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Welcome to Capitalism!
19/10/2008–8/2/2009
For its inauguration, the centre is launching an exhibition that comprises several major installations by José-María Cano, Michael Bielicky and Kamila Richter (in collaboration with Dirk Reinbold), Matej Krén, and Jiří Hůla in collaboration with Dominik Lang.
DOX & Holešovice: Places in Motion
6/2/2009–6/4/2009
Cafe Ramp
Industrial architecture has enjoyed a resurgence in public interest, due to an increase in attention from specialists, and use in highly-visible real estate development projects. Two Prague districts, Karlín and Holešovice, serve as an example of this grwoing trend. DOX Centre itself, built on the site of a 20th century industrial complex is a prime example of the tasteful use of industrial heritage.
Markus Huemer: Answers Don't Fall from the Sky, Either
19/2/2009–2/5/2009
Tower 1 - 4
Answers Don’t Fall from the Sky, Either is the title of the first exhibition of Austrian artist Markus Huemer organized by the Czech not-for-profit institution. The exhibition comprises fifteen medium to large-size paintings and two projections installed in four galleries of the DOX tower building.
Šlapetová, Rittstein - Manop, The Final First
18/3/2009–17/5/2009
Hall 1
DOX Centre for Contemporary Art is proud to present the exhibition by Barbora Šlapetová and Lukáš Rittstein, Manop, Final First, inspired by their repeated travels to West Papua and interactions with isolated tribes in the jungle. The exhibition consists of large format photographs by Šlapetová, confronted by a series of Rittstein’s sculptures titled Forest.
9. to 27.April 2009
9/4/2009–27/4/2009
Meeting with Vaclav Havel was the last point of Barack Obama's Prague visit. During this private meeting, Vaclav Havel presented American President Barack Obama - a portrait of the president by the Spanish artist José-María Cano.
14 S - Fourteen artists, fourteen themes
23/5/2009–16/8/2009
DOX Centre for Contemporary Art and the Civic Group Schrödinger’s Cat in cooperation with the Czech Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Prague and the Czech Center, Prague present this unusual exhibition highlighting 14 artist present 14 themes which affect human relationships, families, societies and system who are formally connected (in the Czech language) by the letter S. The exhibition takes place from the 23rd of May to the 16th of August, 2009.
Douglas Gordon: Blood, Sweat, Tears
4/6/2009–27/9/2009
Main Hall, Tower
In the summer months, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art presents an extensive exhibition of the work of one of the world’s most respected representatives of contemporary art, Scottish artist Douglas Gordon, who has recently exhibited work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Guggenheim Museum.
EXTENDED till 27.7.2009!
5/6/2009–9/7/2009
DOX Centre for Contemporary art and the author of the project nanoSKOP, the group TESLA, would like to invite you to the first presentation from the project nanoSKOP focused on the arts research of the nano world, space defined by the dimensions of 10ˉ9m.
AID - Acceptance - Intervation - Destruction
1/10/2009–1/11/2009
Acceptance – Intervention – Destruction. Delineation of three approaches to the industrial heritage of the past, but at the same also three thematic lines of a third exhibition of alternative projects by students. The AID Exhibition, presenting the approach of young architects to the values of industrial heritage in the context of contemporary thinking in architecture, will be open from October 1 through November 1 in the Centre for Contemporary Art DOX.
The exhibition My Europe features works by 41 contemporary Czech artists from the fields of architecture, design, and art, each of whom utilized different media to express their personal take on the notion of Europe and the European Community (October 6 – November 18).
Tomorrow starts yesterday
8/10/2009–23/11/2009
At the core of the DOX Fall Season, three exhibitions mark 20 years since the collapse of the communist regime and address the present-day moral and political crisis people face in the Czech Republic. The exhibits raise the question how much the ruling generation and its mentality inherited from the communist past are responsible for the current predicament of the Czech Republic.
It is evident that we can no longer afford to assist the ongoing crisis by being mere spectators. After twenty years, the moment has come when citizens, especially the youngest among us, should remind politicians: We are not children!
Jindřich Chalupecký Award - Final 09
23/10/2009–10/1/2010
Tower
THE 20th ANNUAL JINDŘICH CHALUPECKÝ AWARD
On the Road Together I.
6/11/2009–31/12/2009
The exhibition On the Road Together I: The Union of Artists Projects in the Period of ‘Normalization’ presents posters and catalogs published by the official Union of Artists in the 1970s and 1980s, i.e., the late years of the Communist regime.
