Ausstellung: "Unter soviel Lidern

In the organizer's words:

December 5, 2025 to January 31, 2026

The exhibition "Under so many eyelids" by Czech photographer Jan Jindra goes on a photographic search for traces of the places where Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) lived, loved and worked.

On the occasion of his 150th birthday on December 4, 2025, the exhibition focuses on central biographical locations of the poet. They are crucial points of reference in the poetic creative process, which is why quotes or excerpts from Rilke's literary works and correspondence accompany the photographs and comment on them from the perspective of a highly sensitive author.

On the one hand, the exhibition focuses on Prague. Rilke's birthplace has lost none of its special atmosphere to this day; in some cases, it seems, the original locations have remained untouched by time and change. On the other hand, she goes to places that played an important role in Rilke's adult life. From Arles and Berg am Irchel to Duino, Paris, Raron, Saint Maries-de-la-Mer, St. Pölten, Venice, Worpswede and Switzerland: Rilke was always a careful observer of his surroundings. Whether he stayed somewhere temporarily or for longer periods, he often returned and tried to grasp the essence of these inspiring places.

The exhibition, most of whose photographs were taken between 2014 and 2025, deliberately shows a section of a poet's erratic and patron-dependent life that took Rilke all over Europe. The photographs are not limited to topographical descriptions, but look into the interior of things. The spatiality of the images, the interplay of details and close-ups reflect the poetic movements in Rilke's work.

Jan Jindra (born 1962) studied photography at the FAMU film school in Prague and repeatedly devotes himself to thematically closed photo cycles. He also visits and photographs Kafka's places; the book "S Kafkou na cestách" (On the road with Kafka) was published in 2024. He has won many internationally renowned prizes for his work. Since 2002, he has been teaching at the Department of Advertising Photography and Applied Graphics at the Faculty of Multimedia Communication at Tomáš Baťa University in Zlín.

Exhibition duration: December 5, 2025 to January 31, 2026

Opening hours: daily from 9.00 to 22.00, Free admission

Supported by the Adalbert Stifter Verein - Kulturinstitut für die böhmischen Länder, the German-Czech Future Fund and the Tomáš Baťa University in Zlín.

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