ARTSEMESTR summer 2022 - invitation to the exhibition

Opening of the exhibitions: Thursday, June 9, 2022, from 7 PM
Technological Center UMPRUM, Mikulandská 134/5, Prague 1

ARTSEMESTR Summer 2022
June 10 – June 17, 2022
UMPRUM, nám. Jana Palacha 80, Prague 1

DIPLOMAS AND BACHELORS 2022
June 6 – June 28, 2022
Technological Center UMPRUM, Mikulandská 134/5, Prague 1


Open MO-SA 10 AM - 6 PM
Exceptionally open on Sunday, June 17, 2022.

The exhibition literally at the scene of the crime. The University of Applied Arts in Prague will exceptionally fill both of its buildings with works from its students - semester, final, and diploma and bachelor works. The event will take place not only in the studios at nám. Jana Palacha but also throughout the building of the new Technological Center UMPRUM on Mikulandská Street.
The end of the academic year at UMPRUM is inseparably closed by two key exhibitions, Artsemestr and Diplomas and Bachelors. They are regular evidence of how UMPRUM students develop and progress. Here, they regularly defend their talent and newly acquired skills, presenting what their studies have provided them and how it has pushed them further.
The showcase of final and semester works, Artsemestr, will traditionally be presented on the home ground of the studios in the main building. A novelty is the placement of the exhibit Diplomas and Bachelors in the Technological Center UMPRUM.
“The new Technological Center UMPRUM primarily provides workshop facilities. However, the architects also counted on cultural and social overlap. After smaller presentations placed on the ground floor, we had a unique opportunity to use shared spaces as one large gallery. Visitors will thus have the opportunity not only to see the works of our graduates but also to peek through the glass partitions into the places where their works were created,” says the rector of UMPRUM, Jindřich Vybíral, about the new concept of the exhibit Diplomas and Bachelors.
Both events will again offer an inexhaustible amount of works from the fields of architecture, design, fine and applied arts, or graphic design. The projects largely reflect current events, social and ecological situations, and their needs. The assignments themselves also respond to an understanding of the principles of creation in practice, thereby helping to improve professional opportunities.
Throughout June, visitors will have the opportunity to not only get acquainted with the latest works of UMPRUM listeners but also absorb the creative atmosphere of both school buildings.

Production: Šárka Váňová, Irena Tesarčíková
Graphics: Jaroslava Straková and Jan Stuchlík
Photography: Jakub Demartini (Diplomas and Bachelors), Markéta Slaná and Ondřej Kubeš (Artsemestr)

ARTSEMESTR SUMMER 2022 - Studios and Topics

Architecture Studio I: Education – elementary school – Prague 3 – Habrová // final work: education – presentation model / situation
Architecture Studio II: EXPERIMENTAL PEDAGOGIES / defining and expressing what the architectural discipline can bring to the contemporary world and redefining the education of architects // final work: PROJECTIVE ARCHEOLOGY / means of architectural presentation and communication
Architecture Studio III: Post-carbon. Architecture and materiality in times of environmental crisis – exploring alternative approaches to working with traditional and unusual building materials. // final work: Post-carbon. Architecture and materiality – application of new findings about materials to housing design.
Architecture Studio IV: Institutions of legacy (Havel, Jirous, Škvorecký) // final work: individual detailed tasks within the semester topic
Industrial Design Studio: 1st year: project of expressive design on the theme of emotions – clay objects humility X nobility / 2nd year collaboration with 5th year: mechanism / 3rd year own free topic in collaboration with the 5th year: DIY light for the gallery, 3D printer for small children, high-end speaker system // final work: 1st year: design language of the company – design of a handheld stick blender / 2nd-5th year: design of a dustpan and brush
Furniture and Interior Design Studio: 1st task – NUTCRACKER inter-studio collaboration of the Department of Design – design of an award for advertising agencies Nutcracker / 2nd task – GAZEBO – site-specific gazebo for the designated location / universal gazebo for the company mmcité / 3rd task – SALT SHAKER – design of a salt shaker to support an organization for patients with cystic fibrosis / 4th task – USSPA – design of vacuum tiles // final work: creation of an architectural model of the gazebo and detailed documentation
Product Design Studio: Beautiful work – a new perspective on old crafts // final work: follows the semester assignment
Fine Arts Studio I (Sculpture): CITY AND ECOLOGY – ecological problems of the city // final work: free topic
Fine Arts Studio II (Painting): free topic
Fine Arts Studio III (Intermedia): free topic
Fine Arts Studio IV (Photography): group exhibition Plaza Protocol // final work: free topic, participating in the exhibition Plaza Protocol
Studio with a guest artist: Processual soup – a critical look at the process of creating art, strategies of distance, and changes in perspective on one’s own practice, sustainability of the artist's way of life
Glass Studio: Experience and style – inspiration from the thoughts and works of Prof. Vladimír Kopecký // final work: follows the semester assignment
Ceramics and Porcelain Studio: trophy for FAMUFEST, development of glazes // final work: Story – response to a selected object from the deposit of the ceramics and porcelain exhibition in the Museum of Decorative Arts in Brno – output free work and design
K.O.V. Studio: Kitchen and Dining – original functional product or artistic accessory for the kitchen or dining table. In collaboration with Fleysen // final work: completion of the product and its presentation
Fashion Design Studio: Minority “APPEAL OF MINORITIES, CULTURAL APPROPRIATION” // final work: MINORITY “ALTERNATIVE VS. MAINSTREAM”
Clothing and Footwear Design Studio: VIVE LA FRANCE - theme of France, inspiration from French history, culture, art, and personalities. Emphasis is placed on thorough research of selected inspirations and quality craftsmanship in the sense of haute couture, that is, in the realization phase thorough craftsmanship with a large share of handmade work.
Textile Design Studio: Apple and its shadow - dialogue with the history of the textile industry at UMPRUM
Illustration and Graphics Studio: Printing from above – 1st workshop of wood engraving with G. Jolowitz / 2nd workshop of large-format woodcut with T. Klepoch and J. Bachorík / 3rd drawing portraits of writers and their subsequent transfer to linoleum print // final work: illustrations to the works of the portrayed writers using color print from above
Font Creation and Typography Studio: Limit – a collection of text font designs for the magazine Živel // final work: creation of a book for the studio library
Graphic Design and Visual Communication Studio: Dream project – free assignment for one’s own project. // final work: Xerox Zine – a comprehensive assignment focused on working with format, flipping through publications, material, reading, visual layers of the publication, relationship of image and text, relationship of captions and composition, division of the publication, etc.
Animation and Film Studio: Coupe – shooting on 16mm film raw material at an old train station in Křimov // final work: sound and final post-production of the 16mm semester project
Graphic Design and New Media Studio: individual projects (each student chooses their own topic to work on during the semester) // final work: presentation of the semester topic in the form of a two-minute video
Photography Studio II: City Guide – the city through new forms of documentary photography. Capturing the character and spatiotemporal aspects of a selected place. Sub-task “Life on One Street” – documentation of one neighborhood // final work: Experience/Perception – in connection with the semester assignment “City Guide.” Tracking the differences between the actual, conscious experience of states and mere passive consumption of emotions.
Design and Digital Technologies Studio: business card using AR – research, various uses, presentation / participation in the open call Soutok and LudumDare (48-hour game jam) // final work: altered perspective using AR or VR technology – a cohesive exhibition utilizing virtual and augmented reality from the individual authors' outputs on topics discussed during the semester.


ABOUT ARTSEMESTR
Artsemestr is a regular showcase of semester and final works by UMPRUM students, where everyone presents the results of their study efforts at the end of each semester. Its tradition, as we know it now, began in 2004 thanks to a decision by then-rector Prof. Jiří Pelcl. Students exhibit their works in the authentic environment of the school – in studios, classrooms, sometimes even in hallways. In the winter of 2021, due to safety concerns over the spread of COVID-19, it had to take place online only. In the summer of 2021, for the first time in its history, the entire exhibition moved outside the UMPRUM building, to the spaces of the Prague Market in Prague 7 – Holešovice. It is now returning again to its original place, to the UMPRUM studios at nám. Jana Palacha.

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