Exhibition

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Here and Now - Contemporary Czech comics

permanent exhibition

Never before have Czech comics developed so dynamically and for so long without undue interference from outside. As a result, over the past two decades the local scene has witnessed three waves of artists who have had the opportunity to freely create and publish.
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Never before have Czech comics developed so dynamically and for so long without undue interference from outside. As a result, over the past two decades the local scene has witnessed three waves of artists who have had the opportunity to freely create and publish. Their situation has been somewhat restricted by the size of the Czech market and the fact that there had been such a long interruption in the local traditions; nevertheless, thanks to them the Czech comics is more diverse than ever and is celebrating its first international successes. 

This project follows on from the previous exhibition Meanwhile, Elsewhere – 100 Years of Czech comics.

  • Initiator and organizer Czech Centres

  • Partners Institute of Czech Literature CAS, Moravian Museum in Brno

  • Project manager Anna Hrabáčková

  • Curators and authors of texts Pavel Kořínek, Tomáš Prokůpek

  • Graphic design Magdalena Prudíková

  • Translation Graeme and Suzanne Dibble; Tomáš Vacek

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Pavel Kořínek

Pavel Kořínek (1981) works as a researcher at the Institute of Czech Literature CAS and is also a comics theorist, historian and journalist. He is the co-author and chief editor of the two-volume History of 20th Century Czechoslovak Comics, 2014; in recent years he has edited monographs about the series Punťa (2018, with Lucie Kořínková) and Čtyřlístek (2019).  He has worked as a curator on the exhibition projects Signals from the Unknown. Czech Comics 1922–2012 (2012–2013), 100 Years of Czech Comics (2017–2018) and Meanwhile, Elsewhere (2018–2019). He is a founding member of the Centre for the Study of Comics. 

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Tomáš Prokůpek

Tomáš Prokůpek (1975) is Head of the Department of the History of Literature at the Moravian Museum in Brno and specializes in the history of Central European comics up to the present day. He contributed to the publications A History of 20th Century Czechoslovak Comics (2014) and Before Comics. The Development of the Czech Strip Cartoon in the Second Half of the 19th Century (2016). He oversaw the publication of the collective monograph Ondřej Sekora:  Ants and other Works (2019).  He has worked as a curator on the exhibition projects Signals from the Unknown. Czech Comics 1922–2012 (2012–2013), 100 Years of Czech Comics (2017–2018) and Meanwhile, Elsewhere (2018–2019). He is a member of the Centre for the Studies of Comics and editor of the comics revue AARGH!   

20 exposed artworks