Kontext Gallery (TIC Gallery)

Instituce
Brno
Galleries and exhibition spaces
Address
Radnická 366/4, 602 00 Brno
Opening hours

Tue–Fri 11am–7pm

Sat 2–7pm

Galerie Kontext uses a gallery foyer with four niches to present contemporary art. The alternative space is located in the same way as the Young Gallery and the U Dobrého pastýře Gallery at Radnická 4 and has become an integral part of the year-round exhibition programme.

 

In previous years, external curators of galleries operating in a similar "off-space" mode have been invited to curate. These included the Deniska showcase based in Olomouc, Prague's Nika, and Brno's Galerie Art. In 2020, thanks to Šimon Kadlčák's curatorial project "Cores and Shapes", Galerie Kontext became a kind of archaeological probe tracing the state and transformations of the local scene of alternative showcase galleries from 2008 to the present, with the focus on 2012. The year 2021 was curated by Barbora Trnková, who focused on app-art. In 2022, the Context Gallery program focused on contextual grasping of exhibitions already taking place in both main spaces of TIC Gallery. This connection was made through a variety of formats that responded to the needs of both the audience and the exhibiting artists. Last year (2023), microinfluencer, TikToker and designer Jakub Polách took on the curatorial role, creating a series consisting of 4 videos as well as spatial installations over the course of the year. The year-long program ended with a screening in another space of our gallery, the CIT Cinema. In 2024 we decided to dedicate space to projects dealing with video art. From the open call originally announced for the Youth Gallery, several applicants were selected and approached, complemented by the theatrical platform D'epog. This year's series was curated by Anna-Natalia Fajnorová and Tímea Vitázková from the TIC Gallery collective.

Kontext Gallery (TIC Gallery)