Kateřina Šťastná’s Exhibition at Artium by KKCG Opens a New Dialogue on Responsibility

Installed throughout Artium's open public space, the works transform a place of transit into a place of experience. Visitors will encounter suspended textiles, reflective surfaces, monumental forms and intimate details, encouraging attentive viewing and physical awareness. Rather than passing through quickly, the exhibition asks audiences to pause and fully inhabit the present moment.

Šťastná’s work explores the relationships formed through physical existence and the unconscious ways in which we shape our surroundings. Her recurring polymorphic figures emerge from ideas of breath, movement, reflection and human proximity. Influenced in part by her early experience of ballet, her works carry a quiet sense of choreography and transformation.

The exhibition continues Artium by KKCG's mission of creating freely accessible artistic experiences that connect contemporary art with everyday life. Supported in the long term by Karel Komárek and his wife Štěpánka Komárková, Artium brings together visual arts, music, performance and education through multidisciplinary programming for the public.

In 2026, Artium's Line of Responsibility will focus on our responsibilities towards ourselves, each other, society and the world we shape together. Through Intervals of Presence, responsibility is presented as awareness, attention, and the conscious choice to perceive the world around us fully.

Building on the dialogue initiated by Miroslava Klesalová’s previous exhibition, Step from Darkness, which explored memory, sensitivity, and the search for meaning through textile objects, drawing, and abstraction, the exhibition continues this line of inquiry. While Klesalová reflected on inner landscapes and lived experience, Šťastná extends this line of enquiry to include presence, bodily awareness, and the invisible relationships that shape our shared environment.

Intervals of Presence is on display at Artium by KKCG until 17 July.