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3 Jul – 2 Sep 2025

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Monday: Closed
Tuesday: Closed
Wednesday: 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Thursday: 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Friday: 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Saturday: 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Sunday: 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.

The exhibition takes place in the space of the Archive of Fine Arts on the first floor as part of the Polička/Shelf project.

DOX Centre for Contemporary Art
Poupětova 1, Praha 7
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The opening will take place on Wednesday 2 July 2025 at 5.30 p.m. at the Archive of Fine Arts at DOX.

Ivan Krajíček Brotschnitte learned to be a provocative painter. He is consistent in his hyppernaivist style, he has been working with the traditional medium of painting since the 1990s, creating paintings in series, the result is nearly always something what can be hunged or at least readed. He alternates materials, principles and provocative themes, often exploring the boundaries of social taboos (the series of paintings Death for All). He is not averse to trying out artistic trends, which he ironically tests in their survival in eternity, thereby deconstructing the general myth, while creating a new myth related to his person. In this way, he leads a private rebellion against hypocrisy and conventions. He works with playfulness, irony, the principle of ready-made and recycling found materials. The underlying material of the series of paintings presented at this exhibition is donated polystyrene insulation of an irresistible synergy of pink color and waffle structure. Collectors of paradoxes would find their place. In this serie artist deliberately works with the autonomy of pink color, which leaves quite a generous space, the structure of polystyrene is destroyed in some paintings, in other is emhasized by color. Ivan Krajíček is a man of narrative, I dare to suspect that behind each painting there is at least the germ of a story from early childhood, or "television" news (although he never had a television), which was, is or will be processed some day. This narrative aspect of his artwork can be explored in more detail in the artist’s encyclopedia of leading figures of the Cuban revolution called Hawanna. Formally modest, but rich in content, the book with short but juicy stories resemble the artist‘s personality and develops possible alter egos by an indirect allusion to the hardboiled school of Raymond Chandler.


Ivan Krajíček Brotschnitte (1964) was from 2004 to 2010 an active member of the art group Kolaborac3 together with Karel Gregor and André. In the same years, he was a member of the artistic group Vítrholc, to whose irregularly published almanac he contributed. In 2013, he worked as a director, actor, screenwriter and forecaster at the FilMint film studio, where he performed as Věštec Ivan. His screenplay for the autobiographical film Proč nechodím do kina (2007) was awarded at the International Short Film Festival BRNO16. He is also the author of small books of poetry: Hawanna (2001, Domov publishing house, 100 copies. Together with Petr Němec, they did the Plastic Pickle Show since the 1990s, they performed for miners in Ostrava bars and guests of Brno cafes.