Main exhibition
19. 9. 2025 - 17. 11. 2025
Czech photographer Tereza of Davle celebrates her 50th birthday with an exhibition of her fifty most significant photographs. The artist, who is exclusively focused on classic feminine beauty captured through analog techniques using only natural daylight, still enlarges all her prints by hand in the darkroom. The exhibition offers a retrospective view of her work.
Dear Tereza!
Your ask to pen a few sentences for the occasion of your exhibition made me happy. I only hope the happiness will go both ways. You told me you’d welcome words which don’t reek of kunsthistorical and curatorial routine. As a painter, I can relate in a way. I’ve experienced, along with many of my colleagues, the words of deathly serious and universally lauded art theorists. All the academic jargon and language wouldn’t feel out of place in a catalogue or someone else’s exhibition, so many pontifications about form and substance… Since this wasn’t your wish, I’ll pen your ask differently.
Should I start with form or substance? But it’s form that’s the substance of your work – I mean the form given to a woman at the expense of one male rib. Well, I thought of Adam, but really, it’s about Eve, about the many Eves born without a surgical intervention before your lens, or “objektiv” as we’d say in Czech. In your case, perhaps we should say “subjektiv”; your images are so personal, distinctive, so original and so “Teresa-esque”. The hint of decadence being rousing but never vulgar. Your photographs are beautiful, Teresa! I think being unafraid of beauty is bold in today’s age. And bold you are!
Jiří Suchý once sang “you are the most beautiful landscape I know”. I think of these lyrics often when I see your photographs, in which you again found the most beautiful aspect of a woman lucky enough to be your model.
Thank you, Tereza, for seeing and being able to capture so many of the most beautiful landscapes I know.
Martin
(CV) Tereza z Davle was born on July 26, 1975, in Hořice. She spent her childhood and took her first steps in photography in Davle near Prague, and today she lives in Český Krumlov. She has been dedicated to photography since 1996 and is entirely self-taught. She learns from books, from her fellow photographers, and above all through her own work. Perfect technique is neither her goal nor her means of expression. On the contrary, she finds greater charm in imperfection and in the possibility of capturing an authentic atmosphere.She focuses on figurative work, mainly black-and-white portraits and nudes. She works in traditional photography, using Pentax 6×7 and Canon cameras, and develops her own prints.
Selection of Exhibitions:
2025 FIFTY – FIFTY, Leica Gallery Prague, Prague
2023 Klientky (Clients), Czech Photo Centre, Prague
2024 Chladné formy (Cold Forms), Muzeoleum, Prague
2023 Klientky (Clients), Czech Photo Centre, Prague
2021 Neue Mädchen (New Girls), G4, Cheb
2020 G1, České Budějovice
2020 Dvě v jednom (Two in One), Strakonice Castle (Maltese Hall), Strakonice
2019 Dusík Museum, Čáslav
2018 Gluteus Maximus, Kamzík, Prague
2018 Grandhotel, Prácheň Museum, Písek
2017 Neue Mädchen (New Girls), Aleš South Bohemian Gallery, Hluboká nad Vltavou
2016 ART in Box (group exhibition), Prague
2015 Portmoneum, Litomyšl
2013 Grandhotel, Uffo Gallery, Trutnov
2013 Gallery of Sculpture, Hořice
2011 Grandhotel, Leica Gallery Prague, Prague
2010 Gallery of One Thing, Prague
2009 Mlejn Gallery, Ostrava
2008 Anabella, Lapidárium Gallery, Prague
2008 Smart Gallery, Prague
2005 Czech Embassy, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2005 Asunción, Yacht & Golf Club, Paraguay
2004 Solidní Nejistota (Solid Uncertainty), Prague
2004 Municipal Library, Most
2003 Novoměstský hrnec smíchu (Film Festival, Pot of Laughter), Nové Město nad Metují
2001 Zuzanka, Zlatý klíč Gallery (Golden Key Gallery), Karlovy Vary
2001 Solidní Nejistota (Solid Uncertainty), Prague
2000 Club EX, Jablonec nad Nisou
2000 Tea House U Božího mlýna (At God’s Mill), Prague
1999 Kamzík Gallery, Prague
1999 Solidní Nejistota (Solid Uncertainty), Prague
1998 Kamzík Gallery, Prague
1997 Kamzík Gallery, Prague
1997 Club EX, Jablonec nad Nisou
1996 Kamzík Gallery, Prague
(CV) Martin Němec is a musician, painter, and writer. Born on June 16, 1957, in Prague, where he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts (AVU). Bandleader and sole author of the music and lyrics of the rock groups Precedens and Lili Marlene. He has recorded dozens of albums and composed music for many films and theatre productions, receiving numerous prestigious awards. He has written screenplays for two films and three books of short stories. In 2025, Precedens released another of Němec’s authorial albums, Odstíny černé (Shades of Black). In recent years, he has given numerous concerts and held a series of painting exhibitions across the Czech Republic.
