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Outdoor exhibition to commemorate Václav Havel

31.12.2021 / 11:00 | Aktualizováno: 07.02.2022 / 14:47

On the anniversary of the birth and passing of former Czech president Václav Havel (5 October 1936 - 18 December 2011), the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Copenhagen prepared an outdoor exhibition to commemorate this great Czech statesman. The exhibition was installed in front of the Czech Embassy (Ryvangs Allé 14, Copenhagen) from the end of October until the end of December 2021. 


The exhibition was a part of a Czech Centres’ activity called #GrowOurHumanity. The activity takes place worldwide (at main capitals) and wishes to bring humanistic inspiration to the public space. 

Partners of the exhibition in Copenhagen:  vize.cz / vaclavhavel.cz / czechcentres.cz 

Václav Havel's photograph: Oldřich Škácha / Visual style: Eliška Karešová, Miroslav Kraus

 

Who is VÁCLAV HAVEL (5 October 1936 - 18 December 2011)

  1. Czech statesman, writer, humanist, absurd drama playwright and former dissident.  

  2. One of the most important figures in modern history of the Czech Republic.

  3. The first democratically elected president of the Czech Republic.

  4. Key figure of the non violent, so-called "Velvet Revolution", which caused the fall of the Communist Regime in former Czechoslovakia. 

  5. His words: "Truth and love must triumph over lies and hatred" have become a symbol of revolutionary democratic change.

  6. Laureate of Sonning (1991) and Karen Blixen (1997) Danish Prize.

Václav Havel (5 October 1936 – 18 December 2011) was a Czech political leader, playwright, and a former dissident who served as the last President of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1992 and then as the first President of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003. He was the first democratically elected president of our country after the fall of the communist regime. As a writer, he is known for his theatre plays, essays and memoirs.

Václav Havel was chosen not only because of his birthday and decease anniversary, but also in relation to his relationship with Denmark. In 1991 Václav Havel met Her Majesty the Queen Margrethe II and was awarded the Sonning prize by the University of Copenhagen in 1997 and he also received  the Karen Blixen Medal. 

Do you want to read more Václav Havel's and other famous Czech humanists' quotations? You can find them here.

 

Václav Havel on DR (in Danish)

Digteren og moralisten der blev præsident