26. 9. – 1. 11. 2024 (opening: Wednesday September 25th 2024 at 6 pm)
Alžběta Krňanská
curated by: Caroline Krzyszton
graphic design: Pavla Zábranská
The exhibition explores the perceptions of female identity through the stereotypical lense of luxury products/ cars. And the role of technology in reproducing this point of view.
💅Opening: 25. 9. 2024 18:00
💅Graphic design: Pavla Zábranská
💅PR: Lála Mysl
💅open: thu–sun 1–7pm
⭐️GAMU’s exhibition program take place with the support of the Czech Ministry of Culture and Prague city Hall. Medial partners are Artalk, Artmap and jlbjlt.
8. 8. – 15. 9. 2024 (opening: Wednesday 7th of August 2024 at 6 pm)
Polina Khatsenka, Michal Mitro, Lucie Páchová, Jiří Suchánek, Michal Klodner, Martyna Poznańska, Nikola Brabcová a Karin Šrubařová, Olga Karlíková
curated by: Alexandra Cihanská Machová
graphic design: Pavla Nečásková
First we liberate ourselves from an anthropocentrical definition of sound as a vibration, that is hearable by a human ear, and we admit, that each vibration can possibly be heard by someone, or something. Then it doesn’t matter, whether we perceive the world as an energy – will for an action, or as a string, we always find ourselves in the universe of vibrations, the world made of sound. Sun does not turn around the Earth, the Earth does not turn around the humans, hierarchy is broken up and suddenly everything is equally important. We are looking for the way to go on, out of the catastrophes and traps, into which we got ourselves, we are looking for the true role, position in the ecosystem, if there still is one, the way it was and the way it necessarily changes. We are looking for the ways, how to change our role of humanity as a disease, as a parasite, to a valuable part of the whole, to connect, to integrate, to get in touch, to contact. To listen means an opportunity and possibility to understand, to accept. One must not only listen through the ears. Sound permeates the matter of our bodies, it interferes with their energy, their vibration, their sound. Waves are intertwined and it’s not possible to distinguish the borders, where one thing ends and the other thing begins, everything mingles, shades into each other. We are part of our surrounding, of our environment, our environment passes through us. Sound and transmedial artists discover in their works way of listening, which are not limited by a human ear. Listening of the communication of animals, plants, interspecies, communication of ecospheres.
The exhibition is part of the Take Care Festival(festivaltakecare.cz)and Prague Art Week(pragueartweek.cz) and is accompanied by a series of artist talks and lectures/discussions:
👂1.9. at 4pm____Blind soundwalk with Lucia Páchová
👂1.9. at 6 pm____Deaf soundwalk with Polina Khatsenko
Both Lucie Páchová and Polina Khatsenko are sound artists who both focus on listening, specifically listening to the landscape and environment, with slightly different perspectives. Each of them will lead a walk around the gallery, which is focused on the perception of sound in the environment and its meaning, each with a different limitation and therefore from a different perspective. The walks are followed by a debate over the small refreshment, where we will share impressions from both walks.
👂6.9. at 6 pm____Concert&Artist talk: Jiří Suchánek, Michal Mitro
Jiří Suchánek and Michal Mitro will play a live performance – a concert in their installations Soil choir and Egde of chaos. The concert is followed by a debate with the artists about their work.
👂Opening: st 7.8. 2024 v 18.00
👂Technical support: Ondřej Konrád
👂PR: Lála Mysl
👂open: čt–ne 13–19h/thu–sun 1–7pm
⭐️GAMU’s exhibition program take place with the support of the Municipality of the City of Prague. Medial partners are Artalk, Artmap and jlbjlt.
27.6. – 7. 7. 2024 (opening: Wednesday June 26 2024 at 6 pm)
Karolína Hnětkovská, Jáchym Ozuna, Lála Mysl
graphic design: Žofia Fodorová, Šimon Vlasák
The final graduation exhibition of the students of the Centre for Audiovisual Studies. The playground as a place to learn important life experiences – to get dirty, to get up after a fall, to deal with boredom, to rewrite the rules. In the game, losing is not a loss; it gives us the opportunity to start again and differently. The three works relate in different ways to playground spaces, their architecture/artistic possibilities/values, their social role and educational potential, or to the principles of their rules and the freedoms they define for us.
⭐️GAMU’s exhibition program take place with the support of the Czech Ministry of Culture and Prague city Hall. Medial partners are Artalk, Artmap and jlbjlt.
19.6.2024 – 23.6.2024 (opening: Tuesday June 18 2024 6 pm)
Max Čuhel, Benjamin Bílek, Eri Pelikánů, Tereza Muric, Alena Kolesnikova, Yana Kadurina, Erik Humlíček
graphic design: Šimon Vlasák
Annual exhibition of students of the FAMU Center for Audiovisual Studies. Presentation of students will take place in two parallel places – in GAMU and INI Gallery.
⭐️GAMU’s exhibition program take place with the support of the Czech Ministry of Culture and Prague city Hall. Medial partners are Artalk, Artmap and jlbjlt.
5.6.2023 - 14.6.2023 (opening: Wednesday 5. června 2024 at 6 pm)
A group exhibition of the Intermedia Studio at FAMU in Prague, thematizing alternative work with the gallery space itself, which is transformed into a platform capable of uniting individual works into a unified whole.
During the opening will take part a music performance by following artists:
GAMU’s exhibition program take place with the support of the Czech Ministry of Culture and Prague city Hall. Medial partners are Artalk, Artmap and jlbjlt.
Open call AMU Gallery for 2025 The projects can be registered electronically until the 31st of May, 2024 at veronika.danhelova@famu.cz
AMU Gallery hereby announces an open call for exhibition projects to complement the gallery’s program for 2025. The call is intended for both Czech and foreign artists and curators; applications may be sent both in Czech and in English. Due to the wide spectrum of subjects taught at AMU (The Academy of Performing Arts in Prague) we prefer thematic, curatorial exhibition projects with interdisciplinary overlap, or exhibitions based around artistic research (especially in the field of photography and new media). The duration of exhibitions in GAMU span from four to six weeks.
📌Required application materials:
• a detailed description of the project, including visual documentation which takes into account the gallery’s spatial dimensions (max. three standard pages of text)
• a structured CV/bio of the applicant
• brief CVs/bios of the exhibited artists, including a showcase of their work/links
to online portfolio
• the exhibition’s budget with proposed additional sources of funding
📌The AMU Gallery provides:
• oversight at the exhibition
• technical support
• graphic processing and printing of accompanying materials (invitations,
posters, banners)
• basic PR (press release, announcement of the exhibition on the website and fcb, advertisement in the printed Artmap, newsletter, TZ on Artalk)
• production costs up to CZK 30,000 (material, installation, de-installation), depending on the gallery’s budget for the given year
📌The AMU Gallery, based at Malostranské náměstí 12, has been operating under the auspices of The Academy of Performing Arts in Prague since 2008. Its mission is to foster conditions for the presentation and critical reflection of contemporary art, with a particular focus on the youngest generation of artists. An integral part of the program also comprises graduation projects from The Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, and select student works from other art schools. The second, equally important, thrust of the gallery’s dramaturgy consists of complex curatorial exhibitions of established artists, both Czech and from abroad, whose work engages with the field of new media, or in some original way transcends the boundaries of traditional artistic disciplines.
11.4. – 31.5.2024 (opening: Wednesday April 10th 2024 at 6pm)
Jozef Mrva ml., Philipp Kolychev
curated by: Šimon Kadlčák
graphic design: Šimon Vlasák
A response to recent social transformations and the current housing crisis. The aim of the project is to reflect the changes in the understanding of the concept of “home” in the 21st century. What happens to the social structure of society when the most important values of life are dictated by the economic system? 👻Technical support: Ondřej Konrád 👻PR: Lála Mysl 👻Graphic desig: Šimon Vlasák 👻open: čt–ne 13–19h 👻facebook event
GAMU’s exhibition program take place with the support of the Municipality of the City of Prague. Medial partners are Artalk, Artmap and jlbjlt.
23. 2. – 29. 3. 2024 (opening: thursday 22nd of February 2024 at 6pm)
Fuad Alymani, Jakub Hons, Jana Preková, Michelle Joy, Kateryna Khramtsova, Yeva Kupchenko, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Václav Mach, Felicia Rice, Martin Zetová
curated by: Gabriela Benish-Kalná
“As artists, we live on the periphery. But we are the mirrors. We are the reflective points that break through a barrier.” -Cannupa Hanska Luger
With the rise of global information infrastructure we have become direct witnesses to the growing number of humanitarian and (un)natural disasters, wars, armed conflict and displacement. Most of these geopolitical crises are perceived to occur on the periphery relative to the Euro-Western world. This exhibition explores various artistic practices as a language that transcends borders, bringing the periphery closer to the center. Louder holds space for different artistic approaches as responses, reactions and resistance to these crises, creating a space of amplification.
“The role of the artist in the social structure follows the need of the changing times: In time of social stasis: to activate In time of germination: to invent fertile new forms In time of revolution: to extend the possibilities of peace and liberty In time of violence: to make peace In time of despair: to give hope In time of silence: to sing out ” – Judith Malina
⚡️Graphic design: Žofia Fodorová ⚡️Technical support: Jonáš Balcar, David Škourek, Jakub Hons, Václav Mach ⚡️PR: Lála Mysl ⚡️Open: thu-sun 1-7pm ⚡️facebook event
26. 01. – 04. 02. 2024 (opening: thursday 25. ledna 2024 v 18h)
Tereza Chudáčková, Eva Rotreklová, Viktorie Štěpánová, Alena Kolesnikova, Eliška Lubojatzká, M. A. Šulc, Matěj Martinec, Tara Šelířová, David Šourek, Jonáš Balcar Adam Kácha, Michaela Kozáková, Veronika Poslední, Emma Erben, Benjamin Bílek, Max Čuhel, Eva Gabrižová, Erik Humlíček, Eri Pelikánů, Yana Kadurina, Tereza Muricová, Sofie Gjuričová, Nikola Šmeralová
graphic design: Šimon Vlasák
Annual exhibition of students of the FAMU Center for Audiovisual Studies, workshops of Marie Lukáčové a Martina Blažíček.
Exhibition of semestral works of the 1st years students of Studio of Classic Photography and outputs from the long-term project Soutok, exploring the urban landscape.
authors:
Barbora Nosková, Ema Mihálová, Filip Doležal, Adéla Geierová, Jan Liška, Krylou Dzianis, Anna Smutná, Eliška Suchá, Rosalie Tomková, Viktória Weiszová, Feiyun Zhao, Kuba Nowak Mikolaj, Katarzyna Serwatka, Antoni Wojciech Swark, Jsoue Aguiniga Valadez, Ashir Singh, Lucie Hradecká, Natálie Hájková, Sabina Můráňová, Michaela Stehlíková, Barbora Vyhnálová
14. 12. 2023–12. 1. 2024 (opening: Wednesday 13th of December 6pm)
Tereza Chudáčková, Mária Júdová, Kateřina Konvalinová
curated by: Lea Petříková
graphic design: Šimon Vlasák
production: Eliška Klimešová
Presenting the work of contemporary artists working with the moving image, the exhibition addresses the topic of altered states of consciousness in various contexts. Connecting the concept of “alterity”, or what theorist Anna Powell calls “altered states,” with the moving images of contemporary artists, it provides a means for exploring the possibility of shifts and alterations in the sensory, spiritual, social and political contexts.
Mária Júdová graduated from the Digital Media department of the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica and the Center for Audiovisual Studies FAMU. She is interested in the potential of digital technologies, especially in the context of dance and movement performance; she creates audiovisual performances, interactive installations and XR works. She has exhibited at various venues (e.g. Sonar Hong Kong, Japan Media Arts Festival, Cinedans, Berlin Atonal, Sensorium, and others) and has for example collaborated with Rambert Contemporary Dance Company in London or the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media. Tereza Chudáčková is a student of the MA program at the Center for Audiovisual Studies FAMU, where she also received her BA. She is involved with moving image and sound work, and is member of the sound trio Seaslugs. Her film Krásně sviť a krásně hleď, z uší roste krasohled, made in collaboration with Klára Ondráčková, received Special Mention in the Exprtmntl.cz competition of experimental films as part of the MFDF Ji.hlava 2020. Kateřina Konvalinová graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and is currently a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Brno University of Technology. She has also studied at DAMU and at the Indonesian Seni Institut Yogyakarta. She works mostly with video and is involved in participative projects and ecological farming. She has had solo exhibitions at etc. Gallery, City Surfer Office or Berlínskej Model, and also raps as part of the Lobbyboy&saab900turbo project.
3. 11.— 3. 12. 2023 (opening: 2nd of November 2023 6 pm)
Tereza Bartůňková, Darja Čančíková, Jan Čumlivski, Palo Čejka, Rebecca Gray, Barbora Haplová, Tomáš Hauser, Jiří Havlíček, Juraj Horváth, Františka Iblová, Tomáš Klepoch, Kateřina Košíková, Martin Kubát, Monogramista T•D, Kryštof Pešek, George Radojčič, Barbora Satranská, Matěj Smetana, Jantra Šímová, František Týmal, understructures, Karolína Vilímovská, Anna Vohralíková, Anna Wysocká, Alžběta Zemanová
curated by: Michal Kindernay & Klára Zahrádková
graphic design: Žofia Fodorová, Magdalena Konečná
The exhibition thematizes the art of author’s book & author’s and hand-made film and defines the meeting point of materiality, traditional, experimental and contemporary tendencies in the approach to the artistic categories of two different media. The book established itself as a modern work of art in the ’60s, while the film does so at the time of the world avant-garde. Both experimental forms of the traditional medium oscillate on the border of a constant dialogue between contemporary art and the rich inner, often solitary worlds of the authors, their voices are heard sometimes only after the fact or through lucky finds in estates, drawers or archives. Invited authors are complex artists, participating in all stages of the creation and preparation of the work, including the selection of paper, format, binding, as well as publication and distribution. The selection of author’s books and films points to the tendencies of contemporary artists who maintain a creative dialogue with the medium of books and films. The author’s books in the gallery are transformed into installations or gallery situations, the films leave the projectors and offer new reading possibilities.
Graphic design: Žofia Fodorová, Magdalena Konečná Instalation: Patrik Trska, Mikuláš Suchý, Honza Tomšů, Ondřej Konrád, autoři a kurátoři Special thanks: Zdeněk Helfert, Anka Helfertová, Kristina Fišerová, Marie Kohoutová, Michaela Kukovičová, Ondřej Trnka, Vladimír Just PR: Lála Mysl open: thu-sun 13-19h facebook event
2. 11.— 5. 12. 2023 (opening: 2nd of November 2023 6 pm)
curated by: NAMU
The international exhibition of freshly released publications in the fields of film, music, theatre, dance, photography, and new media will take place this year in the AMU Gallery on Malostranské náměstí. This time, part of the books and the accompanying programme is dedicated to the topic of sustainability in the arts.
20.10. – 29. 10. 2023 (opening: Thursday 19th of October at 6pm )
Johannes J. Wagner, Jan Štěpánek, Jenny Sternwaldová, Eliška Drastíková, Gustav Sonntag. Anna Šmídová, Miroslav Jirele, Susan Witwer, Tomáš Honz, Kateřina Hubená, Roland Gräfe
graphic design: Žofia Fodorová
The Central Bohemian Highlands’ unique landscape and its cone-shaped hills of volcanic origin have inspired artists from both the Czech Republic and Germany for centuries. Since the Romantic era, painters like Caspar David Friedrich, Adrian Ludwig Richter, and Antonín Mánes have found new stimuli and motifs for their work here. Later on, many other Czech and German artists followed in their footsteps. The LANDSCAPE ’23 exhibition, created as part of the Czech-German open-air cultural centre Řehlovice, offers a diverse range of creative approaches and a fresh perspective on the Central Bohemian Highlands through the eyes of contemporary artists. The participants of the plein air, organized by the Roland Gräfe Foundation – Foundation for Art and Culture in cooperation with the Department of Scenography of the Prague DAMU, were inspired by the Central Bohemian Highlands’ landscape and painted for three days in various locations around Řehlovice and Litoměřice.
15. 9.—14. 10. 2023 (opening: thursday 14. září v 18h)
Veronika Čechmánková, Gijs Gieskes, Lukáš Jasanský a Martin Polák, Ruta Putramentaite, Kateřina Konvalinová, Denisa Langrová, Erika Velická
curated by: Martin Netočný
exhibition architecture: Petr Lhoťan
graphic design: Pavla Nečásková, Šimon Vlasák
production: Josefína Frýbová
The exhibition O the Hoe, the Hoe, the Hoe is about the ways of storytelling. Through the displayed objects and other artefacts it seeks to present stories in which the human being occupies the position of one of many relevant subjects. Thus, we encounter several new types of narratives that are not mere instruments leading the audience and the spectators to their conclusion, but rather a form of their own that grants itself and everything it encompasses a certain degree of autonomy. If we step back for a moment, we find that the landscape around us could one day become such a self-formed story as well. What role do the means of contemporary art play in its redefi nition is not yet noticeably clear. At first glance, however, it is evident that they co-create a space in which new forms of storytelling constitute a central creative principle. Th is exhibition is no different.
Side events:
To the Last Turf, 23 September from 1:00 p.m.
meeting in front of GAMU (Malostranské náměstí 12, Prague 1), duration: 90 min.
A guided walk through the city’s parks focusing on the collection and use of herbs growing outside the attention of urban green space managers and ordinary visitors.
Let Me Lie in a Lye, 12 October from 5:00 p.m.
GAMU (Malostranské náměstí 12, Prague 1), duration: 90 min.
The herbs, which have enriched the exhibition by being dried here, will find practical use by being sewn into bathing pillows. The workshop will guide the participants through the making of simple objects for the preparation of herbal baths. The program is designed for children and adults who do not suffer from hay fever.
Guided Tour, 7 September from 1:00 p.m.
GAMU (Malostranské náměstí 12, Prague 1), duration: 45 min.
A guided tour of the exhibition with the curator will provide a space for discussion about the works represented, the concepts used, and anything related to what is not present in the gallery.
10.8. – 9.9.2023 (opening: wednesday 8th of August 2023 at 6pm)
Artur Magrot
curated by: Nina Moravcová
graphic design: Šimon Vlasák
In the last year, Artur Magrot has consciously chosen a life of long-term homelessness in hopes of finding alternatives for movement in a system of which we are unwillingly a part. He examines the ideas of home or personal space, concepts we were forced to view from a completely new perspective during the pandemic. His insights are captured through text and visual records. Using thermal cameras, he photographed his temporary refuges — places of heat accumulation. In an effort to capture the invisible but present imprints of the body, he created, among other things, a bizarre calendar charting the trajectories of his own movements over the past year. This Instant Game – as he calls his latest project – is now over.
For Magrot, it has been an extraordinary experience and a contribution to his thematic research, dealing with the delineation of his own space, the consideration of strategies of power surveillance, and the role modern technology plays in these spheres. He intends to translate his experiences into an exhibition project for GAMU and further evaluate it in the framework of his PhD studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague.
During the show opening there will be playing Ocassional Djs.
Scenography, Production Design for Film, Costume/Mask, Independent Artistic Work
The student exhibition in the studio of KS DAMU – PQ23 is a combined exhibition of artworks and spatial objects/installations from the period 2019 – 2023. The objects and artworks are a link between the academic and artistic focus of the Department of Scenography, the theme of PQ23, the term “Rare” and the continuous process of exploring and rethinking what all the term scenography implies.
8 – 14 June GAMU
The exhibition will be open 8 – 14 June 2023 13h – 19h
8 – 18 June 2023, DAMU Department of Scenography – 4th floor of the main building, Karlova 26, 116 65, Prague 1
Opening: June 8, 2023, at 17.00
The exhibition will be open from 9 – 18 June 2023 10h – 18h
Commented visit: 15 June 2023 at 16.00
Adam Kácha, Tereza Chudáčková, Jonáš Balcar, Eva Rotreklova, Tara Šelírová
curated by: Marie Lukáčová
Annual exhibition of students of the FAMU Center for Audiovisual Studies, workshops of Marie Lukáčové, Georgy Bagdasarov a Martin Blažíček. Open daily 1 — 7pm
23.05.2024 (opening: úterý 23. května 2023 v 21 h)
Simona Rozložníková
There’s a fly crawling on the window, the fat one they call the butcher. It’s been crossing the window pane for ages. People usually loathe it, but it’s actually beautiful, metallic green and blue, with translucent wings woven with silver threads. It’s been crawling on the glass for a long time, and it doesn’t know how to get out. Outside, the sun is shining, the colours are brilliant and the wind is blowing. She could fly all she wants. It’s just the window that keeps her here! There must be a crack somewhere to get out of this dull, grey room. Out of the loneliness. And finally! There she is! She’s found it. It was high time. The sun was just setting, the sky had turned a beautiful color, she’d enjoy the colors a little more!
( Milena Strafeld – About the one called Toyen)
Graduation performance of Simona Rozložnikova, student of the Department of Nonverbal Theatre, HAMU. It is a site specific immersive theatre … a kind of “pantomimic exhibition” set in the AMU Gallery. Inspired by the life, personality and work of TOYEN.
Concept, direction and acting : Simona Rozložníková
Pedagogical direction and supervision : Radim Vizváry
Set and costumes: Aleš Vancl
Light design : Lukáš Klíma
“In the darkened hall of life, I watch the projection screen of my brain ”
Toyen https://fb.me/e/2vI3BjNY8
Louisa Havránková, Ava Holtzman, Eliška Klimešová, Adam Rolex, Tereza Šimoníková, Jakub Tulinger, Šimon Varaus
curated by: Jiří Ptáček
graphic design: Magdalena Konečná, Šimon Vlasák, Pavla Nečásková, Žofia Fedorová
In geology, the term drunken forest refers to vegetation growth growing on a slowly slumping hillside. The tree trunks grow in all sorts of crooked ways and the forest looks disorganized. For geologists, this signals that the bedrock is moving. In the exhibition’s title, where students from the studios of the FAMU Department of Photography in Prague will meet, the drunken forest refers to the instability of the conditions in which these young people grow up and to artistic creation as repeated attempts to maintain balance. Through their works, however, the exhibition also points out how the tool we generically call photography and its department; reacts to these movements
AMU Gallery hereby announces an open call for exhibition projects to complement the gallery’s program for 2023.
The call is intended for both Czech and foreign artists and curators; applications may be sent both in Czech and in English. Due to the wide spectrum of subjects taught at AMU (The Academy of Performing Arts in Prague) we prefer thematic, curatorial exhibition projects with interdisciplinary overlap, or exhibitions based around artistic research (especially in the field of photography and new media).
The duration of exhibitions in GAMU span from three to six weeks.
Required application materials:
a detailed description of the project, including visual documentation which takes into account the gallery’s spatial dimensions (max. three standard pages of text)
a structured CV/bio of the applicant
brief CVs/bios of the exhibited artists, including a showcase of their work/links to online portfolio
the exhibition’s budget with proposed additional sources of funding
The projects can be registered electronically until the 31th of May, 2023 at veronika.danhelova@famu.cz
The AMU Gallery provides:
oversight at the exhibition
technical support
graphic processing and printing of accompanying materials (invitations, posters, banners)
basic PR
opening night (vernissage)
some of the production costs (material, installation, de-installation), depending on the gallery’s budget for the given year
The gallery’s blueprint and photo documentation of the exhibition space can be found here
Aika Akhmetova, Ella CB, Sarah Dubná, Natasja Loutchko, SPIT (Marta Orlando, Clémentine Roy, Natasja Loutchko), Hana Garová, Mary Neely and Mika Bar-On Nesher
curated by: Natálie Kubíková
Each approach is represented in the exhibition as an intimate observational tool with which to collectively consider the concept of queerness within constructs such as family, friendships, relationships and other social interactions. Issues of family, neighborhood or cultural stereotypes are presented in a group exhibition of international female and non-binary authors. The works on display focus on artistic practices without explicitly recognizing contemporary queer culture and refer to more intimate levels of communication and transmission of information, resistance or background. The exhibition refers predominantly to the more intimate level of depicting female homosexual narratives and addresses the eclipse of lesbian presence in the collective imagination.
Michael Lozano, Jakub Prašivka, Jonathan-Antonín Machander, Raphael Taterka,Tatiana Lvovská, Radim Hořelka, Lisa Philippon, Yutong Xie, Quoc Vinh Tran, Jakub Tulinger, Sarah Kidder, Swati Indeera Parwani
The Studio of Documentary Photography offers a short-term yet unique opportunity to peer into the minds of those sensitive to the world around them – whether that’s gender inequality, climatically arrogant grand gestures on Kralický Sněžník, the Vietnamese community’s view of life as grocers, American wrestling culture, the garden and community of one’s home, creatures awaiting their army-style book, responses to the meaning of art, images cultivated with yeast, a dialogue between two Indian women over the cultural erasure of their identities, the bent backs of people hypnotized by their phone screens, the happiness and safety of one valley in China’s Xinjiang province, or the inherent hierarchies in public spaces such as Bohnice’s psychiatric hospital. We don’t have to scream to be heard, so now we whisper — You won’t see this anywhere else.
14. – 20. 6. 2022, open from 1pm to 7pm (opening: 13. 6. 2022 od 18:30)
Karolína Hnětkovská, Klára Kacířová, Matej Martinec, Jáchym Ozuna, Gabriela Palijová, Tamara Pauknerová, Tomáš Rampula, Anastasia Rybalchenko, Alexandra Sihelská, Sofia Sováková, Žil Julie Vostalová
curated by: Georgy Bagdasarov
In crossing, transformation is a central theme; from one place to another and sometimes through various stages of being created. If characters are connected by “transition” – moving back (or forward or backward) but not forwards/downwards at all can be very confusing for newcomers… it’s hard now because they never really understood that you could change places without changing anything if your mind was clear on everything else! The idea behind the transition is to make things interesting and less frustrating. The world looks too real: buildings, roads start ticking together right before their time gets out of hand yet feel like new objects in a completely different fashion every second we go around them; so these transitions happen with more speed than usual even when nothing truly breaks here…
November 19 – December 19, 2021 (opening: Opening day on Thursday November 18, 2021, from 1 PM to 7 PM)
Aleš Čermák
Supervision: Jindřiška Křivánková, Jakub Gottwald, Jan Bárta, Petr Skala, Matouš Hejl
Theoretical support: Jakub Albert Ferenc, Marie Štindlová
Sound design: Matouš Hejl
Graphic design: Terezie Štindlová
Technical support: HAMU/ GAMU
Duration of the project: November 19 – December 19, 2021
Opening day on Thursday November 18, 2021, from 1 PM to 7 PM
When we say body, we mean that constantly undulating assemblage of bones, meat and blood, but in fact, no such entity exists. The illusory feeling of a physically existing self. In each individual pore of the body we see endless spaces – empty spaces of wisdom – spaces of creativity.
The collection of texts TTN1-TTN3 contains texts from all three parts of TTN. The texts are arranged chronologically and also contain an updated edition of the work-in-progress text Endless Manual: The Transversal Navigation
The exhibition entitled The Autumn Pruning presents the work of Karel Vostárek – artist, scenographer, director and teacher at DAMU’s Department of Drama in Education – which he has created over the span of the last 40 years. The exhibition will present his design proposals, scenography mock-ups, puppets, scenic objects and photographs from projects and performances, as well as his sculptural works and the documentation of previously realized projects. The exhibition will also feature a video projection.
Světlana Malinová, Anežka Horová, Marina Hendrychová, Abelardo Gil Fournier, Matěj Martinec, František Fekete, Daniel Burda, Aleš Zůbek
curated by: Lukáš Likavčan
The “metabolic perspective” begins with the idea that the human economy is merely a continuation of the natural economy by other means, to the extent that terms such as ’logistics’ or ’infrastructure’ can be applied equally well to industrial parks and ecosystems, to the production and transportation of goods, as well as to photosynthesis and food chains. But what if we were to begin considering human culture and communication as part of the planet’s natural metabolisms? Would we not find around us animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, inanimate objects and entire communities of organisms that are constantly speaking to us, showing us something, warning us?
July 15 – August 27, 2021 (THE EXHIBITION IS EXTENDED UNTIL SEPTEMBER 3, 2021) (opening: on Thursday July 15, 2021, from 1 PM to 7 PM)
Author of the project: Aleš Čermák Theoretical support: Jakub Albert Ferenc Supervision: Jindřiška Křivánková, Jakub Gottwald, Matouš Hejl, Petr Skala Guests: Roman Radkovič Collective Graphic design: Terezie Štindlová Sound design: Matouš Hejl Documentation: GAMU English translation: Vít Bohal Curator and Project Coordinator: Petr Krátký (GAMU)
Hands and other limbs are considered part of the body. Why then couldn’t all beings who possess a body be considered as part of a single being? There is no such thing as a disabled body, but only disabled socioeconomic systems.
From the perspective of the other, being slow needn’t be considered a weakness, and the weak/weaker needn’t be slow/slower – they merely achieve a different speed than the speed of the medium which they inhabit at the given time. A “sick” person needn’t mean “visibly sick”. Sickness also includes that which has not yet been recognized, and which is treated as if it weren’t sick at all. To accept one’s vulnerability and fragility in order to reorganize – reprogram relationships, not only towards oneself, but also within a broader social context.
Are our bodies this dangerous biological factor? Is the body itself at the core of this crisis? Do we only start paying attention to bodies once they become sick? Are there more types of invisibility? Is invisibility beyond everyday experience? What does it mean to stand next to an invisible one?
In the fictional world of the Japanese sci-fi Final Fantasy, we encounter the fantastical features of the sword & sorcery genre, alternative historical facts, manga characters, variously stylized cartoon entities, as well as fairly everyday characters. At first sight, this wild mash-up of genres and features of both eastern and western (pop-)cultures is a chaotic, eclectic world of appropriation, but it also indexes a world where History overlaps with dreams, personal memory, and the private spirituality of its actors. The exhibition features the end-of year, final works of students of the Center for Audiovisual Studies, and adopts the title of the game series as a reference point from which to better grasp the long, global pandemic as a necessary ideal – a new “final fantasy” of the coming future. If the experiences of the last two years constitute a dividing line between the old world and the new, what is this new world we are now entering? The final fantasy refers to the current reconfiguration of ideas about the future as a place of entrenched spirituality, magic and private ritual. Much like in the game world, features of identity and the abstract concept of substance (which can mean a chemical substance, matter, principle, or a base) are key here, and serve as the foundation for the practical bridging of the contradiction between nature and technology, as well as instruments and energy. The exhibited works in a certain sense stand poised on the threshold between the 3D visuality of game environments, ARG games, virtual reality, traditional methods and crafts, such as ceramics, print and natural materials. These however do not create mutual tension, but rather constitute a coherent medium for the narration of personal mythologies.
The individual presentation of the VR project Cuddle Therapy is part of the exhibition and will take place on the dates specified on the Galerie AMU Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/galerie.amu
Accompanying program:
Shine Bright Like a Diamond Lucie Myslíková
A city game, 90 mins.
Friday, 25 June, 5 – 6.30 PM
The city game Shine Bright Like a Diamond is the final outcome of Lucie Myslíková’s residency at the INI space, during which she addressed the issue of contemporary living conditions. The players’ objective is to become the perfect candidates for acquiring housing at a luxurious residence. The game will start at 5 PM in the space of the Diamond River housing residence, then there will be a shared walk to the INI space. See more at fb.com/iniprojectprostor
Cuddle therapy is a form of therapy which focuses on asexual contact and shows just how much contemporary society is deprived of it. Touch is able to produce the hormone oxytocin which promotes social behavior and gives us a sense of safety. Due to the pandemic measures, we attempted to simulate cuddle therapy by means of virtual space and haptic objects. The installation can be visited individually during specified times, after registering at fb.com/galerie.amu
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GAMU’s exhibition program take place with the support of the Czech Ministry of Culture and Prague city Hall. Medial partners are Artalk, Artmap and jlbjlt.
Mária Júdová graduated from the Digital Media department of the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica and the Center for Audiovisual Studies FAMU. She is interested in the potential of digital technologies, especially in the context of dance and movement performance; she creates audiovisual performances, interactive installations and XR works. She has exhibited at various venues (e.g. Sonar Hong Kong, Japan Media Arts Festival, Cinedans, Berlin Atonal, Sensorium, and others) and has for example collaborated with Rambert Contemporary Dance Company in London or the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media.
open: daily 13-19h
