Discover "Memory of Touch: Chapter II": An Art Exhibition at Kunsthalle Praha Exploring Fragility and Resilience

This exhibition, the second chapter of 'Memory of Touch,' delves into the Kunsthalle Praha Collection by placing historical and contemporary works in dialogue with invited artists. It explores fragility and vulnerability as forms of resilience and presence in a controlled and often superficial cultural landscape.

Memory of Touch: Chapter II, the second part of a two-chapter exhibition, inaugurates a significant exploration of the Kunsthalle Praha Collection. Instead of presenting the collection as a static entity, it fosters a dialogue between historical, post-war, and contemporary works and invited Czech artists, generating new perspectives and resonances. The exhibition posits fragility and vulnerability not as weaknesses, but as gestures of resilience and conscious presence in a world that often prioritizes control and surfaces. The Kunsthalle Praha collection is explored as an undercurrent that shapes the present, with works presented as atmospheres and pulses rather than strict historical lessons. This chapter specifically focuses on fragility as a lived and social condition, a mode of being shaped by exposure and permeability. It examines how artists across different periods have rendered tenderness and vulnerability visible as deliberate strengths. The dialogue encompasses early avant-garde works reflecting wartime uncertainty, post-war pieces forged under normalization, and contemporary practices embracing emotional transparency and unfinished forms to address contemporary social and emotional precarity. Younger artists, in particular, illuminate fragility as a contemporary form of resistance through ephemerality and ambiguity, resonating with earlier generations by sustaining an ethos of openness. The section unfolds intimately, featuring a wide spectrum of media including painting, drawing, installation, sculpture, photography, and video, bringing fragility to the fore as a living language of our time—delicate yet resilient, uncertain yet generative.

Visitors will have access to a multilingual audioguide created in collaboration between Kunsthalle Praha and the Cabinet of Wonders platform. Further ticketing information is not detailed on this page.