Date: 20.11.2025
Beginning: 18:00

 

We cordially invite you to a guided tour / artist talk with artist Oskar Helcel and his exhibition Golden Delicious at etc. gallery.

We look forward to seeing you on , at etc. gallery – Sarajevská 68/16.

Oskar Helcel’s solo exhibition imagines the lineage of the Golden Delicious apple and its market introduction as an allegory of the American Dream. Through the history of cultivation, it reveals how the original story of abundance turns into a critique of contemporary notions of ownership and public space. At its center stands the codling moth larva – an ironic narrator living inside the apple and waiting for its moment. Its grotesque yet unsettling narration unfolds a parable about the spread of capitalist and ultra far-right ideologies that infiltrate everyday reality as well as the very structure of urban space. The exhibition examines how global ideals and disinformation narratives transform when confronted with the local scale, and what remains once the story of abundance begins to decay.

Curated by: Nela Klajbanová
Exhibition design: Sofie Gjuričová
Production: Sára Märc, Tereza Vinklárková
Graphic Design: Nela Klímová
Technical support and installation: Jiří Kaňák, Samuel Stano, Max Máslo
Subtitle translation and proofreading: Nikola Bečanová, Andrew Wilson
Subtitle timing: Zbyněk Grepl
Acknowledgement: Jakub Hons, Adam Kratochvíl, Eliška Raiterová, Společnost Jindřicha Chalupeckého, GAMU, GAVU

Financial support: Magistrát hlavního města Prahy, MKČR, SFK