The newest museum in Prague - Museum Montanelli, or MuMo for short. You can find it at number 13, Nerudova Street. MuMo is devoted to modern art.
OPENING presents works from the Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, the USA, France, Great Britain, Georgia and Israel. In planning the exhibition both curators deliberately took into account the life stories of the various artists. Monika Weiss was born in Warsaw and now works in New York. Agata Siwek is from Pionki, a small town south of Warsaw, but now lives in the Netherlands. Such mobility is not always voluntary – sometimes it has meant exile. This was the fate of the Palestinian Mona Hatoum, born in Lebanon but long since settled in London. Maja Bajevic, a native of Sarajevo, is likewise an émigrée. Mona Hatoum’s works are displayed side-by-side with those of the Israeli artist Sigalit Landau. An installation by the German Ulrike Rosenbach is juxtaposed with photographs by Magdalena Bláhová from Prague. Maja Bajevic’s video Le Voyage explores the same theme as the paintings of Jitka Válová – a journey of no return. OPENING offers visitors a round trip of the contemporary art scene and a chance to observe national and stylistic similarities and differences, and judge for themselves what unites and what divides these disparate works.
