M. Steinbachová and B. Škaloudová: Rooms - Space Options
Gallery of Contemporary Art and Architecture / House of Art in České Budějovice invites you to the interactive exhibition by architect Marcela Steinbachová and lecturer Barbora Škaloudová titled Rooms - Possibilities of Space
Opening: Tuesday, September 8, 2015, at 6:00 PM.
Exhibition period: September 9 - October 9, 2015
Artistic collaboration: Rastislav Juhas, Colmo Graphis Design
Education: Šárka Kosová
Curator: Michal Škoda
As the next in a series of architectural exhibitions, we have decided to focus primarily on our youngest audience this time, although the entire project is conceived to also appeal to "playful" adults. The authors - architect Marcela Steinbachová and lecturer Barbora Škaloudová have prepared an interactive exhibition that presents identical rooms in different architectural contexts to the visitors. The authors are interested in what influences the perception of the space we live in, focusing here on basic elements - such as color, light, geometry, material, structure.... They touch on both the arrangement of the room itself and what is not visible yet is part of architecture. The exhibition offers visitors a series of creative challenges in each room and allows them to experience spaces from the perspective of an architect and engage their imagination and creativity.
The theme of "architecture" is not new in the House of Art in České Budějovice, whether related to exhibitions, projects, or extensive educational activities. Within our educational department, we would like to intensify the theme of architecture even further in the future, so this exhibition can be viewed as a certain jumping-off point from this perspective.
"Architecture" is one of the fundamental concepts in our lives, and its introduction to even the "smallest" is a significant moment. Conveying architecture to children means opening a path to experiencing space. Teaching children to look at and perceive - where we live, where we are, what surrounds us, how we function within it, and what role we play in all of this. Consciously showing children how to perceive and influence their surroundings is a critical prerequisite; if children learn to observe their environment, they will be more attentive to other places and more sensitive to unfamiliar, new things.
Spaces are diverse – distinct. If we can evoke sensitivity in children, they will be able to discern, or perceive differences. It is not just about architecture from the construction perspective, but also about social space and perceived space (anxiety, darkness, vastness…). However, children can also learn what to observe and look for in buildings - naming differences, focusing on detail and the whole, or being interested in the very ideas of architects. A child is confronted with architecture as soon as they enter this world. As Gaston Bachelard notes in his remarkable book "The Poetics of Space": "Our first dwelling is the cradle, before we are thrown into the world…"
Children encounter moments when their homes/nests are built not only by humans but also by animals. Similarly, from a young age, they "build" with sand, blocks, becoming creators of their first "architectures" in the form of bunkers, hideaways, houses made from anything… They create their nests—spaces of mystery, protection, and safety.
There are numerous questions, methods, and issues that this theme offers, which can be approached with children through such activities. The variety of meanings of spaces can also be linked to the different meanings of buildings (hospitals, schools, apartments, churches, museums, pubs, prisons…) which in turn connects with the emotional aspect, where we explore how we feel or behave. Likewise, perceiving scale and detail becomes an essential moment.
Architecture = everyday life, it is a cultural wealth filled with spiritual, emotional, and social life. Children live in it, and we believe it is our task to bring architecture closer to children. This is also the cornerstone of this project. From a parent's perspective, it is not enough just to tell a child that a house is beautiful (or not). Even in children, we can develop critical perspectives and foster their ability to form their own opinions, compare diverse impressions, and ideas.
Architecture is not primarily a "building" discipline, but instead creates a place for people. Sensory perception and sensitivity to space are fundamental and primary life experiences. We are constantly confronted with space. Architecture, urbanism, spatial planning, interiors, design… - shape our environment, everyday life, its processes, and objects. They are expressions of our culture, which we often perceive only subconsciously and take for granted.
All the words above are just fragments of what the theme of architecture opens up and offers. The project ROOMS aims to uncover "certain" possibilities of space. In six parts, it offers situations and moments that one may commonly encounter. The project somewhat returns to the history of installations in this gallery, linking it to the spatial arrangement created by Tomáš Džadoň for the exhibition of Václav Stratila, while also drawing from the original division of the rooms of a residential house. Thus, visitors have the opportunity to navigate "interactively" - through rooms - and confront issues regarding the effects of light, how we are influenced by it, what it evokes in us, how color can be worked with in architecture, as well as how spaces can be modeled and structured using light. Another room offers work with scale and allows movement within a certain structure. What is hidden from us but is an essential part of architecture and what reveals the history of the room is the theme of another room. Last but not least, one can become aware here of how a given space can be inhabited.
Marcela Steinbachová is an architect who studied undergraduate studies in humanities at the Faculty of Philosophy of Charles University in Prague (1993-1997), attended the Atelier A1 of Martin Rajniš and Jiří Střítecký at the AAAD Prague (1996-2000), and graduated from the School of Architecture Emila Přikryla at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (1998-2003). She participated in a semester internship at Cooper Union in New York, at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, and the Summer School of Architecture in Salzburg. She leads as the chair of the Kruh association (now a society), founded her own architecture studio Skupina (2007), and was involved in the founding of the nationwide Architecture Day festival (since 2011). She has designed, for example, the Franz Kafka Center (in collaboration with S. Holl), the History of Transport exhibition at the National Technical Museum in Prague (in collaboration with M. Rusina), the reconstruction of the Světozor cinema and the entrance spaces of the Aero cinema in Prague, the reconstruction of the Komorní scéna Aréna theater in Ostrava, and the permanent collection of the Ostrava Museum. Recently, she completed a multi-generational house in Mohren, Switzerland (in collaboration with M. Rusina). She worked for several years as the responsible editor of the magazine ERA 21 (2012-14), where she now serves as a curator of selected issues and is a member of the editorial board. As part of Kruh's activities, she focuses on conveying architecture to children under the title Architecture into Schools.
Barbora Škaloudová is an educator who focuses on conveying modern and contemporary art and architecture to children and adults. She studied art education at the Faculty of Education of Charles University. She completed a semester internship in Denmark (Seminariet for Formgivning). Since 2002, she has been working in the Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art at the National Gallery in the educational department. Within the Leonardo da Vinci program, she worked for six months at the Spacex contemporary art center in Exeter, England, and at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. She has collaborated on the development and creation of various educational projects such as Gallery for Teachers, School and Museum, Artcrossing, Architecture into Schools, etc. She is the author of professional articles and books, including co-authoring the book FFFF Kupka (Most Beautiful Book of the Year).
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Opening: Tuesday, September 8, 2015, at 6:00 PM.
Exhibition period: September 9 - October 9, 2015
Artistic collaboration: Rastislav Juhas, Colmo Graphis Design
Education: Šárka Kosová
Curator: Michal Škoda
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As the next in a series of architectural exhibitions, we have decided to focus primarily on our youngest audience this time, although the entire project is conceived to also appeal to "playful" adults. The authors - architect Marcela Steinbachová and lecturer Barbora Škaloudová have prepared an interactive exhibition that presents identical rooms in different architectural contexts to the visitors. The authors are interested in what influences the perception of the space we live in, focusing here on basic elements - such as color, light, geometry, material, structure.... They touch on both the arrangement of the room itself and what is not visible yet is part of architecture. The exhibition offers visitors a series of creative challenges in each room and allows them to experience spaces from the perspective of an architect and engage their imagination and creativity.
The theme of "architecture" is not new in the House of Art in České Budějovice, whether related to exhibitions, projects, or extensive educational activities. Within our educational department, we would like to intensify the theme of architecture even further in the future, so this exhibition can be viewed as a certain jumping-off point from this perspective.
"Architecture" is one of the fundamental concepts in our lives, and its introduction to even the "smallest" is a significant moment. Conveying architecture to children means opening a path to experiencing space. Teaching children to look at and perceive - where we live, where we are, what surrounds us, how we function within it, and what role we play in all of this. Consciously showing children how to perceive and influence their surroundings is a critical prerequisite; if children learn to observe their environment, they will be more attentive to other places and more sensitive to unfamiliar, new things.
Spaces are diverse – distinct. If we can evoke sensitivity in children, they will be able to discern, or perceive differences. It is not just about architecture from the construction perspective, but also about social space and perceived space (anxiety, darkness, vastness…). However, children can also learn what to observe and look for in buildings - naming differences, focusing on detail and the whole, or being interested in the very ideas of architects. A child is confronted with architecture as soon as they enter this world. As Gaston Bachelard notes in his remarkable book "The Poetics of Space": "Our first dwelling is the cradle, before we are thrown into the world…"
Children encounter moments when their homes/nests are built not only by humans but also by animals. Similarly, from a young age, they "build" with sand, blocks, becoming creators of their first "architectures" in the form of bunkers, hideaways, houses made from anything… They create their nests—spaces of mystery, protection, and safety.
There are numerous questions, methods, and issues that this theme offers, which can be approached with children through such activities. The variety of meanings of spaces can also be linked to the different meanings of buildings (hospitals, schools, apartments, churches, museums, pubs, prisons…) which in turn connects with the emotional aspect, where we explore how we feel or behave. Likewise, perceiving scale and detail becomes an essential moment.
Architecture = everyday life, it is a cultural wealth filled with spiritual, emotional, and social life. Children live in it, and we believe it is our task to bring architecture closer to children. This is also the cornerstone of this project. From a parent's perspective, it is not enough just to tell a child that a house is beautiful (or not). Even in children, we can develop critical perspectives and foster their ability to form their own opinions, compare diverse impressions, and ideas.
Architecture is not primarily a "building" discipline, but instead creates a place for people. Sensory perception and sensitivity to space are fundamental and primary life experiences. We are constantly confronted with space. Architecture, urbanism, spatial planning, interiors, design… - shape our environment, everyday life, its processes, and objects. They are expressions of our culture, which we often perceive only subconsciously and take for granted.
All the words above are just fragments of what the theme of architecture opens up and offers. The project ROOMS aims to uncover "certain" possibilities of space. In six parts, it offers situations and moments that one may commonly encounter. The project somewhat returns to the history of installations in this gallery, linking it to the spatial arrangement created by Tomáš Džadoň for the exhibition of Václav Stratila, while also drawing from the original division of the rooms of a residential house. Thus, visitors have the opportunity to navigate "interactively" - through rooms - and confront issues regarding the effects of light, how we are influenced by it, what it evokes in us, how color can be worked with in architecture, as well as how spaces can be modeled and structured using light. Another room offers work with scale and allows movement within a certain structure. What is hidden from us but is an essential part of architecture and what reveals the history of the room is the theme of another room. Last but not least, one can become aware here of how a given space can be inhabited.
Marcela Steinbachová is an architect who studied undergraduate studies in humanities at the Faculty of Philosophy of Charles University in Prague (1993-1997), attended the Atelier A1 of Martin Rajniš and Jiří Střítecký at the AAAD Prague (1996-2000), and graduated from the School of Architecture Emila Přikryla at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (1998-2003). She participated in a semester internship at Cooper Union in New York, at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, and the Summer School of Architecture in Salzburg. She leads as the chair of the Kruh association (now a society), founded her own architecture studio Skupina (2007), and was involved in the founding of the nationwide Architecture Day festival (since 2011). She has designed, for example, the Franz Kafka Center (in collaboration with S. Holl), the History of Transport exhibition at the National Technical Museum in Prague (in collaboration with M. Rusina), the reconstruction of the Světozor cinema and the entrance spaces of the Aero cinema in Prague, the reconstruction of the Komorní scéna Aréna theater in Ostrava, and the permanent collection of the Ostrava Museum. Recently, she completed a multi-generational house in Mohren, Switzerland (in collaboration with M. Rusina). She worked for several years as the responsible editor of the magazine ERA 21 (2012-14), where she now serves as a curator of selected issues and is a member of the editorial board. As part of Kruh's activities, she focuses on conveying architecture to children under the title Architecture into Schools.
Barbora Škaloudová is an educator who focuses on conveying modern and contemporary art and architecture to children and adults. She studied art education at the Faculty of Education of Charles University. She completed a semester internship in Denmark (Seminariet for Formgivning). Since 2002, she has been working in the Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art at the National Gallery in the educational department. Within the Leonardo da Vinci program, she worked for six months at the Spacex contemporary art center in Exeter, England, and at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. She has collaborated on the development and creation of various educational projects such as Gallery for Teachers, School and Museum, Artcrossing, Architecture into Schools, etc. She is the author of professional articles and books, including co-authoring the book FFFF Kupka (Most Beautiful Book of the Year).
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