Addendum (On the Shortness of Life)
Red Gallery, 1-3 Rivington Street, London, EC2A 3DT
Preview: 12 September, 19:00 – 21:00
Open: 13 – 27 September 2013, Monday - Friday 12:00 – 18:00, free admission
EVENTS:
12 September 19:00 - 21:00 - Performances by Louise Ashcroft and Lina Lapelyte
26 September 20:00 – Marlene Haring: Secret Service Society
Artists: Louise Ashcroft, Jiří Bouma, Jakub Geltner, Marlene Haring, Richard Hards, Russell
Hill, Alžběta Josefy, Kryštof Kaplan, Vesta Kroese, Lina Lapelyte, Harry Lawson, Vojtěch
Pálka, Klára Pernicová, Kateřina Tichá, Amelia Newton Whitelaw
Curated by Prof. Michael Rittstein, Anna Clifford, Miloslav Vorlíček
An exhibition of artworks by postgraduate students and graduates from the Fine Art
departments of The Academy of Fine Arts, Prague (AVU) and the Royal College of Art,
London (RCA).
Addendum (On the Shortness of Life) adopts the gallery space as a site for exchange,
presenting works from the 2013 graduate exhibition at AVU alongside site-specific
interventions, new works and performances by current students and recent graduates of the
RCA.
Professor Michael Rittstein, the curator from the AVU says: ‘Coming from different
disciplines and studios, these artists represent the diversity within the art school and the high
standards that are its focus. The exhibition presents a group of graduates offering a sample of
the diversity of approaches currently found at AVU. Naturally, the selection does not
represent the school’s full range, but it does offer an overview of the artistic quality of this
year’s graduates.’
The exhibition at Red Gallery is the first iteration of an exchange; Professor Rittstein and the
seven AVU artists will travel to London to install the exhibition alongside the artists and
curators from the RCA. The dialogue established will continue during the next part of the
project, an exhibition of works by the eight RCA artists at the AVU galleries in October 2013.
Performances and events: During the opening on September 12th, there will be performances
by Louise Ashcroft and Lina Lapelyte. On Thursday 26th September Marlene Haring will
present Secret Service Society, fifteen minutes of conversation under a legally binding nondisclosure agreement.
ENDS
For press enquiries, artist biographies or images please contact: Anna Clifford and Miloslav
Vorlíček at info@life-agency.org or on 07734311494 in UK and Blanka Čermáková at
blanka.cermakova@avu.cz or on 739517758 in CR.
NOTES TO EDITORS
The Academy of Fine Arts in Prague was established in 1799 by a decree passed by
Emperor Franz I. In the first years it has offered schools of painting and drawing and later
were added specialized fields from graphics, sculpture, architecture, restoration studios to
new media and intermedia studios at present. The Academy offers Master's and Doctor's
Degree, maintaining an average of 330 students in 18 studios headed by Czech leading artists
and has generous historic ateliers spaces. AVU intensely and intently cares about the
development of talents their students or visiting undergraduates.
www.avu.cz
The Royal College of Art is the world's most influential postgraduate university of art and
design. Specialising in teaching and research, the RCA offers the degrees of MA, MPhil and
PhD across the disciplines of fine art, applied art, design, communications and humanities.
There are over 1,300 masters and doctoral students and two hundred professionals interacting
with them, including scholars and leading art and design practitioners, along with numerous
distinguished visiting professors and tutors, specialists and advisors.
www.rca.ac.uk
Red Gallery is a cultural experiment in three years of arts guardianship of a multi-functional
venue at the heart of London's Shoreditch. Red is also a gallery which exhibits works that are
rarely old, reflecting its ever evolving location. Landmark events such as “Red Sonic”
festival, university graduations shows, charity art programs, film screenings, talks, live art
and music performances and many others.
This outstretches to an Artist in Residency programme that is currently hosting several artists
from all around the world. Red Gallery is also linking Britain internationally, creating natural
twinning with several towns including Toronto, Tokyo, Berlin or Prague. Collaborations with
London's Czech Culture Centre led to cooperation with prestigious fine art schools such as the
Royal College of Art, London and the Academy of Fine Art, Prague. Evolving from art and
music events, Red Gallery has crossed the ordinary boundaries of curating, managing cultural
collective with a natural sense of social responsibility.
www.redgallerylondon.com
THANKS TO PARTNERS:
Ministry of Culture Czech Republic, Czech Centre London, Embassy of the Czech Republic,
Staropramen