Vladimír Skrepl, Botond Keresztesi & Stach Szumski | Guided Tour

Guided tour of the exhibitions Pliant Skin and Earlier than Primordial Middle Ages for the first and last time on Tuesday 26 March! With curator Ján Gajduska about the solo exhibition of Vladimír Skrepl and with curators Piotr Sikora and Stach Szumski about the immersive realities of the exhibition in Kostka.

At the same time, the residency floor will be exceptionally open, namely the studio of the Mexican artist Jazael Olguín Zapata, who has a number of zines, collaborations, promotions, exhibitions, etc. and a graphic novel entitled LLoverá sobre Egipto después del fin del mundo in 2019. His studio will be opened from 6pm till 9pm. 

Free entry. 

Vladimír Skrepl (*1955) became one of the most progressive curators of the Prague City Gallery in the 1980s after studying art history and ethnography at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Brno. Without a traditional art education, he then participated as an artist in a number of key exhibitions of the 1990s, such as Česká Abstra(H)ce (1996), To, co zbývá (1993), Zkušební provoz (1995), Snížený rozpočet (1997), and exhibitions at Béhémot and MXM galleries. Between 1994 and 2022, he was the head of the Painting II studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where some of the most important artists of the following years studied under him. His work, ranging from painting to installation, is characterized by harsh expression, cartoonish distortion and the involvement of crude gestural painting. Vladimír Skrepl's work defies any kind of agenda and contradicts all conformity in art with brutality and irony.

Stach Szumski (* 1992 in Gdańsk) graduated from the Faculty of Media Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He works with painting, installations, sculptures, graphics, drawings and interventions in public space. Influenced by grassroots practices related to post-graffiti, in 2013-2016 he co-directed Warsaw's V9 gallery. In addition, in 2015-2020 he collaborated with Karolina Mełnicka on the Nomadic State project, in which he created an art collective and a fictional nomadic microstate. Szumski's works have been exhibited in various galleries around the world, including CSW Zamek Ujazdowski, Kyoto Art Center and Galeria Parcel in Tokyo. He undertakes large-scale murals and interdisciplinary projects, often based on historical research during his extensive travels. He lives and works in Michałowice (Karkonosze). In the Czech Republic, he has so far had a solo exhibition at the Berlin Model Gallery in 2022