The STILL LIFE / SET ADAPTATION project is a tribute to one of the key artistic genres – the still life. It is focused on the forms of still life in the field of photography in the period from the end of the 19th century to the recent present. In terms of content, it draws from the Olomouc Art Museum's photo collection, which is the third largest public collection in the Czech Republic. The output of the project is a compact exhibition collection of photographs, conceptually assembled by curator Štěpánka Bieleszová (*1971) based on the research results of art historian Aby Warburg (1866-1929). He fundamentally contributed to changing the perception and interpretation of the meaning of works of art and their interpretation with regard to social, historical, cultural or political or even geographical contexts. The exhibition set is conceived as a sequence from a historical pictorial atlas, which for A. Wartburg was synonymous with the summarizing scientific publication of the previous century. When putting together the exhibition ensemble, the curator and her inspirer, Wartburg, worked with thematic examples of paintings from various historical periods. In accordance with the current preference for visual communication, the exhibition set of photographs renounces the textual interpretation of the content and strives to catalyze the intuitive reading of the whole and individual photographs on the basis of each viewer's own visual memory. The aim of the project is to support an alternative way of perceiving photographs, which, like ubiquitous photographic images, migrates in space, time and in the mind of each observer.
dr hab. Štěpánka Bieleszová
Petr Borovec, Jindřich Brok, Hugo Demartini, Josef Ehm, Libor Fára, Jaromír Funke, Jan Hajn, Miroslav Hák, Karel Otto Hrubý, Michal Kalhous, Karel Kašpařík, Běla Kolářová, Marie Kratochvílová, Rupert Kytka, Emila Medková, Josef Mikulka, Kasia Navarra, Ladislav Postupa, Ivo Přeček, Vilém Reichmann, Jaroslav Rössler, Pavel Rudolf, Jiří Sever, Miloslav Stibor, Josef Sudek, Jan Svoboda, Jindřich Štyrský, Milena Valušková, Milan Vopálenský, Alicja Wroblewska, Petr Zatloukal, Jana Želibská
Studied art history at the Faculty of Arts of Palacký University in Olomouc (1990-1995). From 1995-2018 she worked as chief curator at the Olomouc Museum of Art, and since 2007 as curator of the photography collection there. She has contributed to the publication of monographs on Czech photographers by Miloslav Stibor (2007), Jaroslav Vávra (2011), Vladimír Birgus (2015), Jindřich Štreit (2016) and Milena Valušková (2017). She is the author of the publication Civilized Illusions, in which she professionally processed the photographic collection of the Olomouc Museum of Art, which represents the development of Czech photography from the 19th to the 21st century. She cooperates with Palacký University in Olomouc (edition Olomouc Photographers, since 2021), and teaches externally at the Institute of Creative Photography at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Opava. She also participated in the preparation of the exhibition Czech Photography of the 20th Century (Bonn 2009). Together with photographer Jindřich Štreit, she realized a series of exhibitions of emerging photographers in the Archdiocesan Museum in Olomouc between 2009 and 2017. In 2015 and 2016, she and Prof. V. Birgus prepared overview publications and exhibitions on Czech modern photography for foreign audiences (A Century of Avant-garde and off-guard Photography, Landskrona 2015; At first sight. A selection of Czech photography from the 20th and 21st centuries, Olomouc 2016, highlights the most important manifestations of Czech photography in the past hundred years.
Miloslav Stibor, Jan Hajn, Josef Sudek
Sleńdzińscy Gallery, Wiktorii St. 5; open 27.09-20.10.2024; Tues.-Fri. 11am-5pm, Sun. 11am-5pm, Mon-Sat closed. 28.09.2024 open at: 11:00-17:00.