We cordially invite you to the opening of the exhibition Jan Stolín | Anagrams, which will take place on Wednesday 7 June at 6 pm.

The solo exhibition of Jan Stolín’s pastels and objects will include a specially designed intervention created specifically for the space. Stolín, who has long been concerned with questions of lability, stays on the edge of the real and the apparent. In parallel, he develops light installations, meditative three-dimensional constructions and expressive drawings based on basic geometric formations. In his works, he finds a free field of overlap between the lightweight detachment and the binding heaviness, detaching from and revisiting the earthly attraction as the starting point and supporting source of his imagination.

The exhibition is curated by Karel Srp.

Jan Stolín (*1966, Svitavy) studied ceramics at the School of Arts and Crafts in Prague in the 1980s and at the Secondary School of Art Industry in Bratislava. He graduated from the Prague UMPRUM (1992) and in 1990 he completed a residency at La Villa Arson in Nice, France. He has been working at FUA TUL since 1998, since 2018 he has been the head of the art department, and for the last few years he has been the vice-dean of FUA TUL. He received his habilitation in 2012 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava.
In 1997 he co-founded the gallery Die Aktualität des Schönen… in Liberec, and is now the artistic director of Cube x Cube Gallery in Novina.
He is a recipient of the Honorable Mention Grand Prix of the Architects’ Association 2001 (together with Ing. arch. P. Stolín), in 2000 he was a finalist of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award.

The exhibition runs until 28 July. The gallery is closed on Saturdays during July.

The exhibition programme is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.

The Slovak artist in the role of a visual botanist thematizes the cycle of growth and decay – the cycle of life and death. The exhibition Sublimation tells the story of birth/extinction through flowing objects with fallen leaves and ceramic statuettes of budding flowers as well as fragile non-human actors such as moths and mushrooms.

„Sublimation“ is partly a continuation of the series entitled Cells and Seeds, in particular by alternating micro & macro views of vegetation, assembling cell clusters on surfaces and in shapes, thus attempting to reveal to our eyes hidden entities and the relationships between them.

We cordially invite you to the opening of the exhibition Sublimation, which will take place on Tuesday 22 November at 6 pm.

The Slovak artist in the role of a visual botanist thematizes the cycle of growth & decay through painting, pastels, textile and concrete. With an intuitive poetics, she narrates the fragility of non-human actors: plants, insects or entire biotopes.

The exhibition program of Jiri Svestka Gallery is created with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic and the City Hall of Prague

You are cordially invited to a guided tour of the exhibition Peter Weidenbaum | Holzwege with the artist on Thursday, October 6.