Roman Ondak: The Day After Yesterday

Kunsthalle Praha will present The Day After Yesterday, the first major exhibition in Eastern and Central Europe of internationally acclaimed Slovak conceptual artist Roman Ondak. Offering a comprehensive overview of more than thirty years of his practice, the exhibition features a wide range of works across media and includes some of his most iconic pieces, such as Measuring the Universe, a participatory performance that has travelled to leading museums worldwide and will be restaged in Prague.

Ondak first captured international attention with his project LOOP at the Czech and Slovak Pavilion of the 2009 Venice Biennale. Since then, he has developed a distinctive body of work rooted in the legacy of 1960s and 1970s conceptualism. His approach is characterized by the use of everyday objects and situations, transformed through subtle interventions into poetic reflections on time, memory, and identity. In his artistic practice, the ordinary becomes extraordinary, revealing hidden tensions and oscillations between opposites.

Ondak often reflects on the historical particularities of Central Europe and its communist past, while also engaging with the globalized present. His subtle humour and conceptual precision allow existential and societal themes to merge seamlessly with personal experience. In his artistic universe, the political and the personal, the universal and the intimate, intertwine into authentic works that resonate across time and place.

The exhibition is part of the exhibition series presenting important works and authors from the Kunsthalle Praha Collection.