PechaKucha Night Prague Vol. 34

PechaKucha Nights are live presentations by architects, graphic designers, artists, photographers, filmmakers, theater makers, promoters, and theorists in a special format of 20 images x 20 seconds, conceived and brought to life in 2003 by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham (Klein Dytham architecture). Today they take place in more than 600 cities around the world.
The thirty-fourth PechaKucha Night Prague will be held on June 12, 2013, at 20:20 at the Aero cinema, Biskupcova 31, Prague 3.
Tickets can be purchased online from June 1, 2013, at www.kinoaero.cz and at the box offices of Aero, Světozor, and Oko cinemas.

Performers include:
Vladimír Balda and Jiří Janďourek
Štěpánka Bláhovcová
Zdeněk Kvasnica (Deep Throat)
Lukáš Kordík and Števo Polakovič (gutgut)
Vladimír Havlík
Vojtěch Horálek
Jáchym Kliment
Martin Jančok (P-L-U-R-A-L)
Lubica Segečová
Michal Singer
Evžen Šimera
Diana Winklerová
H3T architects, KP-A, Jiří Žid, IUCH, Matěj Hájek, Julius Reichel, Tomáš Skála (Zátiší)

The main partner of PechaKucha Night Prague is Autodesk.

The project is supported by: Print shop Boom printing, the City of Prague
Media partners: Era 21, Radio 1
Dramaturgy: Jana Kostelecká, Adam Gebrian, Jan H. Vitvar, Cyril Říha, Alan Záruba, Petr Babák
PechaKucha Night – devised and shared by Klein Dytham

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Briefly about the performers:

Vladimír Balda and Jiří Janďourek
In 2002, they won an architectural competition for the reconstruction of the square in Frýdlant as fresh graduates. Nearly ten years later, the project was realized according to the competition design. V.B. studied at the Faculty of Architecture CTU in Prague. He runs his architecture practice, teaches at the Faculty of Art and Architecture at TU in Liberec, lives in Oldřichov in Hájích, and works in Liberec. J.J. studied at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at VUT in Brno and at FUA TU in Liberec, where he currently works as an assistant professor. Besides his own architectural studio Atakarchitekti (with Jana Medlíková), he is civically and musically active, for example, in civic associations Zbytek, x-fatul, and the music group MCH band.

Štěpánka Bláhovcová
Graphic designer and illustrator. Works with overlaps into fine art. Collaborates with people and institutions whose work she finds personally interesting. It is important for her that what she contributes to makes sense. Then, it is inspiring work. During her studies, she attended several schools in the Czech Republic and abroad, graduating in 2008 from the FUD UJEP in the Graphic Design 2 studio. She has been freelancing since her studies. Her works have received several awards in the Czech Republic and abroad, and the book Work as in Church was awarded, among others, for the best book layout at the European Design Awards 2010.

Zdeněk Kvasnica
He founded a small graphic design studio in Zlín in 2012 with Marek Ehrenberg. Currently, Jozef Ondrík has replaced Marek, and the exploration of the borders of irony, sarcasm, and consumption has taken on a new dimension. DT's work aims to respond to the current state of graphic design and highlight the decline that is occurring. It attempts to find another path that could support the current visual quagmire.

Lukáš Kordík and Števo Polakovič
Architects based in Bratislava. Under the brand gutgut, they combine experience with boldness, contextual influences with contemporary trends, pragmatism with experimentation, research with practice. They work with the conviction that architecture in its diversity can answer the needs of today's society.

Vladimír Havlík
Born in 1959, a villager who moved to Olomouc at the age of eighteen. He primarily focuses on action art, most intensively at the turn of the 70s and 80s of the last century. Through poetic metaphors, he addresses interpersonal relationships and the relationship of humans to nature. Characteristic traits of his actions include: romance, naivety, humor, subtle irony, humorous exhibitionism…

Vojtěch Horálek
In 2010, he graduated from the painting studio of Michael Rittstein at the AVU in Prague. He deals with painting and object creation. He exhibits regularly. Since 2011, he has been teaching at DAMU.

Jáchym Kliment
Graduate of Štěpán Grygar's studio at the photography department of FAMU in Prague. He graduated in 2012 under the guidance of Jan Měřička. He works with photography and video as a medium for capturing human presence in the landscape. He explores themes of presence, entropy, the meaning of memory, and orientation in the landscape. He collaborates on projects Visualist.cz, Cidrerie.cz. Since 2010, he has been on a two-year internship in France. He works as a freelance photographer.

Martin Jančok
Graduate of the Faculty of Architecture STU in Bratislava. Between 2002-2009, he worked in the architectural studio zerozero in Prešov. In 2010, after moving to Bratislava, he founded his own studio Plural. Since 2012, he has been a PhD candidate at the FA STU in Bratislava. His largest project is the ongoing revitalization of the neo-Renaissance synagogue in Žilina designed by Peter Behrens and its transformation into a kunsthalle - New Synagogue.

Lubica Segečová
A graduate of graphic and product design at VŠVU in Bratislava. In 2011, she, along with Sylvie Jokelová and Silvie Lovasová, established the studio and gallery trivjednom. Since 2013, she has been working as an assistant at the Faculty of Art at Ostrava University in the graphic design studio Text / form / function. In her work, she moves across dimensions, and nothing interests her long enough for it to become a routine.

Michal Singer
He has risen to the position of a respected author thanks to his distinctive style and enormous energy. He is often compared to the modern-day Vincent van Gogh, whom he personally admires greatly. His works are represented in the collections of significant state and public institutions, and at the same time, he is a sought-after author among private collectors. His last major exhibition, ARGONAUTI, took place in April and May 2013 at Letohrádek Hvězda in Prague 6, where seventy paintings were exhibited.

Evžen Šimera
At PKNP, he will present documentation of unconventional work processes that led to the creation of artistic works presented at the exhibition Spirit of Material (GHMP, Old Town Hall, 2nd floor, until July 7, 2013). This exhibition concludes a three-year doctoral project that Šimera completed at VŠUP under Federico Díaz. The combination of artistic and scientific methods, relying on manifestations of chance and physical laws, has been present in Šimera's work since his studies at the AVU in Prague (under Vladimír Skrepla). At PKNP, you will learn what you won't see at the exhibition.

Diana Winklerová
A graduate of VŠUP in Prague, she studied sculpture under the guidance of Kurt Gebauer. She actively participates in cultural events in the visual arts and music, and teaches modeling at VŠUP in Prague. In her free work, she employs a wide range of media, with realizations most often taking the form of sculptures, objects, digital photographs, or computer manipulations or videos. She is a laureate of the Josef Hlávka award and the winner of the international design competition Young Packaging 2011.

H3T architects, KP-A, Jiří Žid, IUCH, Matěj Hájek, Julius Reichel, and Tomáš Skála
The awakening of the overgrown forest park in Vodňany was initiated by Jan Vlach (Vodňany Live), Pavel Janšta (City of Vodňany), and sculptor Matěj Hájek. The resulting six objects (Filip Friš's Fuller dome, Lookout for Two, Ark, Blindworm, Fata Morgana Gazebo, and Apollo) are an ephemeral beginning of further development of the entire area and an unusual example of collaboration between sculptors and architects on a landscape unit.