Out of town!
21 May 2026
- 06 Sep 2026
Museum of Modern Art
Jindřich Štreit. Photo: MUO – Zdeněk Sodoma
The exhibition marking Jindřich Štreit's 80th birthday presents a unique double portrait of this extraordinary personality – both as a photographer and cultural organizer. It was created in collaboration with the Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych w Rzeszowie and the Muzeum Górnictwa Węglowego w Zabrzu.
The first part presents a selection of previously unknown or rarely published photographs from the 1980s, which capture the everyday life of rural communities with empathy and visual sensitivity. The second part of the exhibition recalls Štreit’s fundamental curatorial work at Sovinec, where he created one of the most important centers of unofficial Czechia-Slovak culture during the normalization period. He organized exhibitions of experimental and conceptual art despite political pressure and state surveillance. Sovinec thus became a place of free creation, encounter, and resistance against totalitarianism.
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