High Craft
Designblok, in collaboration with Vogue CS magazine, brings a unique selection of domestic designers and manufacturers that artfully combine traditional craftsmanship, innovative and environmentally friendly production processes with the highest aesthetic standards. The curated selection by Designblok Director Jana Zielinski and Vogue CS Editor-in-Chief Danica Kovářová will offer the crème de la crème of Czech design in the captivating Renaissance backdrop of the Queen Anne's Summer Palace in the Royal Garden at Prague Castle.
Between unity and diversity
Women and muses in architecture, in design, in art.
The exhibition presents the breadth of relationships, connections and differences that are reflected in Czech design, architecture and applied art created by women. It reflects courage - energy manifested in many forms and through the will to create meaningfully and satisfyingly. And also as one of the ingredients needed for a woman to be able to apply to be part of fields that are still largely a male domain. The exhibition therefore brings into play not only the works, but also their female creators and their stories. The project takes into account the fluidity of the boundaries between the fields of design and freelancing and their mutual interaction. It is a meeting of three generations of artists, but also of disciplines, techniques and themes. It brings together women - creators, contemporaries, inspirers, tutors, students, friends. The joint exhibition also provides an opportunity to observe whether and how the female gender is reflected in their works.
Curator: Michaela Kádnerová
Designblok for Kids
The first contact with quality aesthetics and local production starts in the pram. The children's pavilion will offer a play element by Maxim Velčovský, interactive installations and signs that will appeal to the youngest design fans and their parents and grandparents. There will also be a café and a space to relax.
School Today
A hotbed of talent and revolutionary ideas. Young blood, fresh ideas, and innovative concepts pushing the limits of the state-of-the-art, all in one place. A presentation of the foremost central European design schools offers a taste of what’s to come in European design through the eyes of contemporary students and representatives of Generation Z.
Mary McCartney: Portraits
A collection of work by English photographer, documentary filmmaker and activist Mary McCartney, iconic and intimate, capturing new subjects presented through familiar faces. A new selection of portraits summarises her thirty-year career. The exhibition will also showcase previously unpublished works from her most famous photo shoots and provide a glimpse into her extensive archive. Mary McCartney's work pays tribute to the art of portraiture. Her connection with the person whose portrait she photographs is intimate, personal and engaging, the viewer becomes both participant and observer of these private moments.
Curator: Martina Lowe
Zdeněk Vacek
This year's Designblok is a significant milestone for the leading Czech jeweller Zdeněk Vacek. In his solo exhibition, he will celebrate 25 years of his work and at the same time present the metamorphosis of his art from the field of jewellery to object creation in the form of experimental site-specific installations. He now translates his distinctive visual language, which is inscribed in the precise material craftsmanship of jewellery, into an entirely new field of fine art.
Curator: Jan Dotřel
Jiří Pelcl
Leading Czech architect, designer, professor and rector emeritus of UMPRUM Jiří Pelcl will present special installation in collaboration with curator Danica Kovářová on the occasion of his 75th birthday at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague.
Curator: Danica Kovářová
