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Aleš Zapletal Where does the shit go if there is no outside?

19/09 – 25/10, 2026

Aleš Zapletal is an artist living in Prague, Czech Republic. In recent years, from this Central European region, he has travelled to places where great rivers seemingly end their journey by meeting the sea — to river deltas. In these peculiar microcosms, however, the river loses its linear movement, just as the landscape loses its solidity, and the idea of an outside or of an ending recedes.

Aleš travels to these places to observe the landscape itself and to talk to local people, asking both the landscape and its inhabitants the central question of his project Cosmogram: What is the world?

After his recent journeys to the Nile and Mississippi deltas, Aleš began to make greater use of branching diagram structures in his painting and drawing, while also engaging more deeply with the idea of solipsism — the possibility that there is only consciousness and everything around it is its projection.

The question that has become the title of the exhibition connects this intuition with the wonder of observing water as it travels from its source through fields, cities and factories to the oceans, only to somehow return, mysteriously purified, to where it began.

Opening September 19, 2026

exhibition | work

colophon | ruimteCAESUUR

All works | Aleš Zapletal Photos opening | Barbora Jandáková Video opening | Barbora Jandáková Photos exhibition | Aleš Zapletal | hans overvliet Catalogue | hans overvliet Thanks to | all the artists and visitors Leni van den Berge / de Roofprintpers | postiljon d’amour the happy shareholders of CAESUUR the municipality of Middelburg

Since 1995, some hundred thirty plus exhibitions of contemporary art have been made in ruimteCAESUUR (spaceCAESUUR). From 1999 on at the Lange Noordstraat 67 in Middelburg.

Visual arts, in relation with the contemporary art discourse, are always the guiding principle for an exhibition, but a historical and social perspective also determine our choices. ruimteCAESUUR stands for the autonomy of art embedded in larger systems, and puts the artist’s oeuvre at the centre of organizing its (solo) exhibitions. Young, novice as well as "arrived" artists are offered a platform in order to present their work in a non-commercial environment.

Real meeting and learning from each other play important roles within our annual planning. ruimteCAESUUR is a private initiative, without any profit motive, with Willy van Houtum and visual artist Hans Overvliet as its core; they form the board of the CAESUUR foundation.

van Houtum and visual artist Hans Overvliet as its core; they form the board of the CAESUUR foundation. teamCAESUUR is more than completed by the artists Jorieke Rottier and Giel Louws.

The exhibitions also in 2026 will be organized as much as possible in cooperation with art initiatives from other countries such as Lípa Art Collection and Luxfer Open Space, both from the Czech Republic, Gallery Durden and Ray uit Los Angeles, U.S.A., Slipvillan from Sweden, Bloom Gallery in Valencia in Spain, etc. Exchange with Dutch artists ensures reciprocity in this process.

The unique composition of this team crosses borders of art practices, gender and generations.

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Aleš Zapletal Where does the shit go if there is no outside?

19/09 – 25/10, 2026