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DOX MISSION:
To create a space for research, presentation, and debate on important social issues, where visual arts, literature, performing arts, and other disciplines encourage a critical view of the so-called reality of today’s world

MOTTO:
"Today, when more and more people tend to think dangerously alike, art’s capacity to suspend, even for a moment, our habitual ways of seeing may be its greatest value."

Objectives:

To create an environment that allows for encounters, development, and inspiration through different perspectives.

To develop critical reflection and discussion of current social topics and issues, and to support and present art projects and programmes based on their exploration (research-based art).

To develop exchanges and commonalities among artistic disciplines - from painting, sculpture, and architecture to design, film, video, performance, or new media, and to support commonalities with other disciplines such as literature, performance, movement-based theatre, film, etc.

To provide a platform for dialogue between the local and international art scene.

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Contemporary Works of Art in the Landscape / Landscape, Art, and Photography
			1. 11. 2016 - 5. 1. 2017

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Contemporary Works of Art in the Landscape / Landscape, Art, and Photography
			1. 11. 2016 - 5. 1. 2017

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This exhibition features photos of works of art based on the land art movement (art for public space and ecology), which is why we won’t find them in galleries, but have to go see them in their natural setting. Their creators defined the duration of their physical existence by placing them in a specific place, in a natural setting or a rural landscape. They are freely accessible and exposed to climactic effects.

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The architect Antonín Žižka constructed a factory producing machines for the Rossemann and Kühnemann company on the newly subdivided Osadní street in Prague. In 1901 two workshops and an office building, a forgery and a shed for paints and oils were added. The buildings had a typically industrial appearance – high windows with rounded arches, with facades of unplastered bricks alternating with strips of plaster. The original ground floor administrative building on the corner of Poupětova and Osadní streets no. 793 was extended in 1920 by an additional storey with a triangular roof with a segment window by the architect Josef Karhan

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After the reconstruction.

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This is a picture of the building when it was a factory before it was reconstructed into the gallery.

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Pavlína Jana Lörinczová: Anti-Stress Colouring Books
			7. 11. - 5. 12. 2016

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Pavlína Jana Lörinczová: Anti-Stress Colouring Books
			7. 11. - 5. 12. 2016

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I’ve liked the work of Pavlína Jana Lörinczová, whom we are presenting in November’s Polička/Shelf, for a number of years now. She was first inspired by her own children’s colouring book drawings, which she collected and transformed into her own large-format paintings. Similarly, she then also worked with anti-stress colouring-book drawings for adults.

Pavlína and I came across anti-stress colouring-book drawings at approximately the same time this past summer. While I was merely stressed out by them, Pavlína bought and took several of them home.
The results were books of drawings, some of which you can now look through. They are the first anti-stress colouring books for adults that don’t stress me out. They were created by an artist, and for her it wasn’t mere relaxation (because no artwork is relaxation).

Nor were they created with the intent to protest or provoke. The main idea is a simple message. The answer of a person who hasn’t allowed her hands to be voluntarily tied – and has the courage to literally cross the boundaries of convention and convenience. In her anti-stress colouring-book drawings, Pavlína Lörinczová simply entered quite wild waters – and set out against the current.

In her colouring-book drawings, Pavlína Lörinczová does not judge or insult her surroundings and trends. She just works with them differently than is expected. With exaggeration, and more freely than we are accustomed to.

- Anna Pleštilová

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Lines of Freedom: Contemporary Arab Caricature
			17. 11. 2016 - 9. 1. 2017

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Lines of Freedom: Contemporary Arab Caricature
			17. 11. 2016 - 9. 1. 2017

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The Lines of Freedom exhibition presents three prominent Arab caricaturists and their activist and artistic take on everyday life as well as important events in the tumultuous region of North Africa and the Middle East.

Freedom of expression and its limits, security and extremism, active citizenship, political responsibility, tolerance, social problems... Is Arab society and its people facing similar challenges as Czech society? And is their perception that different from ours?

The exhibition will feature works by Abdul Raheem Yassir (Iraq), Khalid Albaih (Sudan) and Nadia Khiari (Tunisia).

The attendant programme will include a Master Class for beginning Czech caricaturists and a showing of the documentary film Cartoonists: Foot Soldiers of Democracy (France, 2014), followed by a debate with one of the artists. A catalogue will be published to accompany the exhibition.

The project was prepared by Insaan: The Czech-Arab Cultural Dialogue Centre, People in Need, Baraka: The Centre for Cultures of North Africa and the Middle East, and Tanween, with the financial support of the Czech network of the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for Dialogue Between Cultures (ALF).

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The DOX Centre is an excellent example of contemporary world-class architecture. This internationally recognized project involving the reconstruction of an old factory into a multi-functional space is the work of architect Ivan Kroupa

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This extensive exhibition, on the occasion of what would have been Václav Havel’s 80th birthday, will present the photography of two leading Czech photographers, Tomki Němec and Bohdan Holomíček, who for a number of years recorded important historical events as well as ordinary moments in the life of Václav Havel, playwright, politician, president, and citizen. Over three hundred photos will be accompanied by hitherto unseen, artistically produced documentary film footage by Petr Jančárek.

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ABOUT THE DOX CENTRE OF CONTEMORARY ARTS

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ABOUT THE DOX CENTRE OF CONTEMORARY ARTS

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The DOX Centre for Contemporary Art is a multi-functional space created thanks to a private initiative through the reconstruction of a former factory in Prague’s Holešovice district.The name DOX is derived on the Greek word doxa, which among other things means a way of perceiving things, an opinion, a conviction. DOX’s programme differs from other similar exhibition institutions