Those who do not know their own history are condemned to repeat it. But is it always a bad thing?

Present Perfect traces the marks of art history on the contemporary art scene, be it in direct dialogue with specific earlier works, or in subtler affinities and echoes that resonate across time. The exhibition’s second unifying element is ceramic clay.  A material present at the very origins of artistic practice and very much alive today, currently experiencing a renewed surge of interest not unlike that of a century ago. Older works in fired clay are brought into conversation with contemporary pieces in ceramics and beyond. It is, after all, the nature of clay to endure and to hold, within its surface, the imprints of everything that came before.

Artists: Dominik Adamec, Karíma Al-Mukhtarová, Daniela Baráčková, Barbora Dayef, Habima Fuchs, Otto Gutfreund, Anna Hulačová, Helena Johnová, Marta Jirásková, Josef Kubíček, Monika Martykánová, Jimena Mendoza, Milan Mikuláštík, Tereza Sluková, Adéla Součková, David Střeleček, Ladislav Zívr

Curator: Kristýna Pelliconi Péčová

Architecture: Kateřina Radakulan