Exhibition: Pavel Dušek - Ultramarin Depot


The exhibition Ultramarin Depot presents a collection of polychrome steel reliefs, which were created as a result of the artist's long-term work on the border between painting and sculpture. His approach consists of a material exploration of pictorial forms through plastic, spatial methods - relief here becomes a medium in which traditional painting is transformed into physical matter.

Exhibition: Pavel Dušek - Ultramarin Depot

The reliefs bear the hallmarks of industrial precision and handmade authenticity. Steel as a medium carries within itself coldness, strength and heaviness, which the author balances with a layer of colour – polychromy, which brings tension between structure and image to the surface. The result is a bodily, haptic painting that transcends the boundaries of two-dimensionality.

The name of the exhibition Ultramarin Depot refers to the installation, an important part of which is deep blue velvet – a textile material that creates a striking contrast to the hardness and austerity of steel. This soft, visually absorbing element acts as a background and frame, but at the same time transforms the gallery space into a contemplative depot, a place of storage not only of objects, but also of focused attention.

In the author’s approach, space always plays a key role – it is not just a neutral context, but actively enters the semantic structure of the work. The transformation of the architecture of the exhibition environment thus becomes part of a whole, in which material, colour and space together create a complex visual and haptic experience.

Pavel Dušek (*1992) moves in his work on the border between painting, object and installation.

His works are based on intense physical contact with the material, layering, disruption and recomposition of forms. Dušek is a painter who is formally and content-wise fascinated by materials - cement, concrete, metal and acrystal.

Dušek explores the relationship between the inner space of a person and the outer world - between construction and decay, between intuitive gesture and rational composition. He is characterized by distinctive structures, the rawness of the material and the play with remnants, traces and fragments. He also likes to place his work in public spaces and urban landscapes. He has installed his paintings on buildings, for example, in Athens, Paris, London, Venice and Barcelona.

From 2012 to 2018 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in the Painting Studio III of Michael Rittstein. In 2016, he completed an internship at ISI Yogyakarta in Indonesia, which contributed to his international artistic outlook. His works have been presented in solo and group exhibitions in the Czech Republic and abroad. And in 2021 he received the Critics' Award for Young Painting. The exhibition will run until September 10, 2025. Reservations: praguehouse@praha.eu

Our Venue

Where

Prague House

When

02.07 22:00-09.09.2025 22:00