Competition: Create a 3D card of an Adolf Loos villa and win a prize
Become a designer as part of the Adolf Loos / Pioneer of Modern Living series and win an original Czech design product. Be creative by making a 3D card featuring one of the famous Adolf Loos villas, using a predesigned template by Tereza Hradilkova of Porigami.cz. Add your own artistic features such as facade motifs or the villa´s inhabitants to a folded card featuring designs of the Villa Müller or the Winternitz Villa and send it to someone that you would like to introduce to the revolutionary work of Adolf Loos. All you need is a printer, an A4 size card (120 – 160 g), a craft knife / scissors, a ruler and a creative attitude. Just download the card’s template and follow our video guide. Both children and adults are welcome to participate.
Must-See Online Events at Lunchmeat Festival
Lunchmeat Festival, an annual international festival dedicated to advanced electronic music and new media art based in Prague, has teamed up with Czech Centre London in order to promote three extraordinary online events. The first of them, Sam Rolfes’s bizarre 360°video, will be premiered on September 25th on the Youtube channel of the Fact Magazine, two audiovisual live acts of the Czech provenience - Ethno Service and NIVVA, will be streamed live on the Lunchmeat Festival and Czech Centre London Facebook pages. All three online events can be enjoyed for free.
Krištof Kintera: The End of Fun!
This will be the most comprehensive UK exhibition of work by Czech artist Krištof Kintera (b. 1973, Prague). Internationally acclaimed for his sculptural, often kinetic works imbued with a characteristic energy and imaginative wit, Kintera offers an overview of new, recent, and archival works, shown in the UK for the first time. Filling both gallery floors, whilst also expanding into the public realm, THE END OF FUN! is a timely exhibition probing the apocalyptic environmental issues we currently face, taking on a new poignancy in today’s climate.
The Painted Bird - UK & Ireland release
Václav Marhoul’s cinematic masterpiece follows the journey of a boy, entrusted by his Jewish parents to an elderly foster mother in an effort to escape persecution. Wandering through the desecrated countryside, the boy encounters villagers and soldiers whose own lives have been brutally altered, and who are intent on revisiting this brutality on him. An unflinching examination of the very worst of humanity it features a staggering central performance from the young Petr Kotlár alongside a star-studded international ensemble including Udo Kier, Stellan Skarsgård, Harvey Keitel, Julian Sands and Barry Pepper. Premiered at the Venice International Film Festival, the film has won ecstatic acclaim.
