November 15–23, 2025, 10:00 AM – 9:00 PM
Opening: November 14, 2025, from 6:00 PM
Venue: Na Poříčí 14, Praha 1

POKOJE is a unique young art exhibition that connects students from Czech and international art universities and creates a space for international collaboration. Each studio or student collective is given one room in an empty building in the center of Prague, which they transform into their own site-specific installation. This format allows not only experimentation with exhibition approaches outside the traditional gallery framework, but also a confrontation of different artistic disciplines and methods of working with space. POKOJE thus functions as a platform for exploring the possibilities of contemporary artistic creation as well as a space for dialogue among the emerging generation of artists.

The theme of power, which framed the Pokoje 2025 exhibition, might have seemed traditional and often explored. However, the approach of young emerging artists was unconventional – it was neither normative nor straightforward. Their installations conveyed vulnerability, pressure, and doubt, yet they approached the theme sensitively, often intuitively and abstractly. They did not merely attempt to determine who holds power and who does not. Rather, they asked how it manifested, how it was perceived, and how it transformed in everyday interpersonal situations as well as within broader social structures.

Across more than thirty installations, power manifested on multiple levels – from personal experiences of social pressure to interpersonal relationships and ecological, media, or political structures. There was often an effort to control nature, as well as to reflect the influence of institutions and political decisions on everyday life. Social aspects also resonated strongly – the power of a group over an individual or within a family, the power of tradition, language, or imagery that shapes our daily experiences and perceptions.

EXPERT JURY AWARD:

7. Autosubmissive, UMPRUM, FAMU, FUD UJEP, Photography 2, New Aesthetics, Applied Photography / Photography 2 / New Aesthetics / Applied Photography

19. Aftertaste / On the Plate, Gymnasium and Graphic Secondary Vocational School Přelouč — Photography Studio

26. NO – POWER, Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, Landscape Architecture – Studio of Fine Arts and Spatial Planning V

The jury consisted of Tereza Jindrová, Noemi Purkrábková, and Roman Štětina.

AUDIENCE AWARD:

19. Aftertaste / On the Plate, Gymnasium and Graphic Secondary Vocational School Přelouč — Photography Studio

ADMISSION:
Adults: 200 CZK
Students and seniors: 150 CZK
Art school students and residents of Prague 1: 100 CZK
Children under 15 and pensioners: 50 CZK
School groups (with a lecturer): 100 CZK / person + teacher free of charge

School groups / groups with instructors, etc.:

All larger groups of children must be registered in advance. Without prior registration, entry to the exhibition will not be permitted. Due to repeated damage to the exhibition by larger school groups, all their visits must take place in the presence of both a teacher and a guide from the POKOJE team.

Contact for Registration: jakub.vinaricky@prehlidkapokoje.cz

ACCOMPANYING PROGRAMS:

Information about the accompanying program can be found below in the document Information on the 2025 Exhibition.

Foreign Partners:

Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw / Akademie výtvarných umění ve Varšavě
https://en.asp.waw.pl/

Hungarian University of Fine Arts / Maďarská Univerzita výtvarných umění
https://mke.hu/english/index.php

Faculty of Fine Arts, Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia / Akadémia umení v Banskej Bystrici, Slovensko
https://aku.sk/