THE 20th ANNUAL JINDŘICH CHALUPECKÝ AWARD
23.10.2009 - 10.1.2010
On October 23, the 2009 Jindřich Chalupecký Award finalist exhibition was opened at Dox, Centre for Contemporary Art in Holešovice, Prague. 49 artists or art groups have applied or have been nominated this year. The 2009 exhibition features work by five finalists selected by the jury: Tomáš Džadoň, the art duo of Jiří Franta and David Böhm, Petra Herotová, Alena Kotzmannová, Jiří Skála. Each finalist has created a new project for the exhibition which, in most cases, responds directly to the gallery space.
This year's winner of the prize is: Jiří Skála, he was decided and later announced during a ceremony on November 12, 2009. The ceremony took place as a staged theatre play written especially for this occasion by Michal Pěchouček, the 2003 Jindřich Chalupecký Award winner
The 2009 prize winner received:
- 100.000 CZK to realize an exhibition, project or a catalogue (during the year 2010)
- six-week scholarship in New York (spring or autumn 2010)
- 50,000 CZK cheque to support the artist’s future artistic development
The exhibition Finalists 09 will run until January 10, 2010.
We apologize to all visitors that Jiří Skála’s project has not been installed at present. Based on the requirement of the Fire Inspection Commission, which threatened to close the whole DOX Center, Jiří Skála was offered a substitute space which he decided not to use. Jiří Skála says that his approach to solving this situation demonstrates his life-long warfare against regulations. Here you can find his statement which replaces the current installation and becomes an integral part of his project.
Tomáš Džadoň
Playful installations by Tomáš Džadoň (born 1981) combine elements of folk architecture and socialist modernism with the spirit of the modern times. He mixes these contradictory but personally experienced aspects of the tradition into absurd collages. His works often confuse the audience.
On the 4th floor of the gallery, Džadoň created a fictional space of a disassembled prefab flat where he had spent his childhood. The scale of the aesthetic kit corresponds to real proportions including details of the windows and the balcony. The installation includes a video of the infinite, bi-directional flow of a river.
www.tomasdzadon.com
Jiří Franta a David Böhm
The art duo of Jiří Franta (born 1978) and David Böhm (born 1982) have already for some years worked with wall paintings. They have a feeling for monumental expression and a talent for the smallest detail. They shift the possibilities of painting presentation by combining painting and installations or texts.
For Finalists 09 exhibition they created a wall painting on the 3rd floor of the Dox's tower. Part of it is is visible and part of it can be read only if lit up with a special flashlight.
www.davidbohm.net
http://jirifranta.blogspot.com
Petra Herotová
Drawing and video represent the basic means of artistic expression of Petra Herotová (born 1980). It is with the help of these techniques that she searches for the meaning of personal identity. In her art, contemporary conceptual strategies are applied on family problems and everyday life.
In Dox she will exhibit an installation called Petra Herotová based on a peculiar research by the artist related to an identity of a person with the same name.
www.petraherotova.com
Alena Kotzmannová
Photographs by Alena Kotzmannová (born 1974) are characteristic for their elegance, delicacy and narrative charge. Their resemblance to paintings alludes to the classics of the Czech photography school. Their sophisticated installation is used as independent artistic means of expression.
The artist's installation will most likely be a surprise for the audience. Her new project is represented by a monumental rusty boat with a curious modern building on the terrace of the gallery.
www.kotzmannova.cz
Jiří Skála
Jiří Skála (born 1976) is not afraid to experiment and embark on incalculable adventures. Compared to last year, when he was also a finalist, Skála has freed himself even more radically from the language of visual art to embrace experimental forms of literature.
In his installation on the first floor of the Dox's tower he combines video and literary texts and gives a summary of his last year's linguistic, philosophico-artistic experiments.
www.joaodedeus.cz
A catalogue has been prepared to accompany the exhibition.
Members of the 2009 jury are:
Suzanne Altmann, independent curator, Germany, jury chair
Ondřej Chrobák, curator, GASK Gallery/The Central Bohemian Gallery, Czech Republic
Mira Keratová, curator a art theoretician, Slovakia
Pavel Liška, chancellor of the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, Czech Republic
Jan Merta, artist, Czech Republic
Joanna Mytkowska, director of the Warsaw Museum of Modern Art, Poland
Exhibition co-ordination:
Lenka Lindaurová, Dan Merta, Tomáš Pospiszyl, Irena Šorfová, Dana Tomášová
Graphic design
Jan Šerých
Partners and media partners
Ministerstvo kultury České republiky
Reflex
The Foundation for a Civil Society
Trust for Mutual Understanding
Taprint
Meetfactory
E15, Flash Art, artyčok.tv, Art&antiques
Special thanks to:
Gema Art,
Neue Galerie Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum
Galerie města Blanska
tranzitdisplay
ENIAC digital cinema
Jiří Staněk, Monogramista T.D., Jozef Sekula PISA, Aleš Uherka, CIDEM Hranice
Partners of Centre DOX:
Ministerstvo kultury
Hlavní město Praha
TECHO, a.s.
