Special event Summer Vibes @ Chemistry during our current exhibition: VOJTĚCH HORÁLEK - Venuses and Backswimmers

Friday, July 18, 2025, from 4:00pm to 10:00pm

During the event, you can see the current exhibition of Vojtěch Horálek, a graduate of Michael Rittstein's studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where he exhibits his unique reliefs with the theme of water games, sports and leisure. From 16:00 to 18:00 there will be a children's workshop with the lecturer Kateřina Weinhartová inspired by the exhibition Venuses and Backswimmers. Participation in the workshop is free of charge. From 18:00 to 22:00 DJ Demonika will play in front of the gallery. You can also enjoy our bar and food from Kubar, located in the skatepark in the opposite Hall 13. The Chemistry Prints shop will also be open, offering prints from a curated selection of contemporary Czech artists. Come and spend Friday evening in the company of contemporary art and music in Holešovická tržnice!

SUMER VIBES @ CHEMISTRY

18.7.2025, 16:00 - 22:00

exhibition: Vojtěch Horálek - Venuses and Backswimmersvci

16:00 - 18:00 workshop for children (lecturer Kateřina Weinhartová)

18:00 - 22:00 DJ set: Demonika

19:00 - 20:00 guided tour with the author

16:00 - 22:00 bar & refreshments

16:00 - 22:00 Chemistry Prints - open

To attend the children's workshop, please book your place at eva.hromnik@thechemistry.cz. Free entry

Vojtěch Horálek - Venuses and Backswimmers:

In Vojtěch Horálek's paintings, the bodies of athletes or bathing beauties emerge like inflatable flamingos from the surface of a pond. The sewn padded figures emerge plastically from the surface of the painting and with their materialization disturb the peaceful atmosphere of leisure, as if demonstrated the clash between the world known and close on the one hand and the vaguely distant on the other. After all, when the holiday is over, we must return to reality. Or is it the other way around and the illusion is our everyday life?

Vojtěch Horálek (* 1983) is a graduate of Michael Rittstein's painting studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (2010). Since 2011 he has been teaching at the Department of Alternative and Puppet Theatre at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. In 2012 he was a finalist of the NG 333 award. He has been exhibiting independently since 2009. His solo exhibitions include exhibitions at the František Drtikol Gallery in Příbram (2015), the Critics Gallery in Prague (2019), GASK in Kutná Hora (2020), Off/format Gallery in Brno (2022). His works are represented in the GVU in Litoměřice, COLLETT Prague | Munich and many other collections.

curator: Martina Mrázová

During the evening of 18.7.2025, the book launch of František Skála's book from the exhibition Abstractio per naturam will take place in the neighbouring Trafo Gallery from 18:00. You can combine your visit to Holešovická tržnice with a visit to the exhibitions and events at Chemistry and the adjacent Trafo.

We look forward to seeing you!

The Chemistry Gallery

Hall 40

Holešovická tržnice

Link to FB event: Summer Vibes @ Chemistry: VOJTĚCH HORÁLEK - Venuses and Backswimmers