Solo exhibition · Galerie Mánes · Prague

Anima
Mundi

20 October—12 November 2026

Curated by Anna Kodl, Ph.D.

Anima Mundi paintings extending through the skylit gallery at Mánes

The exhibition

Presented in the modernist spaces of Galerie Mánes, Anima Mundi brings Maxim Havlíček’s calligraphic fields into direct conversation with architecture, distance and changing light.

The exhibition begins with the recognition that every order is provisional and every form holds only for a moment before it starts moving again. Across linen, cotton, satin, polyester and found fabrics, one line responds to what is already present. Layers accumulate without settling around a fixed centre; the paintings become fragments of a field that appears capable of continuing beyond their edges.

PETROF Gemini surrounded by Anima Mundi paintings in the main hall at Galerie Mánes
PETROF Gemini in the central hall · Galerie Mánes, Prague

Installation views

Painting,
architecture,
distance.

Five Anima Mundi paintings installed on a white gallery wall
01Palimpsests and related works
A single gold and black Anima Mundi painting installed at Galerie Mánes
02A single work in the north gallery
A long wall of Anima Mundi paintings inside Galerie Mánes
03Installation view across the main hall
Visitors viewing Anima Mundi during the opening at Galerie Mánes
04Opening night, 20 October 2026
The exterior of Galerie Mánes during the Anima Mundi exhibition
Galerie Mánes · Masarykovo nábřeží, Prague

Galerie Mánes

One of Prague’s defining modernist exhibition spaces, Mánes gives the series a scale at which individual marks become architecture: repeated, dispersed and held together across the room.

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Opening night

A living
field.

The exhibition opened to a full gallery on 20 October 2026, bringing together collectors, artists, friends and visitors encountering the work for the first time.

Visitors gathered for the opening of Anima Mundi at Galerie Mánes
Entrance to Anima Mundi at Galerie Mánes with the exhibition wall text

ANIMA MUNDI
Galerie Mánes, Prague
20 October—12 November 2026