontation series. They include Michal Cihlář, Otta Placht and Libor Krejcar. The idea behind the series is to present artists, often operating on their own, whose work is insufficiently known to the public. The series has got underway with a show of work by David Němec, which runs until 13 January 2012. More
VHL film marathon – The movie family background of Václav Havel
January 15, 2013, 18:00
Václav Havel’s childhood was naturally influenced by the fact that he came from the family of the builder of the Lucerna Palace, the founder of the Barrandov district and one of the country’s biggest film magnates. This is borne out by both period hits and hitherto unseen gems from the family’s treasure trove. More
President Václav Klaus and Prime Minister Petr Nečas’s controversial amnesty
January 17, 2013, 18:00
Journalist Jan Macháček hosts a discussion with figures from Czech public life, politicians and political scientists. Jan Kudrna, Jan Kysela a Lenka Marečková have confirmed their participation.
On the World Around Us
January 24, 2013, 19:00
Presentation of a book of the same name by the well-known journalist and documentary maker Petrušktra Šustrová containing over 100 columns and reports from the last decade reacting to political and social developments in the Czech Republic and at points of conflict in the disintegrating Soviet empire, including Georgia, Transnistira and Nagorno-Karabach.
