Brno, March 21, 2023 - Solo exhibition with the title OMNIA MUNDA MUNDIS Karin Písaříková continues the residency she completed in 2022 in the Brno Artists in Residence program on the basis of cooperation between the Faculty of Fine Arts of BUT and the House of Arts of the City of Brno. The artist in the exhibition works with the theme of cleaning and focuses on the idea of ??cleanliness as a synonym for goodness. OMNIA MUNDA MUNDIS will be visible from

29. from March to May 28, 2023 in the G99 gallery on the ground floor of the House of Lords from Kunštát. The opening will take place on Tuesday, March 28, 2023 from 6 p.m., the program will include a musical performance by DJ Slavia.

Cleaning, which Písaříková chose as the central motif of the exhibition, becomes for many people a vicious circle, an annoying part of everyday reality that does not start anywhere and does not end anywhere. But it can also be seen as a ritual. The concept of cleanliness, for example, is absolutely essential for Japanese culture, we can find it in Chinese philosophy as well as in Christianity - as the title of the exhibition suggests OMNIA MUNDA MUNDIS, I clean everything clean, which is rooted in the New Testament. Karin Písaříková, however, rather than religious interpretations, what matters is the repeated movements that accompany cleaning and which can have a meditative character regardless of a specific religion.

The works of Karin Písaříková are often characterized by a certain element of humor. However, the directness with which they communicate is redeemed by weeks and months of thinking about the given topic and the question of how to communicate the topic not only towards the public, but also to oneself. Thus, part of the creation process is the search for a key, a philosophical framework and an inner meaning, and a way to turn the theme into a game that would entertain the audience and the artist herself. The result in the case of the exhibition OMNIA MUNDA MUNDIS objects created by the author she used everyday items associated with cleaning, such as a dustpan and broom, a clothes rack, or discs from a car wash. By freeing themselves from banality, these subjects open the way to finding answers to the mentioned main question of cleaning.

Karin Písaříková< /span> is an artist and curator who playfully explores through art themes related to corporeality, everyday life and her personal life, primarily through performance, video essays, photographs and objects. In the Czech Republic, she studied art history at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in Brno, continued at the Faculty of Fine Arts at BUT in Brno in the body design studio (MgA, PhD), and in Japan studied information design at Tama Art University, where in as part of her dissertation, she worked on the topic of corporeality as an embodied mind in the context of contemporary art (MA, PhD). Its rich exhibition activity includes shows and festivals, mainly in Tokyo, but also elsewhere in Japan, as well as in Lithuania and the Czech Republic. She has been curating the Brno off-space Gallery Umakart for a long time, which she founded, and continues to lecture. From January 2023, Karin lectures at the Faculty of Architecture at BUT.

Karin Písaříková: OMNIA MUNDA MUNDIS

G99, House of Lords of Kunštát

29/03-28/05/2023

Vernissage 28/03/2023 at 18:00

Curator: Silvie Šeborová

G99 curators: Anita Topínka, Barbora Trnková