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Michal Drozen / Start up End down (Project: Start up V)
13/2 – 12/4 2015, Prague City Gallery, Prague – Czech Rep.
Curator:
Monika Čejková
Photo:
Tomáš Souček
Growing up in one of Prague’s housing developments, somewhere like the city’s Southwestern District, entails two existential options: namely, either you acquire a certain affinity for this type of residence in a concrete block of flats, or you do your utmost to pack up and leave as soon as possible; which, of course, fails to mention the variant where you have no real choice. In the case of Michal Drozen, an affinity for life in a housing development has evolved into a sentiment quite close to love. Recently in fact, he even found himself a studio in a concrete block of flats in the quarter of Žižkov, overlooking more such blocks, a fact that has since projected into a number of Michal’s drawings faithfully copying the uniform facades of houses across the street.
The exhibition called Start up End down by Michal Drozen is a part of the fifth edition of the project Start up. The format of the series of exhibition grouped under the collective title Start up is a contribution rendered by Prague City Gallery towards the process of charting the creative output of the youngest generation active on Czech art scene.
The fifth edition of the project Start up will introduce works by five up-and-coming young artists, along with information about the studios where they have studied. The individual shows will be accompanied by a number of supplementary programs supervised by the participating artists and/or their teachers, a video shown at the exhibition, and a 16-page magazine FILES in the limited edition of 200 pieces.