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Peacock Flock

Peacock Flock:

Teresa Bartůňková and Petr Cuker

TRAFOSTANICE

3.7. - 5.8.

Peacock eyes flutter shyly. Backs bend. Bodies sway. Filaments glow.

The kinetic light installation Peacock Flock draws inspiration from the elegance and symbolism of peacocks. Sculptures of these mythical creatures communicate with one another through glowing fibers and sonic pulses. Blending light, shadow, sound, and motion, the installation opens a space for imagination and personal interpretation.

Its minimalist visual language and abstracted sculptural forms invite multiple readings and associations. Light impulses and sound evoke the sense of a living dialogue between the objects, forming a dynamic and ever-changing environment.

This pulsing ecosystem offers viewers an experience where light and sound become tools of communication and imagination.

Materials: rusted pipes, iron components, E14 bulbs, light and sound installation

Authors: Teresa Bartůňková a Petr Cuker
Soundscape: Jan Burian

Symposium

Symposium:

Lukáš Kalivoda a Ana Aleksić

CESTA

27.6. - 4.7.

The exhibition project presents a creative dialogue between Serbian-based Montenegrin artist Ana Aleksić and Czech visual artist Lukáš Kalivoda. Their artistic practices intersect most notably in their layered, intensive engagement with space—both physical and symbolic—and in their emphasis on the dynamic, material, and processual dimensions of artistic creation.

Ana Aleksić’s cross-disciplinary work centers on space and its transformations—its layering, perception, and development through states of transition, ambiguity, and mutability. She fluidly applies these principles in relation to gallery spaces as well as broader environments shaped by shifting socio-political contexts.

Lukáš Kalivoda similarly explores and transcends the boundaries of artistic media. His work typically begins with the material itself—not merely its external form but its latent qualities and potential. In connection with spatial relationships, he develops these through ongoing experimentation, often leading to entirely original artistic techniques.

In conjunction with this exhibition—whose Serbian iteration is set to take place at Kula Cetinska Gallery—Transforma also plans to initiate collaborations with other active cultural collectives in Belgrade.

The connection between the works of Aleksić and Kalivoda in this two-part Czech-Serbian exhibition project, along with the accompanying program, becomes a symbolic act of crossing geopolitical borders. This gesture gains further relevance in light of shared socio-political experiences between the two countries and their respective art scenes, as well as the parallels in their current realities.

Fostering cross-border artistic and cultural partnerships has long been a central goal of the Transforma festival. A similar concept was realized in 2016 in nearby Ljubljana, Slovenia, through a creative exchange between Jiří Straka and Lukáš Kalivoda on the Czech side, and Urška Savić alongside the Tovarna ROG collective on the Slovenian side. That collaboration focused on issues related to heritage-protected buildings and the (non-)representation of socially marginal topics. During the project, Kalivoda created a 15-meter-long painting, which was later donated to the collective’s archive.

Stones of Nostalgia

Stones of Nostalgia:

Barbora Vovsová, Karolína Kolbová, Josef Kukučka, Iva Davidová

OKRAJE

2.7. - 23.8.

The group exhibition Stones of Nostalgia, loosely inspired by this year’s Transforma festival theme “Nostalgia,” presents four emerging contemporary artists in collaboration with the gallery Okraje.

Nostalgia [nostalgɪjε] — a feeling of pleasure tinged with gentle sadness, triggered by memories of the past.

The exhibition explores how terrain, architecture, and elements of landscape design shape the artistic expression of Barbora Vovsová, Karolína Kolbová, Josef Kukučka, and Iva Davidová.

Ruins, old structures, and untouched nature stir strong memories and raise further questions. Stones and decaying forms become not just aesthetic inspiration, but symbolic vessels with a spiritual dimension.

Matter embedded in the landscape references specific moments to which we return again and again—moments that become part of our identity. The ruins speak of past civilizations and the cycles of life and societies that fade and begin anew.

A shared fascination with raw material and diverse interpretations of landscape unite the artists, who hail from Brno, Prague, Třebíč, and Řepiště.

Each artist explores this phenomenon through a different medium. Paintings, paper drawings, sculptures, and wax objects act as embodied portals—transporting us back to landscapes remembered and imagined.