World of Franz Kafka

World of Franz Kafka

This exhibition is neither a museum, a biography, nor an archive of the works of one writer – Franz Kafka. The scope of this exhibition reaches far beyond Kafka.

The most famous Czech writer, Kafka was full of paradoxes and contrasts. His stories are set in the world that we know, but which suddenly features completely illogical elements. This style of writing allowed him to show others the otherwise unexplainable phenomena of the mind, society and the universe. And this is the very point at which the exhibition picks up the thread of Franz Kafka.
“The threads of immeasurable forces that have manipulated our lives ever since conception” – and it was Kafka, the most significant writer, who alluded to these very forces between the lines of his texts. It is precisely these forces that are paraphrased within the exhibition following the example of Franz Kafka.
The exhibition is divided into three parts: You can discover the paradoxes in architecture, see the absurd paintings and the projection of bizarre events that actually occurred in Prague.

“The exhibition is proof of the fact that our world is a serious, maybe even a tragic place. At the same time, however, it features traits of a specific picturesqueness; it is incomprehensible by words, just like the space between the letters of Franz Kafka’s texts.”

Miroslav Joudal (1954–2018).