The exhibition THE COLOR OF TIME: Jiří Sopko and his students
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August 21st, 2025 | 6 pm - 8 pm
Jiří Sopko's studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague operated for 26 years and played a key role in the transition from ideological teaching to free artistic education after 1989. It connected the last generation of students growing up under totalitarian rule with the first free generation after the Velvet Revolution.
Teaching focused on the figure, color, and individual expression. Emphasis was placed on the medium of painting, but the studio also opened up space for abstraction, intermedia approaches, and experiments with new media. Modern avant-garde and postmodern approaches were reflected here. Color, intuition, and authenticity of expression played an important role.The exhibition Color of Time presents a cross-section of the work of students and graduates of the studio and maps its significance in the history of Czech art education after 1989. Among the graduates are a number of established authors of the contemporary art scene:
Jiří Sopko / Jindřich Modráček, Igor Korpaczewski
Daniela Buňková, Anna Škopková, Čejková, Filip Černý, Tomáš Nero, David Čumalo, Dalibor David, Veronika Drahotová, Martina Drozd Smutná, David Dubenský, Marek Fexa, Jaroslav Fritsch, Jaroslav Grodl, Petr Gruber, René Hábl, Jiří Hanibal, Julia Koudela Hansen-Löve, Radim Hédl, Filip Horyna, Karolína Jelínková, Zuzana Kieferová, Ľubomíra Kmeťová, Iva Konečná, Ondřej Kraják, Matěj Lipavský, Petr Malina, Petra Malinová, Jiří Marek, Filip Messiereur, Ondřej Mestek, Václav Misař, Anna Neborová, Michal Nesázal, Alice Nikitinová, Kateřina Ondrušková, František Oliva, Bronislava Orlická, Tereza Pavlíková, David Pešat, Jiří Petrbok, Miroslav Polách, Dragana Živanović Polách, Petra Polifková, Jan Poupě, Míla Preslová, Martina Pytlová, Zbyněk Sedlecký, Hana Císařová Shannon, Hana Sommerová, Adéla Součková, Irena Friessová Staneva, Tereza Strnad, Jakub Sýkora, Eva Synková, Miroslav Šisler, Radka Valentíková Šitner, Barbora Šlapetová, Pavel Šmíd, Adam Štech, Jakub Švéda, Filip Švehla, Ondřej Tkačík, Jakub Tomáš, Eliáš Urban, Marcela Václavíková, Jaroslav Valečka, Jan Vejtasa, Libor Veselý, Monika Žáková
curator: Petr Vaňous
Exhibition runs from August 22nd to October 31st, 2025.
Galerie Portheimka,
Štefánikova 68/12, 150 00 Prague 5-Smíchov.
Link to FB event: THE OPENING THE COLOR OF TIME