WELCOME TO HARD TIMES
18 Oct 2018 – 4 Feb 2019
We’re open to all, now also you
DOX Centre for Contemporary Art
Poupětova 1, Prague 7
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You don’t have to know much to know that the world has seen better days, so what are we doing about it? What are you doing about it? Apathy is one of the many issues we’re not talking about.
But why don’t people care about what’s going on in the world?
a. It doesn’t affect them directly
b. They can’t do anything about it.
c. They’ve seen it all before.
Instead, we go to the gym...
As a society we’ve never been sicker or more obsessed with exercise than we are today. New fitness concepts are being launched every day, but they’re all much of a muchness, really. Instead of the 7-minute workout there’s the 6-minute workout, instead of having to choose between yoga or acrobatics, they’ve been combined. But now there is a workout that challenges your body, your mind and your morals, and it might even be good for the world.
A workout that forces you to take on the big issues threatening our world every day - you can’t ignore them in this gym! Sweat out your guilt and your obliviousness, train your awareness, face the beasts head on. Who knows, maybe you’ll get a six-pack, or maybe you’ll come up with a solution to ocean pollution, or poverty.
In this interactive installation the space will be transformed into a gym, where you work out your muscles as you grapple with the issues facing the world. After your workout you’llfeel invigorated, informed and maybe even willing to be a little bit more aware of what’s really going on in the world.
Exhibition Concept: Erik Kessels
Artists:
Elinor Milchan - My Love Answer Me project
Antuan Rodriguez - Left or Right project curated by Marisa Caichiolo
Viktor Frešo
The visit of artist Elinor Milchan in Prague has been supported by the Embassy of the State of Israel in Prague.
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The legendary cult band Xiu Xiu delivers a singular tribute to David Lynch's macabre masterpiece Eraserhead. A new live concert with accompanying film.
Hynek Martinec: LEMONLING
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Klang Systematiek presents: Glass—Reich
Klang Systematiek, international ensemble for exploratory music, launches its first concert series in Prague with an evening dedicated to the music of the most famous American minimalists Philip Glass and Steve Reich.
A View into the Archive 17 – The Theatre Program
An exhibition of the Archive of Fine Arts collection of theatre programmes reflecting the diversity and quality of the typographic scene of the second half of the 20th century.
All Is Good in Heaven
Farm in the Cave has created a unique evening performance that takes place in the middle of the exhibition David Lynch: Up in Flames. Inspired by Lynch's courage to follow his imagination. Only in November 2025.
Miquel Barceló and the Written Worlds
The first-ever presentation of the internationally acclaimed Spanish artist Miquel Barceló in the Czech Republic, focusing on his long and intense relationship with literature.
If I lived in Prague, I would be fan of Bohemka
The exhibition of Ivan Krajíček Brotschnitte, who works with playfulness, irony, the principle of ready-made and recycling found materials.
Exhibition David Lynch: Up in Flames with the curator in English
The exhibition David Lynch: Up in Flames, presenting the artistic work of the world film icon, will be guided on a guided tour by curator Otto M. Urban. The tour will be held in English.
Persona – SOLD OUT
From Ibsen, Pirandello and Vertov to Bergman's contemporaries and everything we affectionately refer to as ‘Lynchian’, films full of doubles, repressed sexual tension and the schizophrenic nature of the acting profession. The movie is screened in the DOX Summer Cinema on the terrace of DOX+.
Blue Velvet – SOLD OUT
The dark film, which smacks of sex, drugs, and ’60s suburbia, is at times a coming-of-age flick, at times a noir whodunit, and for the most part an undeniably and unexpectedly violent thriller. The movie is screened in the DOX Summer Cinema on the terrace of DOX+.
Festival FALL 2025
Unexpected connections. Stories. Discoveries. Sharing. The third edition of the FALL Festival is a space for the thoughts and voices of writers, artists, and other creative individuals of various genres and their inspiring “borderlands”.
DOX Summer Cinema – David Lynch Season
DOX and the Ponrepo Cinema invite you to a series of summer movie nights under the stars and in the unfathomable, mysterious, and deeply captivating universe of David Lynch. High-quality headphone sound, views of the Gulliver Airship, and refreshing summer drinks and nine screenings.
PLI
Viktor Černický's solo production at the intersection of dance, physical theatre, and the visual arts which delivers a visually compelling study of balance, endurance, and creativity.
Metaphysics and Despair
An exhibition of Viktor Pivovarov's latest works, in which the artist shows with insight and humour the anguish through which works of art are often born and what happens when greed, hatred and anger take over.
Cyberlemon
Hynek Martinec's solo show draws together an extraordinary range of references to meditate upon the present state of human consciousness. He responds to an accelerated and increasingly polarized world where art, technology, and social changes meet in unexpected and often paradoxical ways.
Point of View 3: Balance
The third instalment of a long-term project seeks a balance between the organic and technical worlds. The work of Czech and foreign artists reveals the various connections between nature and technology - two seemingly disparate environments to which we intrinsically belong today, even though we perceive a certain tension between them.
David Lynch: Up in Flames
The exhibition of the American artist David Lynch will present the artistic work of this icon of world cinema for the first time in the Czech Republic.
Refuge
They're on their way. Out of fear. No guarantees. Three people cross paths on the run. Bound to each other, they traverse territories of anxiety, courage, failure and compassion. They seek refuge in a world that doesn't care for them.
Orhan Pamuk: The Consolation of Objects
The exhibition Consolation of Objects for the first time offers insight into visual, conceptual, and photographic work of Turkish writer and Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk.
Czech Hero
Satirical physical theater production Czech Hero by the theatre ensemble Farm in the Cave, which focuses on the contemporary and pressing topic of disinformation and political marketing. Movement, words, live music, dynamics, energy, exaggeration. All this in the DOX+ hall.
Thin Skin
A performance by established circus acrobat Eliška Brtnická and her hypnotic production Thin Skin at the interface of movement installation and contemporary circus in the spaces of the DOX Centre.
