Month: March 2022

The registration for the PQ Symposium WHERE ARE WE? will be launched next week. We are now in the process of setting up a registration platform and will further inform you about how to participate. Thank you for understanding.

We are excited to announce the key speakers of our PQ Symposium WHERE ARE WE?, which will take place on 4-6 May 2022 in Pražská Tržnice.

We are hosting the representatives of the Nairobi based Cave Bureau, a collective of architects and researchers exploring the synergy between architecture, urbanism and nature, where they curate performative events of resistance within caves along the Great Rift Valley in East Africa.

The PQ team believes that the art of theatre is constantly transforming as such; performance is fighting its way out of the walls of theatre buildings, emerging in the streets, countryside, wherever. Furthermore, each country, region and continent presented at PQ brings about their unparalleled cultural heritage, which extends beyond stage and reflects their local identity on numerous levels of art and expression.

Cave Bureau seems to be the perfect fit for stirring up a debate about ever changing performance spaces, unique perspectives and new scenographic experiences.

We work intensively on preparing the 15th edition of Prague Quadrennial. We are a team of lovely people in a Prague based office. Now we seek new Head of Communications. If you feel like you are the person we are looking for, please follow this link to find out more about the job.

The deadline is now 20 March 2022.

In a two-round selection procedure for the representative of the Czech Republic in the Exhibition of Countries and Regions at PQ 2023, an independent committee (consisting of MgA Jan Bažant Ph.D, Mgr. Pavla Beranová, doc. MgA. Marie Jirásková, Ph.D Ewan McLaren, Martin Pošta, M.A. Simona Rybáková, Mgr. Tereza Sieglová) selected the project Limbo Hardware by visual artist David Možný from Brno, who in his own way resonates the most with the current pandemic situation and who portrays everyday locations in unique perspectives, creating intense and emotive experience.

The author himself along with the curator Pavel Švec give an insight to the understanding of his work: “The almost omnipresent film narrative gradually transforms into a mere indication and fragment provoking a viewer into an active participation. It is as if it were the viewer who becomes the lead role of the watched film, and the only one who can reveal all its metaphysical, mystical intricacies weaved with feelings of despair, void and pointlessness.”

Photo by Martin Polák at Fait Gallery, the exhibition Blink of an Eye

Studio Artbureau have created a new visual identity for the 15th edition of Prague Quadrennial. We are excited to share it with you. Here are few words of explanation from the PQ team:

“PQ 2023 happens in the world, where most of our encounters are moved online. For audiences and artists, it is an unprecedented situation, where live arts find themselves on thin ice. The next edition of PQ represents the effort to create visions of the future, which takes into account the gradual digitalization and desires to reinstate the old customs. Yet we cope with a certain barrier that restricts us from fully embracing the works of art.

This barrier occurs in the key visual motive of PQ 2023. The creative studio Artbureau modifies the festival’s visual content by way of a barrier = plastic film, impermeable, but transparent. It becomes sort of a medium, which simultaneously reveals and covers the artistic content behind it. The plastic film represents flexibility, it can be perceived as a protective element, it creates a crude coating that can be deformed and new, unique structures and shades come to life. This motive enables openness with respect to the content, while it works smartly with the principle of distortion and focus of the objects behind the film. It also suggests an ecological paradox. These aspects symbolise the key themes of PQ 2023; deforming the film as an opportunity to be unique, impermeability as a portrayal of the barrier that PQ will attempt to overcome in order to mediate live art to its audience.”