Discover Jiří Petrbok: Deník pacienta s umělcem – An Exhibition of Evolving Self-Portraits & Identity

This exhibition focuses on Jiří Petrbok's self-portraits from the 1990s to the present, exploring identity as a fluid, questioned, and evolving concept. It delves into themes of transformation, masking, irony, and defense through the artist's visual diary.

The exhibition "Jiří Petrbok: Patient's Diary with an Artist" centers on the theme of the self-portrait, presenting the artist's work from the 1990s to the present as a continuous record of a changing, constantly questioned 'self'. For Petrbok, the self-portrait does not serve to confirm or stabilize identity but becomes a space for transformation, masking, irony, and defense. In his paintings, the subject appears as a hybrid, a role, a sign, or a body exposed to the pressures of the surrounding world. The exhibition's title refers not only to illness but to the broader human experience of being subjected to institutions, social expectations, symbols, and one's own body. The "patient" here is one on whom the world weighs heavily, but who also keeps their own record to avoid becoming a mere case. Petrbok's visual diary connects pain, the grotesque, humor, and anxiety, demonstrating identity across decades as a fragile, ambiguous, and never definitively closed process.

Ticket prices are basic 250 CZK, reduced 180 CZK, and free for DOX Club members (with required prior reservation via form). You can purchase tickets via the provided link.