Sbohem a Příhrádek › a five-day celebration of endings and beginnings
› Wed 12/4/2023 10:00

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Sbohem a Příhrádek › a five-day celebration of endings and beginnings

After eleven years at Příhrádek, GAMPA is now saying goodbye to its exhibition haven near the Pardubice Castle. From this September on, please look for us in the area of the reconstructed Automatic Mills in the neighbourhood of the Gočár Gallery, as well as the two new institutions – Automatic Mills Foundation and Sféra.

Aware of this change, we stepped out of our Gallery with the Intermezzo project last year, and together with collaborating artists, curators and all of you, organised pilgrimages, explored the surrounding living and non-living environments and focused on caring for the community and the relationships around us. We were looking for the limits of what a contemporary art gallery can be for its city.

For us, saying goodbye is not filled with sentiment but joy. We recall some of the projects that were created during the year with Intermezzo, but we also host previously unseen audio-visual experiments.

We look forward to seeing all familiar and unfamiliar faces. Goodbye and Příhrádek and see you on the Mill Island during the grand opening in September 29–October 1, 2023.


Wednesday 12th April


10:00–12:00 Family Wednesday: Move › workshop

An open workshop for children and their parents or grandparents. A space where we meet, have fun and learn.

Entrance Fee: 50 CZK / parent + child, each additional child 25 CZK
Contact: Nikola Březinová, brezinova@gmpardubice.cz, +420 608 209 897

18:00 Velká pardubická – the most demanding horse race in Europe (suffering and great business) › discussion

The relationship between humans and horses will be presented in several contributions and a subsequent non-confrontational discussion. Although horses are not part of everyday life for most of us, this highly hierarchical relationship has shaped human history. On the basis of historical insight, we will connect to the present and unveil some of the hidden economic aspects of Velká pardubická, and reflect on the issue of horse racing in general. Subsequently, we will be transferred to a utopian future, in which we will discuss ways that could help us fix the relationship between humans and horses so that it is based on mutual empathic cooperation without exploitation. The discussion is one of the outputs of Denisa Langrová's project (The Research and Life of Interspecies Utopias).

The evening will be hosted by Tereza Špinková, an art theorist, publicist and Ph.D. student at the Department of Environmental Studies at the Masaryk University in Brno (CZ), where she deals with the relationship between human and non-human beings in the context of contemporary art.

Guests: Barbora Hunčovská, Lenka Rážová, Vojtěch Ondráček


Thursday 13th April


15:00–18:00 Hana Kokšalová: Pardubice tarot › card-making workshop to predict the city’s future

Past, present, future. What do those words mean? What is hidden in the stars? What is hidden in the streets? An afternoon of playful magic and future thinking for anyone aged 10+.

What awaits us is a walk through Pardubice, during which we will try to look for typical signs of the past and future in our surroundings. We will record these signs with the cameras in our mobile phones. We will then create collages from these photos in the Gallery. From these collages, we will make a few pieces of tarot cards, to which we will assign our own meaning.

The workshop will be led by Hana Kokšalová, who prepared within her Future Studio a series of workshops for GAMPA last October which are based on the principles of documentary theatre.


Friday 14th April


10:00–12:00 Senior Friday: We say goodbye to Příhrádek › workshop

A workshop for creative grandmothers and grandfathers. Our motto is: age is just a number.

Entrance Fee: 50 CZK / person, reservation required
Contact: Nikola Březinová, brezinova@gmpardubice.cz, +420 608 209 897

16:00–17:00 Hana Kokšalová: Collective Divination of the Pardubice Future › performance

Not sure of what the future of Pardubice holds for us? What key moments, places, symbols, situations, phenomena, actors have the greatest weight at a given moment? Ask the cards! A joint tarot reading will give us space for a debate over the local future. The cards have been produced during workshops in collaboration with the people involved.

The tarot reading is accompanied by Hana Kokšalová, one of the participating artists in the program entitled Can we help you?

17:00 Martin Zet: What Time Does the Sun Set? › performance

A year-long project (Places where a person has violated the earth's surface in order to use what they find) will be concluded with the event of What time does the sun set? by Martin Zet. During this project, Martin Zet moved around Pardubice, exploring the essence of the suburban landscape and specific places, the shape of which has been significantly influenced by human activity over time. From the collected materials, the artist gradually created installations and objects in the Gallery, the form of which continuously changed due to the influence of other interventions including also those of visitors.

Zet's final event consists of the act of returning the works to their original environment, and will symbolically close the entire process of mapping the cultural landscape and the use of its resources by people. Moving the objects together and throwing them into the Elbe will not only be an opportunity to share a particular experience, but will also represent an imaginary transfer of what one has appropriated to the river.

19:00 Tim Shaw & Dirty Electronics: Transmission Linesaudio performance

A new performance-installation for spark-gap transmission and electromagnetic spectrum.

Spark gaps made from everyday objects used as conducting electrodes. Scrap metal, tin cans, chairs, barrels, cooking utensils, a bicycle wheel are hung and agitated by performative action and motor mechanisms to create intense electrical sparks and raw sound. Whilst radio waves omitted from the high voltage constructions are picked-up by DIY coils, sound-circuits and portable radios. Sequences of charged Xenon camera flashes, Franklin bells, Jacobs Ladders and electromagnetic pumps are folded into the environment. A wayfaring journey through the danger zone of high voltage light and sound.

Dirty Electronics & Tim Shaw’s Transmission Lines was developed during a recent residency in an old timber yard in Yamaguchi, Japan.

20:00 něco něco & Ima Tevaconcert › Divadlo 29


Saturday 15th April


14:00–19:00 Principles of Cooperation › afternoon discussion of what Intermezzo has given to us and much more

With the Intermezzo project, we have stepped out of our Gallery, and together with collaborating artists, curators and all of you, have organised pilgrimages, explored the surrounding living and non-living environments and focused on caring for the community and the relationships around us. Within the individual parts of the project entitled Can we help you?, By the way, and Amalgating layers, we have explored the limits of what a contemporary art gallery can be for its city. During the afternoon, together with the participants of the art projects and the audience, we will try to summarize and reflect on what is behind us, whether there is value hidden in the events that have taken place, and what is it. We will also unveil the mystery of our future in the area of Automatic Mills.

20:00 LyrArkestra+ › audio-visual performance

The experimental collective entitled LyrArkestra+ relies in their work on Lyra 8, the extraordinary synthesizer, which in this case serves the new concept of interpretation of graphic scores by primarily Czech and Slovak authors. These are not only sonically shifted with the help of modern electronic instruments, but their artistic level is also organically involved, which is updated with new and old media. Works that are often decades old come to life in a new form, adapted for a contemporary audience. After the initial phase of its operation, when it interpreted the works of Milan Adamčiak, LyrArkestra+ chose to interpret the graphic score of the essential draftsman Jan Steklík (1938–2017).


Sunday 16th April


15:00–17:00 Creative Sunday: At the end! › workshop

A weekend workshop (not only) for children, but also for their parents and other adults who are not afraid to explore the varieties and possibilities of contemporary art and themselves.


Unless otherwise stated, admission is voluntary.

We thank the statutory city of Pardubice and the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic for the financial support of GAMPA activities and the Intermezzo project.

Accompanying program

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Sbohem a Příhrádek › a five-day celebration of endings and beginnings

Sbohem a Příhrádek › a five-day celebration of endings and beginnings
› Wed 12/4/2023 10:00

GAMPA | festival | Intermezzo

After eleven years at Příhrádek, GAMPA is now saying goodbye to its exhibition haven near the Pardubice Castle. From this September on, please look for us in the area of the reconstructed Automatic Mills in the neighbourhood of the Gočár Gallery, as well as the two new institutions – Automatic Mills Foundation and Sféra.

Habima Fuchs: Equinox

Habima Fuchs: Equinox
› Wed 15/2/2023 18:00

GAMPA | projekce | Intermezzo

A screaning of Habima Fuchs art film followed by a discussion with her and Lucie Váchová, curator of the project By the Way.

"The nature of the universe, which holds
the center still and moves all else around it,
begins here as if from its turning-post."
(Dante, Canto 27, 106-117)

Cristina Maldonado: School of Magical Giving

Cristina Maldonado: School of Magical Giving
› Thu 1/12/2022 10:00

GAMPA | performance | workshop | Intermezzo

In Cristina Maldonado's School of Magical Giving, we re-learn that giving, receiving, and retributing are magical doings that create the world. The temporary artistic intervention is part of the gallery archive until January 15, 2023. In the gallery, you can read several performative books based on real events of magical giving. In these books you will find a record of what happens when we grasp the moment of giving and receiving from strangers and loved ones.

Michał Salwiński (PL): The Dream in a Supermarket

Michał Salwiński (PL): The Dream in a Supermarket
› Fri 8/4/2022 10:00

OC Grand | performance | Intermezzo

One-on-one performance / imaginary journey / phone-call expedition / part of the Intermezzo opening. Reservation required!

The spectator is invited to join the unique shopping experience of contemplating the supermarket universe and re-imagining connection with the objects that can be bought there. The spectator will be guided by the fictional Astronaut via mobile phone by story-telling, walking and following simple, playful instructions and tasks.

Intermezzo – opening & feast & Max Eilbacher (USA): Rough Music Volume I

Intermezzo – opening & feast & Max Eilbacher (USA): Rough Music Volume I
› Fri 8/4/2022 18:00

GAMPA | concert | vernissage | Intermezzo

This year, the gallery space is being transformed into an open archive, diary or a background for activities that take place and will take place outside it. It becomes a space for encounters, sharing and intertwining. The opening evening will include a sound performance of the American musician based in Berlin, Max Eilbacher.

Artists' Community Service

Artists' Community Service
› Sat 9/4/2022 15:00

GAMPA | lecture | Intermezzo

Introduction of the project Can We Help You? and Andreas Gajdošík's artist presentation.

Creative Sunday: Back to Earth

Creative Sunday: Back to Earth
› Sun 10/4/2022 15:00

GAMPA | workshop | Intermezzo

Art laboratory with artist Nikola Brabcová for those who want to try preparing and mixing their own colors from natural pigments.

Can We Help You? | Andreas Gajdošík

Can We Help You? | Andreas Gajdošík
› Thu 7/4/2022 10:00

public space | residency | Intermezzo

What if there were a form of art that is not created primarily as a physical art work, instead representing the result of a collaboration with a specific social group or community?

Andreas Gajdošík is the first guest artist of the program layer Can We Help You? During his stay in Pardubice, he decided to help by cleaning the streets, river banks and statues.

Janneke van der Putten: In-situ

Janneke van der Putten: In-situ
› Thu 19/5/2022 18:00

GAMPA | lecture | Intermezzo

Dutch artist Janneke van der Putten will introduce her work and her upcoming workshop ‘Sunrise to Sunrise’. The objective of her project is to produce in-situ performances which will be recorded in different places in (and around) Pardubice, responding to natural environments, architectures and sites and investigating a cyclic perception of time.

Pardubice Museum Night

Pardubice Museum Night
› Fri 20/5/2022 17:00

GAMPA | festival | Intermezzo

GAMPA traditionally participates in the Pardubice Museum Night, which is part of the Museum Nights Festival. Visit the exhibition space transformed into an open archive of art records that work with the topics of care, cooperation and slowing down.

Janneke van der Putten: Sunrise to Sunrise

Janneke van der Putten: Sunrise to Sunrise
› Sat 21/5/2022 04:20

GAMPA | public space | performance | workshop | Intermezzo

Singer, performer and visual artist Janneke van der Putten proposes a 24-hour performance and sensorial-based workshop, with the passage of time as inspiration: starting at sunrise and ending at the sunrise of the following day.

Can We Help You? | Marika Smreková

Can We Help You? | Marika Smreková
› Fri 6/5/2022 10:00

GAMPA | public space | residency | Intermezzo

Let us remove our social stickers and create a shared space for people without age restrictions. For parents and their children and people without obligations, seniors and teenagers, for people who work or care for the evening, and those who can go to culture without a time limit. Our program will be about intersections in social gatherings, talking, trying to understand people with different life experiences, babysitting together, creative workshops, cultural activism, or learning about the benefits of social diversity.

Can We Help You? | Nikola Brabcová

Can We Help You? | Nikola Brabcová
› Tue 7/6/2022 17:00

GAMPA | residency | workshop | Intermezzo

Nikola Brabcová invites you to the open artist's studio Water Lily Tea. The Water Lily Tea in GAMPA will be open every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 5pm to 7pm, June 7–30, 2022. The studio emphasizes the experience and the artistic process. Self-creation becomes therapy and treatment, alleviates anxieties, opens the way to change stereotypes, expands one's own possibilities, harmonizes. Come to see, experiment for a while or visit it more often. Alone, with you children or with friends.

Habima Fuchs: Mirroring of the Still Standing Sun

Habima Fuchs: Mirroring of the Still Standing Sun
› Tue 21/6/2022 16:00

GAMPA | public space | performance | Intermezzo

Meet with Habima Fuchs on the day of the summer solstice near the city by the open fire (see the map). Opportunity to have a rest in nature, but also to symbolically honor the element providing just like the sun light and warmth. The artist will create an improvised "outdoor workshop" designed to monitor and share the process of creating and maintaining the camp fire needed to transform ceramic bowls or shards, the surface of which will gradually change under the influence of heat.

Lukáš Gavlovský: Up the Elbe

Lukáš Gavlovský: Up the Elbe
› Sat 6/8/2022 10:00

Intermezzo

Wander along the river. Walking with the stream or heading against it? Flow with time or going backwards?

Lucie Králíková: Pilgrimage Adlergebirge

Lucie Králíková: Pilgrimage Adlergebirge
› Thu 1/9/2022 10:00

Intermezzo

The artist Lucie Králíková planned the journey through the Eagle Mountains not only as a journey through the landscape at the border of our country, but at the same time she perceives it as an opportunity to honor places, nature and regions that are seemingly on the fringes of the attention and interest of the general public. The pilgrimage will be a tribute to the "edge" of the country, to people who once had to leave their homes and to those living here outside the big centers. At least for a while and symbolically, they will try to revive the often forgotten and slowly decaying church buildings, to which believers and pilgrims used to go.

Pavel Novotný: To the Machines! (analog-percussive art performance)

Pavel Novotný: To the Machines! (analog-percussive art performance)
› Fri 9/9/2022 17:00

GAMPA | public space | literature | performance | workshop | Intermezzo | Textconnexion

Who will sit at the typewriters? We are looking for participants in the analogue percussion performance of the poet Pavel Novotný, which will take place on Saturday, September 10, in the public spaces of Pardubice. Anyone who is open to new experiences is welcome. No previous poetic, literary, rhythmic or otherwise artistic experience is required.

Simon Whetham: ChannellingAV

Simon Whetham: ChannellingAV
› Tue 27/9/2022 20:00

GAMPA | performance | Intermezzo

Nová zvuková performance respektovaného britského hudebníka ve specifickém prostředí Galerie města Pardubic slibuje silný akustický zážitek.

Final_Final_Intermezzo

Final_Final_Intermezzo
› Thu 29/9/2022 10:00

Intermezzo

Symbolic move of GAMPA gallery from one side of river to the other one. Project lead by the team of architects Final_Final. Let's explore memories and different environments connected with GAMPA's presence, past and futures.

Can We Help You? | Denisa Langrová

Can We Help You? | Denisa Langrová
› Mon 12/9/2022 10:00

GAMPA | Intermezzo

Within the program layer Can We Help you? Denisa Langrová will volunteer in an asylum for abused and abandoned animals. She will assist in the care of animals, while at the same time he will continue to research the activities of various entities striving for an empathic approach to non-human animals and their liberation throughout history. At the end of her stay in Pardubice, Denisa is preparing a moderated discussion on the topic Velká Pardubice – the most demanding horse race in Europe (suffering and big business).

Can We Help You? | Hana Kokšalová

Can We Help You? | Hana Kokšalová
› Sun 2/10/2022 10:00

GAMPA | Intermezzo

Artist and performer Hana Kokšalová offers a series of free workshops to everyone who would like to try working with the tools of documentary theatre. The workshops are intended for the age group of 12-20+ years, however those interested in all other age groups are also welcome. During the workshops, we will experiment with various theater and art methods that can be used to tell authentic personal stories. We will try physical theatre, dance, work with light, text and props.

Adam Vačkář: Flapping Wings

Adam Vačkář: Flapping Wings
› Fri 4/11/2022 08:00

GAMPA | workshop | Intermezzo

Adam Vačkář's educational workshop with elementary school children on the topic of synergy between man and nature. The author takes children back to the forest, teaches them to perceive their surroundings and process the fine fabric of feelings. Art, through education, mediates the fundamental relationship between man and nature through visuality and creative activity with natural objects.

Alan Affichard: The Tribology series

Alan Affichard: The Tribology series
› Tue 22/11/2022 09:00

workshop | Intermezzo

During the course of one week, pupils at Základní škola Srdcovka (Srdcovka Elementary School) will explore various electro-acoustic phenomena through a series of handmade instruments, as well as other sound objects. 

PYL: Reality Surfing

PYL: Reality Surfing
› Sun 27/11/2022 10:00

GAMPA | performance | workshop | Intermezzo

A visual performance, which proposes to the audience to experience an alternative model of coexistence of people and inanimate entities. It discovers new relations between daily objects through their materiality and presence in one space, which gain an equivalent value as presence of a human body.