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SUMMARY:Jan Zatorsky: Prague – A Playground for David Černý
DESCRIPTION:This outdoor exhibition by photographer Jan Zatorsky complements David Černý: The Glorious 90s in Prague. Reprinted by Prusa Research\, on display at Vitrínka Gallery. While the gallery exhibition brings Černý’s iconic works to London in new 3D-printed forms\, Zatorsky’s photographs take you back to Prague\, where these works have become part of the city’s contemporary landscape. \nYou know the Czech capital\, Prague. She – because we call her the Mother – has of course the charming panoramas of historic buildings. And serves her visitors magnetic views of Prague Castle\, the Charles Bridge and many other sights. \nBut if you give the city a second look\, you will see a different face – with contemporary art scattered around\, in between historic buildings and the new ones too. Czech artist David Černý\, the forever ‘enfant terrible’ of Czech art\,  has his signature on many of them. In fact\, he has shaped the contemporary layer of Prague’s look like no other Czech artist. \nCzech photojournalist Jan Zatorsky\, holder of several Czech Press Photo awards\, has walked in Černý’s footprints in Prague to guide you through. His photo story from the Czech capital presents Černý’s striking pieces\, that almost shout at you with their size\, and also the less visible ones that are there to catch you by surprise – but both ways\, always make you think. \nThis photographic display accompanies the Czech Centre London exhibition of David Černý’s works\, seen around Prague\, in 3D models printed by Prusa Research\, a company that started modestly in the Czech Republic in 2012 and grew into one of the global leaders in 3D printer manufacturing. \nAt both venues you will see Černý‘s giant Babies sculptures (first made in 1999)\, which climb the Žižkov district TV tower and have already become one of the city’s symbols. The story of the legendary Pink Tank (first painted by Černý in the bright colour in 1991 to confront the remnants of Soviet political dominance and propaganda after the fall of Communism) has new chapters  written into today‘s landscape of Prague. Watch out\, so you don’t trip over it! Černý‘s more recent works include The Butterfly Effect\, honouring the Czechoslovak RAF pilots who fought alongside the Brits in the Second World War\, and the rotating head of Prague author Franz Kafka\, Instagram’s favourite sight in the Czech capital. \nDavid Černý was born in Prague in 1967 to a family of artists. He later studied at the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague between 1988 and 1996. In 1990\, he received the Special Prize at the Kortrijk Biennale\, Belgium. One year later\, he began his residential scholarship in Boswil after receiving a grant from the Swiss Government. In 1994\, he moved to New York as an artist in residence at the PS1 gallery. Two years later\, he completed the Whitney Independent Study Program. In 1996\, he won another grant\, this time from the Pollack-Krasner Foundation in the United States\, and in 2000\, he received the Jindřich Chalupecký Award for the country’s most promising visual artist under the age of 35. In 2001\, he founded Meetfactory\, a non-profit international centre for contemporary art. He lives in Prague and is the proud father of his daughter\, Elektra. \nJan Zatorsky is a Czech photographer\, who was born into the family of a protestant pastor in Northern Moravia in 1957. He was free to work as a photographer only after the fall of Communism in Czechoslovakia in 1989. For most of the 1990s\, when people without links to the Communist regime were needed\, especially in the security forces\, he held high positions at the Ministry of the Interior and the Police. Since 2000 he was the chief photographer of the Mediacop publishing house\, which had the influential weekly magazine Týden in its portfolio. Later he became the chief photographer for the Lidové noviny a daily Czech newspaper with a democratic tradition dating back to the 19th century. \nThis exhibition is part of the 30th Made in Prague Festival organised by Czech Centre London. \nOutdoor exhibition on the fence of the Czech Embassy 26 – 30 Kensington Palace Gardens\, London W8 4QY\nFree access 24/7 \nVisit David Černý: The Glorious 90s in Prague. Reprinted by Prusa Research at the Czech Centre’s Vitrínka Gallery to see newly created 3D-printed versions of Černý’s iconic works\, and also stop by the Bouda Gallery to explore Landscape\, an exhibition of student works from the Studio of Ceramics and Porcelain at the Academy of Arts\, Architecture and Design in Prague (UMPRUM).
URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/jan-zatorsky-prague-a-playground-for-david-cerny/
LOCATION:Czech Embassy London\, 26-30 Kensington Palace Gardens\, London\, W8QY \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Art,Design,EUNIC Project
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SUMMARY:Revisiting: Fernweh\, or Nostalgia for Unknown Lands
DESCRIPTION:Revisiting: Fernweh\, or Nostalgia for Unknown Lands brings together 15 international artists and 17 artworks from the Irene Y. Panagopoulos Collection\, spanning sculpture\, painting\, photography\, printmaking\, collage\, video\, lightboxes\, and books\, and dating from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century\, to explore Greece as a symbolic construct of both past and present\, escaping fixed notions of place.  \n\nOne year after its debut in Athens in 2025\, where it inaugurated the Irene Y. Panagopoulos Collection Space\, the exhibition Fernweh\, or Nostalgia for Unknown Lands comes to the Hellenic Centre in London with a renewed perspective\, shaped in part by the spatial parameters of the venue.   \n\nAt its conceptual axis lies Fernweh – the German word for a “longing for distant places”\, first recorded in 1835 by the German Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau to describe the melancholic longing he felt for places he had never visited. The term frames an exhibition that draws on the legacy of Romanticism to explore humanity’s enduring desire to pursue the unattainable and to reinterpret reality through the intertwined lenses of knowledge\, memory\, and imagination. The artists assume the role of observers\, navigating between experience and reverie\, romantic projection and historical consciousness. They reflect on Greece not only as a geographical territory but as a cultural and symbolic landscape – one long defined by journeys\, myths\, memories\, and perceptions shaped over time.  \n\n \n\nCurated by Katerina Hadji and presented by the Irene Y. Panagopoulos Collection in collaboration with the Hellenic Centre. \n\nImage: William Nelson Copley\, Homeric Emblem\, 1961\, Irene Y. Panagopoulos Collection\n\n \n\nSPECIAL PUBLIC EVENTS\n\nTuesday 13 October\, 18:00 – 21:00 – Exhibition Private View. RSVP here.\n\nFriday 16 October\, 09:30 – 11:00 – Breakfast reception. RSVP here.\n\nSaturday 17 October\, 11:00 – Exhibition Private Tour with curator Katerina Hadji. RSVP here.
URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/revisiting-fernweh-or-nostalgia-for-unknown-lands/
LOCATION:The Hellenic Centre\, 16-18 Paddington St \, London\, W1U 5AS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Art
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SUMMARY:A Different Kind of Pop: Giorgos Ioannou’s Works 1960s – 1970s
DESCRIPTION:Marking the centenary of the birth of Giorgos Ioannou (1926–2017) this exhibition is the first significant presentation of the artist’s work in the UK. Focusing on works produced between the late 1960s and 1970s – a period shaped by the Greek military dictatorship – these distinctive works explore the political undercurrents that emerged in Ioannou’s practice during that time. Although exceptionally prolific in Greece\, Ioannou’s work remains relatively unknown in the UK. This exhibition introduces his striking paintings to a wider international audience\, highlighting his creative vision as well as his passion for democracy and human rights. \n\nThroughout his career\, Ioannou developed a rich and varied visual language\, becoming particularly renowned for his use of pop art and comic-book imagery. Although his work evolved in parallel with\, and independently of\, American Pop Art\, he should not be understood simply as a Greek Pop artist. His paintings weave together personal memory\, political trauma\, nostalgia\, folk traditions and autobiography\, resulting in a deeply individual artistic vision. \n\nIt was during the years of the Greek military junta that Ioannou established his distinctive visual language. While engaging with the imagery and visual vocabulary of pop art\, he remained firmly committed to interrogating the social and political realities of his time. Ioannou operated within a climate of censorship\, yet the immediacy and accessibility of his approach enabled him to engage directly with the political climate of the period\, articulating his concerns with clarity and urgency. \n\nMany of the works included in this exhibition were first shown during the years of the dictatorship. Despite his opposition to the regime\, Ioannou continued to exhibit widely throughout the period\, including the Greek Pavilion at the 1970 Venice Biennale\, at the height of the regime. \n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a small publication and a programme of events\, including an in-conversation with the artist’s son\, artist Dimitris Ioannou and Kostas Stasinopoulos\, Director of Exhibitions and Programmes at KYKLOS\, moderated by independent critic\, historian and curator Andrew Wilson. \n\nLead sponsor Alpha Bank London. With support from the Onassis Foundation and The Panayotis & Effie Michelis Foundation. 
URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/a-different-kind-of-pop-giorgos-ioannous-works-1960s-1970s/
LOCATION:The Hellenic Centre\, 16-18 Paddington St \, London\, W1U 5AS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Art
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SUMMARY:Michael Anastassiades In Conversation with Writer and Curator Emily King
DESCRIPTION:The designer Michael Anastassiades in–conversation with writer and curator Emily King. Discussing Anastassiades’ recent exhibitions at the Melas Martinos gallery in Athens and the Taka Ishii gallery Tokyo\, Anastassiades and King explore the process of design\, in particular its fundamentally iterative nature.
URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/michael-anastassiades-in-conversation-with-writer-and-curator-emily-king/
LOCATION:The Hellenic Centre\, 16-18 Paddington St \, London\, W1U 5AS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Art,Talks
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SUMMARY:Proofs of the Impossible: Three Greek Women Painters\,1821–1960
DESCRIPTION:The Origin of Painting: Greek Women Artists from Antiquity to the Present is a lecture series that sets out to trace the remarkable history of Greek women’s contributions to the visual arts over nearly three millennia.  \n\nAccording to Pliny the Elder\, the origins of painting lie in the gesture of a Greek woman. As her beloved prepared to leave\, Kora of Sicyon traced the outline of his shadow on a wall in an attempt to preserve his image. This founding myth of Western art has been revisited by generations of artists\, yet the women who followed in Kora’s footsteps have remained largely overlooked in art history. \n\nThe first lecture began in antiquity with Timarete and Anaxandra.  \n\nIn the second lecture of the series The Origin of Painting: Greek Women Artists from Antiquity to the Present\, art historian Gelly Gryntaki explores the Greek female painters in the late 19th and early 20th centuries\, women’s roles\, political and social conditions\, and the general difficulties women faced in becoming artists: Eleni Altamoura\, Sofia Laskaridou\, Thalia Flora-Karavia. \n\nFuture lectures in 2027 will turn to sculpture and focus on the work of Natalia Mela\, Alex Mylona\, and Nafsika Pastra. The series will culminate in the bold experimental practices of the late 20th century – performance\, installation\, and video work by Maria Karavela\, Niki Kanagkini\, and Klonari/Thomadaki.  \n\nEach lecture is richly illustrated and densely informative\, offering participants an encounter with works\, lives\, and contexts that have too often been overlooked. Following each session\, attendees receive a carefully curated bibliography along with recommendations for films\, documentaries\, websites\, and cultural texts.  
URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/proofs-of-the-impossible-three-greek-women-painters1821-1960/
LOCATION:The Hellenic Centre\, 16-18 Paddington St \, London\, W1U 5AS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Art,Talks
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