Katy Hessel – Story of Art (Without Men)
#1 min Tea Záchová
5. 12. 2023
A new story of art – we need to rewrite Ernst Gombrich. Remove him from mandatory curriculums and replace him with the work of young curator and historian Katy Hessel. The book starts with the words of Artemisia Gentileschi: “I’ll show you what a woman can do”, which is precisely what the author does here. The book bends the perspective of art from the year 1500 all the way to the 20th century. How many women from the history of art before the 20th century do we know? Were there even any female artists in the year 1500? The author has managed to step beyond the margins of global research through a new interpretation of art without men in the gallery system of the West. As such, in pleasant language, modest length, and brilliant content, Hessel perfectly captures the atmosphere and fascination with the works and lives of female artists who can appeal to a mainstream majority and understands the critical context and deceptiveness of our previous, narrow point of view, which fixated on the genius of men.
Tea Záchová
#2 min Fotograf Zone
FOTOGRAF ZONE FESTIVAL 2025 – TALK TOGETHER
The fifteenth edition of the international Fotograf Zone Festival, titled TALK TOGETHER, focuses on language and interpersonal communication in its many forms. This year’s festival will be presented in a condensed ten-day format, running from 3 to 12 October 2025, and will offer audiences new perspectives on how language shapes our relationships, understanding, and conflicts.
#2 min Natalie Drtinová, Dorota Franková
Dorota Franková – Tenderness and Pain of Dorota Franková’s Portraits
In her work, Dorota Franková focuses on portraiture. While the portraits of others tend to be full of tenderness and fragility, her own are captured in exacerbated situations or via manipulated photographs that emphasise the restlessness of the mind.
#1 min Tea Záchová
Maja and Reuben Fowkes – World of Art / Art and Climate Change
#1 min Tea Záchová
Anna Volkmar – Art and Nuclear Power: The Role of Culture in the Environmental Debate
#1 min Tea Záchová
Boaz Levin, Esther Ruelfs – Mining Photography / The Ecological Footprint of Image Production
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Darja Lukhanenko – How to make rockets disappear?
#3 min Polina Davydenko, Tea Záchová
Polina Davydenko – Cosmoses of Justice and Ordinariness
Laziness, dissatisfaction, voyeurism, irony, human and extra-social energy and its phenomena that accompany us in today's hot days are important spices used by author Polina Davydenko. She sprinkles this spice on the main characteristics of her works about the quite common but important topic of home.
#3 min Tea Záchová, Julie Béna
Julie Béna – Like the Moon in the Sun is my Shadow
Associative visual games characterize French artist Julie Béna as an artist who uses a refined language to bridge two words – ambiguities transform unbounded speculations, thus creating a hibernating indeterminacy of reading. Essential to her work is the open concept of two realities that can interpenetrate within a particular choreography and scenography.