PechaKucha Night Prague Volume 13

The thirteenth PechaKucha Night Prague will take place on June 18, 2009
at 20:20 in the Aero cinema, Biskupcova 31, Prague 3

Briefly about the speakers:

Benzinka
In June 2006, the first art event was held at an abandoned gas station near Slaný. Following this, the Benzinka project was created, realized by Ondřej Horák together with Monika Sybolová. Benzinka has so far presented around thirty authors. It involves one-day events, with works left on site, gradually transformed or destroyed. The extremely open space is gradually influenced by the weather and interventions by people. The project operates without any financial support.
http://benzinka.ooz.hu

Jan Bubeníček
At the age of five, influenced by the TV show "Talking with Břetislav Pojar," he decided to become an animated film director. At six, influenced by the TV show "Talking with Hermína Týrlová," he decided to marry Hermína Týrlová, an animated film director. In 1995, during a one-year internship at the Bratři v triku studio, he lost all illusions about Czech animated film and discovered that Hermína Týrlová had died over ten years ago. In the following years, he studied at the Department of Animated Film at FAMU, to become an animated film director under the guidance of Břetislav Pojar. In 2003, he broke his leg, inadvertently becoming an expert in film post-production. In 2008, he got drunk and once again became (as of January 1, 2009) an animated film director.

Monika Drápalová (Atelier Modrá)
A graduate of the AAAD in Prague (fashion design studio) and special studies at DAMU (alternative theater). While still studying, she won the national award Jeunes Créateurs de Mode in Paris. In 1998, she opened her own studio Atelier Modrá in Prague. In 2001, she accepted an invitation from the French association Village des Createurs and presented her own fashion show at the Musée des Tissus in Lyon, where she subsequently opened her second studio Modrá in Passage Thiaffait. From 2003 to 2006, she was the fashion director of the brand Korloff Couture Paris. She has numerous costume designs for films (e.g. America by Vladimír Michálek), theater, music videos, and advertising campaigns. For her cache cache collection, she received the Czech Grand Design award in 2008.
www.modra-fashion.cz

Dora Dutková
She studied at the AAAD in Prague, in the Illustration and Graphic Studio. She graduated in 2007 and has been working as a freelance illustrator since then, creating comics and animated films. Two years ago, she became a member of the Kopr association, which focuses mainly on creating authored, artistically rich books.
www.koprbooks.org

Kurt Gebauer
Professor of the all sculpture studio at the AAAD in Prague.
“A sculpture in the city is fun, a recourse, a happening. It is something unnatural, seemingly against nature. However, a city without a sculpture is like a body without a soul…”
www.kurtgebauer.cz

Vít Havránek (tranzit)
Author of texts, exhibitions, and lectures. Director of the initiative for contemporary art tranzit.cz. Co-author of the current exhibition Monument transformation, external editor for JRR Ringier, lectures at the AAAD in Prague.
www.tranzit.org

David Kašpar (zahradaKC)
Program director of the multifunctional cultural center zahradaKC in Jižní Město, Prague, which strives to change the meaning of the term cultural center from a "communist culture house" to a European-style cultural center. Zahrada KC works with local communities as well as international partners. One of the largest projects is the public art festival Street For Art, the second edition of which took place in May 2009 at several locations in Jižní Město. Zahrada thus proves that interesting things can happen and occur even outside the city center, and that neighbors can be equal partners to artists.
www.kczahrada.cz

Bohdan Kofila Heblík
A typical representative of the young generation of self-taught graphic designers who achieve remarkable results and whose artistic vision is lately beginning to influence a broader aesthetic awareness in the Czech lands. This happens through applied art, where the poster, as a traditional old-fashioned format, occupies a central place. Representatives of this generation share inspiration from comics, computer games, and straightforward drawings of film posters. Kofila’s distinctive style is also characterized by extreme subjectivity. The naive form sometimes deliberately denies established rules of drawing and design, and the content is permeated with a series of connotations of a completely private nature. Some works even resemble a strange game or puzzle, where it is difficult to determine who the hidden message was intended for and why the author incorporated seemingly unrelated references into the work.
www.kofila.com

František Matoušek
Studies: 1993-1999 AVU Prague. Solo exhibitions: Galerie Na bidýlku, Brno (1998), Galerie Malá Špálovka, Prague (1998), Galerie MXM, Prague (1999), Galerie Černý pavouk, Ostrava (2000), Galerie Tvrdohlaví, Prague (2000), Galerie MXM, Prague (2001), Galerie Václava Špály, Prague (2002), Galerie Sokolská 26, Ostrava (2003), Galerie Ars, Brno (2005), Galerie A.M.180, Prague (2006), Galerie ad astra, Kuřim (2006), Galerie České pojišťovny, Prague (2007), Galerie Caesar, Olomouc (2008), Galerie 5. patro, Prague (2009).

m4 architects
The current form of the studio, founded in 2003 by Miroslav Holubec and Matyáš Sedlák, arose in 2006 through a merger with Milan Jirovec after the dissolution of the duma office. This combination allowed us to transfer our work, always focused on thorough study of assignments and seeking a conceptual solution system, from small projects into the realm of larger investment entities. This new experience is a significant challenge and our efforts to maintain a truthful approach and continuous innovation of conventional solutions are subjected to daily tough trials.
www.m4.cz

ov – a (Opočenský Valouch architects)
The architectural office was founded by Jiří Opočenský and Štěpán Valouch in 2007, after graduating from ČVUT and previous work in the offices of KAVA (Opočenský) and d.u.m. architects (Valouch). The goal of the studio's work is to always seek the right answer for each assignment anew, as each builder, place, and construction program brings new contexts and perspectives. The office works on various projects from designing family houses to urban solutions for town centers. The realization of the family house in Svitavy received 1st prize in the New Home 2007 competition organized by the Ministry for Regional Development along with the Czech Chamber of Architects.
www.ov-a.cz

Šárka Sodomková and Marek Sodomka
Both are architects and work together occasionally. They studied at FA ČVUT in Prague and then worked for 2 years in Berlin. They also worked in Prague studios of Markéta Cajthamlová (Š. S. until 2001), D3A (M. S. still). They have three children together.

Jiří Střítecký (ATELIER 8000)
www.atelier8000.cz

Lukáš Veverka
A multidisciplinary designer for whom graphic design is a means of navigation in information. He collaborated on the redesign of Česká televize. In 2008, he received the Rocket Award for television graphics at the PromaxBDA Europe festival. Founder of the project of industry workshops Pellico5.
www.parasite.cz

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Dramaturgy: Jana Kostelecká, Adam Gebrian, Jan H. Vitvar, Cyril Říha, Alan Záruba
Graphic design PKNP: Petr Štěpán (Studio Najbrt)
Special thanks: Rostislav Koryčánek, Aleš Najbrt, Petr Volf
Contact PKNP: Jana Kostelecká, +420 736 533 232, info@pechakucha.cz

PKNP partner in 2009: Autodesk
The project was supported by: BOOM TISK, Foundation of Czech Architecture, Capital City of Prague
Media partners of the project in 2009: Era 21, Radio 1, Reflex