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15 x 15 x 5

15 x 15 x 5 (2023)

Original title: 15 x 15 x 5 (minisalon 1984)

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Country: Czechia · Slovakia
  • Runtime: 100 min
  • Rated: U
  • Released: 2023-11-09
  • Czech release: 2024-03-14
  • TMDB rating: 5.0 / 10 (1)

A film essay about the boundaries of freedom takes us on an adventurous journey into the past, when art resisted limitations and became a means of resistance. At the center of the story is the illegal experiment Minisalon, which in the "Orwellian" year of 1984 was organized by artist and dissident Joska Skalník. Across the Czechoslovak art scene, he sent out square boxes with an invitation to free artistic play. This created a collection of 244 unique artworks by significant and often silenced female and male artists, whose art and creativity thrived in the 1980s despite the repressive regime. The stories of Minisalon project participants and their works, period archival materials, and layered visual games create a fascinating mosaic of the past from the film, one that speaks to our present time and near future.

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Michael Rittstein

Michael Rittstein is a Czech painter working in a style that blends expressionism and new figuration. He is a professor of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where he has mentored many notable Czech artists. His works are held in major Czech and international collections.

Kurt Gebauer

Kurt Gebauer is a Czech sculptor and visual artist, a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. He is known for his playful, often large-scale figurative sculptures that blend humour with deeper philosophical undertones. His works appear in public spaces and galleries both in the Czech Republic and abroad.

Rudolf Sikora

Rudolf Sikora is a Slovak conceptual artist and painter, born in 1946. His work spans conceptual art, painting, and installation, exploring existential, ecological, and cosmological themes. He is considered one of the most significant figures in Slovak visual art of the second half of the 20th century.

Joska Skalník

Joska Skalník was a Czech visual artist, graphic designer and dissident active in the underground culture of normalisation-era Czechoslovakia. In 1984 he organised the illegal Minisalon project, mailing small square boxes to artists across the country and collecting 244 works from creators who were largely silenced at…

Minisalon

Minisalon was an underground art project organized in 1984 by dissident and artist Joska Skalník. He sent small square boxes across Czechoslovakia, inviting artists to create freely - the result was a collection of 244 works by artists who were largely silenced at the time, including Adriena Šimotová, Stanislav Kolíba…

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