The Space Between

The Space Between brings together Veronika Hapchenko, Magdalena Jetelová, Jan Poupě, Michal Škoda and Stanislav Libenský & Jaroslava Brychtová around the role of space in shaping aesthetic and cultural experience. The exhibition approaches space not as an empty container for objects, but as a dynamic configuration of relationships between architecture, landscape, body and memory.

Its point of departure is the interval: the gap between things, structures or states in which established relationships can be temporarily suspended and reorganised. Exhibition architect Richard Loskot develops this idea spatially, treating the gallery itself as an active element rather than a neutral background. The movement of the viewer through the installation becomes part of the exhibition’s exploration of distance, scale, visibility and orientation.

Across drawing, painting, sculpture, glass and site-specific installation, the participating artists approach space through different material and conceptual registers. Architectural structures encounter imagined landscapes; solid forms are defined by the voids surrounding them; transparency complicates distinctions between surface and depth. Space repeatedly emerges through relationships rather than as an autonomous entity.

The exhibition is accompanied by an essay by Aleksei Borisionok, which considers how elemental forces expose the fragility of spatial and social structures. His text resonates with the works through questions of environmental processes, power and cultural imagination, extending the exhibition from physical space toward the social and ecological systems through which it is produced.

This understanding recalls Félix Guattari’s concept of environmental, social and mental ecologies as interconnected fields. From this perspective, architecture and landscape cannot be understood simply as passive settings for human activity. They participate in the formation of behaviour, perception and collective life.

The Space Between therefore focuses on what happens within transitional zones: between object and environment, body and architecture, presence and absence, the living and the non-living. The gap becomes not an emptiness to be filled, but a productive space in which existing relationships can shift and other forms of spatial experience can emerge.