Julius Reichel: Blood Inheritance

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Julius Reichel has flooded the Kostka Gallery with hundreds of kilograms of discarded textiles. A monumental web, its junctions formed by knotted sleeves and trouser legs, makes full use of the space's verticality and turns it into a labyrinth of passageways and sight lines. We do not walk past the work but through it. The structure is at once artwork and exhibition architecture, and can be read as an image of the systems that surpass us and whose full scope we are unable to see. On the walls, the web finds its counterpart in works made from found objects: shelves, floorboards, torn-out sections of wire fencing, all of them at once image and object. Reichel fills them with texts, hashtags, and smileys that he thinks of as carriers of data, and whose grin may well be at our expense. What looks like a grand spectacle is also a precisely constructed trap concerning manipulation, extractivism, and war, and what we have inherited and what we will pass on.

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Julius Reichel (b. 1981, Kaplice) lives and works in Prague and in South Bohemia. From 2007 he studied in Milan Knížák’s studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (AVU); in 2016 he graduated from the Studio of Intermedia Confrontation led by Jiří David at the Academy of Arts, Architecture, and Design in Prague (UMPRUM), and since 2023 he has co-headed Painting Studio II at AVU together with Milan Mikuláštík and Aleš Zapletal. In addition to group exhibitions in the Czech Republic and abroad, he has had solo shows at institutions such as Galerie NoD (2018, 2019), the House of the Lords of Kunštát in Brno (2019), Karpuchina Gallery (2021), and the Václav Špála Gallery (2023). His first monograph, Budoucnost je děsivý místo (The Future Is a Frightening Place), was published in 2020.

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Julius Reichel: Blood Inheritance
Kostka Gallery 

14. 8. – 4. 10. 2026 
Opening: 13. 8., 18:00 | free event within Soirée event 

Curators: Tereza Havlovicová & Ján Gajdušek 
Production: Nikol Hoangová 
Graphic Designer: Jakub Kučera 
PR: Zuzana Kolouchová, Filip Pleskač
Installation: Tereza Kontúrová, Prokop Václavík, Kateřina Vachová, Antonín Závodný

Special thanks to Oanel Bachelard (FR), Corentin Mornet (FR).
Thanks to art re use (Jan Vincenec) and Sue Ryder (Jan Dominik) for their support.

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Curator's text 
Press Kit 
Installation Photos by Jan Kolský

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50 CZK students, seniors, ZTP

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