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Jan Kolsky

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Documenting art and architecture. Based in Czechia.
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Igor Hosnedl @igorhosnedl at the exhibition "A Whole Different Animal" 2026 20th Anniversary of Hunt Kastner Prague @huntkastner curators: Laura Amann Marín @l.auraamann , Jen Kratochvil @jen_kratochvil "Eye" handmade pigments, glue and damar varnish on canvas 100x70cm 2026 photo: @jankolsky #czechoslovakscifisurrealism
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Making logistic elements like threaded rod hangers fit into the vaulted ceiling of an 18th-century palace. Exhibition architecture for Moving Parts by @jankolsky , curated by @terkarudolf at @galerieamu in Prague, April 2026. Thanks a lot for helping us @ondrejkonrad and @sdalliv <3 Photos 6&16 by @jankolsky
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Today’s feature is a conversation with Peter Sit @sssitdownnn , curator of “The Silence of the Mole” at the Czech and Slovak Pavilion in Venice, with works by Jakub Jansa @jakub.jansa and Selmeci Kocka Jusko @selmecikockajusko During their conversation, conducted by Chiara Causo @chiaracso , Causo asks Sit, “At the centre of the project seems to be a question about who has the power to represent whom. Mr M. represents The Mole; The Mole represents cultural memory; the pavilion represents two countries within an international exhibition. How did you reflect on this chain of representation? And did you see the pavilion itself as a space in which the politics of cultural representation could be questioned?” To which he replies, “Representation operates on several levels throughout the project. Mr. M. represents The Mole, but he is also burdened by that representation. Similarly, national pavilions inevitably raise questions about who is entitled to represent a country, whose stories become visible, and which identities remain excluded. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the pavilion, which still bears the name of a country that no longer exists. Today, it is jointly owned by two countries. In a way, we are exhibiting in the pavilion of a fictional country. For me, that’s a beautiful metaphor. National representation, and the whole idea of the Venice Biennale as a system of national pavilions is quite problematic. I think it’s important to keep questioning it, and I hope that one day we will be able to move beyond this rather archaic model, which, at least for contemporary art, no longer makes much sense. At the same time, for nation states, and for the Biennale as an institution, it remains very important because it is deeply connected to power, money, and, as our project suggests, representation itself.” Photo of Peter Sit: Neven Allgeier @nevenallgeier Installation photos: Jan Kolský @jankolsky Read the full interview on our site, mostmagazine.org #mostmagazine #cee #thesilenceofthemole #petersit #chiaracauso
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Ohlédnutí za exkurzí, kdy jsme se byli podívat na bytový dům Jateční 35 v pražských Holešovicích, jen pár kroků od Vltavy a cyklostezky. 🚴‍♂️ Architektonicky výrazný komorní dům nabízí 39 bytů a jednu komerční jednotku v parteru na sedmi nadzemních podlažích. Součástí je zelená střecha a terasy s výhledem na centrum Prahy, důraz je kladen i na energetickou efektivitu. Na podzim se do domu nastěhují první obyvatelé. • A look back at our excursion to Jateční 35, a residential building in Prague’s Holešovice district, just a few steps from the Vltava River and the cycling path. 🚴‍♂️ This architecturally distinctive, intimate residential building offers 39 apartments and one commercial unit on the ground floor, spread across seven above-ground floors. It features a green roof and terraces with views of central Prague, with a strong emphasis also placed on energy efficiency. The first residents will move into the building in the autumn. Architektura / Architecture: CASUA Projektant / Engineering: CASUA Foto/photo: Tomáš Rubín @tomas.rubin.photo
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ᴛʜᴇ ᴀʀᴛᴡᴏʀᴋ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄᴏʟʟᴇᴄᴛɪᴏɴ Jakub Hájek @his_holiness_4com and František Hanousek @francy.no.check / Sketches from the Antonovka Apples1900 / mixed media / 65 x 45 x 45 cm / 2024 Jakub Hájek (b. 1994) and František Hanousek (b. 1994) are an artistic duo that took shape during their studies at the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art at the University of West Bohemia in Plzeň. Both completed their BA there before further developing their trajectory at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where they have continued since 2018 in Intermedia Studio III. Together they have taken part in numerous group exhibitions in the Czech Republic and abroad and have also realised solo projects such at C. Rockefeller Center for Contemporary Arts (Dresden, 2020) and Holešovická šachta (2021) and at MeetFactory (2025). In recent years they have been nominated for the StartPoint Prize, and their work has also appeared in an international gallery context. Formally, their work is marked by the tension between “warm” materials and the tactility of craft (wood, wire, patina, handwork, repaired joints) and the cold smoothness of digital interfaces. In their installations, technical logic frequently turns into scenography: they enter the space both as authors of exhibition architecture and as “tinkerers” building temporary structures from salvaged materials, with an acute attention to detail and a humour that oscillates between sincerity and meme-like irony. The works thus read as deeply corporeal (labour, time, material work) and, paradoxically, fragile and almost virtual—like shells of a world breaking down into signs, substitutes, and improvised patches. Read more about the artwork in link in bio. photo ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• [1-3] Exhibition view from HAC#2, Gallery Mánes, 2025, photo: Jan Kolský @jan.kolsky [6-10] Exhibition view from At the Foot of the Garden, Center for Contemporary Arts Prague, 2024 @csupraha, photo: Filip Beránek @filip_beranek [13] photo: Aurélie Bayad @untitlednoise #contemporaryart #hajekhanousek #exhibition #artistduo
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Frozen cartons, 2025 *oil on liquid packaging board and acrylic glass *29x29 cm *photo @jankolsky #czechoslovakscifisurrealism #czechcontemporaryart #painting #adamtomanek #contemporaryart
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Monumentální síť utkaná ze stovek kilogramů vyřazeného textilu proměňuje Galerii Kostka v spletitý labyrint průchodů a průhledů. 🪡 Julius Reichel ve své sólové výstavě s názvem Dědictví krve poukazuje na technologické, mediální, politické a další systémy, které nás přesahují a nejsme schopni dohlédnout míru jejich dosahu. Centrálnímu objektu v instalaci sekundují Reichelovy malby, ilustrace a další díla a obrazy. • Julius Reichel: Dědictví krve 14. 8. – 4. 10. 2026 Galerie Kostka Kurátorský tým: Tereza Havlovicová & Ján Gajdušek Produkce: Nikol Hoangová Grafika: Jakub Kučera PR: Zuzana Kolouchová, Filip Pleskač Instalace: Tereza Kontúrová, Prokop Václavík, Kateřina Vachová, Antonín Závodný
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Exhibition Spotlight: "Wet Herbarium" featuring Eva Koťátková (@evakotatkova) and Sráč Sam (@srac.sam) at Hunt Kastner (@huntkastner). 📍Prague, Czechia See more at 🔗 untitleddb.com Writing: Zuzana Jakalová (@sujkaj) Photography: Jan Kolský (@jankolsky) Presented by: Hunt Kastner (@huntkastner) Photos courtesy of the artists and Hunt Kastner. #evakoťátková #jankolský #zuzanajakalová #sráčsam #huntkastner Exhibition Spotlight: "Wet Herbarium" featuring Eva Koťátková (@evakotatkova) and Sráč Sam (@srac.sam) at Hunt Kastner (@huntkastner). 📍Prague, Czechia See more at 🔗 untitleddb.com Writing: Zuzana Jakalová (@sujkaj) Photography: Jan Kolský (@jankolsky) Presented by: Hunt Kastner (@huntkastner) Photos courtesy of the artists and Hunt Kastner. #evakoťátková #jankolský #zuzanajakalová #sráčsam #huntkastner
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The Shock Workers of a New Horror @display.cz 25.6.2026 – 30.8.2026 Vystavujúci umelci: Anna Engelhardt & Mark Cinkevich, Šimon Chlouba, Polina Davydenko, Ján Gašparovič, Mohamed Yaghi, Andrew Roberts, Matouš Střelec Kurátor: Jiří Sirůček @mmma_off Grafika: Veronika Levitner, Šimon Levitner, Olbram Pavlíček Fotografie: Jan Kolský @jankolsky The exhibition explores the return of heavy machinery and infrastructural systems to the centre of our attention at a time when digital ideology promised their invisibility and “weightlessness.” Against the backdrop of contemporary wars, ecological crises, and the collapse of sustainable futures, machines re-emerge as ambivalent symbols of power, destruction, and anxiety. The project traces how technology appears in contemporary visual culture as an “infrastructural spectre” of modernity, bringing materiality, labour, and violence back into view. / Výstava zkoumá návrat těžké techniky a infrastrukturních systémů do centra naší pozornosti v době, kdy digitální ideologie slibovala jejich neviditelnost a „beztížnost“. Na pozadí současných válečných konfliktů, ekologických krizí a rozpadu představ o udržitelné budoucnosti se stroje znovu objevují jako ambivalentní symboly moci, destrukce a úzkosti. Projekt sleduje, jak technologie v obrazech současnosti vystupují jako „infrastrukturní přízraky“ modernity a znovu zviditelňují materialitu, práci a násilí stojící za zdánlivě nehmotným světem digitálních sítí.
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New faux leather relief that’s currently on view in Prague as a part of [Deep House], my solo exhibition at @meetfactory 🌿 the show, curated by @jn_gdsk and produced by @imnikhoa is on through Oct 4, come by if in Prague #deephouse #meetfactory #prague #cezaryponiatowski photos by @jankolsky
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Víkend zdarma v galeriích MeetFactory → V sobotu a v neděli jsou obě naše výstavy i murál na dvorku za smíchovskou továrnou přístupné bezplatně. ✩ V Galerii MeetFactory je k vidění rozsáhlý výstavní projekt 𝙳𝚎𝚎𝚙 𝙷𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚎 polského umělce Cezaryho Poniatowského, v Kostce pak můžete naposledy navštívit instalaci 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚂𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚛𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚆𝚎𝚍𝚐𝚎 maďarského dua Borsos Lőrinc. C U! Foto: Jan Kolský
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Tento týden se v Galerii Kostka loučíme s výstavou 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚂𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚛𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚆𝚎𝚍𝚐𝚎 maďarského dua Borsos Lőrinc. Dvojice v první samostatné pražské výstavě rozvíjí svou dosavadní tvorbu, která se opírá o výzkum paranormálních a parapsychologických jevů, osobních mytologií i vztahů mezi okultismem a technologiemi. ☣ Výstava je v Galerii Kostka otevřena do neděle 26. července, a to každý den od jedné do osmi. Foto: Jan Kolský
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