Terra Incognita
Prague City Art Gallery GHMP

1 Oct 2026 – 3 Jan 2027

Curator: Martin Netočný

Artists:  David Blandy, Harun Farocki, Sasha Litvinsteva, Alex Selmec, Tomáš Kocka Juska and Su Yu Hsin

The Terra Incognita exhibition focuses on the historical role of the media sphere in the processes of territorialisation of nature. Through film, visual and intermedia projects, it will explore the relationship between imaging technologies and the ways in which they shape our understanding of the world around us.

The first part of the exhibition will highlight the power and historical determinants that influence the ways in which we observe, while the second will present projects that transform the process of recording, storing and reading information into performative, spontaneous events. The exhibition traces how imaging technologies simultaneously enable and limit our perception of nature and how control intertwines with an element of elusive wildness.

The works of David Blandy, Harun Farocki, Sasha Litvinsteva, Alex Selmec, Tomáš Kocka Juska and Su Yu Hsin in the first chapter focus on the role of the observer and the technical limits of collecting and interpreting data about the landscape. The second chapter allows the materials themselves, minerals and elements contained in the devices, to “speak” through the works of Kryštof Brůha, Ioana Vreme Moser and Agustine Woodgate, who transform technology into a living, acting organism.

The exhibition will be complemented by an interdisciplinary conference organised by GHMP in collaboration with FAMU in January 2027. A subsequent professional publication will be produced in collaboration with the NAMU publishing house.

Still from Sunspot, David Blandy, 2023; Commissioned by John Hansard Gallery, UK