JOSEF KOUDELKA RUINS

Exhibition curators: Tomáš Pospěch
Exhibition design: Jan Roháč
Graphic design: Aleš Najbrt

The photographs of Josef Koudelka’s latest series were made over many years, from 1991 to 2017, at more than 200 archaeological sites in the Mediterranean, including Albania, Algeria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, and Turkey. Some photographs from the Ruins series have already been shown at the Returning exhibition, the vast retrospective held in 2017 at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague. To accompany the current exhibition, a Czech-English volume is being published with articles by the Czech art historian Tomáš Pospěch and the French archaeologist Alain Schnapp. The volume contains 40 pictures, which is a narrow selection identical with the large panoramic photographs shown at the exhibition. The photographs from the Ruins project are part of the generous gift of roughly 2,500 photographs of his life’s work, which Mr Koudelka has presented to the Museum over the past few years.