EXHIBITION 08 - You accommodated me in your body | Lubomír Typlt
A guided tour of the exhibition You Accommodated Me in Your Body with the painter and lyricist Lubomír Typlt will take place on Wednesday, May 21 at 6 pm at Galerie Prostora.
Prostora Gallery is exhibiting a collection of large-format paintings by painter and lyricist Lubomír Typlt from Czech and international artists. The title You accommodated me in your body is the beginning of one of Typlt's texts for the WWW Neurobeat group and is meant to prepare the visitors for the experience of the exhibition: the confrontation with the exhibited paintings. Typlt collects selected works, mostly to support the work of male and female artists, often at the beginning of their careers.
The exhibition features the following artists: Aryz, Lovis Corinth, Martin Gerboc, Remus Grecu, Simone Haack, Andrea Lehmann, Matěj Macháček, Justin Mortimer, Jiří Načeradský, Jiří Petrbok, Ivan Pinkava, Miroslav Polách, Jan Poupě, Zbyněk Sedlecký, Norbert Stefan, Adam Štech, Alexander Tinei, Annemari Vardanyan, Jan Vytiska.
Graphic design by Petr Babák, Martin Ponec (Laboratory)
Photo: Tomáš Souček
More information about the exhibition can be found on our social networks and on the website prostora.org.
Organized by: Prostora, Marcela Steinbachová
Supported by: Státní fond kultury ČR
Media partners: Český rozhlas Vltava, ArtMap, Kulturní magazín Uni, Prague Moon
The exhibition You Accommodated Me in Your Body at the Prostora gallery will present contemporary painter and lyricist Lubomír Typlt. The opening will take place on Wednesday 23 April.
From 24 April to 20 June, Prostora Gallery will present an exhibition of Lubomír Typlt's collection entitled You Accommodated Me in Your Body. The new exhibition will showcase works from the foreign and domestic scene by contemporary artists and will open with an opening on Wednesday, April 23 at 6 pm in the presence of the artist. Guided tours will take place during the duration of the exhibition.
The collection of large-format, expressive paintings by the renowned painter and lyricist Lubomír Typlt will feature Czech and international artists. The title You accommodated me in your body is the beginning of one of his texts for the WWW group and is intended to prepare the visitors for the experience of the exhibition: a confrontation with the exhibited paintings. Typlt collects selected works, mostly to support the work of male and female artists, often at the beginning of their careers. Another level is the artists who inspire him. "I often try to support a personality who is not yet fully known and respected. Of course, this often entails the risk that they won't break through, so to speak, and their fame might even fade away. Nevertheless, I still feel that I have tried to help the painter or artist in some way. I know myself how important this collector support is for artists. Especially when they are still struggling to exist. Fortunately, I haven't been wrong too many times. I myself am all the more pleased that I have often discovered the potential at the beginning of the careers of people who have actually succeeded."
The exhibition will present the following artists: Aryz, Lovis Corinth, Martin Gerboc, Remus Grecu, Simone Haack, Andrea Lehmann, Matěj Macháček, Justin Mortimer, Jiří Načeradský, Jiří Petrbok, Ivan Pinkava, Miroslav Polách, Jan Poupě, Zbyněk Sedlecký, Norbert Stefan, Adam Štech, Alexander Tinei, Annemari Vardanyan, Jan Vytiska.
Lubomír Typlt (1975) graduated not only from the Czech art schools, but also from the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf, where he studied with Markus Lüpertz, Gerhard Merz and other artists. Typlt's painting is characterized by two main directions - critically oriented symbolic figuration and structural (mechanical) abstraction with elements of utopia. In recent works, the artist synthesizes both poles on a common surface, resulting in a visually stimulating encounter between two distinct worlds of expression, which is also reflected in the installations. Typlt connects older themes and creates new links of meaning by confronting them. Formally, his work is characterized as expressive large-scale figuration with a strong message of content. He continues the legacy of the so-called Czech grotesque, an artistic movement typical of the 1970s, while further developing his expression with new approaches and themes. He creates "allegorised" characters of individuals on the border of seriousness and ridiculousness. Typlt's work is characterised by a specific contrasting and varied colour scheme. On his canvases he develops a distinctive myth of the human individual with a gestural painterly vividness and spontaneity. Lubomír Typlt od roku 1998 samostatně vystavuje v Čechách i v zahraničí. Vedle malířství se věnuje i psaní textů pro hudební projekt WWW.
Prostora is a gallery in the centre of Vinohrady, behind which is the architect Marcela Steinbachová, founder of the Skupina studio, the KRUH association and director of its activities (lecture series on architecture, the Architecture Day festival and the Film and Architecture festival, publishing publications). The space is located in the former telephone exchange at 9 Blanická Street above náměstí Míru, on the first floor, and is the eighth collection of visual artists. The name of the gallery is based on a synonym of the more commonly used word space, but space defines a more defined, bounded environment, in this case an exhibition space. Prostora's focus in the past and current year has been on presenting collections by contemporary artists.
You accommodated me in your body - Lubomír Typlt
Opening on Wednesday 23 April at 6 pm
The exhibition will run from 24 April to 20 June 2025
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Opening hours
Wednesday-Friday: 14:00-18:00
Saturdays by appointment: 14:00-18:00
or on request (closed on public holidays)
Recommended admission 80 CZK, reduced admission 50 CZK, for more information visit www.prostora.org.
Organized by: Prostora, Marcela Steinbachová
The project is supported by.
Czech Radio Vltava, ArtMap, Kulturní magazín Uni, Prague Moon
Media contact:
Marcela Steinbachová, 776 565 180, ms@skupina.org
Tereza Škoulová, 773 238 503, media@kruh.info
You accommodated me in your body | Lubomír Typlt
We would like to thank Lubomír Typlt for his cooperation in the exhibition and for lending us his collection. We would also like to thank all the artists, theorists and friends who attended the opening.
Exhibition 24/4 - 20/6 2025
Wednesday-Friday 2-6pm
Prostora Gallery (1st floor)
Blanická 9, 120 00 Prague 2
Photo: Kateřina Fialová
To enter the gallery, ring Skupina / Prostora
Something Different | Jiří Kovanda
We thank Jiří Kovanda for his collaboration on the exhibition and for lending his collection. We would also like to thank all the artists, theorists, and friends who attended the opening.
Exhibition 5/2 – 4/4 2025 Wednesday–Saturday 2–5:30 PM
Prostora Gallery (1st floor) Blanická 9, 120 00 Prague 2
Photo: Kateřina Fialová
To enter the gallery, ring the bell for Skupina / Prostora
The "Something Different" Exhibition at the Prostora Gallery presents visual artist Jiří Kovanda as a collector. The opening will take place on Tuesday, February 4th.
From February to 4. 4., the Prostora Gallery will present an exhibition of Jiří Kovanda's collection titled "Something Different," named after a work by Jiří Valoch. The new exhibition will showcase works from both domestic and international scenes, featuring established artists as well as newcomers, and will be inaugurated with an opening on Tuesday, February 4th at 6:00 PM in the presence of the artist. Guided tours will take place throughout the duration of the exhibition.
Jiří Kovanda's collection stems from friendly relationships and informal exchanges between colleagues and close artists. It includes works from both significant and renowned creators, as well as lesser-known authors, and young emerging artists from both the domestic scene and abroad. Kovanda's minimalist and occasional collection is characterized by its inconsistency and lack of chronological or logical continuity, containing objects of diverse nature. It is intentionally non-uniform, oscillating on the edge between high art and everyday objects, from valuable artifacts to seemingly insignificant items. Thanks to social connections and acquaintances, a unique whole has emerged, where the known is combined with the unknown and the valuable with the less precious.
The exhibition will feature artists such as: Silvina Arismendi, Josef Bolf, Sylvie Brodi, Jiří David, Žofie Eder, Laura Fiľáková, Pavla Gajdošíková, Fernanda Gomes, Václav Girsa, Lumír Hladík, Veronika Holcová, Barbora Jandáková, Ivan Kafka, Stanislava Karbušická, Ester Knapová, Eva Koťátková, Eliška Kovandová, Petr Kožíšek, Denisa Lehocká, Ivana Lovětínská, Karel Miler, Jan Mlčoch, Stanislav Oborský, Jan Pfeiffer, Ivan Pinkava, Viktor Pivovarov, Adéla Ráliš, Luděk Rathouský, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Vladimír Skrepl, Nedko Solakov, Antonín Střížek, Jindřich Štreit, Miroslav Tichý, Jiří Valoch, Karolína Voleská, Jan Wilda.
Jiří Kovanda (1953) is a prominent Czech conceptual artist, performer, and educator. His work is represented at prestigious world art exhibitions, having been presented at London's Tate Modern (performance "Kissing Through Glass") and at Documenta 12 in Kassel. He gained international fame especially for his actions and interventions from the 1970s and 1980s, which have become an indispensable part of major exhibitions and publications mapping and integrating art from the former Eastern Bloc into European and global contexts, including East Art Map, Body and the East, and Parallel Actions. As an educator, Jiří Kovanda has been working at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague since 1995 (assistant in Vladimír Skrepl's painting studio, assistant in Tomáš Vaněk's Intermedia 3 studio, and since 2022 in the Art in Context studio). For many years, he has been leading the Object-Space-Action studio at the Faculty of Art and Design in Ústí nad Labem. Kovanda's early actions and installations were initially received as political art (like everything that stood out from the "normal" in the normalization environment), but currently, the view of them has been corrected and shifted closer to the realm of individual and social experience and minimalist gesture. The central motif of his actions or visual arts is creating relationships and subtle changes in the appearance of ordinary things and phenomena. Stylistically, the author's work can be described as action-based and conceptual, with overlaps into installations and interventions.
Prostora is a gallery in the center of Vinohrady, behind which stands architect Marcela Steinbachová, founder of the Skupina studio, the Kruh association, and director of its activities (lecture series on architecture, Architecture Day festival and Film and Architecture festival, publication of publications). Prostora has been located since June 2023 in former telephone exchanges at Blanická 9 above Náměstí Míru, on the 1st floor, and is already presenting the 6th collection of visual artists. The gallery's name comes from a synonym for the more commonly used word "prostor" (space), but "prostora" defines a more defined, bounded environment, in this case, an exhibition space. In the past and current year, Prostora focuses on presenting collections of contemporary visual artists.
Something Different – Jiří Kovanda
Opening on Tuesday, February 4th from 6 PM
The exhibition will run from February 5th to April 4th
Graphic design: Petr Babák, Martin Ponec (Laboratoř)
FB event
IG @prostora_galerie
Opening hours
Wednesday–Friday: 2:00 PM–5:30 PM
Saturday by appointment: 2:00 PM–5:30 PM
or upon request (closed on public holidays)
Organized by: Prostora, Marcela Steinbachová
Project supported by: State Cultural Fund of the Czech Republic
Media partners: Czech Radio Vltava, Archizoom, ArtMap, Kulturní magazín Uni, Prague Moon
Media contact:
Marcela Steinbachová, 776 565 180, ms@skupina.org
Jan Kieweg, 607 708 190, architektura@kruh.info
Prostora is a new non-profit project led by architect Marcela Steinbachová, the founder of the Skupina Studio, Kruh Association, and the Director of its activities (its lecture series on architecture, the Architecture Day festival, and the Film and Architecture festival, as well as publication releases). Prostora is located on the 1st floor above Náměstí Míru Square, in the former telephone exchange building at Blanická Street 9. The gallery's name is derived from the more commonly used synonym for the word 'space,' but it defines a more delimited, bounded environment, in this case, an exhibition space.
"The space came about by chance. I have acquired an incredible industrial space in the city centre and we are dedicating a part of it to culture. The character of the interior is left over from the building's previous use as a telephone switchboard. The imperfections of the space is taken as an advantage. Cracked uneven floors, plastered openings, holes and splinters are part of the body of the gallery; its asset. The curatorial cycle will present important contemporary Czech artists in a different way and should show the breadth of these personalities."- Marcela Steinbach explains the space will be used for gallery purposes.