In 2021, the Moravian Gallery will continue the previous editions when it cooperated with the Jindřich Chalupecký Society in organising an exhibition of young artists up to 35 years of age, selected by an international jury for this competition.
The jury decided to select four artists and one multi-member group for the finals of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award 2021, the 32nd edition of the most important local honour for artists under 35. They areRobert Gabris, Jakub Jansa, Valentýna Janů, Anna Ročňová and the artistic non-collective Björnsonova. The joint exhibition presentation will take place in autumn 2021 at the Pražák Palace in the Moravian Gallery in Brno.
Aninternational juryconsisting of Ivet Ćurlin (Kunsthalle Wien), Anna Daučíková (artist and educator), Charles Esche (Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven), João Laia (Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki) and Jan Zálešák (curator and educator) selected from nearly 90 portfolios submitted by artists presenting their work on the contemporary Czech art scene. The selection the jury members arrived at represents a wide range of media and theoretical approaches, and overall the jury assesses the level and quality of the submitted works as very high.
As in last year, the newly-announced artists agreed that being selected for a joint exhibition was in itself a sufficient distinction. Therefore, this yearthe jury will not be selecting a "winner" from their joint exhibitioneither. After the previous year, the five prize winners selected for the Jindřich Chalupecký Award 2021 can expect a year-long collaboration, international networking and the possibility of studio space. In addition to the exhibition at the Moravian Gallery in Brno, the public will be able to get acquainted with their work during various presentations and accompanying programmes and, naturally, in the online space and regular media appearances.
The foreign guests of this year's Jindřich Chalupecký Award are the artistic duo Daniel Fernández Pascualand and Alon Schwabe, working under the name Cooking Sections. Their practice focuses on exploring the complex issues of a globally interconnected world, primarily through examples from agriculture and food production. They uncover socio-economic, historical, political and environmental relationships. For their exhibition in Brno, they are preparing a continuation of the project Salmon: A Red Herring presented last autumn at Tate Britain in London. The project looks at colour from the perspective of the food industry and its impact on the environment. The visually striking exhibition at the Pražák Palace will be accompanied by a series of live events (lectures, discussions and performances) and will open at the same time as the traditional Jury Weekend of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award in early December. Salmon: A Red Herring is part of CLIMAVORE, a long-term research project which changes depending on the exhibition site. The artists will focus their research on the local context of Brno and in particular its restaurant network, whereby one of the aims will be to raise awareness and appeal for the removal of dishes with salmon ingredients from the menu.The opening of the foreign guests' exhibition, curated by Barbora Ciprová and Tereza Jindrová for the Jindřich Chalupecký Society, is scheduled for Thursday 2nd December 2021.
More information on the website of Jindřich Chalupecký Society.