COSMOGRAPHIA

The exhibition COSMOGRAPHIA brings together the work of Vladimír Škoda and Jan Dotřel, two artists whose practices are united by a shared interest in the relationships between geometry, natural sciences, mythology, and human experience.

The title of the exhibition refers to Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia (1544), one of the most significant books of the European Renaissance. Just as Münster’s work combined astronomy, geography, natural sciences, history, and legends into a single image of the world, the exhibition approaches cosmography as a mode of thinking that seeks connections between seemingly distant fields of knowledge.

Throughout his career, Vladimír Škoda has explored the relationships between geometry, light, space, and cosmic order. Jan Dotřel turns to the history of science, the archaeology of knowledge, and mythological narratives through which humanity has shaped its understanding of reality for centuries. Their works meet in a space where observation, imagination, and experience intertwine.

The exhibition is the result of curator Miroslava Hájek’s long-standing collaboration with both artists. It also acquires a symbolic dimension through her familial connection to Tadeáš Hájek of Hájek, the astronomer, mathematician, and physician of Rudolfine Prague, whose legacy recalls a period when art, science, and philosophy formed a single interconnected whole.