Thinking through Images The Visual Events of Miroslav Petříček

GHMP, Městská knihovna Praha, 2.p.
Curator: Jitka Hlaváčková
4 October 202328 January 2024

artists: Karima Al-Mukhtarová, Ateliér radostné tvorby (Marie Kúsová, Lukáš Paleček, Vojtěch Proske, George Radojčić), Zbyněk Baladrán, Mária Bartuszová, Jana Bernartová, Rudolf Fila, Tomáš Hlavina, Václav Janoščík a Adam Trbušek, Magdalena Jetelová, Magdaléna Kašparová, Michal Kindernay, Julie Kopová, Zdeněk Košek, Tom Kotik, Eva Koťátková, Václav Krůček, Kristina Láníková, Jiří Matějů, Maxmilián Aron Mootz, Pavel Mrkus, Jiří Načeradský a Jaroslav Nešetřil, Jaromír Novotný, Milan Paštéka, Ondřej Přibyl, Jiří Skála, Kateřina Šedá, Miloš Šejn, Adriena Šimotová, Josef Šmíd, Kateřina Štenclová, Dagmar Šubrtová, Eva Vápenková, Vladimíra a Miroslava Večeřovy, Martin Velíšek, Petr Veselý, Lenka Vítková, Martin Zet

Miroslav Petříček is a leading Czech philosopher and aesthetician who has been systematically reflecting on visual art for decades. He has summarised his thoughts on aspects of the language of art in a number of texts, including his book Thinking through Images, which became the main stimulus for this exhibition. Our most important aim is to highlight Miroslav Petříček’s fundamental contribution to the development of Czech visual art and to attempt to illustrate the key ideas underlying his philosophical discourse. The basis is his statement that an encounter with an image is an event.