The Exhibition as a Medium. Czech Art 1957 – 1999

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The Exhibition as a Medium reconsiders the history of Czech visual art in the second half of the 20th century through the perspective of exhibition histories—a discipline that emerged in the West at the turn of the millennium.

Traditionally, art history focuses on styles, individual artists, and their works; this volume instead views the field through the lens of exhibitions as autonomous cultural phenomena. The publication reconstructs sixty key exhibitions held between 1957 and 1999, combining textual and visual documentation to reveal how curatorial practices shaped Czech art’s development.

Spanning over 1,000 pages, the book also contains three scholarly studies examining exhibition discourse, institutional frameworks, and the evolving role of curators.

Offering new interpretations of Czech postwar art, the publication simultaneously raises questions relevant to contemporary curatorial and artistic practice.