ARTSEMESTR Summer 2019 - Invitation to the Exhibition

Opening: Wednesday, June 5, 2019 from 7 PM
Event Date: June 6 – June 9, 2019

Location: Entire building of UMPRUM, Jana Palacha Square 80, Prague 1

Open: daily 10 AM – 6 PM

on Saturday, June 8, as part of the Prague Museum Night, open until 1 AM


Free admission

For some, a half-year anticipated exhibition, for others, intense work from morning till night. This brings ARTSEMESTR, a showcase of semester and final projects by students of the high school of applied arts in Prague. This time, it will be on display from Thursday, June 6 to Sunday, June 9, in the spaces of the entire UMPRUM building.
ARTSEMESTR is not just an exhibition, but primarily a testament and evaluation of continuous work during the semester. It presents both the results of long-term themes and short-term assignments. At ARTSEMESTR Summer 2019, a total of 23 accredited workshops and the Visiting Artist Workshop will be featured.
“ARTSEMESRT Summer 2019 is the first one I can observe from the position of rector. I am particularly pleased that we are managing to connect the creations of various studios and deepen their collaboration. This is one of the things that makes our school unique,” says the new rector of UMPRUM, Professor Jindřich Vybíral.
Visitors can again look forward to an endless range of different themes and works. Among the mentioned collaborations, we can name the assignment “Puppet Theater,” where the Furniture and Interior Design Studio combined their strengths with the Illustration and Graphics Studio. The year-long project of the Textile Creation Studio, which connects original craft traditions of processing glass beads with new technologies and textile art, was taken up by the Fashion Design Studio. Its students prepared a collection made from the author-printed fabrics of their classmates. The results of the Glass Studio assignment on the theme “Still Life” were another welcomed subject for the Photography Studio II's creations.
The Graphic Design and Visual Communication Studio focused on processing a primer, the K.O.V. Studio will present a collection of mini architecture cast in bronze, and the Industrial Design Studio will present a new cabin for the Petřín cable car. The architecture studios this time focused on selected locations in various cities – the Architecture Studio I proposed for the city of Jihlava, the Architecture Studio IV dealt with Český Krumlov, and the Architecture Studio II presented an urban concept for the Smíchov approach to the railway bridge. The Department of Free Art left most cases an unlimited space for creativity without assignment restrictions.
One of the rector Jindřich Vybíral's plans is to make UMPRUM more accessible to the public. New to the ARTSEMESTR program are guided tours. For those who would like to walk through the exhibition of final and semester works with commentary, they are prepared as part of the Prague Museum Night program.

Studios and themes

Architecture Studio I – architectural projects for the city of Jihlava
Architecture Studio II – 1) Smíchov approach to the railway bridge - urban concept, 2) Landscape festival Ostrava - design and build workshop (in collaboration with the Department of Architecture at the Technical University of Ostrava and Sami Rintala)
Architecture Studio III – Post-Anthropocene – Buildings Without People - examining iconic industrial buildings of the 20th century and designing a new interpretation of industry, logistics, and storage in the Post-Anthropocene, a time when machines have replaced human labor
Architecture Studio IV – Český Krumlov / R O Z H R A N Í - model and visual perspective of the city including understanding its problems and proposing an approach to solutions - municipal market, Ambit zone, hotel Vyšehrad, swimming pool, Sokolovna, parking house, house in the square
Industrial Design Studio – series of team tasks: insulin pen, magnetic bike pump, ergonomic bike pedal, electronic office robo-assistant, social ambient lamp, jukebox, modeled clay compositions on the theme arrogance X humility // final project: cabin for the Petřín cable car
Furniture and Interior Design Studio – Puppet theaters (collaboration with the Illustration and Graphics Studio), collaboration with Brokis on the theme Brokisglass // final project: Collaboration with Brokis on the theme Brokisglass
Product Design Studio – Memorial place

Sculpture Studio – Artist in a time of crisis
Painting Studio – free theme // final project: free work, the selection of the subject is understood as a fundamental creative undertaking

Intermedia Confrontation Studio – the semester was conceived as a free working platform, in which students realized their creative possibilities // final project: themes are determined by selected students
Photography Studio I – this studio organized meetings this semester only in complete darkness, resulting in an open assignment
Glass Studio – theme Still Life – analysis, research and essay // final project: The phenomenon of still life. Collaboration with Photography Studio II
Ceramics and Porcelain Studio – designs for the Brispol brick factory // final project: work on the theme Ritual

K.O.V. Studio – Mini architecture cast in bronze // final project: "Sculpture for the landscape of the human body" / testimony in author jewelry

Fashion Design Studio – fashion collection made from the author-printed fabrics of the Textile Creation Studio students
Clothing and Footwear Design Studio – Ethical Message – fashion collection responding to the unsustainability of mass clothing production
Textile Creation Studio – Czech Craft is Here – a project organized in collaboration with the Czech glass bead manufacturer Preciosa. Connecting original craft processes and new modern technologies of bead processing in the context of textile creation
Illustration and Graphics Studio – puppet theater - prototype of a suitcase theater including puppet design for a specific play (collaboration with the Furniture and Interior Design Studio), Illustrations for adventure literature // final project: two-color linocut on the theme classic landscape 

Type Design and Typography Studio - Four guest teachers, Topics: 1) Metro (Rostislav Vaněk); 2) Book (Zuzana Lednická); 3) What do you miss in the studio (Bosák + Jansa); 4) Letterpress workshop (Rick Griffith) // final project: What have you learned this semester?
Graphic Design and Visual Communication Studio – Primer, development of a VR game
Film and Television Graphics Studio – film exercises on the theme Dance // final project: outputs from the event "reviving the seasonal cinema in Český Šternberk - film jingles, pre-films, posters, etc.
Graphic Design and New Media Studio – individual projects such as Collectible Resources, Ants Project GL2020, Status of a student outside the institution, Bipolar Fantasy, Neural Networks or visual style for Output audio gallery, etc. // final project: PRESENTATION

Photography Studio II – short-term assignments on various themes, e.g. photography and representation of glass, interpretation of text and proverbs simultaneously, “Freedom” and “Inspiration 80s” // final project: “Freedom” and “Inspiration 80s”; works will be exhibited in the drawing room, 3rd floor

Visiting Artist Studio – the visiting artist was Danish sculptor living in Berlin Nina Beier, who discussed the themes “Biography of Objects” and “The Shame” with students


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