LARGE AVU

📢 OPEN CALL!

🌊 In 2026, “Sleeping Beauties,” the European programme initiated by the EUNIC Romania cluster, transforms Romania’s balneary and spa resorts into spaces for research and contemporary creation. Through an interdisciplinary approach, artists, researchers, and practitioners are invited to rediscover heritage and ecology within local communities in places caught between decline and regeneration.

🏖️ In Eforie Sud, the Czech Centre Bucharest, together with Goethe-Institut Bucuresti and Forumul Artelor Vizuale (Eforie Colorat), is organizing a residency from 10–23 August 2026 dedicated to artists and practitioners from the Czech Republic and Germany. The program explores the heritage of the Romanian seaside, from balneary modernism to post-socialist transformations and contemporary mass tourism.

📣 The open call is available until 21 May 2026 for professionals interested in heritage, ecology, and cultural regeneration, offering support for travel, accommodation, and production, as well as the opportunity to actively contribute to the sustainable reinterpretation of this unique cultural landscape.
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📢 OPEN CALL!

🌊 În 2026, „Sleeping Beauties”, programul european inițiat de clusterul EUNIC Romania, transformă stațiunile balneare din România în spații de cercetare și creație contemporană. Printr-o abordare interdisciplinară, artiști, cercetători și practicieni sunt invitați să redescopere patrimoniul și ecologia în cadrul comunităților locale din locuri aflate între declin și regenerare.

🏖️ La Eforie Sud, Centrul Ceh București, alături de Goethe-Institut Bucuresti și Forumul Artelor Vizuale (Eforie Colorat), organizează între 10–23 august 2026 o rezidență dedicată artiștilor și practicienilor din Cehia și Germania. Programul explorează patrimoniul litoralului românesc, de la modernismul balnear la transformările post-socialiste și turismul de masă contemporan.

📣 Apelul este deschis până pe 21 mai 2026 pentru profesioniști interesați de patrimoniu, ecologie și regenerare culturală, oferind sprijin pentru transport, cazare și producție, dar și șansa de a contribui activ la reinterpretarea sustenabilă a acestui peisaj cultural unic.

📽️ Réka Bucsi is a Hungarian animation filmmaker and visual artist. She graduated with a Master’s degree in animation from Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in 2013. Reka’s graduation film ‘Symphony no. 42’ was shortlisted for the Oscars in 2014. Her films were screened at various film festivals, including all of them premiering at the Berlinale Shorts Competition and further playing in competition at Sundance, Ottawa, AFI Fest, BFI London Film Festival and twice at SXSW. Réka’s short film ‘LOVE’ was nominated for Best Short Film at the European Film Awards. She became a European Film Academy Member in 2017. Her short film ‘Solar Walk’ won the Audi Short Film Award at the Berlinale in 2018.

🎬 We are looking forward to Réka’s film

🌕 Solar Walk 🌕

Flags are planted. Hands are held. First steps are taken on new worlds. And then the giant lets out a stream of black p**s and pees a brand new universe. Reason enough for the two creatures who landed in the new spot with the giant to jump into the vast blackness. Love in outer space. They become one with the new world. Solar Walk follows the journey of individuals and their creations in space.

The film screening will take place within the conference A Space in a Place It is Not, on 5th of December 2025 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague , AVU Veletržní building, Veletržní 826/61170 00 Prague 7.

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🎭 Jiří Adámek Austerlitz is a theatre author and director. He studied theatre directing at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, where he has been teaching since 2011. He founded his theatre company BocaLoca Lab in 2006. He has developed an original type of experimental theatre, in which he blends musically composed structures, the dominance of vocal expression, and an unusual approach to language. He is focused on the relationship between inanimate objects and humans and his work has been influenced by visual art. He has been awarded various prizes in the Czech Republic and abroad, especially for Ticks Ticks Politics (2006), From the Jungle Book (2007), The Europeans (2008), and The Lists of Infinity (2014).

➡️ We are looking forward to Jiří Adámek Austerlitz‘s conference vocalizations which is a collaboration with Fedir Kis and students from the third year of bachelor acting program at the Alternative and Puppet department at the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (DAMU): Eliška Čadová, Barbora Chrpová, Cyril Janeček, Adéla Kulhavá, Alexander Moberg, Šimon Ludvíček, Adam Trčka and Lucie Trilčová. 

➡️ The students–performers step into an unfamiliar environment and respond to the current mood and constellation with their own impulses. Their vocal expression is based on gibberish, childlike playfulness, and rhythmic patterns, reminding us of the creative sources that sometimes get lost under the weight of intellectual positions and ethical responsibility.

🔄 The perfomance will take place within the conference A Space in a Place It is Not, on 5th of December 2025 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague , AVU Veletržní building, Veletržní 826/61170 00 Prague 7.
 
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🎸 Peter Kolárčik is an artist and a musician, a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (AVU), and currently also a technical producer at AVU Veletržní. In his musical, artistic, and podcast projects he focuses on themes of (artistic) labour and its conditions, the inaccessibility of housing, and broader reflections on everyday experience within a system built on the accumulation of capital.

🎤 We are looking forward to Peter Kolárčik‘s performed lecture entitled:

💪 I DON’T WORK HERE 💪
 
Actually, I do.
But not for the duration of this performance.
Or presentation.
Or lecture.
Or concert?

The perfomance will take place within the conference A Space in a Place It is Not, on 5th of December 2025 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague , AVU Veletržní building, Veletržní 826/61170 00 Prague 7 between 12:00 -14:00 and 16:30 – 18:30.

                     

We are very much looking forward to the delightful performative food event entitled

🥒 How Many Artists Does It Take to Grow a Cucumber? 🥒
🥬 How Many Cucumbers Does It Take to Grow an Artist? 🥬

pepared as a conference contribution by the students from the AVU Intermedia 2 Studio ✦ Anna Hofmeisterová ✦ Jana Řehořová ✦ Barbora Miedzińska ✦ Elkin Kutluer ✦ Vilém Hušek ✦ Heorhii Rublik ✦ Jiří Klimenta ✦ Anna Chmelařová ✦ Adam Civín ✦ Adam Križovenský ✦ Erik Ždila ✦ Max Butrón ✦ Sofia Mary Pereira Forbes ✦ Martin-Alex Šičák ✦ Vanda Vacková Veselá ✦ Adéla Zemanová ✦ Viktoria Bobko ✦ Zuzana Jirsová ✦ Mikuláš Karban ✦ Matylda Habartová ✦ Julie Pechová ✦ Yehor Trineiev with pedagogues Roman Štětina, Pavla Sceranková and Dušan Zahoranský.

🥑 They are approaching the conference “catering” as an artistic framework of care, attention, and co-presence.The feast transforms into a living installation and ecological ritual where food becomes a medium of relations between people, plants, and the environment. The event follows the project Seedliště – a greenhouse and community laboratory at AVU – and expands its idea of cyclical growth, fermentation, and sharing.
 
🫛The event will be accompanied by musical performances by Adam Križovenský ✦ Max Butrón ✦ Erik Ždiľa and Viktoria Bobko.

📸 Radek Detinský

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📣 Dislocated Practices and Epistemis Drift 📣

Oldřich Semerák a theoretical physicist and associate professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, an institute that he led for several years. He has published extensively on topics such as spinning particles in general relativity, gravitating disks around black holes and relativistic motion forces that might enable an intuition of space-time geometries. In 2025, he received the Ernst Mach medal for his life-long contribution to physical sciences.

Jakub Podgorný is an astrophysicist, currently a post-doctoral researcher at the Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He has led several large observational campaigns, in particular with the IXPE mission (NASA), where he is a scientific participant. He published in rank-A journals, including Science and Nature Astronomy. He received the Czech Head Prize in 2024 (doctorandus natural sciences) and the Bruno Rossi Prize in 2024 of the American Astronomical Society for collective efforts with the IXPE team.

Markéta Magidová is a visual artist. In her work, she explores themes such as children’s imagination, gender or social norms, and the relationship between mythology and the present. She is the editor-in chief of ArteActa: A Journal of Performing Arts and Artistic Research at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.

Mel E. Logan is an artist whose pioneering work in sound sculpture and performance. She is the co-founding memberof the iconic collective Chicks on Speed.

Ben Woodard is a philosopher focused on the politicization of biology by way of eugenics, statistics, and the neglect of historical concepts in biological research. He is the author of numerous articles and books.

Irina Gheroghe is an artist and the head of the artistic research department LARGE at AVU Prague.

The discussion will take place within the conference A Space in a Place It is Not, on 5th of December 2025 at , AVU Veletržní building, Veletržní 826/61170 00 Prague 7.

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🪅 Mădălina Dan is a choreographer and performer, one of the established creators of contemporary dance in Romania. She is active on international stages, but also very present and involved in the local choreographic context. She creates complex contents and working methodologies that she shares in contexts that become spaces of communication, exploring connections between people, collectives and ideas. She is a graduate of the “Floria Capsali” Choreography High School in Bucharest and of the National University of Theatrical and Cinematographic Arts in Bucharest – Choreography section; she also graduated from UNATC with a Master in dramatic writing. Between 1998 and 2003 she was a member of the dance company “Oleg Danovski” in Constanta.  She was guest artist to the Herberger Institute, School of Dance (Arizona State University). Between 2014-2016 she studied in Berlin at HZT (Hochschulübergreifende Zentrum Tanz Berlin) in the SoDA (Solo/Dance/Authorship) master program. In 2015 she received the CNDB Award, and in 2016 she is Associate Artist of the National Center for Dance Bucharest.
🪅We are looking forward to Mădălina Dan‘s tactile choreography performance entitled

🩰 Ex-peau-sition 🩰

Concept and performance: Mădălina Dan
Sound design: Lala Misosniky, Joëlle Marie McGovern

The perfomance will take place within the conference A Space in a Place It is Not, on 5th of December 2025 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague , AVU Veletržní building, Veletržní 826/61170 00 Prague 7 between 12:00 -14:00 and 16:30 – 18:30.
🗓️ In order to register please send an email to [email protected] and indicate your preferred time from the following: 12:15, 12:45, 13:15, 13:45, 16:30, 17:00, 17:30, 18:00, 18:30, 19:00.
 
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    🎤 Mel E. Logan is a Vienna-based artist whose pioneering work in sound sculpture and performance has secured her international standing. A founding member of the Electronic music and fine art crossover genre Electroclash, she co-built the iconic collective Chicks on Speed while studying painting at Munich’s Akademie der Bildenden Künste in the 1990s. Logan’s practice seamlessly traverses the boundaries between the visual and the sonic. Her work utilizes unique tools to investigate subjects through technological and ecological translation. Antennas have been a part of her practice since 2020 when she built an installation for the Deutscheliteraturmuseum Marbach am Necker. For this she also collaborated with a local chorus youth chorus who performed a series of songs with antenna pieces playing.
 
Logan is represented by Galerie Gisela Clement in Bonn and holds the position of Senior Artist at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Die Angewandte).
 
We are looking forward to Mel E. Logan‘s interactive sonic sculpture entitled
 
📡 Antenna in the Mud   📡
(Interactive Sonic Sculpture of Four Antennas to be Activated by the Visitors)
 
🎼 Antenna in the Mud encourages humans working together. In order to hear the whole composition, the sculpture requires collaboration between four people activating the four Antennas.
 
The perfomance will take place within the conference A Space in a Place It is Not, on 5th of December 2025 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague , AVU Veletržní building, Veletržní 826/61170 00 Prague 7.
 
📷 Kevin Abusch, 2025