Garden Behind GAMPA

The Garden Behind GAMPA is our long-term project focused on transforming a construction spoil site behind the gallery into a space for rest and gathering. The Garden is an open space that will naturally evolve and grow throughout the year, along with the people who visit it, create within it, and continue to shape it together.

In the Garden, you can spend your free time relaxing. We invite you to explore all its corners and discover everything it has to offer. The table is a place for gathering over good food—just bring whatever you’re in the mood for. Feel free to pick some herbs from the beds, but please do so sparingly so there’s enough for everyone. And leftovers from fruits and vegetables are enjoyed by Tonda — our compost.

Opening hours:
 Daily except Mondays, from April to October, 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM.

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Just a few months ago, you would have found a construction spoil site behind our gallery

Brownfields refer to lands, sites, or buildings that have lost their previous function and are no longer in use. They often arise as byproducts or remnants of construction, industrial, military, or other activities. Nowadays, urban brownfields frequently become attractive investment opportunities for the development of residential apartments or office complexes. However, they also have the potential to be transformed back into public spaces—such as parks, urban oases, or quiet spots for relaxation on hot summer days, as is the case with the Natural Park Červeňák.

The project “THE AFTER LAND” focuses specifically on the potential of brownfields as public spaces for gathering and community gardening. As part of this initiative, a temporary garden is being created behind the GAMPA gallery. Among other things, the project explores how one can engage with such (non)places from an artistic and civic perspective.

THE AFTER LAND

For the development of the garden concept, we invited artist and agroecologist Kateřina Žák Konvalinová and farmer Amálie Vystavělová, who involved students from the Sculpture Studio at Prague’s UMPRUM (Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design) to help bring this (non)place to life. Together with the students, they are carrying out the ZEMĚ ZA project, which explores the potential of transforming brownfields into public spaces for community gathering and gardening. 

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The After Land project includes a series of site-specific artistic interventions responding to both the history and the current character of this space. Through these implementations, the students create a platform for reflecting on broader environmental issues and seek new forms of collaboration, participation, and responsibility for shared places.

→ Hidden within the greenery-covered mound of soil are many corners where something can happen.

Authors of the garden concept:

Kateřina Žák Konvalinová & Amálie Vystavělová

Prepared and carried out by the creative collective of GAMPA – City Gallery of Pardubice:

Vojtěch Novák, Ondřej Uherek, Lucie Oplíštilová, Nikola Březinová, Radka Francová

Students from the Studio of Fine Art at UMPRUM:

Yania Arlova, Bianka Barniaková, Petra Bruhová, Kristýna Canelanisipeanu, Niels Erhardsen, Eliška Gogolová, Kristina Anežka Hlavinková, Karolína Kopřivová, Kristina Kouklová, Klara Polajnar, Júlia Guerola Maurí, Ella McKinney, Rüta Putramentaite, Anna Solianyk, Florián Synák, Barbora Tetaurová, Daniela Večerková pod vedením: Dominik Lang, Amálie Bulandrová, Kateřina Žák Konvalinová.

We thank the following for their friendly cooperation and participation in the project:

Ekocentrum Paleta, Tomáš Moravec, Viktor Procházka & Jiří Žák