Contemporary art, Baroque, Intermedia art, New media, Painting, Installation, Visual poetry, Performance, Critical Catalogue

The large-scale exhibition of contemporary art from the Czech Republic, prepared especially for the National Gallery and the Bulgarian public bears the same name as the Baroque map of the Czech lands, in which the silhouette of rose is clearly drawn. The exposition also outlines a thematic map, the content of which is subordinated to the imagination and ecstatic Baroque emotion of the thirty-tree contemporary artists working in the Czech Republic. The presented topics, forms and symbols form a strong trend of scenes resembling dreams, fantastic worlds and parallel realities, which are often evoked by the impulses of everyday life. By questioning reality, the authors share a new unknown feeling and perception of reality with the audience. Artists: Piotr Ambroziak, Daniel Balabán, Milan Cieslar, Jiří David, Pavel Forman, Viktor Frešo, Vladimír Havlík, Adéla Janská, Michal Kalhous, Martin Kocourek, Tomáš Koudela, František Kowolowski, Jan Krtička, Petr Lysáček, Jan Melena, Stefan Milkov, Petr Motyčka, David Možný, Libor Novotný, Kateřina Olivová, Jiří Petrbok, Lyube Petrov, Gabriela Pienias, Zbyněk Sedlecký, Helena Sequens & Adam Stanko, Marek Schovánek, Paulina Skavová, Ivo Sumec, Jiří Surůvka, Jakub Špaňhel, Ivana Štenclová, Dan Trantina Nationa Gallery (Kvadrat 500) Curators: Yana Bratanova, Tereza Čapandová, Tomáš Koudela, Jan Melena Critical Catalogue (English, Czech, Bulgarian): Koudela Tomáš. Bohemiae rosa. Ostrava: Ostravská univerzita, 2021. 164 s. ISBN 978-80-7599-257-4.