Kinke Kooi: Listening Body at the Trade Fair Palace of the National Gallery in Prague

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Published: 24 November 2025

Dutch artist Kinke Kooi is having her first solo show in Czechia, as an international guest for the Jindřich Chalupecký Award 2025 exhibition.

Kinke Kooi: Listening Body 26 September 2025 - 11 January, 2026 Trade Fair Palace of the National Gallery, Prague

Artistic career of the 64-year-old Dutch painter Kinke Kooi has spanned decades, but she has only recently gained significant international recognition. The works in Listening Body are exhibited in Czechia for the very first time, representing a selection from a body of work spanning four decades. By choosing Kooi as the foreign guest of 36th Jindrich Chalupecký Award, the curatorial team of the JChS is responding, among other things, to the abolition of the age limit within the Award. “Kinke Kooi’s drawings are visually opulent – it is both easy and beautiful to lose oneself in them. We hope visitors to our exhibition will be able to do just that, using the corners of the exhibition architecture and the artworks themselves to immerse themselves in contemplation of the complex web of human relationships and the importance of caring for one another,” says curator Veronika Čechová, who is curating