Bohemia: History of an Idea, 1950–2000
From post-war Paris and New York, through swinging London, to the free spirits of Tehran and Beijing. Kunsthalle Praha explores the idea of bohemia.
One year after opening its doors, Kunsthalle Praha, a contemporary art space in central Prague’s Klárov district, presents international, cross-disciplinary, thematic exhibition Bohemia: History of an Idea, 1950–2000, guest-curated by Los Angeles based writer and curator Russell Ferguson.
Bohemia brings together artworks by thirty-seven artists, among them personalities as diverse as Alice Neel, Wolfgang Tillmans, Nan Goldin, Libuše Jarcovjáková, Bijan Saffari, Martin Wong, Stan Douglas, David Wojnarowicz, Roy Arden, and many others. Some of these artists will be shown alongside each other for the first time, and most of them have rarely had their work exhibited in the Czech Republic.
Spanning the 1950s to the 2000s, the exhibition features work in various media, with a predominance of photography, video, and painting. The kaleidoscopic experience ends with the turn of the century, when bohemia – still a worldwide phenomenon – begins to lose its momentum as a result of fast-paced societal changes.
OPENING DAYS: Mon 11am–7pm; Wed 11am–9pm; Thu–Sun; 11am–7pm
CLOSING DAYS: Tue
ADDRESS
Kunsthalle Praha, Klárov 5 118 00, Prague 1
