PRAGUE ART MEETS THE (V.I.E.N.N.A.) STREETS

KICK THE HABIT!

Czech center Vienna, Soho in Ottakring
11. 5. – 24. 6. 2010

The exhibition from the cycle Prague Art Meets the (C.I.T.Y.) Streets in the Czech center Vienna and the 12th year of the Soho in Ottakring festival, are both dedicated to „vice“, or a „bad habit“. Czech artists prepared under the title KICK THE HABIT!, original projects tracing social phenomenon masked by the ambivalent word habit. They deal with shared prejudices, which, incorporated in common culture, are not judged/seen/considered/felt as prejudices.

Martin Káňa – CELESTIAL

Uncover the baldachin and you will understand. What shines on the top, is not the same in the inside… Author plays with the thin line between private and public space/sphere.

Michal Cimala – MANAGER HAMMER MOBIL KILLER

One of the most diffused Czech bad habit. Cell phone. Mobile. And those, who can’t exists without –managers. There is the highest quantity of „mobiles“ in the Czech republic. And also the highest quantity of managers.
www.michalcimala.cz

Linda Čihařová – AVERAGE PLACE

A new offer! Visit a normal, usual and an average place! Each city has, except its luxurious coulisses, also its average, habitual face. Similar are original postcards offered by the artist. See the city without make-up. Attractive anyway.
www.lindacihar.com

The exhibition is organised by the Civic Association BonArt, in cooperation with the Czech center Vienna and the Civic Association Soho in Ottakring with the support of the City of Prague.

Curators and conception of the exhibition: Klára Vomáčková, Marcela Straková