Ilona Németh’s exhibition Fragile Gardens in Adaptation at the Ústí nad Labem House of Arts continues her long-term exploration of gardens as cultural, social, and environmental spaces. The show connects several ongoing projects: When we arrive here… II, a gallery adaptation of her Paris installation, the Thuja Project, documenting the vanishing trees of her hometown; and Control Barriers, new ceramic works created with Ideal Standard in Teplice that explore the tension between freedom and control.

The exhibition also features the tapestry Crystallization Point, depicting the 2024 demolition of a historic Slovak sugar refinery chimney—a meditation on disappearance, memory, and globalization. Complementary works, including Spheres from Roses, ceramic wall tiles, and the video Ship, weave together personal history with wider social and ecological concerns.

The guided tour will be in English.