Artists and collectives in the exhibition

Cooperative Racek supports community housing in an old villa in Děčín. They connect neighbours through cultural and educational activities. Withing the exhibition, they lead a workshop focused on practical steps to respond to the current housing crisis.

Eva Jiřička creates works that show how different groups of people see the world and what they find meaningful. For the exhibition, she focuses on seniors living in retirement homes and explores which objects they keep, what memories these objects hold, and how younger generations understand them.

Helush Yiraq studies natural phenomena and their connection to place, often through performance. For the exhibition she presents Silence, a project in which she and the participants explore snow, trying to understand it and connect with it through direct experience.

Katarina Šević & Gergely László The artists present The Curfew, a performance they realised in the streets of Budapest in 2017. The work took the form of a street play that pointed to the misuse of power and limits on freedom. The performers wore costumes and used sound to create a strong public event.

Lucie Králíková (Efemér) brings old traditions and rituals into the present to help people share experiences and connect with their surroundings. For the exhibition she created a project in which a symbol of the Virgin Mary is passed between households. The result is a set of photographs and notes capturing the atmosphere of these meetings.

Pojď ven! / Av avri! z. s. is a group of volunteers who spend time with children from Janov (Litvínov) and other places where families often face poverty and prejudice. They organise trips, camps and creative activities that support children’s imagination, confidence and sense of belonging.

Polina Khatsenka is a sound artist from Czechia and Belarus. Her installation Resonant Shelter invites visitors to hear and feel sounds from the Ore Mountains (Krušné hory), inspired by local myths and legends.

Ramiro Wong lives and works between Vienna and Peru. His art grows out of his own experience of moving between cultures. For the exhibition he prepared a shared meal that brought participants together. From the dishes left after the meal, he created objects that reflect migration, loss of home and shared moments.

Romana Hagyo and Silke Maier-Gamauf – an artistic duo from Vienna explored how people of different genders and backgrounds use public space in Ústí nad Labem. They ask who the city is open to and who does not feel safe in it due to prejudice or barriers.

Slavs and Tatars is an art collective from Berlin that studies the cultures and histories of Eurasia, often with humour and unexpected links. For the exhibition, they created To Nobody and Two, an installation combining reading, objects and spatial play. The work explores how shared and individual experiences meet. After ten years, Slavs and Tatars are exhibiting in the Czech Republic. Their work has been shown in the past at venues such as New York's MoMA.

Belonging in Postcontemporaneity (Enge Klinkáč, Hana Kokšalová, Štefan Pecko) This collective studies how people, animals and various services interact and depend on each other in both landscape and city. Their installation shows stories and relationships from northern Bohemia through sound and materials, revealing how shared space is constantly changing.

Tereza Sýkorová explores how people and nature are connected. She works with recycled materials, such as old textiles. The exhibition presents her installation Nothing exists alone, which shows that everything we do affects the world around us and supports shared creativity and cooperation.

FOTO / Filip Trubač, Jiří Dvořák