The Jindřich Chalupecký Award 2020 finalists chose to view the Award as an opportunity to mutually enrich one another and share a variety of artistic methods, and expressed a collective wish for the Award not to be granted to a single winner. This year, then, for the first time, there will be no laureate elected, and in place of the traditional award ceremony, this one-day celebration will bring together a number of exceptional artistic personalities.

During the symposium, the finalists will offer personal commentary on the works they created for the PLATO Ostrava gallery exhibition. In addition, some finalists will present live performances or music. The program will also include a discussion between finalists and representatives of the international jury, a guided tour of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award exhibition, and an exhibition by foreign guest artists Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz. Viewers will also be able to become more familiar with the work of this artistic duo during their artist talk. After the talk, a curated selection of videos from the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein Video-Forum archive will be shown, contextualizing the new Boudry and Lorenz‘s new choreographic-performative film (No) Time, which makes its premiere in Ostrava. Throughout the day, artists’ exhibition videos will be available online.

Director: Bohdan Bláhovec
Camera: Michal Blecha, Ivan Svoboda
Sound: Jakub Černý
Moderators: Tereza Jindrová, Karina Kottová, Veronika Čechová
Production: Sára Davidová, Jakub Lerch
Performers: Jakub Choma, Vjera Borozan, João Laia, Working Group for Research on Extrasensory Aesthetics (Matěj Pavlík, Jan Kolský, Peter Sit and Vojtěch Märc), Alma Lily Rayner, Anna Slama & Marek Delong, Xadrez, Jiří Žák, Sis of STYXX: Marta Ebenová, Eliška Fajmonová, Klára Fleková, Magdalena Havlová, Anežka Heinzlová, Mariana Hradilková, Rebeka Maxová, Natálie Rajnišová, Marie Tučková
Streaming: ALL DV

Held by Jindřich Chalupecký Society.
Co-organizer: PLATO Ostrava
The online Jury Weekend event was created in cooperation with ČT art and artyčok.tv.
We thank the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic for financial support.
In partnership with: Dolní oblast VÍTKOVICE

11 am
Opening Ceremony with Tereza Jindrová, Jindřich Chalupecký Society curator and Marek Pokorný, director of PLATO Ostrava

11.10 am
Guided Tour of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award 2020 Exhibition with curators Veronika Čechová and Karina Kottová

12 pm
Presentation of the artistic duo Anna Slama and Mark Delong

12.20 pm
Jakub Choma artist presentation

12.25 pm
Performance by Jakub Choma: Gears Of Life

1 pm
Presentation of the artistic collective Extrasensory-Aesthetics Working Group (Jan Kolský, Vojtěch Märc, Matěj Pavlík, Peter Sit)

1.20 pm
Marie Tučková artist presentation

1.25 pm
Performance by Marie Tučková: Sis of Styxx
performers: Marta Ebenová, Eliška Fajmonová, Klára Fleková, Magdalena Havlová, Anežka Heinzlová, Mariana Hradilková, Rebeka Maxová, Natálie Rajnišová, Marie Tučková

2 pm
Alma Lily Rayner artist presentation

2.15 pm
Jiří Žák artist presentation

2.30 pm
Live concert: XADREZ – Husam Abed and Cyril Kaplan

3 pm
Presentation of the international guests Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz

3.15 pm
Screening of videos contextualizing the film (No) Time by foreign guests of the exhibition Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz from the archive n.b.k. Video–Forum (Anetta Mona Chişa / Lucia Tkáčová, Anna Daučíková, Sanja Iveković, Hajnal Németh, Lia Perjovschi, Ming Wong and Haegue Yang)

4.15 pm
We Reject the Principle of Competition – a discussion with the Jindřich Chalupecký Award 2020 finalists
Moderated by Tereza Jindrová.

5.45 pm
Closing Ceremony