The exhibition, entitled Tam, kde světlo nevrhá stín (Where the Light Casts No Shadow), presents four prominent painters of the contemporary European scene. German artists Till Gerhard and Fritz Bornstück, Polish artist Marek Batorski and Czech painter Jiří Hauschka. The theme of landscape is not approached geographically here, but existentially as a space where reality intertwines with memory, the subconscious and subtle irony. The paintings of all four artists are based on real fragments of the world, but they are transformed into places that feel disturbingly familiar and at the same time completely personal.

The landscapes are neither beautiful nor tragic, but rather unremarkable. The bird left behind a wing, but no message. The clue is there, but the meaning is fading. Gerhard’s hallucinatory colour field, Bornstück’s mysterious fragments, Batorski’s darkly imaginative layers of painting and Hauschka’s meditative world between dream and waking create a dialogue about what remains when everything essential has disappeared. The exhibition is an invitation to a space where light falls differently. Maybe without shadow, but not without meaning.

Creature represents the largest exhibition project of sculptor Ladislav Vlna to date. The industrial Turbine Hall EPO1 creates an environment that goes far beyond the traditional concept of a sculptural exhibition. The installation is composed as a scenographically constructed whole, which can be perceived linearly, as a story of creation, or fragmentarily, through individual works, each of which conveys its own message.

Vlna explores figures as an entity in process, as the body, shape and trace of will. His works oscillate between expressive modelling and raw materiality, between torso and whole, between destruction and care. The exhibition addresses the concept of creature as a living, moving being and as a sculptural creation, reflecting both the struggle with matter and spiritual transcendence.

Tvor (Creation) is not just an exhibition of sculptures. It is a spatial statement about the tension between what is being created and what is falling apart. About existence that is never definitive. About matter that breathes. The exhibition is part of the long-term EPO1 programme, which aims to present contemporary sculpture as a living, dialogical and environmentally perceived whole.

The intermedial exhibition of the HOMO_DIGITALIS_3.2.1 (Petr Profen Mareš and Martina Kopecká Jurčeková with their team) art group explores the boundaries of art, science and technology in an era of rapid acceleration in artificial intelligence. In this context, the ancient oracle, the voice of divination, is transformed into a digital prophecy generated by ‘creative algorithms’ that herald the modern myth of the coming of the Singularity, the dawn of Hyperintelligence and the birth of the Metahuman.

The AI ORACULUM – The Future Is Now! exhibition explores the artists’ work with AI aesthetics, transhumanist philosophy, and the social and environmental impact of new technologies. The installation combines generative AI tools, audiovisual projections, holographic objects, VR interfaces and digital waste to create a complex, imaginative and immersive environment in which the visitor finds themselves between two poles – a utopian dream of a ‘virtual paradise’ and a dystopian vision of a cyber-apocalypse.

The future is now, but what kind of future it is? It depends on what prophecies we are willing to listen to.

EPO1 Contemporary Art Centre invites you to the exhibition Fresh Power –⁠ motives and tendencies of the youngest generation of domestic sculpture.

One of the projects of the EPO1 Centre for Contemporary Art is the creation of the Fresh Power collection, which aims to map the work of the youngest generation of sculptors and artists coming out of Czech sculpture schools, graduating in 2018 and later. The title Fresh Power is also the title of the exhibition that forms the basis of this collection. In building the collection, we have avoided a selective approach, and our main concern is to capture not only the work of the artists, but also the diversity of artistic approaches and inspiration, to map a wide range of styles and materials used. We would like to capture the trends that appear in the work of authors from the first half of the 21st century who create their works on the territory of the Czech or Slovak Republic.