The National Gallery Prague presents a new podcast: The Sound of Art
New podcast series National Gallery Prague The sound of art will reveal not only the stories of the artworks and artists, but also how the exhibition is prepared, who takes care of the largest art collections in the Czech Republic and how many kilometers the curator walks in one day. In the individual episodes, not only the behind-the-scenes of the gallery’s operation, its collection exposition and ongoing exhibitions, but also the history of the institution and current cultural topics are presented.
Popular educational 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 Košař, Brit Jensen, Jiří Slavičínský and Martina Pouchlá. In twenty-minute episodes every month, he will watch the current events in 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.
They are the guarantors of the podcast Alice Germancurator of the Collection of 19th Century and Classical Modern Art and Alena Kotyza from the NGP Publications Development department, who also collaborate with the dramaturgy of the entire series. The project was realized in cooperation with the studio Audionaut. He handled the sound design Aid Kid, musician, producer and multimedia artist. He took care of the production Peter Michal and a Czech theater and film actress lent her voice to the podcast Ivana Uhlířová.
The opening episode We are also a gallery present portraits of three people who work at NGP. Those who do not usually represent it are not talked about, but they are absolutely necessary for the functioning of the gallery. You will learn what the working day of a custodian, depository administrator and exhibitor looks like, what their job entails and what rituals they have. You will find out what their favorite work in the gallery is, how they relate to visual arts and why they started working at the National Gallery Prague in the first place.
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.
Tune in The sound of art now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or Google Podcasts.
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