More than a thousand artists took part in the Postcards for Palestine charity sales exhibition, which raised money for humanitarian organizations helping Palestinians. The event was initiated by British artist Peter Watkins. People could buy works the size of a classic postcard this Tuesday in Prague’s Berlínská model gallery. Now the London part of the project will follow.
The organizers of the Prague part finally collected over 70,000 crowns. Watkins stated this in a statement mediated by Lenka Bakešová from the Sharp Objects studio.
Signed postcards for Palestine, as the name can be translated action, could be bought for 500 crowns or 20 euros. Works were provided by Thomas Hirschhorn, Adam Broomberg and Tom Hunter, Czech authors Zbyněk Baladrán, Valentýna Janů, Hynek Alt, Jakub Jansa, Radek Brousil, Lucie Sceranková and Tereza Zelenková joined. The organizers always revealed the specific creator of the individual works to the buyer when the postcard was purchased.
The Berlínská model gallery is run by the artists Richard Bakeš and Lenka Bakešová. | Photo: Berlin model
The organizers donate the proceeds to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, a non-profit organization founded in 1991, and the United Nations Office for Palestine Refugees in the Middle East. In Prague, the postcards could be purchased this Tuesday, from Thursday to Saturday the works will now be exhibited in the London bookstore Claire de Rouen Books.
Galerie Berlínská model has existed in Holešovice since 2011. It works on the concept of short-term exhibitions, which alternate several times a month in quick succession, and some last only a day. The gallery has so far organized over three hundred of them. It represents local and foreign artists, participates in international shows and provides space for progressive ideas, especially contemporary work with an overlap into politics, ecology or other socially engaged directions.
The Palestinian Gaza Strip is facing an Israeli offensive after Hamas militants attacked southern Israel on October 7, killing more than 1,200 people, according to Israeli officials. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, controlled by the Hamas movement, almost 18 thousand people have lost their lives since the beginning of the Israeli military operation. The number cannot be independently verified.
