Curator: Lucie Černá

08-19 maja, BWA Warszawa Gallery 

Flats. Bars. Pubs. Clubs. Prague. Berlin. Tokyo. 1980s.

Libuše Jarcovjáková navigating with her camera through various spaces and cities. Different circumstances, atmosphere, and personal set up. Sometimes spotted, more often firing her flash from ambush. The exhibition will present one of Jarcovjáková's key point of view: recording life and joy across social classes or gender. 

Photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková (*1952) has been taking photographs since the 1970s, mapping her life and documenting her feelings through visually powerful photographs. For a long time, she documented the Roma and Vietnamese communities in Czechoslovakia, as well as the LGBTQ+ community. At the end of the 1970s, she went on her first creative stay in Japan, where she returned twice more in 1980s. After 1985 she managed to marry to West Berlin to escape the grayness and unfreedom of communist Czechoslovakia. In 1992 she returned to Prague where she lives today.

“Parties” is the first solo exhibition of Libuše Jarcovjáková in Poland. Along the exhibition there will be the premiere of her new book T-Club (Untitled publishing, 2024), which provides a unique insight into wild underground life of the legendary LGBTQ+ bar in Prague in 1980s. 

Libuše Jarcovjáková is the protagonist of the film “I’m not Everything I Want to Be” which screens in the Main Competition at the Millennium Docs Against Gravity film festival.

Curator: Lucie Černá

08-19 maja, BWA Warszawa Gallery 

Flats. Bars. Pubs. Clubs. Prague. Berlin. Tokyo. 1980s.

Libuše Jarcovjáková navigating with her camera through various spaces and cities. Different circumstances, atmosphere, and personal set up. Sometimes spotted, more often firing her flash from ambush. The exhibition will present one of Jarcovjáková's key point of view: recording life and joy across social classes or gender. 

Photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková (*1952) has been taking photographs since the 1970s, mapping her life and documenting her feelings through visually powerful photographs. For a long time, she documented the Roma and Vietnamese communities in Czechoslovakia, as well as the LGBTQ+ community. At the end of the 1970s, she went on her first creative stay in Japan, where she returned twice more in 1980s. After 1985 she managed to marry to West Berlin to escape the grayness and unfreedom of communist Czechoslovakia. In 1992 she returned to Prague where she lives today.

“Parties” is the first solo exhibition of Libuše Jarcovjáková in Poland. Along the exhibition there will be the premiere of her new book T-Club (Untitled publishing, 2024), which provides a unique insight into wild underground life of the legendary LGBTQ+ bar in Prague in 1980s. 

Libuše Jarcovjáková is the protagonist of the film “I’m not Everything I Want to Be” which screens in the Main Competition at the Millennium Docs Against Gravity film festival.