The Space Between

The exhibition Space Between builds on the gallery’s long-term interest in the dialogue between architecture and visual art and focuses on the role of space in shaping aesthetic and cultural experience. Its point of departure is an understanding of the surrounding environment as a dynamic configuration of relationships between architecture, landscape, body, and memory, within which gaps inevitably arise. It is precisely these transitional zones, in which a re-evaluation of spatial experience can take place, that form the fundamental starting point of the exhibition architecture designed by Richard Loskot.

The project is accompanied by an essay by theorist Aleksei Borisionok, which reflects on how elemental forces most clearly reveal the fragility of spatial and social structures and open them to new forms of interpretation. His text resonates with the exhibited works and engages with reflections on the relationship between environmental processes, power, and cultural imagination. In this way, it follows the thinking of the French philosopher Félix Guattari, who perceived space as an interpenetrating plane of environmental, social, and mental ecology, and above all as a constantly transforming constellation of relationships. It is precisely this processual approach to space that the exhibited works articulate, across media—from drawing and painting through sculpture and glass sculpture to site-specific installation.

Considerations of emptiness or the interval as places where meaning emerges recur throughout the history of architecture and aesthetics—from antiquity and Renaissance theories of proportion to the phenomenology of space and conceptual art of the 20th century. In modern and postmodern thought, the gap acquires new layers of meaning: it ceases to be a mere component of composition and becomes a process or a threshold situation in which relationships between subject and object, between body and architecture, and between the living and the non-living are transformed. In the present moment, when the human relationship to space is becoming increasingly less self-evident, this reading offers room for imagining a new relationship to space—as a place that is not merely a passive stage for human activity, but an active participant in the processes through which ways of human existence and of society as a whole are formed.

Opening: 22 January 2026, 6:00 PM

Exhibiting artists: Veronika Hapchenko, Magdalena Jetelová, Jan Poupě, Michal Škoda, Stanislav Libenský & Jaroslava Brychtová

Curatorial text: Eva Vele

Exhibition curators: Eva Vele, Natálie Kubíková

Exhibition architect: Richard Loskot

Essay: Aleksei Borisionok