The Sound of Art National Gallery Prague
11/18/2022
National Gallery Prague exclusively presents a new podcast series The sound of art. In the individual episodes, they will present not only the behind-the-scenes of the gallery’s operation, collection expositions and ongoing exhibitions, but also the history of the institutions and current cultural topics. The pilot came out with the title We are also a gallery.
Popular educational podcast series The sound of art originated from the initiative National Gallery Prague in collaboration with the author team composed of the leading audio documentarians, creators and dramaturgs that they are Lumir Košar, British Jensen, George Slavicinský AND Martina Pouchlá. In twenty-minute episodes every month, it will follow current events in the NGP and its changing role over time. It will present not only the stories and contexts of works of art from the collection’s exhibitions, archival materials and personalities associated with its present and past, but also a number of museological professions.
Who in the gallery larger paintings and what do they think about them? What do the children do when they come to the exhibition and who stole the Picasso? How to tell a fake from an original work of art? How many kilometers does the custodian walk in one day? Listening will reveal all of this the new podcast of the National Gallery Prague.
In the opening episode, you will learn what the working day of a custodian, depository administrator and exhibitor looks like and what rituals they have. You will hear how you can enter the picture, how the exhibition is installed, what curators think about when browsing the exhibitions or what new things may seem to you when you manage a depository full of precious works of art.
The guarantors are Alice Němcová and Alena Kotyza from the NGP Audience Development department, who also collaborate with the dramaturgy of the entire series. The project was realized in cooperation with the studio Audionaut. The sound design was done by Aid Kid, a musician, producer and multimedia artist. Czech theater and film actress Ivana Uhlířová lent her voice to the podcast.