Křehký Mikulov DISPLAY
12.6. 2025 - 27. 7. 2025
The Křehký Mikulov DISPLAY exhibition in Portheimka will follow the Křehký Mikulov Art Design Festival and will be the first Prague echo of this traditional summer event of collector's design. The exhibition will introduce the French artist Elise Peroi and her large-scale tapestries to the public, in dialogue with the Czech artist Eva Pelechová and her large-scale porcelain objects. All this will be complemented by a curated selection of Czech collectible porcelain and ceramics, accompanied by a selection of works from previous years and a retrospective by photographer Salim Issa.
Exhibitors at the exhibition Křehký Mikulov DISPLAY will include: Fragile: Clocks and Clockwork by Elise Peroi (FR, large-scale hand-woven textiles) and Eva Pelechová (CZ, hand-pressed porcelain objects), Gabriel Vach (CZ, creator of porcelain, Trompe l'oeil/Optical Illusion), Alena Agafonová: At Home (CZ, student, as part of the thesis work thematically developed for Křehký, unlimited series of plates in collaboration with Dubí porcelain factory), Arťom Nurvan: Carefree (CZ, student, as part of the thesis work thematically developed for Křehký, series of glazed porcelain cast candlesticks), Josef Bolf: She (CZ, painter, limited series of hand-cast and hand-finished vases in collaboration with Květná glassworks), Salim Issa: (CZ, photographer and ceramist, original hand-turned ceramics on the background of his own original photographs for Křehký and retrospective), David Ševčík (CZ, ceramist, ceramic sculpture of smaller formats), Milan Pekař and Tereza Sluková (CZ, ceramists, ceramic objects of larger formats), illustrator Michal Bačák (CZ, print Věstonická Venus and in collaboration with Antonín Tomášek a limited series of ISLAS Věstonice mugs), Zdeněk Vacek (an object from the Eidolon series), Mikulov artists Michaela Vrbková (crocheted objects and blind prints from the New Ordinary series), Denisa Krausová (large format paintings) and Tereza Brichtová (large format watercolours from the Tereza and Giardino series) a selection of student works from the ceramics and porcelain studios at Sutnarka in Pilsen, UJEP Ústí nad Labem, VŠVU Bratislava and UMPRUM in Prague.
curators: Denisa Šedivá, Jana Zielinski, Petr Hájek