Date of exhibition opening 23/11/2017 18:00

Curator: Rostislav Koryčánek
Graphic design: Lukáš Kijonka, Michal Krůl (Kolektiv)
Architect: Tomáš Džadoň

Czech historiography views the term normalization primarily as a designation of the process which after the forcible suppression of the Prague Spring in 1968 was to completely eliminate the influence of the political and intellectual elites who stood behind the revitalization endeavours in Czechoslovakia. Normalization tends to be connected with political purges, another wave of emigration, censorship, oppression and restrictions of all kinds. Another connotation which the term normalization invokes is the effort by the party leadership to ensure saturation of communist consumer society with the massive construction of prefab housing estates, car manufacture and the production of TV entertainment programmes. On the other hand, this period can also be perceived as a big social experiment which brought a huge portion of the population into changed living and social conditions to which it was necessary to respond - both on the part of the people themselves and party functionaries and experts. This process of coming to terms with and searching for a living content of the enforced form in the field of architecture and the applied and fine arts is the subject of the coming exhibition entitled Paneland.

The exhibition is held with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the CR and the City of Brno. It si part of celebrations commemorating important events in Czech history (1918, 1968, 1993) marked by the year 2018 and part of the project

Accompanying events:

25/11/2017 14:00 Rodinné odpoledne speciál: Workshop s Jiřím Černickým
23/11/2017 16:00 Dětská vernisáž výstavy Paneland

Moravian Gallery in Brno - Museum of Applied Arts