Key details
Time
- 10am – 5pm
Location
- External (UK)
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Czech Centre & Czech Embassy, 30 Kensington Palace Gardens, London, W8 4PU
Price
- Free
Who could attend
- Everyone
Type
- Exhibition
An indoor and outdoor exhibition at the Czech Centre and Czech Embassy in London curated collaboratively by students from our Graduate Diploma in Art & Design and from Photography 2 studio at Prague's Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design.
The exhibition is open Tuesday to Friday from 10am to 5pm or other times by appointment at [email protected].
Following Josef Pleskot's reflection on city highways as scars or hardened arteries of the urban organism, the collaborative exhibition project Highway Mindway challenges us to think differently about public spaces: how the highway as an architectural paradigm invites us to find new ways of understanding cities and communication alike.
As urban motorway, that literally and figuratively divides the city, while inviting new connectivities, the highway can become a pedestrian zone with views of landmarks, a space for cultural and leisure activities.
Following Josef Pleskot's reflection on city highways as scars or hardened arteries of the urban organism, the collaborative exhibition project Highway Mindway challenges us to think differently about public spaces: how the highway as an architectural paradigm invites us to find new ways of understanding cities and communication alike.
As urban motorway, that literally and figuratively divides the city, while inviting new connectivities, the highway can become a pedestrian zone with views of landmarks, a space for cultural and leisure activities.
As a mindway – shared by students from our Graduate Diploma in Art & Design and from Photography 2 studio at Prague's Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design – it brings together approaches to thinking about how we connect in cities and through digital highways in the Vitrínka Gallery of the Czech Centre in London and in form of a public installation in front of the Czech Embassy next door.
Drawing from their diverse backgrounds, the student exchange brings experiences from their respective international hometowns together with visual interactions and different modes of communication, initially online and later in person. Explored through technology-driven metaphorical approaches, the exhibition consists of photographs, drawings, objects and moving image - explored through installations, projections, fragrances and sound.
Project led by: Wiebke Leister, Gary Clough (RCA); Alena Kotzmannová, Tomáš Souček, Alex Bykov (UMPRUM) and curator Michal Nanoru.
Private View:
Friday 24 February 2023, 6.30–8.30 pm
Free, all welcome, with complimentary drinks – REGISTER NOW
Vitrínka Gallery, Czech Centre London
30 Kensington Palace Gardens, London, W8 4QY
Tue–Fri, 10am–5pm
or other times by appointment at [email protected]
Outdoor exhibition on the fence of the Czech Embassy
26–30 Kensington Palace Gardens, London W8 4QY
Free access 24/7
