Adriena Šimotová (1926–2014) is one of the most acclaimed figures in Czech visual art. This selective retrospective at MGLC features artworks in which Šimotová radicalized the existentially conceived topic of the human personality while engaging in an earnest determination of the conditions and relationships she found relevant. She perceived her work as an open communicative relationship, with its ethical and spiritual conditionality and ontological correlations of particular importance. In this context, the artist’s exquisite array of methods and vehicles of expression allowed her to explore and reflect on touch and imprint, aspects she understood as integral to the articulation of her authentic artistic statement. Reflecting on the relationship between touch and imprint, she worked with a keen awareness of her own and other people’s corporeality.

The exhibition was prepared in close cooperation with the Adriena Šimotová and Jiří John Foundation from Prague, as well as the National Gallery Prague, Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava, Olomouc Museum of Art, Gelerie Klatovy / Klenová, Galerie Zlatá husa in Prague and the Jindřich Štreit Foundation.

The exhibition is held under the auspices of the Embassy of the Czech Republic.