Exhibition: Quid pro quo

Date: 29.5. - 29.6.2025

We cordially invite you to the opening of the exhibition, which will take place on 29 May at 7 pm.

In the previous two exhibitions of the 1+1 series, Beseder Gallery has presented two pairs of artists whose relationship was that of teacher and pupil. The authors of the new exhibition are two artists, of whom Petr Pelzmann is a generation younger, but there is no relationship between them, or rather it has only been formed in recent weeks. Each of them is different, differently distinctive, differently expressive.

The versatile artist Petr Nikl has many faces, some of which are playful and others refined; Petr Pelzmann, who is, to put it simply, still at the beginning of his artistic career, has a rather different mood, in which we can read features of art brut and gestural expression. Their positions are best described by the term contrasting.

Petr Nikl (* 8 November 1960 Gottwaldov) is a Czech painter, illustrator, writer, musician and theatre artist. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Jindřich Chalupecký Award (1995), the Magnesie Litera in the categories of Book of the Year and Book for Children and Youth (2008), as well as three Ministry of Culture awards for "The Most Beautiful Book of the Year" (1997, 2001 and 2002). His books have been published abroad, including in French, English and Italian.

Petr Pelzmann was born in 1988 and is an autodidact in his artistic endeavours. He did not finish the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art in Pilsen and decided to go his own way. His work is characterized by the deconstruction of the figure in a distinctive painterly handwriting, where he develops the possibilities of new figuration and tries to capture the essence of the subject in its elementary form.

The exhibition is curated by Miroslav Krupička.

Free admission.

Come and have a look, we are looking forward to it!