Frei Körper Kultur – Malerei von Vojta Horalek

In addition to the thematic level, the formal side of the work also shows a distinctive signature. Horálek is characterized by technical sophistication and inventiveness. His relief-like, "upholstered" paintings oscillate between image and object, between illusion and reality. He plays with perspective, format and plasticity, integrates object fragments, creates illusionistic gimmicks and small bizarreities. Traditional representation schemes are relativized and questioned anew; he is interested in the construction of the image as a stage as well as a certain technical inventiveness.

He also conceives the exhibition itself in a multidimensional space of meaning. He reacts to the special features of the space, to the history and the patina of the former Zentralwerk factory. It is precisely here, in a space that bears traces of past functions and layers of time, that Horálek's themes - body and culture, ritual and work, collective memory and personal myth - unfold with new intensity. Free Body Culture thus becomes not only the title of an exhibition, but also a situation: a place of encounter and interaction between image, space and viewer.