Centrum současného umění EPO1

Welcome to the EPO1

Centre for Contemporary Art

Energy is what connects and transforms the former Trutnov power plant in Poříčí 1 into a unique contemporary art centre EPO1.

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Till Gerhard, Fritz Bornstück, Marek Batorski, Jiří Hauschka

Where the Light Casts No Shadow

An exhibition of paintings by four prominent contemporary European artists depicts the landscape as a space where reality intertwines with memory, the subconscious, and subtle irony.

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AI ORACULUM – The Future Is Now!

An intermedia exhibition focused on science and technology combines generative AI, audiovisual projections, holographic objects, VR, and digital waste.

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Ladislav Vlna

Creature

Surůvka reflects the world through a distorted mirror, which reflects reality all the more accurately. His work combines irony, the grotesque and humanism.

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Art in space

Power for Space

Meet art in more places in the Czech Republic

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Current exhibitions

Creature

In the industrial Turbine Hall, Ladislav Vlna explores the figure as an entity in process. As a body, a shape, and a trace of will.

Where the Light Casts No Shadow

This exhibition of paintings by four prominent contemporary European artists depicts the landscape as a space where reality intertwines with memory, the subconscious, and subtle irony.

AI ORACULUM – The Future Is Now!

An intermedia exhibition focused on science and technology combines generative AI, audiovisual projections, holographic objects, VR, and digital waste.

Level IV Rocket

Intermedia artist, painter, educator, and co-founder of the Tvrdohlaví group, Jiří David created a site-specific installation entitled Raketa – Level IV (Rocket – Level IV) in the exterior of EPO1. The work contextually follows on from the Raketa (Rocket) objects he created between 1987 and 1999.

Fresh
Power

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

Exterior exposure

Power for
Space

One of the activities of the EPO1 gallery is the installation of sculptures in public space where they can be encountered by both casual passers-by and art lovers who are purposefully seeking to experience them.

History
of the EPO I power plant

The permanent exhibition in EPO1 is devoted to the history of the EPO I power plant and the production of electricity in the Trutnov region.

Exterior exposure

Murals

Matěj Olmer, Michal Škapa and Petr Königsmark show themselves in their clearly recognizable positions in the EPO1 area. Quite naturally, they bring contemporary art to the exterior, outside the gallery walls, where they present visitors with their original and individual vision framed by the distinctive, bold brickwork of the former First Republic power plant.

Exterior exposure

Murals

Project ArtPoint

There is a reconstructed chapel of St. Joseph in the village of Slavětín, about 15 minutes from the EPO1 gallery. The dilapidated building was bought by the Kasper family, redesigned beyond recognition and now linked to the EPO1 gallery with regard to its interior and exterior design and furnishings.