Historical materials 1975
PQ 1975 - HISTORICAL MATERIALS
The International Exhibition of Stage Fine-Arts and Theatre Architecture – Prague Quadrennial '75
Brussels Pavilion and ULUV Exhibition Hall, Prague. January 7-28 1976
Wallenstein Riding Hall, Prague. December 22 – January 25, 1976
PQ 75 was held under the auspices of the Minister of Culture of CSR Milan Klusák and the Minister of Culture of SSR Miroslav Válek
OFFICIAL MATERIALS
Statutes: 
1975_statut.pdf
PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES
Austria,Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Germany, Finland, France, Holland, Italy, Japan, Hungary, Mexico, Norway, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Uruguay, USA, USSR, West Germany, Yugoslavia
INTERNATIONAL JURY
Eric Alexander, theater scientist, historian, Director of the Theater Museum (Holland)
Denis Bablet, theater scientist (France)
Radu Beligan, actor, director, Director of Comedia Theater in Bucharest (Romania)
Joshiki Hamamoto, scenographer (Japan)
Walter Huneke, Technical Director of Cologne Theater, member of the OISTT Technical Commission (West Germany)
Otto Kähler, scenographer, Head of Design at Theater der Jugend Berlin (East Germany)
Militsa Nikolaevna Pozharskaya, art historian, theater scientist, pedagogue (USSR)
Agostinho Olavo-Rodrigues, head of the Brazilian UNESCO society, close collaborator with the leadership of the Sao Paulo Art Biennial (Brazil)
Josef Svoboda, scenographer, pedagogue, Head of Design at the Czech National Theater (ČSSR)
Ferenc Vajda, architect, Chairman of OISTT's Theatre Technology Commission (Hungary)
Ladislav Vychodil, scenographer, pedagogue, Head of Design of the Slovak National Theater (ČSSR)
Jury Foreperson: Militsa Nikolaevna Pozharskaya
PRIZES AWARDED
GOLDEN TRIGA – USSR for the work of Eduard Kochergin, David Borovsky, Valery Levental, Enar Stenberg and Vladimir Makushenko
GOLD MEDAL – SCENOGRAPHY – group award: John Bury, Ralph Koltai, Timothy O’Brian, (Great Britain) – for the exhibited collection
SILVER MEDAL – SCENOGRAPHY
Studio Skarabee (Netherlands) – for its valuable experimental work
Théatre du Soleil (France) – for collective scenographic research from the perspective of folk theatre
The Belgian exposition – for the high level of quality of the exhibited works
Nicolas Suba (Switzerland) – for the original use of the cathedral space
Roberto Francia (Italy) – for his scenography for Shakespeare’s Hamlet
GOLD MEDAL – COSTUME – Shiego Kawamori (Japan)
SILVER MEDAL – COSTUME – Judit Schäffer (Hungary) scenographic schools – no awards presented
Theatre architecture
GOLD MEDAL – France – for the large number of solutions to the variability of theatre space
SILVER MEDAL – USSR – for designs for various theatre spaces within one single theatre compound
"Criticism and the theory of scenography"
GOLD MEDAL – Denis Bablet (France) – for “Les Revolutions sceniques du XXe siècle”
SILVER MEDAL – Friedrich Dieckman (GDR) – for “Karl von Appens Buhnenbilder am Berliner Ensemble”
HONORABLE MENTION – René Hainaux (Belgium) – for “Spectacle 70-75”
Czechoslovak exposition
GOLD MEDAL – SCENOGRAPHY – Jozef Ciller
SILVER MEDAL – SCENOGRAPHY – Květoslav Bubeník
GOLD MEDAL – COSTUME – Jarmila Konečná
HONORABLE MENTION – COSTUME – Josef Jelínek, for a collection of exhibited costumes
The PQ committee gave honorable mention to the exposition from Canada
PRESS COVERAGE
PHOTOS
OTHER
1975_list of commissioners001.pdf
STATISTICS
Number of exhibiting countries: 28
The number of exhibiting artists: 774
Number of exhibited works: 4,737
The number of exhibiting Czech and Slovak designers: 55
Brussels Pavilion PKOJF: 5,300 m2 of exhibition space
Wallenstein Riding Hall: 860 m2 of exhibition space ÚLUV Exhibition Hall: 490 m2
Installation materials: fiberboard, pedestals, non-standard sized frames, mannequins, stage lights, spotlights, carousels. Materials produced in the workshops of the National Theatre, Prague Municipal Theatre, Filmové ateliéry and Krátký film, or borrowed from the equipment of various theatres, trade fairs, Prior department stores, and others.
Number ofvisitors: not known
Tentative budget: 5.5 million crowns, during preparations reduced to 4.6 million
TEAM
Concept: Vladimír Jindra
PQ Board Chairman: Josef Švagera, 1st Deputy to the CSR Ministry of Culture
Committee Members: Miroslav Dlouhý, Pavol Gábor, Adolf Hoffmeister, Zbyněk Kolář, Jiří Kotalík, Milan Krejčí, Ludmila Melionová, Vladimír Nývlt, Jitka Pušová, Věnceslava Pavrovská, Jan Sládek, Josef Svoboda, Vladimír Syrovátka, Rudolf Thrun, Vlastimil Urban, František Vaníček, Ladislav Vychodil, Adolf Wenig.
General Commissioner: Eva Soukupová
Architects: Vladimír Nývlt, Adolf Wenig
Secretariat: Jarmila Gabrielová