Jolana Havelková and authors
Six postcards

The exhibition titled Six Postcards at the House of the Lords of Kunštát presents a project of the same name by photographer Jolana Havelková. The exhibited photographs, collages, drawings, paintings, music scores, assemblages, objects, texts and videos by more than 150 artists have one subject in common – a postcard with a black and white photograph by Jolana Havelková. That is, the diverse artistic and other expressions are reactions to her work.

At the Six Postcards exhibition, Havelková’s work is represented with a single postcard, and at the same time with many of them; having lost their original meaning for her, they became, for other artists, an incentive, inspiration, guideline, and subject matter for the creation of new artifacts. What was a spontaneous event at the beginning, when Havelková gave out imperfectly printed postcards to passers-by in Kolín square, became over the years a singular artistic achievement of unexpected extent. The exhibition maps all the reactions and responses of random acquaintances, artists, friends, and neighbours to receiving six of the same black and white postcards since the beginning of the project, i.e. over the past 25 years. The fates and transformations of the postcards, primarily intended for being sent by mail and for the transmission of textual and pictorial information, indicate other possibilities and ways of communication through art and beyond.

Jolana Havelková (*1966) is a photographer, teacher and curator. She graduated from the Institute of Creative Photography, Faculty of Philosophy and Science of the Silesian University in Opava. Besides photography, she uses a number of other means of expression as well, including video and music. Her work includes conceptual, experimental, mail art and site-specific projects. She is also involved in social-art events and participatory art practice.

Artists:

Petr Adámek, Nastassia Aleinikava, Darina Alster, Hynek Alt, Irena Armutidisová, E. B., Juraj Bartoš, Zdeněk Běhal, Jaroslav Beneš, Helena Blašková, Michaela Brachtlová,
Veronika Šrek Bromová, David Cajthaml, Michal Cihlář, Ondřej D., Josef Daněk, Michal Dubnický and pupils of the Art School in Kolín, Joachim Dvořák, Václav Fiala,
Kateřina Fialová, Zbyněk Fišer, Sylva Francová, Roman Franta, Eržika Frinková, Kurt Gebauer, Peter Graham, Štěpán Grygar, Vladana Hajnová, Josef Hampl, Hana Hamplová, Zdeňka Hanáková, Jiřina Hankeová, Stanislav Havelka, Vladimír Havlík, Milota Havránková, Pavel Hayek, Zdeněk Hejduk, Zdeněk Hemza, Tomáš Hlavenka, Matyáš Holna, Olga Holnová, Kristýna Hošková, Miloš Kim Houdek, Pavel Houser, Kamila Housová Mizerová, Jiří Hrbek, Johana Hrdá, Tomáš Hrůza, Zdenek Hůla, Vendula Chalánková, Anna Chmelová, Marek Chochola, Blanka Chocholová, Miroslava Jaklová, Jiří Janda, Martin Janíček, Libuše Jarcovjáková, Václav Jirásek, Markéta Jirásková, Jiří Jiroutek, Jana Kasalová, Bára Alex Kašparová, Tereza Kleinová, Svatopluk Klimeš, Barbora Klímová, Lenka Klodová, Lena Knilli, Viktor Kopasz, Eva Kopřivová with the family, Lucie Košařová, Ivan Kotačka, Alena Kotzmannová, Jiří Kovanda, Jana Kovaříková, Naďa Kováříková, Lada Krupková Křesadlová, Robert Latýn, Lucie a Vladimíra Latýnovy, Zdeněk Lhoták, Štěpán Málek, Jiří Mareš, Michal Matzenauer, MICL, Pavel Míka, Helena Musilová, Gabriela Náhlíková, Gabriela Nováková, Jaromír Novotný, Dita Otradovcová, Martina Pachmanová, Suzanne Pastor, Natálie Paterová, Radoslav Pavlíček, Radek Placanda, Luboš Plný, Eliška Pokorná, Miroslav Pošvic, Petr Prášek, Míla Preslová, Jaroslava Příhodová, Magdalena Rajnohová, Robert Rambousek, Jaroslav Richtr, Hana Richtrová, Nadia Rovderová, Ivan Rupeš, Lenka Sedláčková, Michal Sedlák, Denisa Sedláková, Robert C. Sherril, Rudolf Sikora, Robert Silverio, Zdeněk Skružný, Vladimír Sládek, Martin Smékal, Kateřina Sušková, Libor Svoboda, Markéta Šafáriková, Miloš Šejn, Jan Šída, Vít Šimánek, Štěpánka Šimlová, Michal Škoda, Pavel Šmíd, Olga Štemberková, Eva Šulcová, Leona Telínová, Eva Tomanová, Tereza Tuhá, Pavla Vaculíková, Václav Vaněk, Markéta Váradiová, Zuzana Vasko, Sonja Vectomov, Jakub Velocha, Petr Veselý, Jindra Viková, Eva Vinopalová and students of Grammar School of Design Lysá nad Labem, Lucie Vítková, Martin Vlček, Jana Voldřichová, Klára Volková, J.V., Petr Vyhnálek, Veronika Zapletalová, Kateřina Závodová, Martin Zet, Kateřina Zvelebilová, participants in an art-therapy course,  unknown artists

An artist’s exhibition in cooperation with Terezie Petišková
Exhibition design: Denisa Sedláková