Guided tour of Jaroslava Kurandová and Zdeněk Rybka exhibition

The Kampa Museum presents the work of the married couple Zdeněk Rybka (*1938) and Jaroslava Kurandová (1936–2024), whose personal and artistic lives were closely intertwined. They met while studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and in the 1960s moved from figurative painting to geometric abstraction. As members of the Concrete Artists Club, they exhibited both at home and abroad.

Kurandová worked with smooth surfaces and bold colors, also entering into space. Rybka experimented with electrography, whose light traces give the works an almost mystical touch.

After 1968, they withdrew from the public scene and devoted themselves to teaching. They did not return to their own creative work in earnest until the late 1980s – Rybka with new experiments and expressive figuration, Kurandová with dynamic structures and a civic accent. The exhibition commemorates two distinctive artists whose work and lives were profoundly marked by history.

The exhibition will be guided by curator Martina Vítková. The tour will be held in Czech.