'Places of Act'- site specific project
for former Institute of Folk Art Production
(ÚLUV - Národní 36, Prague 1) and in Vršovice
Exhibitions, forum of the future, site performance, videoart, architectural lectures, pro city walks - commented tours of exhibitions, building and its surroundings, film, art bar and others.
Happiness
an exhibition of contemporary art at the former Center for Folk Art Production building
14. 10. Exhibition Opening 8 p.m.
Exhibition opened daily from 15. till 22. 10.
(weekends: 1 pm–10 pm0, working days 4 pm–10 pm).
ÚLUV – former Center for Folk Art Production, Národní 36, Praha 1 (entrance from Charvátova Street no.10), 2nd + 4th floors
"The last word is - Patience! The night is darkest before dawn. But dawn comes."
Paul Brunton
The subject of this exhibition is happiness, and so we are confronted by the all too familiar and banal question: What is happiness? Is it a state of mind? Auspicious external conditions that we cannot influence? A genetic predisposition? A lost soul’s life-long or perhaps even eternal search? The purpose of all human activity? The opposite of unhappiness? And what are our sources of happiness? Can we all collectively agree on them? If we look at Man as a being that has been undergoing certain stages of evolution, why are we not happier than earlier generations? Is it the fault of our contemporary pursuit of happiness, or has it always been a part of human life? Are human experiences, events, and fates influenced by a higher force, or is happiness expressed by profound personal and individual work? Is being happy a question of decision-making and patience? Is there some kind of innate state of happiness, and can we find it? There exist no clear answers to these questions, nor does the exhibition “Happiness” even attempt to offer any.
The former Center for Folk Art Production building hosts an exhibition featuring different ideas of happiness as it is understood by a group of 23 curators of contemporary art. Each curator chose a space in which to present an artist or his or her own project. As a result, we are confronted with nearly two dozen artistic viewpoints on the subject of happiness – one of the strongest human desires.
Denisa Václavová
Curator: Artists/Project
David Kořínek: David Možný
Miloš Vojtěchovský: Veronika Resslová, Vladimír Turner, Portrét prokuristy M.P.
Terezie Nekvindová: David Kopecký, Michal Škoda
Dušan Záhoranský: Marek Meduna
Lenka Vítková: rtf
Sodja Lotker: Ivan Zupanc
Jan Freiberg: Michal Kalhous, Martin Horák, Jan Turner
Markéta Stará: Petra Herotová, Vikenti Komitski
František Kowolowski: František Lozinski o.p.s., Pavla Malinová, Kamila Rýparová
Markéta Vinglerová: Darina Alsterová
Filip Polanský: Pavel Švec
Pavel Karous: Helena Sequens, Adam Stanko
Ondřej Horák: Nejšťastnější místo na světě
Jiří Zemánek: Zuzana Füsterová
Jan Pfeiffer + Karina Kottová: Alexandr Puškin, David Hřivňacký, Tomáš Moravec, Daniela Dostálková
Matyáš Chochola: Emmeline de Mooij, Andula Hulačová, Josef Bolf, Jan Jaroslav Sterec,
Jana Kochánková, Michal Mánek, Matěj Smrkovský
Vjera Borozan: Erik Binder
Kateřina Fojtíková: Štěstí
Mariana Serranová: Ladislav Vondrák
Gabriela Kotíková: Alžběta Skálová, František Antonín Skála
Jiří Ptáček: Budoucnost – co je třeba udělat
Martin Mazanec: Tomáš Moravec, Matěj Al Ali
daily
weekends 1 pm–10 pm
working days 16:00-22:00
ÚLUV, Národní 36
2nd + 4th floors