6th New Zlin Salon

6th New Zlin Salon 2011
 

Joint exhibition of contemporary Czech and Slovak visual art

The New Zlín Salon is linked to the tradition of the historic Zlín Salons held each year is Zlín between 1936 and 1948. At the time, these were the most important displays of contemporary Czechoslovak (or Czech, between 1939 and 1944) fine art. The Zlín Salons became a model for the connection between the Baťa company and unconventional culture.

A successful renewal of these displays in the form of the New Zlín Salon took place in 1996 under the auspices and direct participation of President Václav Havel. Since 2005, artists from Slovakia have participated in this exhibition as well.

It remains a major goal of the organisers to ensure that the selection of artists is unbiased. In the sixth year of the New Salon there will be a relatively significant change in the composition of the expert jury responsible for nominating artists, although the jury’s selection method will be preserved. This change came about as a result of the organisers’ efforts to ensure that the Salon does not become merely an exhibition of Czech and Slovak art from the last half-century. To the
contrary, the Salon should serve as a representative cross-section of the current artistic scene in both countries. Similarly to the Umělec má cenu [Artist has an award] activity, it is in a certain sense focused mainly on those authors – from those in their thirties up to the oldest generation – whose work is inspirational even for younger artists and theoreticians, and which continues to develop. The exhibition’s ambition is above all to present those artistic expressions that have the potential to participate in the European discourse on art yet also relate to local events. This year’s displays will feature nearly one hundred authors from the Czech Republic and Slovakia working with various media. As part of the exhibition, a tribute will be dedicated in the form of a separate exhibition in the House of Art to two major artists, this time Jiří Valoch (CZ) and Monogramista T.D (SK). In addition to the core premises of the organiser – the Regional Gallery of Fine Arts in Zlín, the House of Art and the second storey of the Zlín Chateau, a substantial portion of the Salon’s exposition is located in the industrial space of Building 32 on the factory grounds. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue containing,
in addition to texts on contemporary Czech and Slovak art, also biographical information on the exhibiting authors and reproductions of exhibited works.

6th New Zlin Salon 2011
Joint exhibition of contemporary Czech and Slovak visual art

Homage
Jiří Valoch – Art Is Here Now
Monogramista T•D – Nezabudni sa obzrieť!
3th May – 28th August 2011

Accompanying exhibition
Zbigniew Libera – Positives
3. May –26th June 2011
Kabinet T. Gallery

Exhibition sites
(1)  Zlín House of Arts
(2) Building 32 of the factory complex, Zlín, 5th floor
(3) /2nd floor of Zlín Château
Opening hours: Tue-Sun from 9am to 5pm

Exhibited artists
 

Jan Ambrůz
Daniel Balabán
Zbyněk Baladrán
Blažej Baláž
Mária Balážová
Peter Bartoš
Jiří Bartůněk
Erik Binder
Marko Blažo
Josef Bolf
Filip Cenek
Ivan Csudai
Martin Čada
Jiří Černický
Anton Čierny
Jiří David
Martin Derner
Milena Dopitová
Richard Fajnor
Patricie Fexová
Pavlína Fichta Čierná
Viktor Frešo
Kurt Gebauer
Václav Girsa
Radim Hanke
Vladimír Havlík
Pavel Hayek
Tomáš Hlavina
Martin Horák
Bohdan Hostiňák
Aleš Hudeček
Dalibor Chatrný
Monika Immrová
Michal Kalhous
Peter Kalmus
Krištof Kintera
Barbora Klímova
Lenka Klodová
Vladimír Kokolia
Jaroslav Koléšek
Igor Korpaczewski
Alena Kotzmannová
Patrik Kovačovský
František
Kowolowski
Marek Kvetán
Otis Laubert
Petr Lysáček
Zdeněk Macháček
Martin Mainer
Petr Malina
Stano Masár
Marek Meduna
Pavol Megyesi
Martin Melicherčík
Milan Mikula
Svätopluk Mikyta
Jan Nálevka
Alice Nikitinova
Petr Nikl
Igor Ondruš
Marian Palla
Jiří Petrbok
Martin Piaček
Petr Písařík
Vladimír Popovič
Pavel Preisner
Veronika Ronaiová
Dorota Sadovská
Milan Salák
Jiří Skála
Vladimír Skrepl
Sláva Sobotovičová
Petr Stanický
Václav Stratil
Jiří Surůvka
Tomáš Svoboda
Adam Szentpétery
Kateřina Šedá
Jan Šerých
Michal Škoda
Jiří Thýn
Šárka Trčková
Filip Turek
Jan Turner
Tomáš Vaněk
Emöke Vargová
Ivan Vosecký
Dušan Zahoranský
Martin Zet
Anetta Mona Chisa
& Lucia Tkáčová
XYZ - Milan Tittel
a Matej Gavula
Lukáš Jasanský
& Martin Polák

Expert Jury of the 6th New Zlin Salon 2011

Mgr.Daniela Čarná
City Gallery, Bratislava

Mgr. Yvona Ferencová, PhD.
Moravian Gallery in Brno

Mgr. Martin Fišr
Regional Gallery of Fine Arts, Zlín

Mgr. Ondřej Chrobák
Central Bohemian Gallery, Kutná Hora

Mgr. Edith Jeřábková
Fotograf Gallery, Praha

Mgr. Markéta Kroupová
Liberec Regional Gallery

MgA. Dominik Lang
Jelení Gallery Prague

PhDr. Václav Mílek
Regional Gallery of Fine Arts, Zlín

Mgr. Omar Mirza
Nitra Gallery

Mgr. Pavlína Pyšná
Regional Gallery of Fine Arts, Zlín

Mgr. Mira Sikorová
Museum of Art, Zilina

Mgr. Peter Tajkov, PhD.
Faculty of Arts, Technical University of Košice

The 6th New Zlín Salon is being held under the patronage of:
Jiří Besser, Minister of Culture of the Czech Republic, Stanislav Mišák, Governor of the Zlín Region, Miroslav Adámek, Mayor of the City of Zlín This project has been staged with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, the Culture Fund of the City of Zlín and the Thomas Bata Foundation.

6. Nový zlínský salon