13/11/2024
18:00 – 20:00
Registration at 18:00
Galerie Rudolfinum
Alšovo nábřeží 12, Praha 1
We are pleased to invite you to a special guided tour of the current British–Czech exhibition Antony Gormley / Pavla Melková in Galerie Rudolfinum, the new member of BCC. The tour will be led by Pavla Melková, renowned Czech architect, poet, and exhibition co-curator. Representatives of 10 BCC members and their companions will have the opportunity to join the tour alongside members of the Galerie Rudolfinum Club.
Programme:
18:00 Registration and welcome drink
18:15 Opening
18:30 Guided tour
20:00 Closing
No attendance fee
We kindly inform you that the event language is Czech and the capacity of attendees is very limited, so do not hesitate to register via email galerie@rudolfinum.org as soon as possible. Deadline for the registration: 1 November 2024. Open to BCC Members only.
About the Exhibition Antony Gormley / Pavla Melková
Galerie Rudolfinum brings together world-acclaimed British sculptor Antony Gormley and Czech architect and poet Pavla Melková in a powerful creative exchange. You may know Sir Antony Gormley for his impressive Angel of the North public sculpture, which stands 20 meters tall with a wingspan of 54 meters (larger than that of a Boeing 757 aircraft) in Gateshead in the north of England. For Galerie Rudolfinum, he prepared works including the site-specific installation Orbit Field (2024) – a world premiere. In this exhibition, his evocative spatial installations and sculptures are framed by his drawings and the immersive images of environmental perception in the words of Melková’s poetic texts.
About Pavla Melková
Pavla Melková is a practicing Czech architect, but she is also deeply engaged in artistic literary and visual creation, as well as theoretical and pedagogical work. In the Czech Republic, Pavla is especially appreciated for the revitalization of Bastion XXXI in Prague, the National Memorial to the Heroes of the Heydrichiad at the Orthodox Church of St. Cyril and Methodius in Resslova Street in Prague or the memorial to Jan Palach in his birthplace in Všetaty.
About Galerie Rudolfinum
Galerie Rudolfinum is Prague’s grandest exhibition space for international contemporary art. Since its foundation in 1994, Galerie Rudolfinum has provided an important platform for showing the best in international contemporary art. Situated in the heart of Prague, in a lavish neo-Renaissance building on the banks of the Vltava River, Galerie Rudolfinum is among the Czech Republic’s premier cultural institutions sharing a home with the Czech Philharmonic and as a public institution supported by the Ministry of Culture. Nan Goldin, Arthur Jafa, Jiří Příhoda, Louise Bourgeois, Andy Warhol, Adéla Babanová, Cindy Sherman, Yinka Shonibare, Damien Hirst, Hito Steyerl, Neo Rauch, Kiki Smith, Stan Douglas, Candice Breitz, Krištof Kintera, and Kara Walker are just some of the more than 1,000 artists from around the world who have shaped what Galerie Rudolfinum is today.
We look forward to your presence at this unique event, where art, architecture and poetry come together in a celebration of creativity and cultural exchange.
