Soirée

❀ ❀ ❀ The summer edition of Soirée, a party hosted by the art department of the Smíchov factory, will take place on Thursday, August 13. The program includes an exhibition opening at the Kostka Gallery, guided tours of the exhibitions and artists’ studios on the factory’s residence floor, and art workshops. ❀ ❀ ❀

❀ Julius Reichel: Blood Inheritance
Exhibition opening at Kostka Gallery

Artist Julius Reichel will fill the former glassworks boiler room with several hundred kilograms of discarded textiles. This monumental mass, imbued with the wear and tear and memories of many lives, is surrounded by walls covered with the artist’s paintings and calligraphic texts.

The installation Blood Inheritance recycles matter, symbols, and blood - a legacy that cannot be set aside, only rewritten again and again. The exhibition will open with a guided tour featuring Julius Reichel and Ján Gajdušek, the exhibition’s co-curator.

❀ Cezary Poniatowski: Deep House
Guided tour with curator Ján Gajdušek

A surreally ghostly apartment abandoned by its original inhabitants. A microcosm of insects, bacteria, and viruses taking over objects. Curled-up rugs, their shapes reminiscent of staring reptiles or the shrouds of human spectres. Insect-like creatures playing with objects like children learning how a household works. The solo exhibition by Polish artist Cezary Poniatowski will be presented by its curator, Ján Gajdušek.

❀ Residency Floor Guided Tour & Open Studios 

A guided tour of the artists’ studios will take place during the evening. The residency team will present the artists’ work and the concept behind the entire A-i-R program. 

❀ Open Studios

Zuzana-Markéta Macková
Andréa Le Guellec
Rita Koszorús
Natália Sýkorová
Alžběta Bačíková
Roza Igzaw
anto_nie
Urban Space Epics

❀ A-i-R workshops 

Rita Koszorús: How to Connect the Unconnectable (Art Workshop)

At the beginning of the evening, resident artist Rita Koszorús will lead a workshop titled How to Connect the Unconnectable.
The collage technique allows us to create formal and visual connections that would never arise in reality. By reusing paper, photographs, texts, and colored surfaces, participants will create an original work on the theme of “still life,” understood not as a collection of objects but as a situation. We invite you to become the directors of your own collages, in which what you combine will be just as important as the way you create a dialogue between the individual elements.

A-i-R kitchen | capacity: 12 people
Reservation: sona.mikulasova@meetfactory.cz by August 13 at 3:00 p.m. Reservations must be confirmed.

Roza Igzaw: Earth
A hands-on creative experience using the most basic and oldest material clay. Free-form modeling with a natural clay mixture, imprinting various textures into the clay, or painting on it. During the workshop led by resident Roza Igzaw, all the senses will be awakened; participants will connect with the material and, by extension, with nature and a deeper place within themselves - as beings shaped by the earth.

Studio 21 | capacity: 10 people
reservation: sona.mikulasova@meetfactory.cz by August 13 at 3:00 pm. Reservations must be confirmed.
 

Line-up: 
18:00 Rita Koszorus: workshop
18:00 Roza Igzaw: Earth Workshop
18:45 Opening
19:00 Exhibitions Guided Tour
20:00 A-i-R Programme Guided Tour

18:00 - 22:00 Open Studios 

The event is free. 

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