Tereza Bartůňková is freelancing visual artist based in Prague and her talk will focus on her ongoing artistic development, which is constantly shifting in between various media and their crossovers.
Šárka Zahálková has a long-standing interest in art as a tool of social change and art in public space. In her talk, she will introduce her aim how to approach and work with different issues of public spaces. She will talk about public art festivals and interventions not as isolated events, but moments of wider participative gestures.
The aim of this presentation is to outline the main motives of current narratives that predict the decline of art and visual culture resulting from the development of artificial intelligence.
As the Founder and Creative Director of MAYstudio, Štěpánka Pivcová specialises in designing fashion that celebrates women. With a focus on elegance, she has taught Czech women how to wear luxurious cashmere coats and crafted iconic inauguration outfits.
For her latest project, she has designed formal attire for members of the Czech Sokol community.
Adéla Součková's work draws on the disconnection between folklorized traditions and the lived reality in post-enlightenment European cultures. She attempts to de-colonize the thought system gained through her upbringing and education in Central Europe. She aims to revisit the relationship to landscape, often by working with traditional materials and bringing focus to natural processes. Driven...
For the first Visiting Artist & Lecture Series we will host Irina Gheorghe. Irina Gheorghe’s work addresses themes such as absence, displacement and disappearance while reflecting on the relationship between ephemeral artistic media and entities or spaces inaccessible to observation.
Sarah Boris is an artist and designer who's practice encompasses book making, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, painting and design. She started out working as graphic designer for some of the biggest cultural institutions before setting up her own studio to focus on her art practice.
Vjera Borozan is an art historian, educator and curator. She worked with the internet platform for contemporary art Artyčok TV, the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Brno University of Technology, the Academy of Arts and Crafts in Prague, the National Museum in Montenegro and the contemporary art initiative tranzit.cz.
Speaking at Prague City University, Christian will share two perspectives on the climate catastrophe.
One, from the vantage point of a graphic novelist, where he explores early post-apocalyptic literature, and considers its potential to expand our visual vocabulary around climate collapse.
Patrick Thomas is a graphic artist, author and educator. He studied at Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art
in London before relocating to Barcelona in 1991. He currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He will talk about his decision to concentrate on projects that take place in public spaces.