Kunsthalle Praha presents The Day After Yesterday, the first major exhibition in Eastern and Central Europe of Slovak conceptual artist Roman Ondak. Offering a comprehensive overview of more than thirty years of his practice, the exhibition features a wide range of almost 50 works across media and includes some of his most iconic pieces, such as Measuring the Universe, a participatory performance that has travelled worldwide and will be restaged in Prague.

The title of the exhibition refers to Ondak’s 2005 work The Day After Yesterday, in which he intertwined different temporal layers and balanced the personal with the conceptual. Across installations, performances, videos, photographs, drawings, and objects, the exhibition highlights his recurring themes of memory, time, and identity. Ondak often reflects on the historical particularities of Central Europe and its communist past, while also engaging with the globalised 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 also marks Ondak’s long-awaited return to Prague after more than two decades. He exhibited in the city several times in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and this new presentation reconnects him with a city that has played an important role in his artistic journey as a stepping-stone towards the international art world.

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