From post-war Paris and New York, through swinging London, to the free spirits of Tehran and Beijing. Kunsthalle Praha explores the idea of bohemia.
One year after opening its doors, Kunsthalle Praha, a contemporary art space in central Prague's Klárov district, presents the international, cross-disciplinary, thematic exhibition Bohemia: History of an Idea, 1950–2000, guest-curated by Los Angeles-based writer and curator Russell Ferguson.
Bohemia brings together artworks by thirty-seven artists, among them personalities as diverse as Alice Neel, Wolfgang Tillmans, Nan Goldin, Libuše Jarcovjáková, Bijan Saffari, Martin Wong, Stan Douglas, David Wojnarowicz, Roy Arden, and many others. Some of these artists will be shown alongside each other for the first time, and most of them have rarely had their work exhibited in the Czech Republic.
Spanning the 1950s to the 2000s, the exhibition features work in various media, with a predominance of photography, video, and painting. The kaleidoscopic experience ends with the turn of the century when bohemia – still a worldwide phenomenon – begins to lose its momentum as a result of fast-paced societal changes.
Exhibiting artists:
Neville D’Almeida and Hélio Oiticica, Roy Arden, David Bailey, Alvin Baltrop, Bill Brandt, Trisha Brown, Rudy Burckhardt, John Deakin, Stan Douglas, Ed van der Elsken, Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, William Gedney, Nan Goldin, Tomislav Gotovac, Bob Gruen, Richard Hamilton, Peter Hujar, Libuše Jarcovjáková, Jess, Patricia Jordan, Jules Kirschenbaum, Jorge Lewinski, Fred W. McDarrah, Babette Mangolte, Alice Neel, Gabriel Orozco, Bill Owens, RongRong, Ken Russell, Bijan Saffari, Joan Semmel, Anita Steckel, Thomas Struth, Edmund Teske, Wolfgang Tillmans, Wang Jin, David Wojnarowicz, Martin Wong, Zhang Huan.
Type | exhibition of paintings - painting |
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Event venue | (Praha) |
Date and time of event | Thu 3/22/2023 - Mon 10/15/2023 The offer is available according to the actual opening hours |
Data source | Prague City Tourism |