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Sculpture Park and Contemporary Art at Bechyně Castle 2026

The exhibition brings together contemporary artists from several generations and diverse artistic backgrounds. Their works interact with the historic setting of Bechyně Castle, its sculpture park with aviaries, and the late Gothic granary, responding to the site’s unique genius loci. Through installations, spatial interventions, and conceptual works, the artists engage with architecture, landscape, and history.

Intermodal Morphology, 2016. Roland Emile Kuit. Source: České noviny. Picture: ČTK IB/Pancer Václav

For the exhibition Relational Fields, participating artists have selected works from the Stava Family Collection to accompany their own contributions. Their choices reflect artistic influences, personal affinities, stylistic predecessors, and works that resonate with their practice. In this way, the exhibition creates a multi-generational dialogue between contemporary artistic approaches and key works of 20th-century art.

The exhibition is conceived as a dialogue across traditions, generations, environments, and perspectives. It links contemporary artistic practice with historical architecture, nature, and the legacy of modern art, revealing connections that extend across time and artistic lineages while remaining deeply rooted in the specific context of Bechyně Castle.

The Zamek Bechyne Sculpture Park will be the first to feature this special sonic installation:
INTERMODAL MORPHOLOGY, 2026 Sonic installation, 60 wooden poles from the Bechyně Estate forest 5000 × 1400 cm,
QR-code audio. 

In the wooden dome of the late Gothic granary, the site-specific MASS sonic installation. A 10.000 table tennis balls installation with immersive live video and quadraphonic sound projections in blacklight.

Artists
Invited Artists
Nives Widauer (1965), Roland E. Kuit (1959),

Galerie Konrad Fischer (Düsseldorf / Berlin)
Alice Channer (1977), Daniel Buren (1938), Candida Höfer (1944), Zon Ito (1971), Harald Klingenhöller (1954). Sol LeWitt (1928–2007), Thomas Schütte (1954), Yuji Takeoka (1946), Paloma Varga Weisz (1966)

Etcetera Collection
Dalibor Chatrný (1927–2013), Milena Dopitová (1963), Margita Titlová Ylovsky (1957). Tomáš Ruller (1957)

Through this layered curatorial approach, the exhibition creates a dialogue between artistic generations, historical periods, and environments within the distinctive setting of Bechyně Castle.
Relational Fields – Vztahová pole

Zámek Bechyně, CZ. 29.05.2026 - 13.09.2026

Press links: Novinky CZ, ČTK CZ, Design Cabinet CZ,  České noviny CZ, Donemus NL, Mozaika CZ

A study of the spatial complexity. In addition to the spatial stacking of frequencies, their movement also plays a role. Sometimes the sound is a static distribution. At other times sonically as a pseudo-chaotic movement, in which a loudspeaker box can serve as an autonomous sound object, or as an integral part of the whole. The listener can take a seat or move through the room, constantly receiving different reflective angles of incidence on the ear.

It is a cycle for interpreting our increasingly complex world of information. Many facets are emphasized: Collisions, dialogues, interplay, patterns, propagation, fusion….
Sometimes the noise is even detached, spread out in pulses on the twelve-metre-wide horizontal panorama. Each pulse shifts in space as an audio object. This installation is one of the results of Roland Kuit's research into the phenomenon of noise with Symbolic Sound's Kyma system over the past 5 years. More about this award and the Matthijs Vermeulen Award 2025 at the end of May.

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Tonight you can listen to the Monumentum project of Dutch composer and sonic artist Roland Emile Kuit. Monumentum is a fourty piece suite in memory of all victims who have died as a result of epidemics worldwide.

The radio premiere was at the Fondazione Accademia Musicale Chingiana on RADIOARTE ITALIA during the VI Chigiana International Festival & Summer Academy Siena Italia. Broadcasted in full across 36 countries simultaneously on September 1/2/3 2020 in Beyond the Silence.
Produced by Kees van de Wiel
Concertzender

Massa (Mass)
Where six thousand table tennis balls form a social media landscape and emit pulse sounds as mass communication. From taps to noise-like sounds. They complete courses in the terrain covered with balls.

Reflecties met tekstloos papier
(Reflections with textless paper)
Does the expressiveness of paper disappear if people no longer read? A question to which Roland Kuit answers in this installation of paper in which crumpling, tearing, folding, cramming and shredding reflects through the space like language.

Nonversatie (Nonversation)
Two video screens, each with an alphabetical circle. The circles are traversed with so-called Brownian Walks. This is a way to randomly go through the letters. The letters are named on one side by Roland Kuit and on the other side by artist Karin Schomaker. In these circles the trajectories of randomness can be followed. It is a process of discovering coincidental synchronicity. There lies the meaning found.

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