The Space Between Exhibition

The group exhibition The Space Between opens the theme of space as a changing network of relationships between architecture, landscape, body, and memory.

The exhibition The Space Between builds on the gallery's long-term interest in the dialogue between architecture and visual art and focuses on the role of space in shaping aesthetic and cultural experience. Its starting point is the understanding of the surrounding environment as a dynamic configuration of relationships between architecture, landscape, body, and memory, among which gaps inevitably arise. These transitional zones, where spatial experience can be re-evaluated, are the fundamental basis of the exhibition's architecture designed by Richard Loskot. The project is accompanied by an essay by theorist Aleksei Borisionok, who reflects on how elemental forces most clearly reveal the fragility of spatial and social structures and open them to new forms of interpretation. His text resonates with the exhibited works and engages in reflections on the relationship between environmental processes, power, and cultural imagination. It thus connects to the thinking of French philosopher Félix Guattari, who perceived space as an intersecting plane of environmental, social, and mental ecology, and primarily as a constantly changing constellation of relationships. This processual approach to space is articulated by the exhibited works across various media – from drawing and painting to sculpture and glass art, as well as site-specific installation. The contemplation of emptiness or interval as places of meaning-making repeatedly appears in the history of architecture and aesthetics – from antiquity and Renaissance theories of proportions to the phenomenology of space and conceptual art of the 20th century. In modern and postmodern thought, the gap acquires new layers of meaning: it ceases to be merely a part of composition and becomes a process or threshold situation in which the relationships between subject and object, between body and architecture, and between the living and the non-living transform. In a time when the relationship between humans and space becomes increasingly less self-evident, this reading offers space for the imagination of a new relationship to space, as a place that is not merely a passive setting for human activity but an active participant in the processes that shape the ways of being for both individuals and society as a whole. Exhibiting artists: Veronika Hapchenko, Magdalena Jetelová, Jan Poupě, Michal Škoda, Stanislav Libenský & Jaroslava Brychtová Curators of the exhibition: Eva Vele, Natálie Kubíková Architect of the exhibition: Studio Richard Loskot Photo: Vojtěch Veškrna Open daily except Monday.