KomiksFEST!

Alessandro Sanna—The River

“To make the sky, you need water, to make the earth, you need water, you need water for everything.” The exhibition of watercolours depicts four seasons and four stories taking place on the banks of the river Po. To portray the water dominated cycle, Sanna uses a wide spectrum of colour variations. His watercolours look into the connection between a person, a place, events and time that flows like a slow river which carries us away and away.

The exhibition opening will take place on Thursday 22^nd October at 6pm.
Villa Pellé (Malá galerie), Pelleova 10
The exhibition will be open till 1^st November 2015

Assel Tleuova – Furry Paws

An original fashion comics inspired by songs by the Icelandic indiefolk band Of Monsters and Men and local fairy-tales. It consists of eight stories-clothes featuring a small boy, a strange creature Furry Paws, different trolls, little monsters and ghosts. Original intense colours and decorative drawings are in sharp contrast with the plain style of coats, dresses, tops and skirts. That´s why the minimalistic design of the fashion collection doesn´t distract from reading the comics story which is printed directly onto the fabric.

The exhibition opening will take place on Sunday 25^th October at 7pm.
hip.running club, Černomořská 3
The exhibition will be open till 4^th November 2015

Berliac and the Group PARIAS—Contemporary South American comics

A few South American artists from the group PARIAS, who are almost unknown to the Czech general public, will be presented during the KomiskFEST!. Berliac (Argentina) influenced by Japanese culture, Cegado (Venezuela) obsessed with neurosis, Martin Lopez Lam (Peru) using expressive bright colours and the experimental author Nacha Vollenweider (Argentina); these artists prove that alternative comics flourishes all over the world.

The exhibition opening will take place on Wednesday 21^st October at 5.30pm.
Art Point, Gorazdova 9
The exhibition will be open till 30 November 2015

Bohouš and Dáša change the world—School for everyone

The comics competition Bohouš and Dáša change the world has just celebrated its fifth anniversary. This year´s theme is: School for everyone. How do pupils imagine such a school? Who is it open for and who forms it? The selection of the best children´s work will be accompanied by a comics-slam workshop lead by the Prague performer Bio Masha on 22nd October from 4pm to 6 pm. Children will discuss, create, glue, draw and make a lot of bubbles.

The exhibition opening will take place on Thursday 22^nd October at 4pm.
Divadlo Archa, Na Poříčí 1047/26
The exhibition will be open till 12^nd November 2015

Dan Perjovschi, Matěj Smetana—15 000 Years of Sameless

The exhibition “15 000 Years of Sameless” presents the production of two artists of different generations. The Romanian artist Dan Perjovschi is known for his spectacular site-specific interventions into gallery spaces and his spontaneous comics drawings reflecting on everyday political events. The young Czech artist Matěj Smetana represents the younger generation. He often works with coincidence which is generated by mathematical algorithms. Both authors are connected by subtle irony which breaks the stereotyped reception of mechanisms of everyday reality.

The exhibition opening will take place on Wednesday 21^st October at 7pm.
MeetFactory, Ke Sklárně 15
The exhibition will be open till 29^th November 2015

Generation 2.0—New Czechoslovak comics

It’s 15 years since the creation of the first modern wave of home comics, the so called Generation zero, and now it´s time for a new generation of authors. Although the new generation is hard to define, there are certain aspects the artists have in common; a good knowledge of international comics works, identification with the virtual world of internet and a distinctive superiority of female authors. Short comics stories made especially for this exhibition by young artists born after 1989 will give us insight into the work of the next generation – from art to pop-cultural anime influences.

The exhibition opening will take place on Wednesday 20 October at 6pm.
Písecká Brána, K Brusce 5/208
The exhibition will be open till 26^th October 2015

Joakim Pirinen—Swedish Darkness

This is an overview of the work of the leading figure of Swedish comics who has persistently been defining the grounds of the local alternative scene for thirty years. He uses darkness, madness, surreal physical laws and from time to time a bit of humour.

The exhibition opening will take place on Friday 23^rd October at 6pm.
1. Podzemní antikvariát, Hybernská 22
The exhibition will be open till 4^th November 2015

Lene Ask—Dear Richard

This is the most famous work by this Norwegian author. She expresses the complexity of the human soul and complicated family issues with a fragile pencil. In her comics Kjære Rikard (Dear Richard), she emotionally reconstructs a story of separation of a father and his son, based on more than 100 year-old letters.

The exhibition opening will take place on Friday 23^rd October at 8pm.
Kaldi fresh coffee bar, Vyšehradská 37
The exhibition will be open till 11^th December 2015

Marika Dalloco—Life in a Sketch

In her latest project Life in a Sketch the Italian photographer Marika Dalloco tells a story about 11 Italian comics artists. Black and white photos give us some insight into what is usually hidden—intimate studios and other favourite places of comics creators. Apart from purely photographic portraits, the author of the project asked each artist to finish the photos by hand.

The exhibition opening will take place on Thursday 19^th November at 6pm.
Italský kulturní institut, Šporkova 14
The exhibition will be open till 6^th December 2015

Paulo Monteiro—The Infinite Love I Have for You and Other Stories

The exhibition will present extracts from the book El Amor Infinito Que Te Tengo y Oltras Historias (The Infinite Love I Have for You and Other Stories) by the Portuguese author Paul Monteiro. His first book contains 10 short intimate and poetic love stories. Each of them is written in a different style (cubism, expressionism) and different technique (pencil, watercolour, ink and charcoal).

The exhibition opening will take place on Thursday 22^nd October at 8pm.
CPL/Portugalské centrum, Oettingský palác, 1. patro, Josefská 6
The exhibition will be open till 15^th November 2015

The Courageous Seven

This collective exhibition presents more than half a dozen versatile and well-established artists, the so called Generation zero (Jiří Grus, Hza Bažant, Vladimir 518, Karel Jerie, Jaromír Plachý, Adolf Lachman and Tomáš Kučerovský). It shows the development of their comics work and the direction of their art over the last 15 years.
The curator of the exhibition is Adrian Kukal.

The exhibition opening will take place on Wednesday 21^st October at 5pm.
Art Point, Gorazdova 9
The exhibition will be open till 30^th November.

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