Don’t miss a great opportunity to get to know the artists and their works a bit more closely – you’ll hear interesting behind-the-scenes insights into the creative process.
Date: June 6, 2025
Time: 5:00 PM
Admission: Free
Guided by: František Kowolowski
About the exhibition
The exhibition The Boundaries of the Visible brings fresh energy from the young Ostrava scene to Trenčín. Sculptures, paintings and spatial installations come together at the FOR MAAT gallery to open questions about what we are – or are not – able to perceive. You are invited into a silent dialogue with material, space and your own inner self. This is contemporary art that reflects on where the visible ends – and where what we feel begins.
The exhibition The Boundaries of the Visible connects three contemporary artists – Sabina Knetlová, Libor Novotný and Tereza Samková – strong representatives of the young Ostrava visual scene, whose work explores the relationship between space, materiality and human existence. The exhibition is a dialogue between three approaches – painting, installation and sculpture – and encourages the viewer to reflect on the boundaries of the visible, the material, and the merely sensed. The project explores the borders between the natural and the artificial, stability and transformation, physical and spiritual space. It broadens the view on possible dual relationships in the broadly understood field of architecture and space, including residues; personal identities in relation to the emotional experiences of today’s globalized world, human corporeality and transience. Through symbolic forms, the works of the artists speak to the clarification of residual “fractures.”
František Kowolowski, curator
Visit us
When: May 9 – July 11, 2025 (open every Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM)
Where: FOR MAAT Gallery, Železničná 3, Trenčín
The exhibition The Boundaries of the Visible is part of the project Rooted in Trenčín, which is a part of Trenčín 2026. Trenčín 2026 is financially supported by the City of Trenčín, the Trenčín Self-Governing Region and the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic. The project is co-funded by the European Union.
Photo and video documentation will be taken at the event and may be published later.
