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style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the first district of Prague, a short distance from the Old New Synagogue (Czech: Staronov\u00e1 synagoga; German: Altneu-Synagoge) and with a direct view across the Vltava, stands <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kodlcontemporary\/\">Galerie KodlContemporary<\/a>: a light-flooded glass structure whose load-bearing architecture runs like a skeleton through the interior, inviting yet more light inside. This is a place that wishes to receive the world as its guest. And makes no secret of it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the current exhibition <em>Timeline<\/em>, the Kodl team has struck a nerve of the present. That <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">much is certain. Which nerve, precisely, is reserved for those willing to submit to a very high <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">density of references? An attempt at a brief orientation follows in a later paragraph.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First, a structural observation. What we have here, after all, is a young gallery with deep roots in recent cultural history, positioning itself in one of the most historically charged cities in the world. The Old New Synagogue mentioned above is, for instance, the oldest active synagogue on earth. 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style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From a purely strategic standpoint, the invitation of Nicolas Bourriaud and Barbara Lagi\u00e9 as <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">curators is a masterstroke. Bourriaud ranks among the most important theorists and curators\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">at the threshold of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: co-founder of the Palais de\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tokyo in Paris, founding adviser to the Pinchuk Foundation in Kyiv, and instrumental in the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">establishment of some of the most significant institutions for contemporary art in the world.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He has directed biennials in Lyon, Moscow, Taipei, Istanbul, and Gwangju and held positions\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">at universities and international exhibition venues across the globe. Paired with Barbara\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lagi\u00e9, artistic director of the Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salp\u00eatri\u00e8re, the result is a curatorial\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">constellation that thinks about art well beyond the confines of pompous receptions and the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">question of which sparkling wine to serve at the opening. This foundation alone makes clear: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">although the place we\u2019re looking at is a gallery, something considerably more than art <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dealing is intended here. Perhaps a touch too much?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The title itself, in its abstraction, opens the gate to, well, to everything, really. To what it\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">means to be an artist; to how artists, but also all of us human beings, form part of an\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">omnipresent ecosystem; to how everything stands in relation to everything else; and to how\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the prism we call the world remains the same prism regardless of the angle from which one\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">looks. Nicolas Bourriaud terms this phenomenon of being-thrown-into-the-world &#8220;relational\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">spaces&#8221; \u2014 spaces in which contemporary art and artists come to understand nature not as a\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">collection of objects but as a vast relational web of subjects and their agencies. So far, so far.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The concrete starting point of the exhibition is a series of illustrations by Franti\u0161ek Kupka \u2014\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">perhaps the most important Czech avant-gardist, who participated in documenta 1 in Kassel\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in 1955, two years before his death. Before Kupka became one of the foremost Czech\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">exponents of abstract painting, he was invited at the turn of the twentieth century to\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">illustrate the final book of the French activist and geographer \u00c9lis\u00e9e Reclus: <em>Man and the Earth<\/em>. Those familiar with Kupka&#8217;s abstract canvases may be surprised by these specific, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">figurative drawings. Those expecting a group exhibition re-contextualizing Kupka&#8217;s \u0153uvre\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">through young contemporary positions drawn primarily from Eastern Europe will find\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">themselves comprehensively led astray. Those willing, however, to yield to the all-<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">encompassing narrative of this exhibition will find a broadly arching web of meaning that is\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nothing less than the embodiment of a strategic reorientation, of our world but also of the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">exhibition\u2019s place itself.<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":127743,"id":127743,"title":"DSCF4397","filename":"DSCF4397.jpg","filesize":318764,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSCF4397.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/its-about-time-how-an-exhibition-positions-prague-as-pioneer-of-the-present\/dscf4397\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"Image Courtesy of Kodl Contemporary.","name":"dscf4397","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":127393,"date":"2026-06-02 12:21:42","modified":"2026-06-02 12:34:47","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1440,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSCF4397.jpg","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSCF4397.jpg","medium-width":1920,"medium-height":1440,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSCF4397.jpg","medium_large-width":1920,"medium_large-height":1440,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSCF4397.jpg","large-width":1920,"large-height":1440,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSCF4397-1536x1152.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1152,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSCF4397.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1440,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSCF4397-16x12.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":16,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSCF4397.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1920,"wpvr_mobile-height":1440}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"4","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00c9lis\u00e9e Reclus, in the nineteenth century, articulated thoughts on eco-social responsibility that\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">prefigure our current debate on the Anthropocene. He was a founding member of the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">International Workers&#8217; Movement at the 1862 World Exhibition in London and anticipated\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">virtually every core idea of contemporary veganism long before the term &#8220;speciesism&#8221; had\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">been defined. Reclus&#8217;s works exhaust themselves in metaphor, among them a publication\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">describing a river from source to mouth, on how human beings shape their environment,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and how, in that shaping, the history of humanity becomes legible in the landscape. From the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">study of nature, Reclus argued, the history of man can be read.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kupka&#8217;s illustrations are a largely unknown relic of an engagement with a figure who was\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">himself a formative presence for the cultural history of a twentieth century that went\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">catastrophically off the rails in its first half in its treatment of the natural world. Reckless\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">industrialization and two world wars left long-term traumatic consequences for both\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">humanity and nature alike.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With <em>Timeline<\/em>, the curators remind us that a glance at history, a step back, can very often\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">prove enormously instructive. Kupka&#8217;s illustrations depict nations, peoples, lands, but also\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">revolution, religion, and science: illustrated conceptions of the world and of worldly\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">interconnection. These quiet witnesses to a vanished body of knowledge are flanked by\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">international positions from India, Belarus, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Estonia, France, and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Belgium. Also noteworthy: not a single position from the gallery&#8217;s own program has been\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pressed into the curation. 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