The strong presence of a woman in the premises of Volman's villa, her energy, touches, traces, emotions, tenderness and intimacy, was linked to Alžběta Jungrova's unique photographic project.
The exhibition Without End and Beginning presents a collection of works that have been created over the last few years directly in our interiors. Alžběta Jungrová brings an original approach to the installation, where photographs are printed on various semi-permeable materials. The author works with sensitive installation of images on reflective surfaces, transparencies or semi-permeable materials.
We want to draw you into a new world of ideas, a world of parallel history, which does not really exist, but can exist at least in our heads and completes another layer of genia loci in space. Alžběta Jungrova's exhibition symbolically follows the original female footprint that stood at the birth of the villa.
Volmanova villa was created in 1939 as a dream home for Luďa Volmanová, daughter of the Čelákovice industrialist Josef Volman. Together with her father, she commissioned architects with solutions and co-determined the layout of the functionalist villa, in which architecture and art were intertwined from the beginning. It was here that she wanted to raise her two young children and create a modern family background corresponding to the spirit of the new age.
Svůj sen však mohla žít jen velmi krátce. Po roce 1948 byla mladá rodina donucena domov opustit, odevzdat ho státu a odejít do emigrace. Vila tak přišla o svou původní ženskou energii i rodinný rozměr a na desítky let se proměnila v institucionální prostor, nejprve mateřskou školku, později chátrající ruinu na okraji společenského zájmu.V posledních letech se do ní vrací kulturní a společenský život a spolu s ním i nová vrstva současného umění. Od roku 2025 ji spoluutvářejí umělci z okruhu Trafo Gallery.
Born on 18 April 1978 in Prague, Czech photographer Alžběta Jungrová is the daughter of journalist Terezie Kaslova and great-granddaughter of writer, playwright and publicist Ferdinand Peroutka. She graduated from the Technical School of Graphic Arts in Prague and later became famous as a photojournalist, capturing war conflicts and the harsh conditions of developing countries through her lens. She has repeatedly won awards in the Czech Press Photo competition, and in the last ten years she has focused on freelance work and documentary time-lapse cycles. At present, he focuses mainly on working with emotions, their perception and importance in our lives. The central theme of her work is women.The exhibition Without End and Beginning follows the author's last two solo exhibitions, which she deliberately incorporated into non-gallery spaces - whether it was an abandoned part of the Rajhrad Monastery or a laundry in the premises of the General University Hospital in Prague, where she worked with the emotion of place and its natural light, which enhances and supports the atmosphere of her own photographs.
Trafo Gallery is a private exhibition hall in the industrial premises of Hall 14, the former slaughterhouse of Holešovice Market, which since 2006 represents prominent artists not only from the generation of its founders. Jan Kaláb, Jakub Nepraš, Michal Cimala and Blanka Čermáková were born in the former Vysočany Trafačka, who still form the exhibition programme together today. In collaboration with leading Czech curators (Otto M. Urban, Petr Vaňous, Radek Wohlmuth, Kristýna Jirátová, Tomáš Pospiszyl and others) and Czech and foreign artists, Trafo Gallery prepares six exhibitions a year, for which it publishes non-traditional bilingual narrative publications. The exhibition program focuses on contemporary Czech and international artistic work of the middle generation, focusing on painting, sculpture, intermedia installations, graffiti, photography, drawing and more. In addition to the domestic program, he participates in foreign fairs and occasionally exhibits outside his own premises. The components of the gallery program are regular commented examinations, workshops, lectures, screenings, performances, etc.
