Tschechisches Zentrum Berlin Archiv

Tomáš Sacher, Direktor des Tschechischen Zentrums Berlin, und seine Stellvertreterin Christina Frankenberg stellen das Sommerprogramm in Berlin und anderswo vor.

Den Newsletter des Tschechischen Zentrums könen sie hier abonnieren: http://berlin.czechcentres.cz/uber-uns/newsletter. Das Programm finden Sie auf unserer Internetseite www.tzberlin.de und auf Facebook: facebook.com/TschechischesZentrum.

Aufnahme aus dem Tschechischen Zentrum Berlin vom 30.01.2019

Markéta Pilátová erinnert in ihrer in der Edition Tschechische Auslese veröffentlichten Novelle an den Spanischen Bürgerkrieg und seine in Vergessenheit geratenen Helden. Die spanische Studentin Carmen begegnet dem ehemaligen Interbrigadisten František, der als junger Mann die Tschechoslowakei verließ, um in Spanien zu kämpfen. Gemeinsam versuchen sie die Frage zu beantworten, was einen Mann dazu bringt, in einem fremden Land für seine Ideale zu kämpfen.

Markéta Pilátová wurde 1973 in Kroměříž geboren. Nach einem Studium der Romanistik und Geschichte lehrte sie an Universitäten in Tschechien und Spanien, unterrichtete Tschechisch in Brasilien und Argentinien und arbeitete als Journalistin. Ihre literarischen Werke sind alles andere als alltäglich, sie erinnern an Beschwörungsformeln, Zaubersprüche, Hexerei, sind wild, chaotisch, phantastisch. Am ehesten dem magischen Realismus zuzuordnen. Stets voll Elan und Genuss.

Der Abend war eine gemeinsame Veranstaltung des Verlags Větrné mlýny und des Tschechischen Zentrums Berlin, mit freundlicher Unterstützung durch den Deutsch Tschechischen Zukunftsfonds.

Hören Sie hier einen Mitschnitt des Gesprächs, das Christina Frankenberg mit der Schriftstellerin führte.

Abb.: Markéta Pilátová, Christina Frankenberg

In the 10th issue of the series Contemporary Czech Art I would like to introduce Jakub Valenta, who is an artist and software developer. He has been living in Berlin for the last four years.

Most of Jakub’s projects are digital, usually presented as a web page, in an intentionally unaesthetic form, or using common technology such as a calendar app, Google documents, emojis, or Twitter. He often creates periodically updated collections of material he discovers. Jakub’s work can be seen as a series of short comments on our current society with a sense of appreciation for the bizarre aspects of everyday life. Several of his projects take a personal point of view and test the boundaries of privacy. In this interview we speak e.g. about his corona-inspired art project on Twitter, where he collects chances and opportunities, that covid-19 gives us. Or about the 35 emojis that go beyond the hugs and kisses of the standard emoji set and why he addedan emoji of the typical czech meal Svíková.

More about this episode, Jakub Valenta and the whole series on our webiste: http://berlin.czechcentres.cz/uber-uns/neue-meldungen/3x3jakubvalenta

Photo: Jakub Valenta: Real Emoji (2019)

In der neunten Ausgabe von Czech Contemporary Art in Berlin stellen wir die Malerin und Fotografin Eliška Bartek vor, die 1972 nach Westdeutschland geflüchtet ist und seitdem in Berlin und im Tessin lebt. Sie beschreibt im Interview sehr lebendig, wie ihr die Coronakrise den Abschluss ihrer dreijährigen Arbeit am Buch "Diario di Maggia" schwer gemacht hat, wie schwierig es für sie war, künstlerisch Fuß auf dernoch von nationalem Verständnis geprägten schweizer Kunstszene zu fassen und wie sie dann ihr Glück in Berlin gefunden hat.

Mehr zu dieser Episode und zur Reihe auf unserer Website: http://berlin.czechcentres.cz/uber-uns/neue-meldungen/3x3eliska-bartek

Abb.: Eliška Bartek: 24 Luglio 2014. Aus der Serie Diario di Maggia, Aquarell, 2014

Recorded 09.04.2019 at Tschechisches Zentrum Berlin

The German-Czech Innovation Festival (CGIF) presents innovations, science, new technologies and startups from the Czech Republic and offers a broad Czech-German platform for innovative business and academic cooperation.

The 4th CGIF focused on visions for innovations and Czech-German cooperation and how we can profit from interfaces between science and business. It was organised by the Czech Centre Berlin, the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Berlin and CzechInvest.

WORKSHOP 4: HOW TO EXPAND YOUR STARTUP

Czech startups are heading north to Berlin, but German tech pioneers have found their love for Prague or Brno too. How promising and how difficult is to expand from one country to another and does the Central European region offer an alternative to Silicon Valley? Success stories of nowadays.

Vaiva Seskeviciute, PR & Communications Manager, E.ON :agile

Jan Vařák, Project Manager, Ackee

Ingo Voges, Project Manager, Berlin Partner for Business and Technology

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Ab Juni bieten wir Ihnen mit jedem monatlichen Newsletter auch einen neuen Podcast zu unserem Programm. Der Leiter des Tschechischen Zentrums Tomáš Sacher wählt die interessantesten Veranstaltungen des kommenden Monats aus und lädt dazu auch die Kolleg*innen ein, die sie vorbereiten. Hintergrundinfos, verknüpfte Events in Berlin und Prag und weitere Kulturtipps.

Den Newsletter des Tschechischen Zentrums könen sie hier abonnieren: http://berlin.czechcentres.cz/uber-uns/newsletter. Das Programm finden Sie auf unserer Internetseite www.tzberlin.de und auf Facebook: facebook.com/TschechischesZentrum.

In the 8th issue of Czech Contemporary Art in Berlin, we would like to introduce Adéla Součková. Since we are slowly getting back to regular workflow at the Czech Centre, we will prepare new interviews for the series Czech Contemporary Art in Berlin every two weeks.

Adéla Součková (*1985) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (Painting Studio II / Vladimír Skrepl School) and from Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Dresden (Studio of Ulrike Grossarth). Součková’s essential means of expression is drawing and painting, however, she also expresses herself through performance, object installations and video. In her work, she draws on the tension between nature and culture, old mythologies and archetypes as well as on the current debate on the themes of ecology and feminism. Součková regularly exhibits primarily at independent galleries in the Czech Republic and in Germany. In 2017 she had a solo show On the Earth awakening from a restless dream at the Czech Centre in Berlin. In 2014 and 2015, she was a finalist of the Critics’ Award for Young Painters and 2018 a finalist of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award for young artists under 30. She was artist in residence at Art in General in New York, in Sesama in Indonesia, at the Awagami Factory in Japan or recently, in Madrid and Tbilisi as a part of the project The Dictionary of New Ideas. She lives and works in Prague and Berlin.

You’ll find more about the artist at her website or Instagram. You can visit the virtual exhibition Technology of Sacred, created during Corona times as an alternative to exhibition planned for display.cz, curated by Lukas Likavčan, designed by The Rodina under this link: sacred.display.cz. Please take the first door to the left and you will see Adélas installation of not really downloaded location signs fetishes, given voice by her lyrics and laloni georgian polyfonic choir lead by Naneishvili Nino. The next edition of The New Dictionary of Old Ideas will open on 18th of June in TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art in Szczecin, Poland. Adéla Součková will present in the ex-turbine hall quite a monumental installation of drawing on textile.

Czech Contemporary Art in Berlin is an online series by the Czech Centre Berlin about contemporary art in times of Corona. We present artists with Czech and/or Slovak roots, living in Berlin. The format is 3x3: 3 minutes about the place, where the artist works, 3 minutes about what keeps them busy right now and 3 minutes about themselves. In order for you to also see some of their work, they take over the Czech Centre’s Instagram account on the afternoon after 2 pm on the day, the podcast is published.

Photo: Adéla Součková: What is the matter thoughts are made from? — Jindrich Chalupecky Award Exhibition, National Gallery in Prague, 2018, indigo dye on fabric, metal, clay, audio, procession. Photo: Peter Fabo

Recorded 09.04.2019 at Tschechisches Zentrum Berlin

The German-Czech Innovation Festival (CGIF) presents innovations, science, new technologies and startups from the Czech Republic and offers a broad Czech-German platform for innovative business and academic cooperation.

The 4th CGIF focused on visions for innovations and Czech-German cooperation and how we can profit from interfaces between science and business. It was organised by the Czech Centre Berlin, the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Berlin and CzechInvest.

WORKSHOP 1: CURRENT TRENDS IN SPACE AND AEROSPACE SECTORS

Space and aerospace sectors are among most innovative business environments. Thrilling projects of the European Space Agency and booming participation of various European companies and organizations show its huge potential and they can enrich even a daily life. What are the most promising technologies of the moment and how does the Czech-German connection within this field work?

Marek Aldorf, Head of Department, ESA BIC Prague

Tomáš Duša, Director, GNSS Centre Of Excellence Prague

Dominik Lang, Director Marketing & Sales, OHB System AG

Pavel Sobotka, Director, Frentech Aerospace

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In the 7th issue of Czech Contemporary Art in Berlin we would like to introduce Petra Hermanová. Petra Hermanová (*1987 in Valašské Meziříčí, CZ) is a visual artist and musician. She studied with Václav Stratil at the Studio of Intermedia at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno and at the Studio of Art in Public spaces at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, where she concentrated mostly on exploring the moving image through narrative experiments dealing with memories. In 2012 she relocated to Berlin and has since gone on to produce music videos for Academy Award winning musicians like Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova as well as for underground electronic musicians on labels like Cómeme and Studio Barnhus. She has taken her visuals to live concert events at notable festivals and event series such as Sónar, CYNETART and Boiler Room, and has taken part on numerous commissions including reviving the ghost town of Pyramiden in the arctic archipelago of Svalbard for a special project with the Norwegian electronic duo Frost. As a practicing musician Hermanová was the front woman of Fiordmoss. She represented the band at the Red Bull Music Academy in Madrid and won the Vinyla Award for Best New Act in 2011. They produced 3 albums, the last of which was awarded the prestigious Czech Anděl Award for the Best Electronic Album of 2017. She is currently working on independent projects in music and animation, as well as producing A/V for the Berlin-based music producer Hydropsyche.

More about her work on her website petrahermanova.com or on Instagram @petrahermanova.

Czech Contemporary Art in Berlin is an online series by the Czech Centre Berlin about contemporary art in times of Corona. We present artists with Czech and/or Slovak roots, living in Berlin. The format is 3x3: 3 minutes about the place, where the artist works, 3 minutes about what keeps them busy right now and 3 minutes about themselves. In order for you to also see some of their work, they take over the Czech Centre’s Instagram account on the afternoon after 2 pm on the day, the podcast is published.

Photo: 1. Petra Hermanová: Selfportrait (Love in the Time of C̷h̷o̷l̷e̷r̷a̷) — 2020

Recorded 09.04.2019 at Tschechisches Zentrum Berlin

The German-Czech Innovation Festival (CGIF) presents innovations, science, new technologies and startups from the Czech Republic and offers a broad Czech-German platform for innovative business and academic cooperation.

The 4th CGIF focused on visions for innovations and Czech-German cooperation and how we can profit from interfaces between science and business. It was organised by the Czech Centre Berlin, the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Berlin and CzechInvest.

WORKSHOP 3: BEST PRACTICE IN CZECH-GERMAN PROJECTS - FOCUS ON SPACE/ AEROSPACE

What does the Berlin and Brandenburg Region offer in the space & aerospace sector in detail? And who are the key players? Additionally we discussed in detail some ongoing Czech-German and German-Czech Projects. Already heard about CEITEC? This is something truly European which shows how a future academic workplace may look like.

Speakers:

Juliane Haupt, Project Manager Transport, Mobility and Logistics, Berlin Partner for Business and Technology

René Hudec, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University Prague

Pavel Václavek, Head of Research Group CEITEC, Faculty of Electrical Engineering Brno, VUT

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In the 6th issue of the series Czech Contemporary Art in Berlin we will introduce the curatorial collaborative.

Helena and Jana describe curatorial collaborative as an agency for presentation, communication and mediation of art and architecture focusing on finding innovative means of mediation and display. Through art and architecture networks they try to advance the discourse on curation in the Czech Republic and internationally. They are based in Prague and Berlin.

Helena Doudová is a curator and art historian. Currently she works as a curator of the Architecture Collection at the National Gallery in Prague. She cooperated on the Creative Europe project “Shared Cities: Creative Momentum”. Moreover she worked as a research and curatorial fellow of the International Museum Program on an exhibition of infographics in the German Museum of Books and Writing in Leipzig. She also initiated and curated, among others, the exhibition “Baugruppe ist super!” in the Kvalitář Gallery in Prague.

Jana Doudová studied humanities at Charles University in Prague and curatorial studies at University of Jan Evangelista Purkyně in Ústí nad Labem. Jana is a co-founder of theinformal art platform UMA: You Make Art, which focuses on mediation of contemporary art to the general public. She cooperated on the show “Baugruppe ist super!” with Helena. After an internship at ZK/U - Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, Jana moved to Berlin, where she currently works as a freelance curator at nomadicArt, curatorial collaborative and (e)Studio Migra.

You can find out more about their projects on the website: curatorialcollaborative.net.

Czech Contemporary Art in Berlin is an online series by the Czech Centre Berlin about contemporary art in times of Corona. We present artists with Czech and/or Slovak roots, living in Berlin. The format is 3x3: 3 minutes about the place, where the artist works, 3 minutes about what keeps them busy right now and 3 minutes about themselves. In order for you to also see some of their work, they take over the Czech Centre’s Instagram account on the afternoon after 2 pm on the day, the podcast is published.

Recorded 09.04.2019 at Tschechisches Zentrum Berlin

The German-Czech Innovation Festival (CGIF) presents innovations, science, new technologies and startups from the Czech Republic and offers a broad Czech-German platform for innovative business and academic cooperation.

The 4th CGIF focused on visions for innovations and Czech-German cooperation and how we can profit from interfaces between science and business. It was organised by the Czech Centre Berlin, the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Berlin and CzechInvest.

WORKSHOP 2: INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT FOR R&D IN GERMANY AND THE CZECH REPUBLIC

The Czech Republic has now – similar to the German High-Tec Strategy – its plan to drive the technological change. But how can those strategies help to shape the environment for innovations and R&D projects in concrete cases? What can the state offer to business pioneers and how to connect the support for academia with the rules of market economy?

Eva Bendlová, International Cooperation Unit, Technology Agency of the ČR

Václav Velčovský, Deputy Minister for EU and ESIF, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic

Eckhard Hohwieler, Fraunhofer IPK Berlin

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In this issue of the series Czech Conteporary Art in Berlin we would like to introduce Julia Gryboś (*1988, PL) and Barbora Zentková (*1986, SK). They are an artistic duo, working together since 2010. They met during their studies at Ostrava Faculty of Arts and continued with their studies already as a duo at the faculty of Arts in Brno. They made themselves known to wider audiences mainly in the Czech Republic and in Slovakia, where they were awarded the Oskár Čepan Award for young artists in 2016. In 2019 they completed the Berlin Sessions Residency and a residency at ZK/U, the Center for Art and Urbanistics in Berlin. These were the impulse for them to stay in Berlin. In their work, they examine the impact of the neoliberal chase after non-stop productivity. They are interested in the symptoms of the diseased society. One of the returning motifs in their work is the topic of tiredness and its depiction. They create site specific objects and environments, often out of old metal constructions and some textiles. These environments are often accompanied by live sound performances. Find out more about the work of Julia Gryboś and Barbora Zentková on their website and instagram.

Czech Contemporary Art in Berlin is an online series by the Czech Centre Berlin about contemporary art in times of Corona. We present artists with Czech and/or Slovak roots, living in Berlin. The format is 3x3: 3 minutes about the place, where the artist works, 3 minutes about what keeps them busy right now and 3 minutes about themselves. In order for you to also see some of their work, they take over the Czech Centre’s Instagram account on the afternoon after 2 pm on the day, the podcast is published.

Recorded 09.04.2019 at Tschechisches Zentrum Berlin

The German-Czech Innovation Festival (CGIF) presents innovations, science, new technologies and startups from the Czech Republic and offers a broad Czech-German platform for innovative business and academic cooperation.

The 4th CGIF focused on visions for innovations and Czech-German cooperation and how we can profit from interfaces between science and business. It was organised by the Czech Centre Berlin, the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Berlin and CzechInvest.

PANEL 2: SHARING EXPERIENCES IN CZECH-GERMAN COOPERATION

The space expands and space companies too! After an opening input by ESA BIC Prague we will focus on specifics of the space & aerospace sector in terms of innovations and international cooperation experience. Mission on Mars or rather daily life upgrades? What are the topics to follow in this field for the years to come? The Festival brings together experts from various fields – other tech business sectors, academia or governmental – to share their future views. The EU experts say: we need a brave and even risky approach. We don´t have much time. But how to manage such a task when dealing with public money? We show some outstanding projects from the Czech Republic and Germany to search for the best practice.

With: Marek Aldorf (ESA BIC Prague), Pavel Dobeš (OHB Czechspace), Juliane Haupt (Berlin Partner for Business and Technology), Eckhard Hohwieler (Fraunhofer IPK Berlin), Václav Snášel (TU Ostrava), Pavel Václavek (CEITEC, Faculty of Electrical Engineering Brno, VUT), Václav Velčovský (Deputy Minister for EU and ESIF, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic); Chair: Barbora Račan Ježková (CzechInvest), Tomáš Sacher (Czech Centre Berlin)

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