BIP VISUAL ARTS / Liberec, CZECH REP.
An intensive international one-week workshop bringing together art and design students to collaborate, experiment, and create. Participants develop individual and collective artistic projects through workshops, performances, and discussions led by invited artists. The programme includes lectures, an art talk, and a performative workshop, culminating in a final exhibition and public vernissage at the Culture Center Linserka.
Learning outcomes:
By the end of the BIP Visual Arts workshop, participants will be able to:
Develop and complete an original artistic work within an intensive, time-based framework.
Collaborate and communicate in an international environment, engaging with diverse artistic perspectives.
Apply performative and experimental approaches through guided workshops and artistic practice.
Articulate and write a clear description of their artistic project, suitable for professional presentation.
Present and discuss their work publicly, including participation in an art talk and final exhibition.
Plan and realize the installation of an exhibition, considering spatial and curatorial aspects.
Reflect critically on contemporary artistic practices, informed by lectures, discussions, and gallery visits.
Engage with professional artistic contexts, including interaction with invited artists and exposure to exhibition formats.
Applications can be submitted until Monday, March 30 via the following form:
https://forms.gle/ngCeHfwcmLFSGKTS8
The form includes contact details and a short questionnaire.
BIP Democracy in Space (16.–21. 3. 2026)
The international Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) Democracy in Space will take place at the Faculty of Arts and Architecture of TUL from 16 to 21 March 2026.
Exhibition Opening in Elblag
We cordially invite you to the opening of the exhibition We Can’t Build What We Can’t Imagine, which will take place on 12 February 2026 at 6:00 PM at Galerie El in Elbląg, Poland.
FAA TUL will be represented by lecturers from the Department of Art: Blanka Kirchner, Jaroslav Prokeš, and Petra Vlachynská, along with student Filip Čapek.
The exhibition was previously presented in Szczecin, Poland, and is now expanded with new artistic works.
Perfomance Night
Thursday, 11 December 2025, 4:30 PM
Performance by Viktorie Maďarová, presented as part of the accompanying programme to the exhibition We Can’t Build What We Can’t Imagine.
The performance expands the themes of the exhibition through live action, exploring the relationship between imagination, the body, and the possibilities of artistic expression. It offers a temporal and experiential dimension that complements the exhibited works and invites the audience to engage directly with the ideas underlying the exhibition.
Paul Rrajakovics - Guest Lecture
Social Spaces between Direct Urbanism and Architecture
A major aspect of transparadiso’s longterm transdisciplinary practice is the method of direct urbanism.In projects like „NORMAL“ (Graz Culture Year 2020/2021) or „Request for the unrequested voluntary interlinguisticality“ (Pottenhofen, Lower Austria, 2016), Paul Rajakovics will show how the practice of direct urbanism engages in furthering a socially committed urban planning and urban development, and which artistic-urbanistic tools transparadiso has been developing for a durational process as part of a longer term urban planning strategy. Referring to the Situationsts and Henri Lefebvre transparadiso considers architecture in its complex responsibility for society for which transparadiso creates situations for participation and active engagement often transgressing the usual field of architecture. Projects like „Bienvenue Quarter“, a social housing project in Vienna, show the engagement in social/ cultural programming and the emphasis on creating urban public space free of consumption, like in the cooperative housing project „At the City Balcony“ in the new urban development area behind Vienna’s new Main Train Station.
international festival
KUM students Viktoria Maďarová and Šimon Talajka are participating in the international meeting of performance artists "Tomorrow Begins Today" in Poland.
Toshikatsu Kiuchi
We cordially invite you to a lecture by Toshikatsu Kiuchi, architect and co-founder of SUNAKI studio, who, together with his team, designed the Japanese Pavilion at the current Venice Biennale.
WHEN: September 25, 6:00 p.m.
WHERE: Technical University of Liberec, Building G, 3rd floor, lecture hall G312
The lecture will be in English.
prof. Paolo mancosu
Prof. Paolo Mancosu (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Guest Lecture: The Publication History of Doctor Zhivago and the Pasternak Case: A Retrospective
15. 5. 2025 | University Square. 1, Liberec, Builing G, 3.NP, G315 | 18:00
Abstract:
The presentation will be focused on some of Mancosu’s key contributions to the publishing history of Doctor Zhivago and the Pasternak case (Mancosu 2013, 2015, 2016, 2019 and 2024). In addition to describing in broad strokes the results of the research (the “narrative”), I will also reflect on the research process itself (the “metanarrative”).
Bibliography:
Mancosu, P. 2013, Inside the Zhivago Storm, Feltrinelli, Milan
Mancosu, P. 2015, Smugglers, Rebels, Pirates, Hoover Press, Stanford
Mancosu, P. 2016, Zhivago’s Secret Journey, Hoover Press, Stanford
Mancosu, P. 2019, Moscow has Ears Everywhere, Hoover Press, Stanford
Mancosu, P. 2024, In the KGB’s Crosshairs. New Soviet Documents on the Pasternak and Ivinskaya Cases, WriteUP, Rome
Hannes Egger - Art Talk
We are pleased to invite you to an upcoming lecture by Italian artist Hannes Egger, known for his thought-provoking participatory projects and interdisciplinary approach to contemporary art. His work explores public space, performance, and audience interaction, transcending traditional artistic boundaries.