ARTSEMESTR Winter 2019 - Invitation to the Exhibition

Vernissage: Thursday, January 24, 2019 from 7 PM

Event duration: January 25 – January 29, 2019

Location: Entire UMPRUM building, nám. Jana Palacha 80, Prague 1

Open: daily 10 AM – 6 PM



Free entry

In January, before the regular exhibition of semester and final works begins, practical work at UMPRUM is virtually non-stop. Nervousness and the pace of work increase before the defenses, and students complete their final exams. You can see how they fared in this semester from January 25 to 29 at ARTSEMESTR winter 2019.
The ARTSEMESTR exhibition is intended to show how UMPRUM students gradually improve and prepare for independent careers as designers, architects, or graphic artists. It illustrates their ability to handle various assignments, address the technical aspects, and collaborate with classmates or clients outside of school. The exhibition will present both semester projects that students work on throughout the semester and final works that they develop independently within a limited time. Often, the semester project intertwines and complements the final assignment.
This semester, the tasks were very diverse and spanned various fields. We can mention the project of the Fashion Design Studio, which prepared a special collection for the exhibition Zika and Lída Arscher at UPM. The Letter and Typography Studio contemplated the appearance of Czech banknotes and designed its own series, while the Film and Television Graphics Studio established creative cooperation with the Memory of the Nation. There are also realizations for specific clients, such as the Product Design Studio, which worked on elements for a private spa for the company Gessi, and the Interior and Furniture Design Studio, which designed exteriors and interiors for an inn in the Bohemian Paradise. The Clothing and Footwear Design Studio continues its successful collaboration with Baťa and is preparing a collection of shoes, from which a pair will again be selected for production and sale worldwide. This year also marks the first presentation of work from the new Photography Studio II, which focuses on applied photography. This year, students photographed the Designblok 2018 exhibition and prepared materials for the Designguide catalog. In addition, they worked on a student magazine project called FEAT.
The work of all studios will be on display in the school hallways until Tuesday, January 29. During this time, UMPRUM will transform into one large gallery, with individual installations placed in studios, hallways, and other areas of the building.

Studios and Topics
Architecture Studio I – Square in Jihlava - Regardless of the current position of the department store, design a new building that will define the space of the entire square. Model and concept
Architecture Studio II – Powerful Places – Design of two new architectured environments - one in the open countryside, one in Prague. Design of real places (environments) for connecting humans with the universe, with the essence of the world, a place where fundamental questions of humanity are answered. Design of a place that motivates both individual and collective transcendence. / Apartment building Plzeňská - Design of an apartment building in a real urban environment.
Architecture Studio III – The Continuous and the Discrete - separation and continuity in architecture // final project: New habitats and new beauties - housing project for Tallinn
Architecture Studio IV – 1st year: Concept; construction; layout; 2nd - 3rd year: Rental housing Bráník; 4th - 5th year Water // final project: 1st year: Intervention in the city plan., others: Maximum of minimal apartments on a minimal plot
Industrial Design Studio – various assignments, 1st year stylization of natural material // final project: theme Weapon, 1st year: stylization of natural material
Furniture and Interior Design Studio – 1st – 4th year: theme Connection - inspiration defined by carpentry joints and its inspiration transformed into a real product, 5th – 6th year - real competition for the development of concepts for exteriors and interiors of an inn in the Bohemian Paradise for a specific investor // final project: Book benches for the town of Mělník - preparation of proposals for seven locations defined by the town

Product Design Studio – Gessi - elements for private spa and bathroom, 1st year: study of natural materials

Sculpture Studio – Social and environmental ecology – inspiration derived from the exploration primarily of social, environmental, and ecological aspects
Painting Studio – free assignment on the theme Postmodernism // final project: UDDER PRIZE - loosely connected to the semester theme of postmodernism. Paintings are in a complicated situation today... . It may be time to speak of them more as objects, recontextualized works in space. 

Intermedial Confrontation Studio – final project: theme “1+1>2“ - The resulting project of simultaneously acting components is stronger than the sum of the effects of individual components. It examines the effort to adapt, influence, persist, and cooperate.
Photography Studio I – free assignment on the theme of exhibition installations and their connection to architecture
Glass Studio – two themes - Party and Mirror, 1st year - design and realization of carafes in collaboration with the Rückl - Nižbor glassworks,
Ceramics and Porcelain Studio – four themes - House, Self-portrait, Animal, and Bowl
Studio K.O.V. – Sociologist, artist, designer, and visionary Dominique Imbert founded FOCUS, which has been producing original fireplaces for 50 years. The task was to design fireplace tools and a wood basket // final project: Lamp - table, standing, wall-mounted.
Fashion Design Studio – Project “Try Your Hand 2019“ - working with original fabrics from Ascher London Ltd. Students created a special collection for the exhibition Zika and Lída Ascher at UPM. Unique models were created from original fabrics and scarves combined with modern materials and technologies, presenting history in a new context from the perspective of today's younger generation.
Clothing and Footwear Design Studio – collaboration with the company BATA – shoes on a designated theme // final project: Ethical Message - project focused on sustainability in the fashion and textile industry, on zero waste, recycling, collaboration with Sue Ryder.
Textile Creation Studio – Slow down – textile collection utilizing glass beads from Preciosa and various forms of application and linking handcrafted work with new technologies

Illustration and Graphics Studio – Illustrated, booklet edition of The Hobbit (19 chapters and 19 illustrators) How can one handle literary classics? // final project: Create your hero and present him in any medium (puppet theater, comic, object, game...)

Letter and Typography Studio - New issue of Czech banknotes // final project: International currency symbol of the Czech crown
Graphic Design and Visual Communication Studio – Authorial alphabet - project led by Marek Pistol, which focused on the development of an authorial alphabet with an emphasis on the theme "Primer". The primer is a year-long task and the alphabet is the starting point of this assignment // final project: Specimen - presentation of the alphabet as a whole.
Film and Television Graphics Studio – processing audio recordings within the Memory of the Nation event - illustrations/comics based on selected audio recordings and creating an anthology // final project: filming a short film from Memory of the Nation, short personal animation, 1st year - business card
Graphic Design and New Media Studio – Education in graphic design and possible new structures of our studio TREASURE ISLAND and also the theme Work like a Master (questions of redesign, authorship, post-production, etc.).// final project: Record from the conference on the aforementioned topics.

Photography Studio II – photo documentation of the annual design exhibition Designblok and creation of materials for the Designguide catalog, they also worked on the project of a student magazine called FEAT. // final project: a free collection in which students work with various themes across photography and video.

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