Strange Things is an international exhibition created in collaboration between the South Bohemian Gallery and the University of Ostrava. The authors and curators of the project are Tomáš Koudela and Pavel Forman.

Strange Things is a presentation of current work of artists who accentuate the principles of spontaneous artistic gesture, indefiniteness, chaos, grotesqueness, expressive formulation, politically engaged discourse and various artistic approaches. The essence of their work and a common creative denominator of the exhibition is the transformation of established visual structures – the reinterpretation of meanings or emotional profiles such as loneliness, nothingness, disgust, fear, anxiety, ecstasy, but also a redesign of religious and essentialist contexts. It is a response to contemporary times and a world that affects us in its essence of being, history and the present.

The exhibition will present artworks created using various techniques and it will showcase a variety of media, such as paintings, photographs, installations, sculptures and video art.

Exhibiting artists: Piotr Ambroziak, Bogusław Bachorczyk, Erik Binder, Peter Cvik, Tereza Čapandová, Nadine Fecht, Pavel Forman, Viktor Frešo, Mindaugas Gapševičius, Susu Gorth, Andreas Guskos, Vladimír Havlík, Vendula Chalánková, Jun’ichiro Ishii, Martin Juef, MK Kaehne, Grzegorz Klaman, Bartosz Kokosiński, Tomáš Koudela, František Kowolowski, Jan Krtička, Jiří Kuděla, Robert Kuśmirowski, Marek Kvetan, Zbigniew Libera, Zorka Lednárová, Petr Lysáček, Arkadiusz Marcinkowski, Honorata Martin, Daniela Mikulášková, Stefan Milkov, Roman Minaev, Piotr Mosur, David Možný, Libor Novotný, Jiří Petrbok, Gabriela Pienias, Dominik Dragos Pohludka, Sonia Rammer, Monika Rechsteiner, Yasuyuki Saegusa, Joachim Seinfeld, Sadofsky & Trantina, Helena Sequens & Adam Stanko, Masamichi Shibasaki, Bongchull Shin, Elena Steiner, Jan Philip Scheibe, Marek Schovánek, Nina E. Schönefeld, Paulina Skavova, Ivo Sumec, Jiří Surůvka, Grzegorz Sztwiertnia, Ivana Štenclová, Krzysztof Wałaszek, Maik Wolf.