The Day After Yesterday
Roman Ondak
13/11 2025—9/3 2026
Gallery 1 & 2
Curator: Barbora Ropková
Roman Ondak is an internationally renowned artist of Slovak origin. He works with a wide range of media, including installations, interventions, videos, performances, objects, photography and drawing. The exhibition at Kunsthalle Praha is his first large-scale exhibition in Czech and Slovak contexts, presenting an overview of his work from the past twenty years. It will feature some of his monumental installations as well as works from the Kunsthalle Praha Collection.
Ondak draws on the legacy of conceptual art from the 1960s and 1970s. His distinctive creative approach involves the use of ordinary objects and materials, as well as situations from everyday life, which he transfers into the exhibition space. He imbues them with his own metaphorical coding, along with a subtle touch of subversiveness and poetic humor.
His work is constantly evolving around a few main topics – time, memory, and personal identity, for which there is a significant oscillation of opposites. He responds to the historical specifics of the Central European region, but at the same time, reflects on the functioning of society in today's global world, thus pointing to the cyclical nature of processes and the mutual mirroring of the past and the present. In his artistic universe, existential and societal themes naturally intertwine with the biography of his own family, which lends his work authenticity and connection with the local and intimate.
The exhibition is part of the exhibition series presenting important works and authors from the Kunsthalle Praha Collection.
