The Central European Stuckists are a group of 5 painters and 2 sculptors based in Prague, Czech Republic who have been inspired by the London Stuckists movement founded in 1999. They aim to bring attention to the preference of highly conceptual art in galleries and cultural institutions through building a traveling gallery exhibition requiring approximately 40,000 euro in funding. They believe their humble team is well-suited to make a change in valuing permanent cultural values over transient conceptual art.
2. Stuck in the Gallery
Jiří Hauschka
Markéta Korečková
Jan Macko
Markéta Urbanová
Jaroslav Valečka
3. We are…
We are the Central European
Stuckists based in Prague,
Czech Republic. We have
got inspired by the London
Stuckists who had
originated in 1999 with
their Stuckists' Manifesto,
1999.
4. THE STUCKISTS (est.
1999), manifesto
"Your paintings are
stuck, you are
stuck! Stuck! Stuck!
Stuck!" Tracey Emin
http://www.stuckism.com/stuckistman
ifesto.html
8. What are we trying to do?
• We are trying to bring attention to the
contemporary decadent gallery space
situation that prefers highly conceptual works
of art.
• We are as well bringing attention to the
contemporary situation of various cultural
establishments (i.e. Turner price and its
international equivalents) that over and over
prefer conceptual artists.
9. What do we need to do it?
• We need to build a travelling gallery.
• We need PR to advertise it.
• It is going to be a case of an art orbiter visiting
major Stuckist cities, therefore we need
approximately 40 000 euro.
• We would love to exhibit in London, Paris,
Vienna, New Castle, Pittsburgh…
10. Why is our team the one to do it?
• We are humble artists.
• If we are the group to make a change is is a question
that can be answered within a longer time period. This
is an usual situation in the art historical discourse.
• However, we do believe in permanent values in culture,
in leaving imprint for the human kind.
• We are against the transience of the conceptual art.
• This project is similar to the principal of Antoine de
Saint-Exupéry: paint me a lamb… .
