Interims / Jaroslav Koléšek, Katarína Szanyi, Aleš Hudeček

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

Exhibition Information

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 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.

A very personal, intimate contribution, on the other hand, is a pair of intimate 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 metaphorical sense, also the Arma Christi. Their placement near the medieval fresco of Veronica's veil with the imprint of Christ's face creates a powerful tension.

The entirety of the intimate exhibition – an intervention into the historical spaces of the Archdiocesan Museum – emerges as a concentrated testimony of three middle-generation artists who, without ostentation and without the need for sensation, turn to 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 Faculty of Education at Ostrava University, mainly in the circle of Stanislav Hanzík and Mario Kotrby; he completed his doctoral studies at the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica. He has been working at the Faculty of Arts of Ostrava University for a long time, since 2011 as the head of the sculpture studio. In his work, he combines high craftsmanship sculpture culture with industrial and figural motifs. He works with bronze, stone, glass, resin, and other materials.

Aleš Hudeček

Painter Aleš Hudeček (*1973, Uherské Hradiště) is deeply connected with Ostrava. He first studied at the Secondary School of Applied Arts in Uherské Hradiště and then from 1992–1997 at Ostrava University in Daniel Balabán's painting studio. He is one of the core artists of the Ostrava art scene since the mid-90s. The leitmotif of his work is the figure, often placed in alienated situations, interiors, and psychologically unsettling pictorial environments; he also works with found photography, exaggeration, and a subtle shift of reality into a dreamlike or metaphorical level.

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 Ostrava University in Daniel Balabán's painting studio. She is associated with the VY3 group and has been developing a painting program based on sensitive work with color, light, and atmosphere for a long time. Her work oscillates between a concrete motif and abstracting, meditative painting.