Rhythms and algorithms exhibition

The exhibition Rhythms and Algorithms, focusing on line work, can be seen at the Czech House on Prepoštská Street in Bratislava from 14 March to 2 June 2025.

The exhibition Rhythms and Algorithms presents the free work of several generations of women artists from Central Europe who work with line. At first glance, a simple and elementary line, a line, a scratch or a touch of a pencil or pen tip becomes in their artistic rendition a tool capable, like in geometry, of creating a separate, distinct and independent space. This space can be perceived as a volume, as a space surrounding an imaginary centre, or, on the contrary, as a virtual or mental delineation of a life frame with all the emotional trappings.

An important aspect is also the exploration of the sources of inspiration and impulses that have resulted in each artist’s unique expression. These source moments include modern classical music, the monotony of daily prayer, cyclically repeating natural rhythms or movements, as well as generated codes leading to the creation of unmistakable works of art. These works address the contemporary viewer with a non-verbal but extremely impressive visual language, offering a refuge or literally an escape from everyday reality.

The selection of works focuses on the work of five important Olomouc artists – Dagmar Havlíčková, Inge Kosková, Miriam Macků, Eleonora Pražáková and Milena Valušková – in the context of the Central European art scene. The latter is also represented here by artists from Slovakia, Klára Bočkayová and Kvetoslava Fulierova, artists from Hungary – Katalin Nádor and Vera Molnár – and from Poland, represented by the work of the late Emilie Bohdziewicz-Winiarska from Kraków. The curator has also invited the emerging Czech artist Johana Pulgretová, who specialises in spatial installations, to participate in the project.

The project was made possible thanks to the professional cooperation of several institutions – Muzeum umění Olomouc, České centrum Bratislava, Balatonfüred Modern Art Center, Gallery 19 – as well as the support of Jindřich Štreit and Balázs Szluky.

It is a modified version of the exhibition Rhythms and Algorithms, which took place last year at the Gallery of Modern Art in Opole, Poland.

In Bratislava, it is divided into two separate parts. The part of the exhibition entitled Rhythms and Algorithms at the Czech Centre Gallery is open Monday to Friday from 10:00 to 17:00 until 2 June 2025.

The part of the exhibition entitled Space Made of Lines in Gallery 19 at Lazaretská 19 will run until 25 April and is open from Monday to Friday from 14:00 to 19:00.

Location: Český dom, Prepoštská 6, Bratislava
Date: 14.3. – 2.6.2025
Opening hours: 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Entry: free

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