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21st year of the “Jindřich Chalupecký Award” at DOX

From November 2010 through January 2011 visitors to the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art at Holešovice in Prague have the opportunity to view three exhibitions related to the Jindřich Chalupecký Award.

An exhibition of the Finalists of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award for 2010 will be open from November 4 2010 through January 17, 2011. Eighty artists or groups were nominated or applied for the prize this year. This year’s prizewinner will be chosen by an international jury from among the following candidates: Vasil Artamonov and Alexey Klyuykov, David Böhm and Jiří Franta, Václav Magid, Jakub Matuška, and Alice Nikitinová.

Taking place at the same period will be an exhibition of works by all the previous laureates of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award – Prize-Winners 20 years. The third anniversary exhibition, entitled Archive Chalupecký, recalls the personality of this Czech art theorist and critic. This year marks the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Jindřich Chalupecký, who died 20 years ago last June.

This year’s prizewinner will be chosen in the course of the exhibition and the ceremonial prize-giving will take place at DOX on November 23, 2010. As last year, the evening’s program will be devised by the artist Michal Pěchouček, who was awarded the Jindřich Chalupecký Award in 2003.
The prizewinner will receive a six-week scholarship in New York and 100 thousand Czech crowns to fund an exhibition, project or catalogue during 2011.

The Jindřich Chalupecký Award was founded in 1990 on the initiative of the playwright and writer Václav Havel, the painter Theodor Pištěk and the poet and artist Jiří Kolář, with the intention of rewarding the most talented Czech artists below the age of 35. The current Chairperson of the Jindřich Chalupecký Association is Charlotta Kotíková, the Vice-Chairperson is Tomáš Pospiszyl and the Executive Director is Lenka Lindaurová.



The Five Finalists
Vasil Artamonov (*1980) and Alexey Klyuykov (*1983) were selected because of the consistent quality of their work, which encompasses a wide range of media from performances, installations, painting and sculpture to social projects. These artists demonstrate a deep understanding of art history and react to impulses from the past, particular Futurism and Suprematism. They use the history of art as a research framework, and they react through their works to political issues to do with the evolution of democratic systems and capitalist economies in the former Soviet bloc.

The duo of David Böhm (*1978) and Jiří Franta (*1982) are among the finalists for the second time. Their joint oeuvre has once more gained the jury’s approval thanks to their meticulous formal workmanship and the duo’s commitment to social and cultural issues. Their joint projects are inspired by street art and graffiti and react to the institutional context of art. The jury took into account their “invisible” presentation of last year, where the work could only be seen by means of viewer participation. The team use drawing and installations to accentuate phenomena that remain hidden to our awareness

In the case of Václav Magid (*1979), the jury valued the conceptual quality of his work and his ability to link context and references at a high intellectual level, where with subtle irony he subjects reality to rational analysis, and his concentrated interest on the situation chosen also has social implications. The jury also appreciated his work as curator and theorist, which is crucial both in the context of his own art and for shaping the local art scene.

Jakub Matuška (*1981) makes use of street art methods in his work as part of monumental paintings. His interesting aesthetics and painting skills are evident in his classical paintings on canvas, which he constructs with compositional and formal precision. He achieves clear, powerful and rich expression with a pop-art/surrealist feel. The jury was impressed by the quality of his painting and his distinctive poetry.

In her pictures, objects and installations Alice Nikitinová (*1979) transforms everyday experience. Entering one of her installations is like looking through a magnifying glass. She creates an abstract world that is reduced to the fundamentals of existence. She creates it with humor and the use of pictograms as the antithesis of the flood of moving images and and unnecessary stimuli. Her approach to painting impressed the jury with its concentration and elimination of unnecessary elements. In many respects it is inspired by the work of Kazimir Malevich and his circle.



The members of the 2010 jury:
Susanne Altmann, freelance curator, Germany
Elizabeth M. Grady, freelance curator, USA
Joanna Mytkowska, Director of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland
Mira Keratová, freelance curator, Slovakia
Pavel Liška, President of the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, Czech Republic
Martin Mainer, artist, Czech Republic
Ondřej Chrobák, curator of the Central-Bohemian Regional Gallery, Czech Republic



Prize-Winners 20 years exhibition
Works by the twenty laureates of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award from 1990 through 2009 reflecting the evolution and transformation of the Czech art scene over the years. The catalogue documents the views of each of the award-winning artists concerning Jindřich Chalupecký’s legacy, the significance of the prize and their mutual relationships. The confrontational aspect of their responses is particularly interesting in the context of the confrontation of their works in the main exhibition space of DOX.

Artist exhibiting:
Vladimír Kokolia (1990), František Skála (1991), Michal Nesázal (1992), Martin Mainer (1993), Michal Gabriel (1994), Petr Nikl (1995), Kateřina Vincourová (1996), Jiří Příhoda (1997), Jiří Černický (1998), Lukáš Rittstein (1999), David Černý (2000), Tomáš Vaněk (2001), Markéta Othová (2002), Michal Pěchouček (2003), Ján Mančuška (2004), Kateřina Šedá (2005), Barbora Klímová (2006), Eva Koťátková (2007), Radim Labuda (2008), Jiří Skála (2009).
Curator: Lenka Lindaurová

Archive Chalupecký exhibition
What does an art critic leave behind? Books, catalogues, articles, correspondence, photos, dictionary entries, a bibliography and the reminiscences of contemporaries. How can such materialsm be displayed in a meaningful way? How can it help throw light on a complex personality and its significance? This exhibition in the art archive section of DOX presents a chronologically arranged but otherwise random collage of photos and texts that help elucidate the life and work of Jindřich Chalupecký. Also on display at the exhibition will be the updated Chalupecký entry in the abART information system.
Exhibitions devised by Tomáš Pospiszyl and Petr Babák

Co-organizers: The Jindřich Chalupecký Society and the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, the Trust for Mutual Understanding, the Foundation For a Civil Society
Exhibition Partners: Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, the City of Prague, Prague 1 local authority, FDbus spol. s r.o., Benzina, s.r.o., Jinova, s.r.o., FERONA THYSSEN PLASTICS, s.r.o.
Media Partners: E 15, Respekt, Art & Antiques, Czech Radio 3 Vltava, Art Map

DOX Partners:
Zdeněk Bakala, the City of Prague, TECHO, a.s., Poster Infinity s.r.o., Premiant City Tour s.r.o., PRAGUE EVENTS CALENDAR
DOX Centre’s program is financially supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.

CONTACTS:
DOX Centre for Contemporary Art
Office address
Vojtěšská 8, 110 00 Praha 1
T: +420 224 930 927
E: info@doxprague.org or media@doxprague.org
Address of the exhibition space
Poupětova 1a, 170 00 Praha 7
www.doxprague.org
www.facebook.com/DOXPrague.cz

DOX Press contact
Mediareport, s.r.o.
Terezie Kaslová
T: +420 603 551 372
E: kaslova@mediareport.cz
media@doxprague.org

Jindřich Chalupecký Society
Lenka Lindaurová, Executive Director
T: +420 777 553 652
E: lenkalindaurova@cjch.cz
www.cjch.cz





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