Experience Contemporary Japanese Art Brut: The 'Art Brut from Japan' Exhibition at MuMo - Museum Montanelli

This exhibition at MuMo - Museum Montanelli showcases contemporary Japanese art brut, featuring works by nearly thirty talented artists. The display highlights the unique esthetic characteristics of Japanese culture, including sign systems, graphic and color minimalism, and a feeling for detail, all transformed into individual creative languages.

The Museum Montanelli, in collaboration with the ABCD Civic Association, presents a focused exhibition on contemporary Japanese art brut. This collection features works by almost thirty highly talented authors, many of whom work in studios specifically adapted for individuals with mental or psychological challenges. The exhibition, which has previously been shown in renowned institutions like the Collection de l’Art brut museum in Lausanne and the Halle Saint Pierre Museum in Paris, offers a representative selection of approximately one hundred drawings, paintings, sculptures, and textile works. The pieces demonstrate the unique esthetic characteristics inherent in Japanese culture, such as distinctive sign systems, graphic and color minimalism, and a keen sense for detail, often interwoven with traces of contemporary popular culture. Each artist transforms these traditional models into their own individual and distinctive creative language, resulting in intimate records of their personal spiritual feelings. The exhibition aims to provide the Czech public and international visitors with an insight into this fascinating and relatively exotic form of creative expression, while also prompting a contemporary discussion on the boundaries between creative art and art brut, and the validity of such distinctions today.

The exhibition is located at Muzeum Montanelli, Nerudova 13, 118 00 Praha 1. Opening hours are Tuesday to Friday from 2 to 6 pm. Further information and tickets can be found via the contact page.