PLATO Bauhaus 2018–2024
Between 2018 and 2024, PLATO operated in the former Bauhaus home improvement store in the center of Ostrava, where it had nearly 5000 m² at its disposal for exhibitions, programs, and educational activities. This was a temporary location until the surrounding historical slaughterhouse from the late 19th century was renovated, which became its permanent residence in the fall of 2022. From the same year, 2022, when we moved our main activities to the new headquarters in the historical slaughterhouse, the space was primarily used by other institutions, schools, platforms, communities, and individuals until the end of June 2024. More than 200 artists, over 60 institutions, platforms, and communities, hundreds of schools, and thousands of visitors passed through the space. The owner of the building, the City of Ostrava, has long-term plans for new construction here.
Opening and closing: 11/4/2018–30/6/2024
Concept of the space and its usage: Marek Pokorný, Linda and Daniela Dostálkovy, Michal Novotný, Jakub Adamec, and Edith Jeřábková
Visual identity: Tomáš Celizna and Radim Peško
Exhibition space: 5,400 m²
Total usable area: 6,160 m²
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Functional Zones as Artworks
In the generous open space of the hall, there was a library with a reading room, a bistro with an adjoining covered garden, and a cinema that served as a relaxation zone during the day. We also built a large stage for concerts or theater performances and a bookstore. These parts of the gallery, including the infopoint, facilities for educational programs, and cloakroom, were built by PLATO over the course of a year in collaboration with artists from around the world. Thus, we offered functional zones and artworks in one space. Elements referencing the former function of the building, such as signs or wall paintings, were intentionally left in the interior of PLATO.
Authors of the Temporary Structures: Jan Šerých, Julia Gryboś & Barbora Zentková, Milan Houser, Johana Pošová, Dominika Olszowy, Atelier Partero, Matyáš Chochola, Rustan Söderling, Klára Hosnedlová, Marge Monko, Zbyněk Baladrán, Stéphanie Lagarde, Zuza Golińska, Daria Melnikova, Martin Zet, Than Hussein Clark in collaboration with CPWH, Wesley Meuris
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Visual Identity
Along with PLATO’s relocation to the former Bauhaus home improvement store, a new visual identity and website have been created. The authors are graphic designers Radim Peško and Tomáš Celizna. The identity draws on remnants of the formal language of the space, transforming them into a new narrative while simultaneously referencing the temporary nature of PLATO’s presence in the Bauhaus premises.
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Exhibitions
For one year, we gradually opened functional zones that we built as site-specific artworks within the Temporary Structures cycle. This was followed by three exhibition cycles: re:bauhaus (2019) commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus art school, Intensities (2020), where we explored various intensities shaping the contemporary world, and Oh and Hah, Beauty, Ruin and Slack (2021–2022), in which we named societal transformations using images and the concept of ruins (PLATO incorporated ruins – the remains of a former DIY store, the reconstructed ruins of former slaughterhouses, Ostrava as a ruin of the industrial era). International exhibition projects naturally included artists working in the region. During the COVID-19 pandemic, we also utilized interpreters for exhibitions. In 2020 and 2023, alongside Prague and Brno, we became co-organizers of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award exhibition.
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2023
2022
2021
- Author's Christmas Forest: Need–
- Daniela and Linda Dostálková: Verbal Slip–
- Marek Pražák: The Twelve Commandments–
- Jan Boháč & Viktor Dedek: Skeleton. Episode Two of the Euromedieval Saga–
- Anna Daučíková: Oh and Hah, and Oof. Somewhat More on Pedig\queer/ ree–
- Daniel Rycharski: Valentines / Ash Wednesday–
- Lenka Klodová: Leatherette and Other Imitations–
- Lili Reynaud-Dewar: Beyond the Land of Minimal Possessions–
- Kris Lemsalu Malone: Lazy Flower–
- Taus Makhacheva: Baida–
- Patrick Keiller: London – Robinson in Space – Robinson in Ruins–
- Richard Nikl: Klasikon(text intervention Jiří Maha)–
- Micol Assaël: Converting Words–
- Lukáš Jasanský & Martin Polák: A Foreman's Work–
- Future Is Female–
- Josse Pyl: O and H, B, R and S–
2020
2019
- Tradition today–
- Martin Groch: Mothers and Daughters–
- Barbora Přidalová: mind light / light mind–
- Lucie Rosenfeldová: Oh, my own?–
- Milena’s Song–
- Forum Arborum–
- bauhausTWINS–
- stageFor a Theatre on Mars– part of Temporary Structures 6
- education facilitiesYellow– part of Temporary Structures 6
- displayHouse of Muses– part of Temporary Structures 6
- cinemaEye Drop– part of Temporary Structures 5
- infopointShepherds– part of Temporary Structures 5
- displayThe Powerless Source of All Power– part of Temporary Structures 5
- Petr Písařík: The Name of the Skin–
2018
- displaySheer Indulgence– part of Temporary Structures 4
- decorConcept Decor 3– part of Temporary Structures 4
- cloakroomStudio Oléne– part of Temporary Structures 3
- displayLiquid Octagone– part of Temporary Structures 3
- decorConcept Decor 2– part of Temporary Structures 3
- gardenGarden of the Future– part of Temporary Structures 2
- decorConcept Decor 1– part of Temporary Structures 1
- bistroPLATO Café– part of Temporary Structures 1
- shopDynasty– part of Temporary Structures 1
- libraryMutual Investigations– part of Temporary Structures 1
Programme
We are interested in contemporary (visual) art in the context of other artistic disciplines and academic fields. At PLATO Bauhaus, we had two music series: one focused on contemporary experimental electronic music in collaboration with the Gin&Platonic platform, and another oriented towards contemporary artificial music curated by Daniel Brożek. We offered regular cinema screenings, lectures, debates, and meet-ups for parents with children, mineralogists, or people experiencing grief. Our most intensive efforts were dedicated to educational programmes for all school levels, from toddlers to teenagers. We regularly hosted the Summer Academy of Contemporary Art for educators. We experienced events such as the School of Thinking, School of Forgetting, School of Expressions, and the symposium Critical Styling.
Since 2022, when we relocated our main activities to a new venue in the historical slaughterhouses, the space has been used by other institutions, platforms, communities, and individuals. They have organized debates, workshops, seminars, exhibitions, festivals, concerts, or simply gathered in a safe space. Wedding has also been held here.
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Programme:
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6’24
- Roundtable:What next for the Bauhaus and its surroundings?A roundtable with experts, politicians, initiatives and members of the public on what will happen to the Bauhaus and the surrounding area from 1/7/2024, when PLATO is due to close. The event is open to the public.
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- Organized by:
- Antikvariát a klub Fiducia
- Discussion:Meeting of the Tenants‘ and Women Tenants’ InitiativeA meeting for people living in tenancies to share their problems and look together at how they can solve them and support each other.
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- Organized by:
- Iniciativa nájemníků a nájemnic
- –ReservationChildren’s Club:Hello Children!Workshop and artistic experiment for children aged 6–11, once a month on Wednesdays in the new PLATO with lecturer and artist Gabriela Pilařová.
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- –Workshop for families with children:The Third HandPsycho-motor circle for parents with toddlers (approx. 1,5–3 years old, age is only approximate).
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- Organized by:
- Jana Adamec Tkáčová a Michaela Mainx
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5’24
- Performance:Once the table fills up, something inevitably fallsThe Studio of performance FaVU presents for its klauzura a collective performance. Set as a dinner situation, the actions will deal with questions of memories and celebrations.
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- Organized by:
- Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno
- –ReservationTeenagers’ Club:Bauhaus ArtclubArt! Creation! Experiment! And sensitivity? Creative workshop for young people aged 13–17, once a month on Thursdays.
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- Discussion:Where has Ostrava moved 30 years after the end of mining?Coal mining in Ostrava ended 30 years ago. What impact has the end of mining had on local lives and the local economy?
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- Organized by:
- Okraj.cz
- –Workshop for families with children:The Third HandPsycho-motor circle for parents with toddlers (approx. 1,5–3 years old, age is only approximate).
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- Organized by:
- Jana Adamec Tkáčová a Michaela Mainx
4’24
- –ReservationChildren’s Club:Hello Children! sold outWorkshop and artistic experiment for children aged 6–11, once a month on Wednesdays in the new PLATO with lecturer and artist Gabriela Pilařová.
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- –Workshop for families with children:The Third HandPsycho-motor circle for parents with toddlers (approx. 1,5–3 years old, age is only approximate).
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- Organized by:
- Jana Adamec Tkáčová a Michaela Mainx
- Concert:SIKSA (PL), Säkkikangas + VJ JV (CZ)SIKSA is a Polish phenomenon famous throughout Europe. Concert? A monodrama? Pure punk performance. Support: the Ostrava audio-visual duo Säkkikangas + VJ JV.
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- Organized by:
- Martin Režný in cooperation with PLATO
- Lecture:Jan Bělíček: Is it possible to get rid of the author? The death of the author as an aesthetic and political problemIs it possible to separate the work from the personality of the author? Why did Barthes bury the author? How is the concept of authorship perceived by critics and what does it mean for art with the advent of autofiction? An evening with journalist and literary critic Jan Bělíček.
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3’24
- Cinema and discussion with guest:You Will Never See It AllA biographical probe into the life and work of the Czechoslovak conceptual artist Ján Mančuška, who made a name for himself in the world context. With the participation of director Štěpán Pech.
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- –Workshop for families with children:The Third HandPsycho-motor circle for parents with toddlers (approx. 1,5–3 years old, age is only approximate).
- ∆ PLATO Bauhaus
- Organized by:
- Jana Adamec Tkáčová a Michaela Mainx
- –ReservationChildren’s Club:Hello Children! sold outWorkshop and artistic experiment for children aged 6–11, once a month on Wednesdays in the new PLATO with lecturer and artist Gabriela Pilařová.
- ∆ PLATO Bauhaus
- –Workshop for families with children:The Third HandPsycho-motor circle for parents with toddlers (approx. 1,5–3 years old, age is only approximate).
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- Organized by:
- Jana Adamec Tkáčová a Michaela Mainx
- Concert:gin&PLATOnic: Forces / Atte Elias Kantonen / Natálie PlevákováThe next part of the music series will present two prominent names of the Finnish experimental scene: Forces and Atte Elias Kantonen. The evening will be opened by sound artist Natálie Pleváková.
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- –Children’s Club:Club in UkrainianWorkshops with Ukrainian lector for Ukrainian children aged 7–12 every week.
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- –Workshop:How to have a sensitive conversation with people who confide in us about their experience of sexual violence cancelledDue to great interest we are repeating the workshop.
- ∆ PLATO Bauhaus
- Organized by:
- Adriana - Place Where You Are Not Alone
- –Children’s Club:Club in UkrainianWorkshops with Ukrainian lector for Ukrainian children aged 7–12 every week.
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2’24
- –Children’s Club:Club in UkrainianWorkshops with Ukrainian lector for Ukrainian children aged 7–12 every week.
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- Closing event:Jindřich Chalupecký Award 2023 ExhibitionClosing of the exhibition of this year's five laureates of the most important Czech award for artists under 35.
- ∆ PLATO Bauhaus
- Organized by:
- Jindřich Chalupecký Society
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- Cinema:All That Breathes (2022, GB/IND/USA)Documentary film directed by Shaunak Sen.
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- Cinema:Animot (2021, ČR)Experimental documentary directed by Juliana Moska.
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- Cinema for children:Animal Farm (1954, GB/USA)Britain's first entertaining animated feature film based on George Orwell's satirical fable of the same name.
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- –Children’s Club:Club in UkrainianWorkshops with Ukrainian lector for Ukrainian children aged 7–12 every week.
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- –Workshop:How to have a sensitive conversation with people who confide in us about their experience of sexual violence cancelledDue to great interest we are repeating the workshop.
- ∆ PLATO Bauhaus
- Organized by:
- Adriana - Place Where You Are Not Alone
- –Children’s Club:Club in UkrainianWorkshops with Ukrainian lector for Ukrainian children aged 7–12 every week.
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- ReservationGuided tour:Jindřich Chalupecký Award 2023A guided tour of new original projects by this year's award-winning artists under 35, Kryštof Brůha, Lenka Glisníková, Petra Janda, Gabriela Těthalová and the Stony Tellers collective.
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- –ReservationTeenagers’ Club:Bauhaus ArtclubArt! Creation! Experiment! And sensitivity? Creative workshop for young people aged 13–17, once a month on Thursdays.
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12’23
- ReservationGuided tour:Jindřich Chalupecký Award 2023A guided tour of new original projects by this year's award-winning artists under 35, Kryštof Brůha, Lenka Glisníková, Petra Janda, Gabriela Těthalová and the Stony Tellers collective.
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- –ReservationTeenagers’ Club:Bauhaus ArtclubArt! Creation! Experiment! And sensitivity? Creative workshop for young people aged 13–17, once a month on Thursdays.
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- –Children’s Club:Дитячий клуб – Club in UkrainianWorkshops with Ukrainian lector for Ukrainian children aged 7–12 every week.
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- –ReservationWorkshop for families with children:Dance and perform for and with our little onesFor children from 1.5 to 4 years. Cecilia Bengolea and her son would love to share their dance practice. Cumbia, dancehall and reggae will be in our playlists so we can dance and perform for each other.
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- Discussion:Where is the transformation of coal regions heading?Come and ask. Panel debate on coal-free future.
- ∆ PLATO Bauhaus
- Organized by:
- Platforma pro skutečně spravedlivou transformaci with support of Re-set
- –Children’s Club:Дитячий клуб – Club in UkrainianWorkshops with Ukrainian lector for Ukrainian children aged 7–12 every week.
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- Vernisáž:Jindřich Chalupecký Award 2023Opening of the exhibition of laureates of the most important Czech award for artists under 35 years of age.
- ∆ PLATO Bauhaus
- Organized by:
- Jindřich Chalupecký Society in cooperation with PLATO
- –ReservationChildren’s Club:Hello Children!Workshop and artistic experiment for children aged 6–11, once a month on Wednesdays in the new PLATO with lecturer and artist Gabriela Pilařová.
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10’23
- Performance:Reunion / Spectaculo InteressePerformance as part of the international puppet theatre festival Spectaculo Interesse.
- ∆ PLATO Bauhaus
- Organized by:
- Divadlo loutek Ostrava
- Lecture and discussion:Stavba měst podle uměleckých zásad / Day of architecture 2023Reading from Camillo Sitte's book as part of the 13th edition of the nationwide festival.
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- Organized by:
- Spolek Kruh
- Opening:Ostrava … jako souměstí / Day of architecture 2023One-day exhibition of urban planning projects of CTU students.
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- Organized by:
- Spolek Kruh
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- –Children’s Club:Дитячий клуб – Club in UkrainianWorkshops with Ukrainian lector for Ukrainian children aged 7–12 every week.
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- –ReservationWorkshop for families with children:batoPLATO sold outA collaborative experiential workshop for children aged 4–6 and their parents led by Hana and Tomáš Volkmer.
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- –Children’s Club:Дитячий клуб – Club in UkrainianWorkshops with Ukrainian lector for Ukrainian children aged 7–12 every week.
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- Concert:At dawn: Kult MasekMusic with sunrise. Live performance of the Kult Masks project. A melancholic synth flight through a desolate universe. Breakfast.
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- In cooperation with:
- Gin&Platonic
5’23
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- Concert:gin&PLATOnic: sineraw (ITA) • kuthi jin (ITA) • mʊdʌki (BLR/CZ)The next concert of the music series will present representatives of the Italian experimental-club scene. The wild live sets of Kuthi Jin and Sineraw will be complemented by the Czech-based Belarusian producer and sound artist mudaki.
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- Ve spolupráci s:
- Gin&Platonic
- –Children’s Club:Дитячий клуб – Club in Ukrainian sold outWorkshops with Ukrainian lector for Ukrainian children aged 7–12 every week.
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4’23
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- Film screening and discussion:Sashko Protyah and FreefilmersAn evening with Ukrainian director and Freefilmers collective member Sashko Protyah.
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- –ReservationSeminar and discussion:Institutional flexibilityAn afternoon dedicated to institutional flexibility in the current time of continuous crises and forms of cooperation with Ukrainian artists.
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3’23
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- Concert:gin&PLATOnic: Fausto Mercier (HU) • Paszka (PL) • Lénok (SK)The beginning of the third season of the music series will present outstanding sound designers from Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia. Gin&Platonic will have a launch party in PLATO for their new release published by paszka label.
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- –Workshop for families with children:Nature through children's eyesA fun afternoon for children on the topic of climate protection.
- ∆ PLATO Bauhaus
- Organized by:
- Fridays for Future Ostrava
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12’22
- –ReservationWorkshop for families with children:batoPLATO sold outA collaborative experiential workshop for children aged 4–6 and their parents led by Hana and Tomáš Volkmer.
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- –Children’s Club:Дитячий клубРегулярні художні майстер-класи з українською лекторкою для українських дітей віком 7-12 років щопонеділка в PLATO Bauhaus.
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- Thursday Cinema:The Master (USA, 2012)A Naval veteran arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future until he is tantalized by the Cause and its charismatic leader. Curatorial selection by film critic Antonín Tesař.
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- Opening:Painter of the YearExhibition of works submitted within the Painter of the Year competition and announcement of its result.
- ∆ PLATO Bauhaus
- Organized by:
- Secondary School of Art in Ostrava
11’22
- Concert:Spatial Dissonance #6: gamut incThe Sum to Infinity for Sound Devices concert of the Berlin duo gamut inc combines their DIY autonomous musical instruments with the captivating sounds of classical synthesizers.
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- –Children’s Club:Дитячий клубРегулярні художні майстер-класи з українською лекторкою для українських дітей віком 7-12 років щопонеділка в PLATO Bauhaus.
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10’22
- Thursday Cinema:Force Majeure (S/F/N/DK, 2014)A fascinating film revealing human behaviour in reaction to extreme situations. Curatorial selection by film critic Antonín Tesař.
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- Discussion and presentation:The potential of the site and the building of the former Bauhaus Hobby MarketWhat could be the future use of the Bauhaus? Presentation of projects by students of the FA ČVUT in Prague and public discussion with the director of MAPPA Ondřej Vysloužil.
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- Concert:gin&PLATOnic: Aircode (S/UK) • hmurd (UK) • Strachkvas (CZ)This year's last concert from the joint series with Gin&Platonic will present two London-based contemporary experimental club electronic music projects.
- ∆ PLATO Bauhaus
- –Children’s Club:Дитячий клубРегулярні художні майстер-класи з українською лекторкою для українських дітей віком 7-12 років щопонеділка в PLATO Bauhaus.
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- Thursday Cinema:White Cube (NL/BE/CG, 2020)Can the working class such as those on plantations in the Congo benefit from Art, instead of being victimized by it through gentrification? A documentary by Dutch director and artist Renzo Martens.
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- –ReservationTeenagers’ Club:Bauhaus ArtclubArt! Creation! Experiment! And sensitivity? Creative workshop for young people aged 13–16, once a month on Thursdays.
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- Meeting point for people in sorrow:When the war is nearA space to explore the relationship between war and grief and anxiety. With psychiatrist Kateřina Duchoňová, social worker Bára Klinovská and therapist Jakub Černý.
- ∆ PLATO Bauhaus
- –Children’s Club:Дитячий клубРегулярні художні майстер-класи з українською лекторкою для українських дітей віком 7-12 років щопонеділка в PLATO Bauhaus.
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6’22
- –ReservationWorkshop for families with children:batoPLATO cancelledJoint art workshop for children from 2,5 to 4 years of age and their parents led by Hana and Tomáš Volkmer.
- Concert and Breakfast:At Dawn: Antonina Nowacka (PL) • Misty Picture (CZ/BE)Sunrise in the garden and live sets by experimental musician Antonina Nowacka and post-ambient duo Misty Picture. In collaboration with the Gin&Platonic collective.
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- A month of open doors in the slaughterhouse:Jatka už se nevybuli – an evening with the association Okrašlovací spolek Za krásnou Ostravu sold outAn evening with and for everyone who was not indifferent to the fate of the dilapidated cultural heritage site of the former slaughterhouse. A poetic recapitulation.
- Friday Cinema:My Unknown Soldier (CZ/SK/LV, 2018)A documentary by Anna Kryvenko offers an original perspective on the occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968. It investigates how we deal with collective memory, which then defines our perspective of the present.
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- Friday Cinema:Greeting to the Swallows (CSSR, 1972)Chamber drama by Jaromil Jireš presents Marie Kudeříková, a communist resistance fighter executed by the Nazi at the age of twenty-two.
- –ReservationWorkshop for families with children:batoPLATOJoint art workshop for children from 1,5 to 2,5 years of age and their parents led by Hana and Tomáš Volkmer.
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- ∫Friday Cinema:Fuocoammare: Fire at Sea (IT/FR, 2016)A document that makes it impossible to turn your eyes away from the situation of migrants on Lampedusa Island.
- –ReservationWorkshop for families with children:batoPLATOJoint art workshop for children from 1,5 to 2,5 years of age and their parents led by Hana and Tomáš Volkmer.
- –Meeting point for parents with children:Which school for our children?Advantages and disadvantages of state and alternative educational institutions. Community morning by parents for parents.
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- Friday Cinema:The Accused (Czechoslovakia, 1964)Drama based on novel by Lenka Hašková with Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos as directors.
- –ReservationWorkshop for families with children:batoPLATO sold outMiss Dot and Mr Point are back in PLATO! Workshop for children (1,5–2,5 years) with Hana and Tomáš Volkmer.
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- ∫Friday Cinema:Patrick Keiller: Robinson in Ruins (GB, 2010)The last part of a film trilogy presents an intoxicating mixture of documentary observation, philosophical reasoning and quasi-narrative story.
- –ReservationWorkshop for families with children:batoPLATOMiss Dot and Mr Point are back in PLATO! Workshop for children (1,5–2,5 years) with Hana and Tomáš Volkmer.
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10’20
- Festival NORMA:Marek Meduna & Grottup – Refrain (CZ) cancelledNORMA’s commission from artist Marek Meduna and his new group Grottup: a project on the borderline of performance and rap concert.
- Festival NORMA:Leïla Ka: Pode ser (FR) cancelledMultiple award-winning performance by French dancer Leïla Ka combines Schubert’s music and hip hop.
- Festival NORMA:Martin Mazanec, Dominik Gajarský: Autonomous Cinema (CZ) cancelledA series of videos by international artists discussing the autonomous zone. Selection by curator Martin Mazanec and visual artist Dominik Gajarský.
- Festival NORMA:Paweł Sakowicz: Jumpcore (PL) cancelledPerformance by internationally established dancer and performer Paweł Sakowicz. Jumpcore is the first dance project to be bought by the Zachęta – the Polish National Gallery of Art.
- –Festival:NORMA cancelledWe are sorry to announce that the program is canceled due to the latest government measures.
- Festival NORMA:Zuzana Sceranková, Natálie Rajnišová: A Desert Island Protects 15,000 Inhabitants (CZ) cancelledInhabitants of Desert Island can never meet because it is desert.
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- Friday Cinema:Fitzcarraldo (West Germany, 1982)Screening of Werner Herzog’s most ambitious film and one of the jewels of European cinematography.
- –Meeting point for families with children:What do human offspring need for their healthy development?A morning discussion with ethnologist Anna Pohořálková about where the biological needs of children end, and the cultural ones start.
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- –Seminar:Moments of collective pleasure in the time of the industry of happiness (part 2)Seminar about possible responses to fatigue, dissatisfaction and spleen in the culture of individuation and acceleration.
- –Workshop for families:The Best Possible Screenplay / An Imaginative Warm-UpSunday workshop for parents with children with artist Monika Volfová and sociologist Mikuláš Černík.
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- –Performance reading:I Love 69 Popgejů / Josef Váchal: Sermon ad calendas graecas against the sin of hastePerformance reading
- –Lecture:Moments of collective pleasure in the time of the industry of happiness (part 1)Lecture and discussion about possible responses to fatigue, dissatisfaction and spleen in the culture of individuation and acceleration.
- –Friday Cinema with Discussion:Apolena Rychlíková: Manifest jiné práce (2016) and Biologicky předurčené k chudobě (2018)Film screening and discussion.
- –Workshop:Václav Drozd: On manager’s solar plexusWorkshop about union organising for employees of (cultural) institutions.
- –Workshope and lecture:Eva Rossal: Creative ethnography – assumptions, ideas, processesWorkshop and lecture on research making use of contemporary art, cultural animation and ethnography.
- –Lecture:Tomasz Rakowski: Shared space, individual space – art, ethnography and every dayLecture for those interested in the dialogue between artistic and ethnographic-anthropological method.
- –Discussion:Recycling behind the rainbow of binsDiscussion with representatives of dumpster diving [searching bins and taking foodstuff and things found in them] from Food Not Bombs organization, Ostrava City Hall, OZO Ostrava company and digital waste market Cyrkl.
- –Lecture:Vojtěch Kundrát: Mass for nothingLecture on the chemistry of materials beyond the borders of industrial use.
- –Workshop:Pavel Sterec: The art of non-growthWorkshop for high school students.
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- Meeting point for people in sorrow:Sadness and transformation in the city cancelledMeeting point is a space to study the relation between urban transformations and emotions such as sadness and anxiety. An evening with therapist Jakub Černý and publicist Alžběta Medková.
- –ReservationWorkshop for children:batoPLATO cancelledSlečna Tečka a pan Bod vyšli spolu na pochod… Workshop pro děti (1,5–3 roky) s Hanou a Tomášem Volkmerovými.
- ReservationGuided tour:Curators’ tour of the Skɪz(ə)m exhibitionTour of the Skɪz(ə)m photography exhibition with Daniela and Linda Dostálková.
- –ReservationProgramme for teenagers:Express Yourself!Do you need to improve your communication skills and self-confidence? Six workshops for young people (15–18 years).
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- Friday Cinema:Housing Crisis – film and discussionDocumentary Rent Rebels (Germany, 2017) and discussion about the housing crisis with documentarist Apolena Rychlíková and architect Jakub Nakládal.
- –ReservationWorkshop for children:batoPLATO sold outA huge space for drawing, with a variety of brushes, rollers and large foam rubber stamps and. Workshop for children aged 1.5–3 led by Hana Volkmerová and Tomáš Volkmer.
- –ReservationWorkshop for children:batoPLATO cancelledWe apologize to inform you that the workshop has been canceled due to illness of the lecturers. Thank you for your understanding.
- –ReservationProgramme for teenagers:Express Yourself!Do you need to improve your communication skills and self-confidence? Six workshops for young people (15–18 years).
12’19
- Friday Cinema:Special screening of trilogy “Moravia, Beautiful Land” / with the author as a guestPetr Šprincl’s Moravian Slovakia film epic on Moravian nationalism and satanism; a trilogy.
- Friday Cinema:Blue Box (work in progress)Ku Klux Klan, orthodox Jews, black Jews, and other crazy people. Presentation of “Blue Box”, an experimental documentary in the making by Petr Šprincl and Marie Hájková.
- Meeting point for families with children:How to stand the test of sex education / guest Lucie JarkovskáLecture and discussion about how to face the issue of sex education of children; what mistakes to avoid and how to deal with one’s own shyness in from of inhibition-less children.
11’19
- Friday Cinema:Echoes of the Mezipatra Queer Film Festival & guest David FeslArtist David Fesl selected the most interesting films from the Mezipatra Queer Film Festival 2019 and personally presents them in PLATO.
- Concert:AccordionsWorld premieres of solo and chamber compositions for accordion performed by guests and course teachers as part of the festival Hudební současnost.
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- Lecture and discussion:Markéta Kutilová: Turkey in range—The war in SyriaLecture with Markéta Kutilová, war reporter, journalist, humanitarian worker and co-author of books to the Islamic State at range I and II.
- –Workshop:A Night Out 2019PLATO joins a campaign supporting the homeless, and you can help, too. Try for yourself what it’s like to sleep on the street or take part in our workshop.
- –ReservationProgramme for teenagers:Art JukeboxExperimental cycle of seven meetings for young people (14–16 years). Application deadline 30/9.
- Lecture:Markéta Vinglerová: Let’s finally start talking about textile!Curator and art historian (Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague) will suggest starting points and pre-requisites for the unprecedented boom of textile art and design in postwar Czechoslovakia.
- Lecture:Zuzana Bauerová: Conservator-restoration worker = Indiana Jones with a whip for the past and the future?Evening with an expert engaged in history, theory, and methodology of restoration.
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- Concert:Julek Ploski (PL)Julek Ploski is one of the most famous names of contemporary experimental electronic scene in Poland. Guest: Silesian producer of supernatural forest drones Lišaj. The evening will be closed by Gin&Platonic.
- –Reservation"Bauhausian" Workshop:Jewellery Making sold outThe third of our special series of full-day crafts workshops for the public, launched in the year of the Bauhaus Art School’s 100th anniversary.
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- Festival NORMA:Luna Cenere: Kokoro (IT)Personal research of the ‘unicity of the self’. The author Luna Cenere was selected as one of the 20 best new talents in Europe in 2018.
- Festival NORMA:Nach: Cellule (FR)Cellule refers to the Krump dance born in Los Angeles in the 2000s following race riots, Nach is presenting a personal version, freed from the past but loyal to the peers of the movement.
- Festival NORMA:Renata Piotrowska-Auffret: Pure Gold Is Seeping Out of Me (PL)Performance about the non-obviousness of motherhood.
- Festival NORMA:Chiara Bersani: Seeking Unicorns (IT)Seeking Unicorns by Chiara Bersani is a solo of subtle beauty and intelligence.
- –Festival Norma:Debate with artistsInformal discussion led by theater critic Martin Macháček with the art director of the festival Jan Horák, director of PLATO Marek Pokorný, artists, festival guests and public.
- Festival NORMA:Núria Guiu Sagarra: Likes (ESP)‘Likes’ explores the phenomenon of cover dance and yoga tutorials on social networks.
- Festival NORMA:Giuseppe Chico, Barbara Matijevič: Forecasting (I/HR)Forecasting is based on a collection of amateur videos taken from the world's largest video-sharing website: YouTube.
- Festival NORMA:Tereza Hradilková, Floex and xcoll.: Don’t stop (CZ)In her new project Tereza Hradilková tests the possibilities of expressing the un-graspable worlds of music, passion, sexuality…
- Festival NORMA:Marguerite Duras: La Douleur (Pain/Memoir of War) (CZ)Production by Studio Hrdinů. An exceptional sensitively described portrait of a woman who, in the mass madness at the end of the war, saves humankind with her effort to save a single man.
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- Presentation:Tomáš Celizna and Radim Peško – Visual identity of PLATOTomáš Celizna and Radim Peško, graphic designers working in Amsterdam and London, will present the creative process and basic elements of PLATO’s visual identity, as well as other projects from the past years.
- –ReservationProgramme for teenagers:Art JukeboxExperimental cycle of seven meetings for young people (14–16 years). Application deadline 30/9.
- Friday Cinema with a lecture:Miloš Hroch and Karel Veselý: All Cats Are GreyWhere do depressions in pop come from and why is today’s independent music so obsessed with sadness? A gallery talk with video clips by music journalists known from Radio Wave or the Full Moon and A2 magazines.
- –ReservationMeeting point:For parents and children / workshop BatoPLATOA huge space for drawing, a variety of brushes, rollers, or large foam rubber stamps. You can even paint with your small hands and feet. Dating event and workshop for parents with children led by Hana Volkmerová and Tomáš Volkmer.
9’19
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- Friday Cinema:Nobody Gets the Last Laugh (Czechoslovakia, 1965)Feature film debut of Hynek Bočan with Nikdo se nebude smát (Nobody Gets the Last Laugh), inspired by a tale from Milan Kundera’s short stories collection Směšné lásky (Laughable Loves).
- –Climate strike:Smog FlagOn the day of the worldwide climate strike, PLATO will hang the smog flag by artist Marius Konvoj. It will then be hung whenever the pollutants in the Ostrava air exceed the limit , according to the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute.
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- Discussion:What to Do with the Number of Likes when the End of the World Is NearHow the “new” stereotype is visualised? Panellists: Hana Janečková, Marie Lukáčová and Petr Bittner. Presenter Anna Remešová.
- Exhibition opening:Milena’s SongA debut of a video by Marie Lukáčová and Anna Remešová (2019).
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- Friday Cinema and discussion:Just Do It: A Tale of Modern-day Outlaws (Great Britain, 2011)The director Emily James spent more than a year in activist groups to document their secret activities. Stories of people who refuse to take part in the devastation of the planet are inspirational and amusing.
- –Meeting point:For parents with children / guest Kateřina OlivováMeeting point is a new regular format the first edition of which is dedicated to parents with children. The presenter of the morning programme is mother, artist and founder of the Nursing Guerrilla Kateřina Olivová.
- Afterparty:Jan Franek spins vinyl from his collectionThe opening’s afterparty will have as its DJ musician, social worker and activist, Jan Franek.
- Exhibition opening:bauhausTWINSA spatial installation by the Berlin architect Robert K. Huber and the zukunftsgeraeusche. We are launching a programme marking the centenary of the Bauhaus.
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- Afterparty:Tomáš Knoflíček plays vinyls from his collectionThe afteparty of the Temporary Structures exhibition opening will be prepared by the musician, curator and art historian Tomáš Knoflíček who lectures at the Art Faculty of Ostrava University and is a member of the Gurun Gurun group.
- Exhibitions opening and performance:Temporary Structures 6 (stage, educational facility, display)We open a stage for performances designed by American artist Than Hussein Clark, a facility for educational programmes by the Czech artist Martin Zet and a presentation area (display) by the Latvian artist Daria Melnikova. Final cycle of a year-round project.
3’19
- –ReservationWorkshop with artist:Together or alone?How does collective form work? What are its pros and cons? Workshop with Slovenian artist Tobias Putrih, currently exhibiting a large mobile three-dimensional structure at PLATO.
- –ReservationWorkshop for artists and students:Workshop with Tobias PutrihWorkshop for artists and students with Slovenian artist Tobias Putrih organized around the question of collective form.
- –ReservationFirst projection in the cinema:Construction of a temporarily changing Collection – Topics, Emphases and Golden ThreadsScreening of video works by Agnieszka Polska from the collection of Deutsche Telekom, introduced and commented by Nathalie Hoyos and Rainald Schumacher.
- Afterparty:Zuzana Šrámková and Petr Ondráček, play LPs from their collectionZuzana Šrámková and Petr Ondráček, members of the At Bona Fide band, play vinyls from their collection. Shoegaze and guitars of all sorts.
- Exhibition opening:Temporary Structures 5 (cinema, infopoint, display)We are opening a cinema by Zuza Golińska, a new form of visitors’ facilities designed by Stéphanie Lagarde and a third presentation space created by Zbyněk Baladrán.
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- –ReservationWorkshop for families led by artist:Workshop led by Ladislava GažiováWe are pleased to invite you to the family workshop led by Ladislava Gažiová.
- –All-day programme:Minority? Majority? Community! Bedřiška!Community Day with the inhabitants of the Bedřiška settlement. Presentation, screening, concert, cooking, workshop…
- –Workshop:A Night Out 2018PLATO joins a campaign supporting the homeless, and you can help, too. Try for yourself what it’s like to sleep on the street or take part in our workshop.
- Lecture:Michal Novotný: Artists. Just charlatans. Boast about their independence.A lecture on the subject of the autonomy of a work of art and the idea of art independent of political, economic and social influences.
- –ReservationStudy group:Experimental physics for childrenRegular afternoon group for children (5–10 years).
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- –ReservationStudy group:Experimental physics for childrenRegular afternoon group for children (5–10 years).
- ReservationConsultations with curators:Consultations with Daniela & Linda Dostálková sold outThe consultations on the subject of creating a portfolio of selected artworks are intended for artists and art school students.
- –Concert:Space dissonance #2 / Ensemble MosaikContemporary classical music. Ensemble Mosaik from Berlin as an example of the best of the German music scene. Electro-acoustic dialogue with the space of the former DIY store.
- –ReservationStudy group:Experimental physics for childrenRegular afternoon group for children (5–10 years).
9’18
- –Film festival:10 Ostrava Camera Eye: Martin Kohout’s Night ShiftProjection of audiovisual films by the winner of the Jindřich Chalupecký Prize; the artist will be present.
- –ReservationWorkshop for children:10 Ostrava Camera Eye: Free Cinema – projection of the films Malá and BohaiWorkshop for children, or How to understand the language of films.
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- –Theatre:The Kingdom. A Flower Musical not only for ChildrenThe most successful original play by the Anička a letadýlko theatre for children and their (grand)parents.
- –ReservationWorkshop for families:A Book? After an Hour and a HalfA book in an untraditional way! A family workshop led by the lecturers and artists Lucie Petrošová and Lucie Otisková.
- –ReservationWorkshop for children:Saigon Pic NicWorkshop for children only (7–12 years) with the artists Ivo Škuta and Michal Zych from Ostrava’s Saigon, an allied “fine art gallery a la Vietnamese” on the subject of food and recycling.
- –Panel discussion:Ploughing the Field (situation of the local art scene)Debate with leading figures of the Ostrava independent scene on the current situation on the art and music scene.
- –Screening:Films about Almost AnythingA series of short video films by the Rebels of Lemešany and a group of young Romani YouTubers from Vranov nad Topľou.
- Presentation and debate:From Here To Eternity! Ask the Director of PLATOA meeting with PLATO director Marek Pokorný. What are the plans of the city gallery? Come and ask!
- –ReservationWorkshop for adults:Deductive MethodThe first of regular workshops for adults as PLATO’s programme premiere. Together with the sculptors Anna Ročňová and Jan Boháč you will try out some of their creative methods.
- Discussion:Defending Our and Others’ RightsAn evening with judge of the Constitutional Court Kateřina Šimáčková and the political scientist Ondřej Slačálek.
- –Screening:Films about Almost AnythingA series of short video films by the Rebels of Lemešany and a group of young Romani YouTubers from Vranov nad Topľou.
- Discussion:Adam Szymczyk: documenta 14 – A Public InstitutionA meeting with the art director of documenta 14 (2017, Kassel, Athens) Adam Szymczyk.
- –Performance:Dominika Olszowy: Amor FatiAmor Fati, an all-day performance by Dominika Olszowy, is a cycle of repeating small theatre shows for which PLATO Café constitutes the main stage design. The PLATO Café project has also inspired their scenarios. They are mini rituals fighting for love for one's own destiny.
- –Panel discussion:The Public and Contemporary ArtRepresentatives of institutions from the Czech Republic whose principal task is to present and disseminate contemporary visual art discuss the ways in which they approach and work with the public.
- DJ set:AfterpartyDJ set of contemporary experimental music performed by Gin & Platonic.
- Opening of the exhibitions:Temporary Structures 1Julia Gryboś & Barbora Zentková, Milan Houser, Dominika Olszowy, Johana Pošová, Jan Šerých and laureates of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award from the Magnus Art Collection.