ANDROS

Male Body in Contemporary Central European Art.

In recent decades, the revision of established gender templates and the loosening of rigid roles have intensified discussions about the nature of masculinity, leading to existential questions: Who is a man, really? And what defines him? The exhibition project ANDROS explores how contemporary Central European art addresses these questions in depicting the male body - the material dimension of gender identity that has served as a classical artistic subject for centuries and today becomes a projection surface for doubt, searching, and the re-establishment of male form.

The collective exhibition presents works by domestic artists alongside pieces by artists from Germany, Austria, and the Visegrád countries. The curator is writer Vratislav Maňák, who develops and advances concepts from his book "With Wittgenstein in a Gay Sauna" (2026).

Exhibiting artists: Patrik Adamec, Mirosław Bałka, Simona Blahutová, János Brückner, Jakub Čuška, Michal Czinege, Andrej Dúbravský, Jiří David, Ester Knapová, Ondřej Filípek, Pavel Forman, Andros Foros, Andrej Haršány, Matouš Háša, Tomáš Honz, Matthias Herrmann, Michal Heriban, Siegfried Herz, David Javorský, Václav Jirásek, Ruprecht von Kaufmann, Kateřina Komm, Karolína Koblen, Samuel Kollárik, Tomáš Kubík, Zbyněk Linhart, Jiří Marek, Michal Macků, Ivana Mojšová, Gábor Nagy, Tomáš Němec, Karolína Netolická, Ivan Pinkava, Gábor Pintér, Jiří Petrbok, Ondřej Přibyl, Mai, Karol Radziszewski, Spyros Rennt, Thomas Riess, Wilhelm Sasnal, Adam Šakový, Antonín Sondej, Alois Stratil, Attila Szűcs, Alexander Tinei, Juraj Toman, Jan Uldrych, Katalin Verebics, Ágnes Verebics, Stefan Wimmreuter.