Category: Exhibition

What does the future of design look like? The Best in Design exhibition presents the finalists of international competition. This year, Zlin Design Week also offers an autumn program that will present the finalists and winners of the international Best in Design competition. Discussions with designers, workshops, lectures, dernisage. You can experience all this from October 6 to 28, 2021 in the G18 University Gallery.

The 12th year of the international Best in Design competition offered the opportunity to breakthrough in the world of design for young talents. The jury selected from more than three hundred entries from various parts of the world. Visitors to the exhibition can look forward to samples of this year’s finalists, from three categories. You can look forward to works from the categories Product & Industrial Design, Fashion Design and Communication Design.

“The Best in Design exhibition is not only a showcase of fashion, product design and innovative approaches but also a response to the issue of competition in these fields. Design and the visual arts in general are disciplines in which unambiguous quality is difficult and mainly subjective. We, therefore, agreed with the G18 gallery team that when installing the exhibits, we will not differentiate the placement of individual authors in the competition when placing them, but we will place the same emphasis on all exhibited works. However, we do not want to say that competition in this area has no justification, but we perceive it as a means of promotion rather than a match of the authors, ”said the designer of the exhibition Miroslav Macík.

For example, the exhibition will present the duo Julie Dítětová and Jáchym Moravec with the work Česká vlajka.online, Karolína Čechová, who captivated the jury with their clothing collection called Inner Sanctum. There will also be work from this year’s absolute winner of the year 2021, Ondřej Pechal. He entered his design of a cast iron radiator, which should last for generations and adapt to different uses. “My goal was to strip the radiator of unnecessary deposits of historicism and to instil in it a simple and timeless form. At the same time, however, continue the tradition in this industry, support the natural tectonics of the radiator and thus facilitate the readability of the product. All this in accordance with the casting technology and using its advantages,” says Ondřej.

Zlín, design and meetings with other creators or cultural enthusiasts. If you missed this in the spring, you now have a great opportunity to relive it. The G18 Gallery will always be open from Monday to Thursday, 1 pm to 6 pm. More information about the program can be found at www.zlindesignweek.com or on the social networks Best in Design and Zlin Design Week.

The opening of the exhibition is on Tuesday, September 21, 2021 at 6:00 p.m.

prof. Mgr. Pavel Dias, photographer and pedagogue

December 9, 1938 – April 19, 2021

Pavel Dias was one of the important Czech photographers of the second half of the 20th century. He worked on the border between journalistic and documentary photography, he was one of the photographers of the first domestic picture magazine Mladý svět. From 1964 to 1983 he was a photographer working with various magazines. He focused mainly on advertising photography. From 1983 to 1988 he worked at the Secondary School of Applied Arts in Brno as the head of the photography department. From 1989 to 2009 he was a professor at FAMU in Prague, and from 2005 to 2008 he also taught photography at Tomas Bata University in Zlín.

In his photographic work, he emphasized deeply humanistic photography. Thanks to his experience with reportage photography, he was able to clearly convey to the viewer a certain situation in the given context, he sought objectivity and his photographs do not have a stylized author’s handwriting, where form prevails over the content. Pavel Dias has long been involved in photographing thematically focused cycles. His family experience led him to a cycle dedicated to concentration camps called Torso of the Holocaust, photographing horses meant an escape into the original world of the inner relationship between man and animal and also in the unhappy period of normalization to use the opportunity to document human society through a specific atmosphere of racing.

 

We present a very brief cross-section of the work of a great Czech photographer. We are not talking about a retrospective, but about honour and memory – a gesture towards a great artist, a teacher, a good person who left us this year.

Exhibition of Diploma and Bachelor Theses of Shoe Design, Fashion Design and Audiovisual Arts will present a selection of students’ final theses from the studios of the TBU Faculty of Multimedia Communications in Zlín. The accompanying program includes the Zlín Gallery Tour, which will take place on September 4, 2021.

Students who have successfully completed their bachelor’s and master’s studies in the academic year 2020/2021 will present themselves in the G18 gallery.

You can see a wide range of works and samples of graduate films in the gallery from 30 August to 12 September 2021. The exhibition will be open to the public daily from 1 pm to 6 pm in the G18 Gallery at Štefánikova 5670, Zlín (U18 building, Faculty of Humanities) UTB).

We would like to invite you to the GALLERY TOUR event on Saturday, September 4, 2021.

“Join the adventure bus ride – Gallery Tour – learning about contemporary art and architecture of Zlín. Choose individual events or complete the whole ride by bus, bicycle, scooter, some places are accessible to each other on foot. Gallery Tour 2021 will include guided tours of exhibitions and architecture, site-specific installations, a sound installation and a live concert. You will see a cross-section of the work of professional artists, architects, designers and students. ”

 

 

Dispositions | 17. 7. – 18. 8. 2021 | Ondřej Filípek and Stella Geppert /D/

Curator: Iva Mladičová

Opening: 17. 7. 2021 at 17:00

The exhibition collaboration between ONDŘEJ FILÍPEK and STELLA GEPPERT / D / is an opportunity to dialogue, intergenerationally between two significant artistic ensembles, whose common denominator lies in the inventive transformation of the psychology and corporeality of the human figure and the definition and reflection of human space. Both authors work with figural corporeality, Filípek in a direct sculptural way and Geppert transforms corporeality through the recording of movement action.

 

The dynamics of psychic expressiveness within the artworks of Ondřej Filípek is present in the apparent closedness of the shape, explicitly in the deformations and delimitation of the environment by means of objects. Geppert also works with the environment, with the real dynamics of living corporeality, from which drawing records of an expressive character are created and remain. There are two ways to transform psychic dynamics. The reciprocity of both approaches will allow distance from the common perception of the sculptural installation precisely by confrontation with the absence of corporeality in conceptual drawings and performances.

Ondřej Filípek creates a suggestive community of objects of an industrial nature and deformed figural torsos, treating the imaginative space of anxiety about the pathological nature of the environment. In the figures, the liveliness of the organic shape allows it to blend with the technically cold shape. Torsion figures are both static and unstable. The expression is humanly disturbing and at the same time detached. The whole is alive and inanimate. The figure transforms into an object, the object acquires an anthropomorphic character. The author points out the need to revive the human dimension of the current way of existence, to the borderline moment of the situation.

 

The Story of the Annual Ring | 16. 6. – 8. 7. 2021 | exhibition of students of Arts Management FMC TBU in Zlin | Aneta Roubíčková, Jan Smolík, Radek Micka, Tereza Kligová, Made in paper, Papelote na druhou

On June 16, 2021, the G18 gallery will open with a new design exhibition The Story of the Annual Ring. Behind its realisation are the students of Arts Management FMK TBU in Zlín, who decided to approach the topic of crafts and work with materials – either the traditional one or through new perspectives on their sustainability. The exhibition will run until July 8, 2021.

Its name associates the cycle of tree life and its unique role in our lives. The exhibition will show the representation of wood in objects of common need in connection with tradition, craft, our history, present and future.

“The exhibition plan of the G18 gallery emphasizes one theme every year. For 2021, it is the most modest craft. We want to introduce the topic that a wide range of skills and decisions are behind the creation of works of art and design. In each exhibition, we try to draw attention to the process of creation, which is not visible at first glance, or we do not normally notice it, “explains the context of the exhibition G18 gallery, Romana Veselá.

Wood is also presented here through products that reflect recycling and upcycling. That is, through the issue of resource renewal with an emphasis on contemporary young design.

While part of the exhibition symbolizes a look into the future, the other returns to our roots. To the forest as a place of new life, growth and renewal, a place that stimulates our senses.

 

“The exhibition was prepared by first-year students of Arts Management. In a normal situation, it should serve them for practical training, where they participate in accompanying programs and production of individual exhibitions. This year it was not possible for obvious reasons, and that is why I am glad that we can reopen the gallery with their exhibition, “adds Romana Veselá to its preparation.

List of exhibitors:

Aneta Roubíčková

Jan Smolík

Radek Micka

Tereza Kligová

Made in paper

Papelote na druhou

List of authors:

Andrea Stehlíková

Eliška Janáková

Jitka Smolíková

Katarína Pribylová

Kristýna Bartoníková

Miriam Vejová

Veronika Vicianová

 

The exhibition is open to visitors completely free of charge from Monday to Thursday from 1 pm to 6 pm. Its program will involve students and staff across the entire university – for example, through a lecture by the TBU Climate Initiative. It will aim to bring closer the laws of forests’ impact on the climate from various perspectives, to acquaint with the principles of sustainability of wooden or paper products and to provide inspiration for further interaction with the given environment.

 

The exhibition presents the results of five years of iron casting workshops, organized in 2015–2019 by Ivana Sláviková, the head of the Department of Sculpture of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica. The project opens up opportunities for alternative artistic iron casting on an international level under the guidance of sculpture experts, teachers and students from European art schools. In front of us, we can see 22 physically present and 65 visual presentations. These could also be created thanks to the cooperation with an American technician and small blast furnace builder Rick Batten, who, together with teachers and students, put casting equipment into operation each year. Cast iron waste was remelted, and participants from many countries (Slovakia, Czech Republic, Montenegro, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Serbia) could benefit from an opportunity to work with liquid metal when making their small sculptures. This dimension is very important with respect to flexibility as well as the possibility of their thematic delimitation. A small sculpture does not force the creator to work too much with the context of its surroundings, the open air; it does not limit in this sense; it is possible to focus on the sculpture in its autonomy. Moreover (and this is not insignificant), it implies meanings of intimacy and homeliness; you can grasp the objects, weigh them in your hands, they can perhaps even be user-friendly.

Some of them use humour, exaggeration, anecdote, which, however, carry meanings that always fall outside the scope of their reference. It is precisely further away from humour where they illuminate reality in a somewhat different way so that more serious, current but, at the same time, timeless themes stand out in that acute aperture cut. Ivana Sláviková puts a metal cast of, surprise, surprise, Hungarian sausages on a silver candlestick pedestal; the profane meets the sacral in one place… Juraj Sapara refers another one of his stelae (his significant themes for various materials in recent years) to sepulchral architecture. Vladimír Kovařík from the Faculty of Multimedia Communications of the university in Zlín further expands his possibilities of working with a circle, this time in a planetary dimension of a combination of a metal hemisphere and a wooden orbit. Malgorzata Wiśniewska, a sculpture graduate at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, comes back to being inspired by monumental technical metal collage as shown, for example, by the Ostrava Symposium on Spatial Forms in the late 1960s. From the Czech point of view, it is also possible to see the Preclíkean tradition in Ján Hofstädter’s (AFAD in Bratislava) sculpture which includes a meticulously made playful “merry-go-round”.

We could not mention all the artefacts in detail; we brought attention only to those that evoked immediate suggestion and reminiscence. We omitted, for example, biomorphic (Magdalena Pavlović) or deeply historical inspirations (Helena Lukášová), which are no less inspirational.

The Master5 exhibition shows what is happening in a specific art segment not far from our borders. It is good to see further than just beyond the confines of our awareness.

Curator: doc. M.A. Vladimír Kovařík

Artists:

Tomasz Bielecki (PL) Jakub Cmarko (SK) Paweł Czekański (PL)

Ranko Dragic (RS) Marek Galbavý (SK) Ján Hoffstädter (SK)

Vladimír Kovařík (CZ) Helena Lukášová (CZ) Krysztof Nitsch (PL)

Magdalena Pavlović (RS) Sabina Psotková (CZ) Ivana Radovanovic (MNE) Géza Sallai (H) Juraj Sapara (SK) Ivana Sláviková (SK)

Igor Smiljanić (RS) Michał Staszczak (PL) Jozef Suchoža (SK)

Jan Szczypka (PL) Rastislav Trizma (SK) Remigija Vaitkute (LT)

Małgorzata Wiśniewska (PL)

The exhibition of Gabriel Urbánek’s photographs complemented by unique artifacts, which are works by Václav Cigler, Vladimír Kopecký, Dana Zámečníková and others, aims to present the phenomenon of photography as a visual discipline that allows us to view the content and visuality of a work, to develop it in a flat image and to transform it further.

The concept of the exhibition correlates with the content focus of ARF FMK and other studios and is also a unique example of cutting-edge documentary photography that touches its highest limits in the field.

Due to the current pandemic situation, it will only be possible to view the exhibition through the windows of the G18 Gallery at Štefánikova 5670 in Zlin.

 

Curator of the exhibition: Mgr. Silvie Stanická, Ph.D.

During the coronavirus pandemic, when you can’t get to the galleries, G18 has prepared a special ok(n)o programme to accompany Zlin residents on their journeys around our gallery.
The ok(n)o program is a street art mutation of our regular exhibition program, which takes place only in the windows and behind the gallery window.

We don’t want to pursue the online space any further, presenting only a derivative of the documentation and asking you to spend time at your computer.
Therefore, please accept our invitation to the pedestrian zone in front of the gallery, from which you will now see:

Faces of Angel
Markéta Váradiová
A video made up of insect heads, faces that we know are all around us but don’t see, and yet have incredibly unearthly expressions.
www.marketavaradiova.cz

Graphitical
Kristýna Londinová
The Graphitical project critically interprets current topics and events from the political, social and ethical spheres not only in the Czech Republic. These resonating events are visually captured in the form of an information flow, under the pressure of which we find ourselves daily. A series of several posters present an authorial approach to the communication possibilities of graphic design and comment on current events.
The project is designed for a long-term reflection of what is happening in society.
www.krislondin.com

We invite you to the 3rd edition of the exhibition of diploma theses of students of the Faculty of Multimedia Communications of Tomas Bata University in Zlín, which will take place from 15 September 2020 to 2 October 2020 at the G18 Gallery in Zlín.

The Diplomky_20 (“Master_Theses_20”)exhibition will present a selection of final theses of students from 11 studios of the Faculty of Multimedia Communications. This year’s theme is flying stars. Their ambiguous symbolism refers to the birth of the first light, to the magic of the creation of new worlds and their demise, to the hopes inscribed in the maps of the starry sky. The faculty, like a dusty nebula, is the birthplace of stars of various masses, colors and destinies.

The opening of the exhibition will take place on Tuesday 15 September 2020 at 5 pm at the G18 Gallery at Štefánikova 5670, Zlín (building U18, home of the TBU Faculty of Humanities).

In the exhibition, you will be able to see a wide range of works and graduate films. The exhibition will be open to the public daily from 10 am to 6 pm.

The exhibition includes works by students who have completed their master’s studies in the academic year 2019/2020 in the following studios at the FMC: Animation, Audiovisual Arts, Shoe Design, Fashion Design, Glass Design, Digital Design, Graphic Design, Product Design, Spatial Design, Industrial Design and Advertising Photography.

The exhibition will present the works of FMC TBU students, which were created during the last few months. After a month, The Strange Semester turned into an endless wait for students to return to school. So how did the students live and what did they experience? And above all, how was this new experience reflected in their work?
It’s harvest time.

 

Exhibition opening: June 16, 2020

Date of the exhibition: June 16 – August 8, 2020

Exhibition curator: MgA. Romana Veselá