Spirit open – exhibition, Ostrava
Spirit open is an exhibition project of Polish, Czech and Slovak artists who have been collaborating on many art projects for a long time.
Spirit open is an international exhibition in which the Štětín Philharmonic Orchestra, the University of Ostrava, the GDM Contemporary Art Gallery and the Ján Koniarek Gallery in Trnava participate. In September and October, the Spirit Open exhibition took place in the gallery of the Szczecin Philharmonic, and now the Ostrava audience has the opportunity to see part of this exhibition in Ostrava at GS - Stage City Campus in the new building of the Faculty of Education of the University of Ostrava at Černá louka (Building CS). The exhibition is on display from December 2, 2023 to January 30, 2024.
The main curator of the project is Tomáš Koudela in collaboration with Tereza Čapandová, Vlado Beskid and Andreas Guskos. The curatorial intention is to present the contemporary art scene, of which traditional expressions, or their multimedia extensions, are a natural part.
Alongside drawing, painting and sculpture, sound installations, video productions, eco-art realisations or hybrid image constructs produced by artificial intelligence will be available for the viewer's experience.
The key content structure is a reflection on the emerging identity of the subject post-industrial focal points, which are the place of work and personal life of the artists involved in the project.
A remarkable accent of the subject creative deployment, its common denominator, is in more than one case the artistic transformation of existential profiles as platforms for reinterpreting ethically heterogeneous meaning or aesthetically homogeneous value concepts of the world.
Spirit open is realized in the world and with the world... If the world is understood, its spirit will also be understood, for from the world we already understand in a preliminary way what Spirit open is...
To put it simply: the essence of this exhibition concept is the exploration of points of contact, as foci of a new language of coexistence in the wide range of artefactual codes that are active on the contemporary visual art scene, as echoes of temporal horizons under whose influence our mutuality can attempt to make sense.
Artists: Milan Cieslar, Katarzyna Dondalska, Viktor Frešo, Andreas Guskos, Martina Chudá, Martin Kochan, František Kowolowski, Arkadiusz Marcinkowski, Lujza Marečková, Jakub Ružinský, Kanrec Sakul, Jiří Surůvka
The exhibition project is funded by the Visegrad Fund.
The opening of the exhibition also included a round table attended by academics and students as well as experts. The subject was the impact of artificial intelligence on art and culture.
Updated: 03. 01. 2024
