Interims / Jaroslav Koléšek, Katarína Szanyi, Aleš Hudeček

The most significant intervention is the installation of several bronze sculptures by Jaroslav Koléšek, which fill the chapel space. The author's slightly provocative tone in his artistic expression to some extent "disturbs" the processing of otherwise traditional existential themes, in which love, justice, confession, and compassion resonate.

Information about the exhibition

EXHIBITION: Interims / Jaroslav Koléšek, Katarína Szanyi, Aleš Hudeček

LOCATION: Archdiocesan Museum Olomouc, Chapel of St. John the Baptist

DATE: 29 05 – 04 10 2026

OPENING: 29 05 2026 AT 6:00 PM

AUTHORS AND CURATORS: Štěpánka Bieleszová, Helena Zápalková

SPATIAL SOLUTION: Jaroslav Koléšek

TRANSLATION: Zuzana Henešová

GRAPHIC DESIGN: Petr Šmalec

INSTALLATION: Martin Mydlarčík

COLLABORATION: Ondřej Žák, Radek Látal

PROMOTION: Tomáš Kasal, Martin Šinkovský

Museum open: Wednesday–Sunday from 10 AM to 6 PM

Outside of time and real space move the solitary figures of Aleš Hudeček, which the author places in often very unsettling interiors. In the Archdiocesan Museum, he presents a monumental canvas, which he places in the cloister with the dominating medieval fresco of Christ's sacrifice on the cross.

Conversely, a very personal, intimate contribution is the pair of chamber canvases by Katarína Szanyi. The artist composes objects found on the seashore into compositions that can evoke fragments of time and stories and here, in a figurative sense, also the Arma Christi. Their placement near the medieval fresco of Veronica's veil with the imprint of Christ's face creates an impressive tension.

The entirety of the chamber exhibition – an intervention into the historical spaces of the Archdiocesan Museum – appears as a concentrated statement by three middle-generation artists who, without ostentation and without the need for sensation, address questions of life, faith, the fragility of human existence, and the current state of the world.

Jaroslav Koléšek

Sculptor and pedagogue Jaroslav Koléšek (*1974, Šternberk) studied from 1992–1997 at the Department of Fine Arts of the Pedagogical Faculty of the University of Ostrava, primarily within the circle of Stanislav Hanzík and Mario Kotrba; he completed his doctoral studies at the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica. He has been working for a long time at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ostrava, since 2011 as the head of the sculpture studio. In his work, he combines high-quality sculptural craftsmanship with industrial and figural motifs. He works with bronze, stone, glass, resin, and other materials.

Aleš Hudeček

Painter Aleš Hudeček (*1973, Uherské Hradiště) is intimately connected with Ostrava. He first studied at the Secondary School of Applied Arts in Uherské Hradiště and then from 1992–1997 at the University of Ostrava in Daniel Balabán's painting studio. He is one of the core artists of the Ostrava art scene since the mid-1990s. The leitmotif of his work is the figure, often set in alienated situations, interiors, and psychologically restless pictorial environments; he also works with found photography, hyperbole, and a subtle shift of reality into a dreamlike or metaphorical plane.

Katarína Szanyi

Painter Katarína Szányi (*March 20, 1974, Košice) works in Ostrava. She studied at the Secondary School of Applied Arts in Košice and from 1992–1997 at the Department of Fine Arts of the University of Ostrava in Daniel Balabán's painting studio. She is associated with the VY3 group and has long been developing a painting program based on sensitive work with color, light, and atmosphere. Her work oscillates between concrete motifs and abstracting, meditative painting.