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SWEET/SWEET/SWEET – “Nebeský Festival“

The Czech Pavilion PQ'15 SWEET / SWEET / SWEET Nebeský Festival is dedicated to theatre director Jan Nebeský, who is known for his exceptional theatre work, which addresses the innermost issues of human existence, attracting attentive and active viewers, both actors and audience. Nebeský works with paradoxes. He does not judge; instead, he brings to life that which is hidden under the surface. Relationships are live, not black and white. He often provokes with his plays' visual and textual concepts and works with artists from outside of the theatre world, structurally transforming his plays. He initiates unstable moments, pushing the meaning of his plays and transcending the expected. Although Nebeský is a world-class theatre director, a critical study of his work has yet to be undertaken. In the Czech environment, he is perceived as a controversial and abstruse director. His work is both valued and condemned. Why?

The Czech Pavilion PQ'15 will include a platform for exploration of his life's work on the Piazzeta, at the New Stage of the National Theatre and at Café NoNa. The Nebeský festival will run from 18-28 June and will be open every day from 10 a.m. to midnight. The premiere of Nebeský's new play Sweet, followed by three more showings at the New Stage of the National Theatre, will take place as a part of the festival. Concepts of events for every day and every night will be created by his artistic colleagues or by Nebeský himself. Mornings will be dedicated to critical debates, conferences, archive studies and events. During the day, live social sculpture will blend into a sweet, fluid Nebeský party.

Café NoNa at the National Theatre will host a 'live archive' of performing artists. The eleventh day of the SWEET / SWEET / SWEET festival will consist of the works of Jan Nebeský's close colleagues – visual artists, artists of the younger generation and musicians. The art of recycling, a social sculpture, word as an object, “fresh trash”. Disorganized, free, open and sweet, combinations of complete chaos and maximum accuracy – the SWEET / SWEET / SWEET Nebeský Festival.

Other collaborators: Michal Pěchouček Ivana Kannhäuserová Jan Štěpánek Petra Vlachynská Tomáš Ruller Igor Korpaczewski Margita Titlová-Ylovsky Vladimír Kokolia

Exhibiting artists / ateliers

• Petra Vlachynská

Specialization: costume designer, scenographer, Fashion designer
Education: Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts, Faculty of Textile Engineering
Participation in other important exhibitions: 2004: National Gallery - 5th Exhibition of Czech Design
Continuing collaboration with directors: Jan Nebeský, Petr Boháč, Miřenka Čechová, Jan Frič, Braňo Holiček, Jan Bušta
Additional information: Petra Vlachynská has collaborated with several artists and directors, such as Jan Nebeský (Inferno - Dante Variations, NoD 2014), Spitfire Company (Prawns á la Indigo, Palác Akropolis, 2013), Jan Frič (Kokkola 2011) and Braňo Holiček (Demokracy, Minor, 2014).

Exhibiting works

• Jana Preková: SWEET/SWEET/SWEET – Nebeský festival (SWEET/SWEET/SWEET – “Nebeský Festival“), Národní divadlo (National Theatre), 2015, Director: scénář/script of SWEET/SWEET/SWEET:  Egon Tobiáš, Lucie Trmíková
  režie/director: Jan Nebeský
  hudba/music: Jan Šikl ve spolupráci s ostatními umělci/in collaboration with other artists
  scénografie/scenography: Jana Preková ve spolupráci s ostatními umělci/in collaboration with other artists
  , design: The Rodina ; Identification of exhibit: poster ;
  Comments: The SWEET - “Nebeský Festival“ (curated by Jana Preková) will take place at the New Stage, Café NoNa and on the Piazzeta of the National Theatre. Visitors will participate in a day-long event, improvized within the a format determined by the artists themselves.
• Jan Štěpánek

Specialization: set designer, scenographer
Education: Academy of Performing Arts, Prague
Collaboration with theatres: National Theatre Prague, Divadlo Petra Bezruče Ostrava, HaDivadlo Brno, Husa na provázku Brno, Klicperovo divadlo Hradec Králové, Divadlo Na Vinohradech Praha, etc.
Teaching activities: Janáček Academy of Performing Arts, Brno
Continuing collaboration with directors: J. Pokorný, J. A. Pitínský, J. Nebeský, M. Františák, M. Krobot, D. Drábek, P. P. Procházka, J. Krofta, Z. Dušek, J. Havelka, etc.
Additional information: Czech stage designer. After graduating from DAMU in Prof. Jan Dusek's stage design class of 1997, he started to work in theatre, concentrating mostly on experimental works. In 2003 he started teaching stage design at JAMU in Brno. He also works on TV projects and participates in exhibitions.

Exhibiting works

• Jana Preková: SWEET/SWEET/SWEET – Nebeský festival (SWEET/SWEET/SWEET – “Nebeský Festival“), Národní Divadlo (National Theatre), 2015, Director: scénář/script of SWEET/SWEET/SWEET:  Egon Tobiáš, Lucie Trmíková
  režie/director: Jan Nebeský
  hudba/music: Jan Šikl ve spolupráci s ostatními umělci/in collaboration with other artists
  scénografie/scenography: Jana Preková ve spolupráci s ostatními umělci/in collaboration with other artists
  , design: The Rodina ; Identification of exhibit: poster ;
  Comments: The SWEET - “Nebeský Festival“ (curated by Jana Preková) will take place at the New Stage, Café NoNa and on the Piazzeta of the National Theatre. Visitors will participate in a day-long event, improvized within the a format determined by the artists themselves.
• Jana Preková (Jana Prekova)

* 1956, Prague
Specialization: teacher, costume designer, lighting designer, scenographer, visual artist, architecture, curating, painting, new media
Education: Academy of Performing Arts, Prague; associate professor since 1999
Collaboration with theatres: Various theatres throughout the Czech Republic: Theatre Comedy, National Theatre Prague, Theatre On the Balustrade, MeetFactory, etc.
Teaching activities: Academy of Performing Arts, Prague; Janáček Academy of Performing Arts (1990 - ), Brno; Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Fine Arts (1999-2010), around 25 workshops around the world
Participation in other important exhibitions: Metaphor and Irony2 (USA)2004, Female Set Designers at the Turn of the Century,(CZ)2009;  Beyond the Borders of Theatre and Fashion, (CZ) 2009, Decadence Festival, Brno, 2010, Salon of the Czech scenography,(CZ)2014
Continuing collaboration with directors: J. Nebeský, J. A. Pitínský, M. Bambušek, V. Čermáková, etc.
Awards: sister cities Prague/Chicago 1994
Additional information: Cofounder of the JAMU Scenography and Costume Department and Body Design Department of FaVU UT Brno. Collaborates with director Jan Nebeský. Works on experimental and established art / social projects.

Exhibiting works

• Jana Preková: SWEET/SWEET/SWEET – Nebeský festival (SWEET/SWEET/SWEET – “Nebeský Festival“ ), Národní Divadlo (National Theatre), 2015, Director: Script of SWEET/SWEET/SWEET:
  Egon Tobiáš, Lucie Trmíková
  Director: Jan Nebeský
  Music: Jan Šikl in collaboration with other artists
  Scenography: Jana Preková in collaboration with other artists, design: The Rodina ; Identification of exhibit: poster ;
  Comments: The SWEET - “Nebeský Festival“ (curated by Jana Preková) will take place at the New Stage, Café NoNa and on the Piazzeta of the National Theatre. Visitors will participate in a day-long event, improvized within the a format determined by the artists themselves.
• Ivana Kanhäuserová

* 1982, Praha
Education: Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts
Additional information: She has collaborated with a number of artists and directors, including Jiří Adámek (Say Something, 2013), Spitfire Company (The Voice of Anne Frank, NoD, 2007), Jan Frič and Jan Nebeský.

Exhibiting works

• Jana Preková: SWEET/SWEET/SWEET – Nebeský festival (SWEET/SWEET/SWEET – “Nebeský Festival“), Národní divadlo (National Theatre), 2015, Director: Script of SWEET/SWEET/SWEET:
  Egon Tobiáš, Lucie Trmíková
  Director: Jan Nebeský
  Music: Jan Šikl in collaboration with other artists
  Scenography: Jana Preková in collaboration with other artists, design: The Rodina ; Identification of exhibit: poster ;
  Comments: The SWEET - “Nebeský Festival“ (curated by Jana Preková) will take place at the New Stage, Café NoNa and on the Piazzeta of the National Theatre. Visitors will participate in a day-long event, improvized within the a format determined by the artists themselves.
• Michal Pěchouček

* 21.02.1973, Duchcov
Specialization: theatre director, painter , scenographer, Photographer
Education: Academy of Fine Arts, Prague
Collaboration with theatres: Studio Hrdinů, MeetFactory, Alfred ve dvoře
Teaching activities: Praga Prima Praha, Scholastika
Participation in other important exhibitions: 2011: Hodiny v umění, Stone Bell House (City Gallery Prague); 2010: 50%Gray: Contemporary Czech Phography reconsidered, MoCP, Chicago; Collectors, BROT Kunsthalle, Wien; 2009: Večerka, Gallery of Fine Arts, Cheb
Awards: Jindřich Chalupecký Award (2003)
Additional information: Ten years after his entry to theatre in 2005, Michal Pěchouček still comes across as exotic, even in alternative theatre circles, where he moves with a discreet eccentricity.

Exhibiting works

• Jana Preková: SWEET/SWEET/SWEET – Nebeský festival (SWEET/SWEET/SWEET – “Nebeský Festival“), Národní divadlo (National Theatre), 2015, Director: scénář/script of SWEET/SWEET/SWEET:  Egon Tobiáš, Lucie Trmíková
  režie/director: Jan Nebeský
  hudba/music: Jan Šikl ve spolupráci s ostatními umělci/in collaboration with other artists
  scénografie/scenography: Jana Preková ve spolupráci s ostatními umělci/in collaboration with other artists
  , design: The Rodina ; Identification of exhibit: poster ;
  Comments: The SWEET - “Nebeský Festival“ (curated by Jana Preková) will take place at the New Stage, Café NoNa and on the Piazzeta of the National Theatre. Visitors will participate in a day-long event, improvized within the a format determined by the artists themselves.
• Tomáš Ruller (Tomas  Ruller)

* 1957, Brno, Czechoslovakia
Specialization: teacher, set designer, media artist, sculpture, architecture
Education: Academy of Fine Arts Prague
Teaching activities: Cofounder of Faculty of Fine Arts at UT Brno from 1992, since 1993 active at department of Video and Multimedia Performance and teaches performance art at UMPRUM, DAMU & FAMU Prague
Participation in other important exhibitions: Published at Documenta 8, Kassel, performed at P.S.1 New York; LACE Los Angeles, Pompidou Paris, Bauhaus Dessau, Videobiennale Fukui, Biennale Lodž, Biennale Venice, CCA Warsaw, Ludwig Forum Aachen, and festivals around the world
Continuing collaboration with directors: Jan Nebeský
Awards: Pollock Krasner, New York; Arts America, Washington; Artslink, New York
Additional information: He has worked in media & performance art since the 1970s. As cofounder of East-West / School of Attention & Black Market movement, he has organized Open Situation European Projects. He is a Professor of Fine Arts. www.ruller.cz

Exhibiting works

• Jana Preková: SWEET/SWEET/SWEET – Nebeský festival (SWEET/SWEET/SWEET – “Nebeský Festival“), Národní Divadlo (National Theatre), 2015, Director: scénář/script of SWEET/SWEET/SWEET:  Egon Tobiáš, Lucie Trmíková
  režie/director: Jan Nebeský
  hudba/music: Jan Šikl ve spolupráci s ostatními umělci/in collaboration with other artists
  scénografie/scenography: Jana Preková ve spolupráci s ostatními umělci/in collaboration with other artists
  , design: The Rodina ; Identification of exhibit: poster ;
  Comments: The SWEET - “Nebeský Festival“ (curated by Jana Preková) will take place at the New Stage, Café NoNa and on the Piazzeta of the National Theatre. Visitors will participate in a day-long event, improvized within the a format determined by the artists themselves.
• Igor Korpaczewski

Specialization: teacher, painter , visual artist
Education: Academy of Fine Arts Prague
Teaching activities: Academy of Fine Arts Prague
Participation in other important exhibitions: 2013 - KW + Q: Ghosts, Drdova Gallery, Praha, 2011 - Kim, Galerie SPZ, Praha, 2010 - Igor Korpaczewski: Family, Galerie Doma, Kyjov, 2009 - KW obrazy, České centrum, Vídeň, AT 2008 - KW Das Ufer, Galerie Dole, Ostrava
Awards: 2008, 2009 finalist of Artist Gets the Prize, Czech Republic
Additional information: He is a musician. His works mainly consist of figural representations of others. The model is rarely specified (portraits are anonymous) and are mostly individual, isolated figures.

Exhibiting works

• Jana Preková: SWEET/SWEET/SWEET – Nebeský festival (SWEET/SWEET/SWEET – “Nebeský Festival“), Národní divadlo (National Theatre), 2015, Director: scénář/script of SWEET/SWEET/SWEET:  Egon Tobiáš, Lucie Trmíková
  režie/director: Jan Nebeský
  hudba/music: Jan Šikl ve spolupráci s ostatními umělci/in collaboration with other artists
  scénografie/scenography: Jana Preková ve spolupráci s ostatními umělci/in collaboration with other artists
  , design: The Rodina ; Identification of exhibit: poster ;
  Comments: The SWEET - “Nebeský Festival“ (curated by Jana Preková) will take place at the New Stage, Café NoNa and on the Piazzeta of the National Theatre. Visitors will participate in a day-long event, improvized within the a format determined by the artists themselves.
• Margita Titlová-Ylovsky

Specialization: teacher, painter , visual artist
Education: Academy of Fine Arts, 2009 - associate professorship at Academy of Arts and Architecture & Design in Prague
Teaching activities: Faculty of Fine Arts BUT, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem
Participation in other important exhibitions: 2014 - Centre for Contemporary Art DOX Autorské knihy, 2013 - Vaclav Havel Library -BIO , 2013- group exhibition Mikulov Dílna
Additional information: She previously focused on expressive painting and drawing which, crossing over into action art thanks to her physical conception and temporality. She now concentrates on objects and installations.

Exhibiting works

• Jana Preková: SWEET/SWEET/SWEET – Nebeský festival (SWEET/SWEET/SWEET – “Nebeský Festival“), Národní Divadlo (National Theatre), 2015, Director: scénář/script of SWEET/SWEET/SWEET:  Egon Tobiáš, Lucie Trmíková
  režie/director: Jan Nebeský
  hudba/music: Jan Šikl ve spolupráci s ostatními umělci/in collaboration with other artists
  scénografie/scenography: Jana Preková ve spolupráci s ostatními umělci/in collaboration with other artists
  , design: The Rodina ; Identification of exhibit: poster ;
  Comments: The SWEET - “Nebeský Festival“ (curated by Jana Preková) will take place at the New Stage, Café NoNa and on the Piazzeta of the National Theatre. Visitors will participate in a day-long event, improvized within the a format determined by the artists themselves.
• Vladimír Kokolia

* 1956, Brno, Czechoslovakia
Specialization: teacher, painter , visual artist
Education: 1981 MFA at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague
Teaching activities: Since 1992 head of Department of Printmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague
Participation in other important exhibitions: 2013 Looking to the Crown of a Tree, MOMA Chengdu; 2009 All That Is Solid Melts into Air, MUHKA, Mechelen; 1994 Europa, Europa, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle, Bonn; 1992 Documenta IX, Kassel; 1987 Groteskque in Czech Art of 20th Century, GHMP, Prague
Additional information: Kokolia lives and works in Veverské Knínice and Prague; he has organized more than 90 solo exhibitions and participated in 300 group exhibitions; vocalist and lyric writer of E band (1986–1998), Jindřich Chalupecký Prize (1990), Dalibor Chatrny Prize (2012).

Exhibiting works

• Jana Preková: SWEET/SWEET/SWEET – Nebeský festival (SWEET/SWEET/SWEET – “Nebeský Festival“), Národní Divadlo (National Theatre), 2015, Director: scénář/script of SWEET/SWEET/SWEET:  Egon Tobiáš, Lucie Trmíková
  režie/director: Jan Nebeský
  hudba/music: Jan Šikl ve spolupráci s ostatními umělci/in collaboration with other artists
  scénografie/scenography: Jana Preková ve spolupráci s ostatními umělci/in collaboration with other artists
  , design: The Rodina ; Identification of exhibit: poster ;
  Comments: The SWEET - “Nebeský Festival“ (curated by Jana Preková) will take place at the New Stage, Café NoNa and on the Piazzeta of the National Theatre. Visitors will participate in a day-long event, improvized within the a format determined by the artSWEET - Nebeský festival (jehož kurátorkou je Jana Preková) se bude odehrávat na Nové scéně Národního divadla a na Piazzetě Národního divadla. Návštěvníci se zúčastní celodenní události, která bude improvizovaná uvnitř formátu daného samotnými umělci.
  ists themselves.