Hunt Kastner

About the Gallery
Hunt Kastner was opened in 2006 in response to a continued need for professional representation of Czech artists both locally and abroad. At the time the gallery was founded there was no established tradition of commercial galleries in the Czech Republic presenting an international program and supporting the production and exhibition of new contemporary work in a private gallery setting, or who actively represented and promoted the artists’ work abroad. There were also very few Czech artists with any international recognition and no local commercial platform to support the younger generation of artists. Our aim has been to establish a reputable commercial gallery with a high-quality international program. The gallery produces 6 to 8 exhibitions a year, including solo exhibitions of gallery and invited artists, as well as curated group exhibitions. In 2017, we also opened a project space on site which hosts an additional 2 to 3 exhibitions per year.

About the Presentation
Hunt Kastner will debut at Independent with a duo presentation featuring a series of new paintings by Jaromír Novotny and photography-based work by Jiří Thyn. Both artists remind us of the importance of material presence and the act of making in an increasingly digital and dematerialized visual culture. Each, in his own way, explores how meaning and form are negotiated rather than given, how truth may not lie only in representation but in process, in a back and forth and that an effort on our part to really look and engage is part of this process.