A lecture by a curator and art and architecture critic will present the story of the Kosmos cinema in Třinec – a remarkable building and social centre – against the background of the local dialect.

Markéta Žáčková is a curator and art and architecture critic. She works at the Department of Art History and Theory at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Brno University of Technology, where she also serves as vice-dean. Her research focuses on the history of urbanism, regional planning, and the relationship between art and architecture, while also examining associated practices of power and commissioning. As a co-founder of CCEA, the Centre for Central European Architecture, and a member of the Café Utopia curatorial team, she has contributed to forming the contemporary architectural and cultural discourse. She resides in Brno.

Markéta Žáčkova was in residence at PLATO. The residency program is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic and Moravian-Silesian Region.