“Nový svět” Kamila Fuchse

Intervention in the permanent exhibition On New Brno. Brno Architecture 1919–1939
Curators: Jindřich Chatrný, Filip Kyrc, Lucie Valdhansová

The year 2025 marks the 130th anniversary of the birth of Bohuslav Fuchs (1895–1972), one of the renowned creators – founders of functionalist architecture in our country, for the Moravian metropolis. It is also the year that marks 30 years since the death of his son Kamil Fuchs (1930–1995), a significant architect of the second half of the 20th century, acclaimed especially for his designs of heritage reconstructions and interiors.
Kamil Fuchs's "New World" symbolically continues the previous exhibition intervention New World of Bohuslav Fuchs and Rudolf Sandal. The next exhibition "layer," entering the permanent exhibition On New Brno. Brno Architecture 1919–1939, presents four chapters from the work of Kamil Fuchs. The collaboration between the father and son Fuchs focuses on joint competitions and projects. Kamil Fuchs's architectural contribution to the buildings of Bohuslav Fuchs presents an interesting moment when the son reacted to his father's modernist works by creating new interiors for them. The third chapter is Caring for the Legacy of the father, for whom Kamil Fuchs designed a tombstone and a memorial plaque. The last chapter, presented at Špilberk Castle and completely unknown to the public from the work of Kamil Fuchs, is his own free Artistic Work, exclusively lent for this occasion.
The second part of the presentation of the project “New World” of Kamil Fuchs takes place in the Tugendhat Villa and bears the subtitle Restoration of Kamil Fuchs. The exhibition presents this most acclaimed part of the architect's work through examples of the restoration of Brno heritage sites, which he carried out with his team from Atelier 20 within the State Institute for the Reconstruction of Heritage Cities and Objects (SÚRPMO), Brno branch. The exhibition Restoration of Kamil Fuchs in the Tugendhat Villa will run until 12 October 2025.