What does a world look like in which nature and technology cease to be opposites and begin to function as a single, interdependent organism? Anna Hulačová — one of the most important contemporary Czech sculptors — answers this question in her latest exhibition, ‘The Land of Plenty’, on display at the Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko.
The artist creates elaborate sculptural environments in which figurative forms become a tool for analysing the relationship between humans, nature and contemporary production systems. Within the space of the Oranżeria Gallery, Hulačová constructs a reality marked by the intensive exploitation of the environment, the decline of biodiversity and the intermingling of the organic and the technological.
The starting point for the exhibition is the landscape of Central and Eastern Europe — an area undergoing profound changes resulting from the industrialisation of agriculture and the logic of relentless efficiency. The motifs of endangered species, transformed plants and hybrid organisms present in the works reveal processes that remain invisible in everyday life: the gradual disappearance of natural ecosystems, the subjugation of the environment to the mechanisms of production, and the hidden costs of excess and consumption.
In her latest works, Hulačová examines the contemporary model of food production as a system based on interdependencies and tensions, balancing between control and loss. Familiar elements of the agricultural landscape are transformed into evocative, sometimes unsettling forms, in which ancient conceptions of the life cycle meet futuristic machines that intensify production.
“Land of Plenty” is not only a story about the ecological crisis, but also a reflection on the contemporary experience of living in a world of interconnections — a world in which humans increasingly find themselves merely a part of a larger system.
Anna Hulačová’s work has been exhibited for years at Europe’s leading contemporary art institutions. Her distinctive visual language combines sculpture, narrative and references to folklore, agriculture and the socio-ecological transformations of the present day. The exhibition in Orońsko marks the first such comprehensive presentation of the artist’s latest works in Poland.
ANNA HULAČOVÁ
Exhibition: “LAND OF ABUNDANCE”
16 May – 5 July 2026
Oranżeria Gallery,
Curator: Stanisław Małecki
photo: HAWA
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