Miroslav Barták (1936) is a legendary draughtsman of wordless humor. He graduated at the Marine Academy and began painting and drawing while aboard marine ships. After being shipwrecked in 1969 with a Czech navy ship, he exchanged his unsteady board for a stable draughtsman desk.

Václav Magid (1979) comes from former Leningrad and is predominantly known for his theoretical and critical work. For this exhibition he has created a fresh allegorical oil painting.

Roee Rosen was born in 1963 in Rehovot and currently lives and works in Tel-Aviv. In addition to viewing other works by Rosen, spectators will have the opportunity to familiarize themselves with Justina Frank, an artistic figure discovered by Rosen. Frank was a Jewish artist born in Antverp. She lived in Paris and towards the end of her life moved to Palestine. Even though she was part of the Surrealist movement during its most radical years, the group questioned her interest in explicit erotic fantasies which she combined with Jewish iconography. The legacy and work of Justina Frank appear in the French pornographic novel Sweet Sweat (1931).  Additionally, over a hundred drawings and paintings by Frank are documented by Rosen in his video documentary Two Women and a Man (2005). Visitors will have the opportunity to see Hilarious (2010), one Rosen’s latest videos, as well as Dr. Cross (1994), an early work where psychoanalyses meets daytime television.

There is no need to introduce Viktor Pivovarov (1934). As part of the exhibition Pivovarov will introduce his work entitled Lev Tolstoy and the Female Issue. The piece is presented in the format of an album, and consists of drawings and texts arranged in a file. The “album format” references Moscow conceptualism of the 70’s and enabled artists to present their work in an appealing way, even in an unofficial domestic context. The author presented each sheet individually to artists in the apartment while loosely commenting on individual drawings and texts. To demonstrate this in the exhibition we have organized a similarly performative lesson at Pivovarov’s studio.

Monika Zawadki (1977) lives and works in Warsaw. Zawadski combines a minimalist approach with subjects derived from sociology, zoophilia, gender and radical vegetarianism. Text is equally important in her work as the visual. The show will include self-portraits, sculptures of idealized heads and a newly commissioned work resembling the graphic symbol “#“.

Polish artist Zbigniew Libera (1959) is based in Prague and Warsaw. In the show, he is represented by works from the 80’s.  Selected by Michal Wolinski the pieces accompany the article “Pathology as Spring of Artistic Creativity”.

The year-round exhibition plan of Karlin Studios is supported by: Prague City Hall, the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic

Media support: Artyčok.tv, PragueOut, Rádio 1, Radio Wave, Umělec, Artmap