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“The great artists of tomorrow will go underground” − Marcel Duchamp

All exhibitions of contemporary art claim to present artwork that displays new trends or upcoming priorities; in other words, the future. To re-read the future does not mean to forecast; we do not seek to understand the future in the context of conventions, we do not seek to read the future in the way that author Erich von Da¨niken “foretells” the past. We seek to refute the notion that the future can be reliably anticipated. What we consider are contradictions and exceptionalities that art has so far excluded from its mode of thought because they run counter to its certainties.
We still think that Duchamp’s prophecy: “The great artists of tomorrow will go underground,” is an apt answer to the question of what the future of art is and who the artist of the future is, but with the proviso that “tomorrow has already passed”. For us, tomorrow is as relevant and irrelevant as today and yesterday.
New possibilities of communication and the study of disparate cultural entities re-pose Wittgenstein’s question of whether all the propositions of our discourses are the same, just as the majority of our notions become a repetition of the same. The mega media of digital communication change the theorem of Wittgenstein’s linguistic-critical analysis to an alarming reality. The growing manipulation of individual human existence brings us once again to an attempt to understand anew the need professed by Michel Foucault to advocate the rights of subjectivity.
The Triennale under preparation seeks to emphasize the human dimension of society and culture, the rights and responsibilities of their subjects, including a work of art. Art is entitled to enjoy the same rights as man − the right of being a bearer, as well as intermediary, of interpersonal relations, the right to age, the right to quit the realm of public interest, including the right to die.
We seek to help liberate man from a homogenous web of manipulative mega-forces. We look for the most natural possible expressions of the human dimension and the condition of culture. We see art not only as naturally reaching beyond its meaning but also as reaching − through its expressions − beyond the walls of the exhibition premises.
The Triennale will create a basis for activities impacting culture not only in its own venue, the National Gallery in Prague, but also throughout historic Prague and, with certain versions of some Triennale parts, in satellite cities such as Manchester, Sofia, Graz, Helsinki and Lisbon, which will be followed up by critical-educational undergraduate and graduate programs at academies and universities as well as symposia for artists, critics and art theorists.