Exhibition opening
Rostislav Čuřík: (Photography)

We cordially invite you to the opening of the exhibition Rostislav Čuřík: (Photography) on Tuesday, 23 June 2026, at 6 pm at the House of Arts (Malinovského sq.).

PROGRAM
6 pm exhibition opening – curator Terezie Petišková, Rostislav Čuřík
6:30 pm exhibition tour with Rostislav Čuřík
7 pm musical performance by Černý lovec

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

The exhibition will present the photographic work of Brno artist Rostislav Čuřík, who began his creative career in the early 1980s. It will introduce Čuřík as an artist who, even during his student years, created romantic images inspired by ecological themes and Mannerism. He also drew on Surrealism and devoted himself intensively to forays into radical body performance, inspired by the Transavantgarde and Tadeusz Kantor’s Theater of Death. Čuřík also served as a documentarian of alternative culture and captured the beginnings of the postmodern theatrical aesthetics of playwright and director Antonín Pitínský. Many of his photographs capture the bold and radical performances of his contemporaries at the former Brno Music Theater. The exhibition will present a wealth of new insights into the beginnings of postmodern thinking in the visual arts in Moravia—a topic that still awaits adequate scholarly treatment—as well as brand-new works created specifically for this exhibition.