KodlContemporary

Take a look at how contemporary art can connect and communicate with the art and ideas of the 20th century.

Timeline is inspired by František Kupka’s illustrations for L’Homme et la Terre (Man and Earth) by Élisée Reclus (1905), which traced the history of humanity through its interactions with nature.

Today, as climate change makes us more aware of the Anthropocene, Reclus’s ideas and Kupka’s illustrations feel more relevant than ever. Timeline brings together 14 international artists alongside Kupka’s drawings and explores four main themes: the idea of a connected world, deep time and natural cycles, the desire to understand complex systems and data, and a renewed interest in animism inspired by 19th-century symbolism.

If you would like to learn more about Kupka’s work and his collaboration with Reclus, you can also watch a video by art historian Markéta Theinhardt, who specializes in Kupka’s art.

The video is available on the website KodlContemporary

Jura Shust - Timeline

Außerkörperliche Erfahrung: Wandering Spirit

Jura Shust is a Belarusian artist based in Berlin. In his work, he combines installation, video, sound, and performance to create immersive environments that viewers can physically enter and experience. He explores rituals and symbols, from religious traditions to contemporary digital structures, merging ancient mythologies with technology and internet aesthetics. In his recent projects, he works with the motif of a “wandering entity” moving between nature and technology, perceiving trees as living archives and cemeteries as databases of memory.

Timeline on view until 7.6.

courtesy of Jura Shust and Management, New York Suzanne Treister

Martin Janecký is currently exhibiting in Venice. His exhibition Dreamers is on view at Palazzo Franchetti until November 22, 2026.

photograph : Francesco Allegretto
courtesy Berengo Studio and Fondazione Berengo

As part of a new article by Financial Times, the exhibition at the Czech and Slovak Pavilion for the 61st Venice Biennale was highlighted. Among the featured artists is Jakub Jansa, whom we proudly represent and who is one of the authors of The Silence of the Mole in the Czechoslovakian pavilion. The project was created in collaboration with the Slovak artistic duo Selmeci Kocka Jusko (Alex Selmeci and Tomáš Kocka Jusko) and curated by Peter Sit.

9 May – 22 November 2026

Marguerite Humeau in the Timeline exhibition

At the current exhibition Timeline, Collective Effervescence (2023) by renowned French multidisciplinary artist is a work not to be missed.

The work was originally presented within Meys, an exhibition inspired by eusocial insects and their collective intelligence. Referencing the concept of “collective effervescence” developed by French sociologist Émile Durkheim, Humeau uses artificial intelligence to imagine ritual behaviours among termite societies, exploring collective action as a shared principle across biological, technological, and social systems.

Marguerite Humeau has been nominated for the 2026 Turner Prize for her exhibition Torches, which opened at ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art in May 2025. Humeau’s work will be presented at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA) in autumn 2026 as part of the Turner Prize exhibition.

We would like to extend our congratulations to the artist, and we warmly invite you to come and experience her work in person.

Timeline - on view until 7.6

© Marguerite Humeau, the artist generated this image in part with DALL-E, OpenAI’s image-generation model, original sound by Bendik Giske

Our Artists at the Venice Biennale 2026

Jakub Jansa – The Silence of the Mole

Czech and Slovak Pavilion, Venice

We are pleased to announce that Jakub Jansa, represented by KodlContemporary, is participating in this year’s Venice Art Biennale. Together with the Slovak artistic duo Selmeci Kocka Jusko (Alex Selmeci and Tomáš Kocka Jusko), he presents the contemporary Czech and Slovak art scene in the national pavilion.

Curated by Peter Sit , the project forms a cohesive whole that reaches beyond the Central European context

9 May - 22 November 2026