SympoSium

WHAT IS LITOMYŠL SYMPOSIUM?

Each year, the symposium organizers select one foreign country from which they will contact the local curator for a selection of four foreign artists. Together with the Czech curator and three Czech counterparts selected by him, he subsequently participates in a creative program for 16 days, which ends with the opening of an exhibition of already known and newly created works. The version of the exhibition is traditionally held in the Miroslav Kubík Gallery in Litomyšl.

HISTORY AND IMPLEMENTATION

After eight successful and well-reflected years by the public, the Litomyšl Symposium continues its efforts to develop the cultural environment of this East Bohemian town. The seven invited artists will traditionally take part in a several-day stay in September, during which they will meet local experts and art lovers, and above all create works of art of timeless value. The ambition of the event is to focus attention on interesting personalities, phenomena and tendencies of contemporary art. In 2020, due to the global crisis, the Symposium will be presented as a look back and the exhibition will take place as a reflection of past symposia from the collection of the Miroslav Kubík Gallery. However, we would not like to stop our tradition, so in the near future you can look forward to the announcement of a new symposium for 2021, at which time, we firmly hope, in better times.

The symposium offers, among other things, workshops for schools, art education groups for local restoration students and the general public with an interest in contemporary visual culture. Visitors thus have the opportunity not only to come to the studio where works of art are created, but also to talk to the artists about the emerging paintings and creative processes. The symposium is an interesting interaction with artists, they will see how they work, where they look for inspiration for their works, or they can just look under their hands and ask anything they are interested in. The Symposium organizes an interesting tour of Litomyšl and its surroundings, including an excursion around the contemporary architecture of the city.

As in the previous eight years, the Symposium will be followed by an exhibition in the years to come, where works of art created within the Symposium and supplemented by curated works by the same artists will be exhibited, brought to the exhibition either directly from their studios or galleries or from private collectors. The exhibition therefore seeks to present complete portraits of participating artists and their overall work. As part of the Symposium, a catalog depicting individual artists, the installation of the exhibition and the course of the event has traditionally been published. In cooperation with the KANT publishing house, distribution to a number of high-quality bookstores, study rooms, archives and libraries is ensured not only in the Czech Republic but also abroad.

Former Chapters

8. LITOMYŠL SYMPOSIUM - CZECH / SWISS

Czech artists: Habima Fuchs, Jitka Hanzlová, Kateřina Vincourová
Swiss artists: Stefan Burger, Katalin Deer, Sara Masüger, Ilona Rueg
Curators: Adam Budak in collaboration with Lorenzo Benedetti

7. LITOMYŠL SYMPOSIUM - CZECH / HUNGARIAN

Czech artists: Hynek Alt, Igor Hosnedl, Valentýna Janů
Hungarian artists: Sári Ember, Mark Fridvalszki, Gábor Kristóf, Dominika Trapp
Curators: Jen Kratochvil and Jan Zálešák

6. LITOMYŠL SYMPOSIUM - CZECH / ITALIAN

Czech artists: Radim Langer, Vladimír Skrepl, Viktorie Valocká
Italian artists: Alessandra Draghi, Chiara Giorgetti, Virginia Dal Magro, Cristiano Rizzo
Curators: Richard Adam and Marcello Farabegoli

5. LITOMYŠL SYMPOSIUM - CZECH / AUSTRIAN

Czech artists: Hana Garová, Ondřej Petrlík, Jakub Sýkora
Austrian artists: Daniel Hafner, Pablo Chiereghin, Anna Meyer, Linus Riepler
Curators: Richard Adam and Marcello Farabegoli

4. LITOMYŠL SYMPOSIUM - CZECH / POLISH

Czech artists: David Bohm - Jiří Franta, Matyáš Chochola, Josef Zlámal
Polish artists: Tomek Baran, BRACIA - Aga Klepacka and Maciej Chorazy, Mateusz Kula, Zuza Ziolkowska Hercberg
Curators: Martin Dostál and Noemi Smolik

3. LITOMYŠL SYMPOSIUM - CZECH / GERMAN

Czech artists: Jitka Mikulicová, Alice Nikitinová, Marek Číhal, Lubomír Typlt
German artists: Florian Meisenberg, Carola Ernst, Matthias Hesselbacher
Curators: Martin Dostál and Noemi Smolik

2. LITOMYŠL SYMPOSIUM - CZECH / SLOVAK

Czech artists: Václav Girsa, Marek Meduna, Luděk Rathouský, Adam Štech
Slovak artists: Andrej Dúbravský, Viktor Frešo and Katarína Janečková
Curator: Martin Dostál

1. LITOMYŠL SYMPOSIUM - YOUNG STARS

Josef Achrer, David Hanvald, Ondřej Kopal, Martin Krajc, Robert Šalanda, Evžen Šimera, Karel Štědrý
Curator: Martin Dostál