The Studio G21 gallery in Olomouc is exhibiting Blanka Lamrová’s series Strážnice, documenting the background of this traditional music festival. The exhibition will run until 17 July. Photos from the opening can be found on our Facebook page.

In the new title of the Olomouc Photographers series, Palacký University Press and the Olomouc Museum of Art present Blanka Lamrová, a native of Litovel and a long-time photographer at the National Gallery in Prague. The book presents her authentic work with an emphasis on capturing the reality of people on the margins of society, children, the elderly and Roma against the background of contemporary conditions and events. The series of images entitled Strážnice is on display at the Na Tehelnej Gallery in Zvolen, Slovakia, until the end of March 2023 and the book can be purchased online via Palacký University Press.

The book series Olomouc Photographers , on which the Olomouc Museum of Art collaborates with the Palacký University Press, most recently earned an honorable mention as part of the book biennial of the Central European House of Photography in Bratislava. The competition was held on the occasion of the 32nd Month of Photography festival, which traditionally takes over most important galleries and art spaces in the capital of Slovakia.

The international expert jury, consisting of Jana Hojstričová (Slovakia), Josef Moucha (Czechia) and Thomas Licek (Austria), appreciated the concept and theme of the Olomouc Photographers book series. Four volumes have been published so far, presenting the work of the master of female nudes and portraits Miloslav Stibor, the authentic documentarian Petr Zatloukal, the unmistakable avant-gardist Karel Kašpařík and the postmodern solitaire Michal Kalhous.

The Discodrom series by Petr Zatloukal will be presented as part of the traditional Bratislava Month of Photography festival in November 2022. The black-and-white images from 1989 capture moments from a disco that took place after the official modern dance competition in the small Moravian town of Prostějov. Amateur dancers, members of the Socialist Youth Union as well as soldiers of the basic military service met there, to the sounds of conflict-free music. They were all young, naive, often perhaps without a future, but at the disco they felt that they could face the communist oppression with a smile.

The opening of the exhibition will take place on November 1, 2022 at 5 p.m. at Kaviareň Studňa, Prepoštská 4, Bratislava.

You can find complete information about the festival program at mesiacfotografie.sk

Outstanding achievement of the year in the field of arts in the category of literature. The Olomouc Photographers edition can now enjoy this title. It was awarded by the expert jury of the Olomouc Region Awards for contribution in the field of culture. Representatives of the Palacký University Press and the Olomouc Museum of Art received the statue from the sculptor and designer Christine Habermann von Hoch at the award ceremony at the Moravian Theatre in Olomouc.

On Thursday, 3 February at 17:00, the Moravian Theatre in Olomouc will host a presentation of Karel Kašpařík’s book of photographs. The collection of photographs by this important avant-garde photographer is the third volume of the Olomouc Photographers series.

The event will also include the launch of an exhibition of Kašpařík’s photographs.

Come and be absorbed by the avant-garde world of the 1930s.

The KUPE Cultural and Art Space invites you to the opening of the exhibition of photographs by Petr Zatloukal “Aerobics”, which will take place on October 21, 2021 at 5 pm in the KUPE Gallery (Janská 7, Opava).

Introductory word: Štěpánka Bieleszová, curator of the exhibition.

Dance performance: Minor variations at ABBA.

Lecture My Years with Aerobics: Petr Zatloukal, author of photographs.

From 6 pm concert of the duo Švejnar & Szabó (Ranjevš & Óbazs) – minimalism, grunge, post-jazz and free improvisation.

On November 5, 2021 at 3:30 pm,  as part of the Bratislava Month of Photography, the presentation of the book Petr Zatloukal will take place in the University Library in Bratislava (Michalská 1), together with the opening of the author’s exhibition “Aerobics”.

The exhibition will be presented by curator Štěpánka Bieleszová from the Olomouc Museum of Art.

Open daily from 10 am to 6 pm, free entry.

We invite you to the presentation of the book Petr Zatloukal from the Olomouc Photographers series and to the opening of the “Profotit se dál” exhibition, which will take place on October 20, 2021 from 5 pm in the Galerie města Olomouce (Dolní nám. 7).

Foreword: Oldřich Schnabl, Galerie města Olomouce – Štěpánka Bieleszová, Olomouc Museum of Art – Aleš Prstek, Palacký University Press.

The exhibition will run until November 6, 2021. Open Monday from 1 pm to 5 pm, Tuesday to Friday from 10 am to 12 and from 1 pm to 5 pm, on Saturday from 9 am to 12.

Exhibition of photographs from the Henry Miller series by Miloslav Stibor starts on September 3 at the Divadelní klub café (foyer of Moravské divadlo Olomouc). The exhibition will be accessible 1 hour before the beginning of performance and during breaks. The exhibition will run until October 6, poster available online here.