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TERRA INCOGNITA – An artistic expedition to an unknown neighbourhood Czechoslovak art in 1948-1989 in dialogue with the Liaunig collection
In the main exhibition

TERRA INCOGNITA – An artistic expedition to an unknown neighbourhood, curated by Miroslav Haľák , Czechoslovak art is shown in dialogue with works from the Liaunig collection. The curator confines himself to the years 1948 to 1989, which represent a phase of the division of Europe in which Austria and Czechoslovakia found themselves in two distinct spheres of influence and the mutual exchange in the previously so organically cultivated socio-cultural neighbourhood was radically interrupted.

Since the parameters of art development in both countries were shaped according to very different criteria and artists had to work with sometimes completely different socio-political challenges, but were always located in a historically compact geographical sphere, the exhibition is divided into so-called ‘territories’, which correspond to the variability and individual specifics of artistic production in these decades. Based on the typical postmodern tendencies towards figuration, abstraction, geometrization and pluralization, the respective artists from Austria and Czechoslovakia come together in a staged dialogue in which specific phenomena that developed during the four decades of the Cold War are illuminated, sometimes continuously, sometimes in parallel, sometimes differently.

The large-scale exhibition project was created in collaboration with Czech and Slovak institutions and private collections.

The exhibition features works by the following artists:

Milan Adamčiak, Marc Adrian, Jiří Balcar, Juraj Bartusz, Mária Bartuszová, Josef Bauer, Štefan Belohradský, Jiří Bielecki, Hans Bischoffshausen, Vladimír Boudník, Hellmut Bruch, Miloslav Chlupáč, Miloslav Cicvárek, Jarmila Čihánková, Miroslav Cipár, Milan Jiří David, Hugo Demar Fára, Rudolf Fila, Stano Filko, Emil Filla, Herbert Flois, František Foltýn, Johann Fruhmann, Michal Gabriel, Roland Goeschl, Franz Grabmayr, Mira Haberernová-Trančíková, Josef Hampl, Jiří Hilmar, Rudolf Hoflehner, Wolfgang Hollegha, František Hudeček, Friedensreich, Hundertrich I. Josef,

Hunderthwas Jaindl, Jozef Jankovič, Čestmír Janošek, Jiří John, H+H Joos (Harold Joos, Hildegard Joos), Martha Jungwirth, Zdeněk Kirchner, Alojz Klimo, Tamara Klimová, Alfred Klinkan, Eva Kmentová, Milan Knížák, Jan Koblasa, Peter Kogler, Jiří Kolář, Kúli Stanislav Kolíbal, Jiří Kolář, Jiří Kúli Kolíbal, Krajcová Radoslav Kratina, Matej Krén, Richard Kriesche, Rudolf Krivoš, Jan Kubíček, Jaroslava Kurandová, Bohdan Lacina, Aleš Lamr, Maria Lassnig, Mariane Maderna, Gottfried Mairwöger, Antonín Málek, Karel Malich, Pavel Maňka, Mikuláš Medek, Juraj Meliš, Jürgen Messensee, Anastázia Miertušová Alexander, Mikihard Mlynárd Josef Načeradský, Rudolf Němec, Karel Nepraš, Pavel Nešleha, Hermann Nitsch, Franz Xaver Ölzant, Peter Oriesek, Marek Ormandík, Hermann J. Painitz, Milan Paštéka, Helga Philipp, Robert Piesen, Josef Pillhofer, Peter Pongratz, Markus Prachensky, Drago j. Prelog, Hannes Priesch, Arnulf Rainer, Erwin Reiter, Franz Ringel, Michael Rittstein, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Hubert Schmalix, Christian Schwarzwald, Zbyněk Sekal, Miloš Ševčík, Agneša Sigetová, Rudolf Sikora, Natálie Šimanová, Adriena Šimotová, Paulína Slavík, Miroslav Šnajst. Schüller), Jiří Sozanský, Jakub Špaňhel, Hans Staudacher, František Štorek, Jan Švankmajer, Ján Švec, Zdeněk Sýkora, Laco Teren, Erwin Thorn, Margita Titlová-Ylovsky, Jorrit Tornquist, Miloš Urbásek, Andreas rozsudek, Jiří Valenta, Jitka Válová, Květa Válová, Jana Maxlová, Veselý Wojnar, Erwin Wurm, Jana Želibská, Kamila Ženatá a Olbram Zoubek.

The exhibition is accompanied by a richly illustrated catalogue.

Main exhibition TERRA INCOGNITA

Curator: Miroslav Halak

27 April to 31 October 2025

Wednesday to Sunday from 10 am to 6 pm