Radka Bodzewicz: FAUST

Among the paintings lie Radka Bodzewicz's working notebooks and her own copy of Goethe's Faust, underlined and annotated in detail. It's more heavily marked up than any book on your maturita list ever was.

You climb it floor by floor, one character per floor, each read as a Jungian force: Mephistopheles the Shadow, Gretchen the Anima, Faust the Seeker. The curator, Michaela Šilpochová, says the three also make up one psyche, your own. The 20 large canvases and five objects, all from 2025 and 2026, don't illustrate the plot.

Bodzewicz usually works with VR, holograms and 3D printing. Here she pushed nearly all of it aside for paint, and Respekt made it exhibition of the week under the headline "Without a phone in hand, and with more intensity". A 360 CZK ticket covers every DOX show, Tuesday to Sunday, 11:00 to 19:00, until 8 November. On 15 October at 17:30 the artist and curator lead a tour (250 CZK), followed by the free catalogue launch at 19:00.