Historical materials 1995
PQ 1995 - HISTORICAL MATERIALS
International Exhibition of Theatre Design and Theatre Architecture – Prague Quadrennial '95
Industrial Palace – Prague Exhibition Grounds
June 26 to July 16, 1995
Held under the auspices of the President of the Czech Republic, Václav Havel, and the Mayor of the City of Prague, Jan Koukal.
UNESCO included PQ 95 in its World Decade for Cultural Development program, with permission to use the accompanying logo.
OFFICIAL MATERIALS
Statutes: 
1995_statutes001.pdf
UNESCO: 1995_letter001.pdf
Final report: 1995_final report.pdf
PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES
Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belarus, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Chile, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Latvia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Syria, Spain-Catalonia, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America
PROGRAM
INTERNATIONAL JURY
Eric Alexander, theater scientist, theater historian, publicist, pedagogue (the Netherlands)
Hedwig Belitska-Scholtz, theater historian, critic, pedagogue (Hungary)
José Manuel Castanheira, stage and costume designer, pedagogue (Portugal)
Yury Gnedovsky, architect, pedagogue (Russia)
Helmut Grosser, Technical Director of the Munich Opera, Chairman of OISTAT (Germany)
Mel Gussow, theater critic, publicist (USA)
Samppa Lahdenperä, theater and costume designer, pedagogue (Finland)
Byoung Boc Lee, theater and costume designer (Korea)
Iain Mackintosh, architect, designer, Consultant for Theatre Project (Great Britain)
Jaroslav Malina, scenographer, fine artist, pedagogue (Czech Republic)
Michele Notterman, stage and costume designer, pedagogue (Belgium)
Jury Foreman: Jaroslav Malina
PRIZES AWARDED
National sections
GOLDEN TRIGA – exposition from Brazil – which succeeded in raising theatre to the level of festive occasion, place of joy, and deep emotional experience
SPECIAL GOLD MEDAL – exposition from Great Britain – for an exemplary approach to fulfilling the PQ 95 theme “In search of performance space”
GOLD MEDAL – SCENOGRAPHY – Robert Ebeling, Frank Hänig, Hartmut Meyer, Peter Schubert (Germany) – for an imaginative approach to classical and modern theatre
SILVER MEDAL – SCENOGRAPHY
Zinovij Margolin (Belarus) – for stage designs that helped to meet the aims of Françoise Sagan’s play “The Vanishing Horse”
Andris Freibergs (Latvia) – for his stage design for Penderecki and Bach’s Credo
Jeoug-Sup Yoon (S. Korea) – for a design for Ji-il Kim’s play “Heavenly Order”
GOLD MEDAL – COSTUME – Alex Ollé, Charles Padrissa, Peter Minshall, Chu Oroz (Spain-Catalonia) – for dazzling costumes from The Mediterranean, Olympic Sea by La Fura dels Baus
SILVER MEDAL – COSTUME
Anna Kontek (Finland) – for a set of costumes for Stravinsky’s opera The Nightingale
Gabriel Berry (USA) – for a set of costumes for experimental theatre performances
Thematic section – Publications on scenography
GOLD MEDAL– Věra Ptáčková (Czech Republic) – for her book “A Mirror of World Theatre”
SILVER MEDAL
Giorgos Patsas (Greece) – for his book “Costumes and Stage Design”
Hungary – for the catalogue to the Hungarian exposition at PQ 95, which is an excellent example of how to document contemporary scenography
Theatre architecture
GOLD MEDAL – not awarded
SILVER MEDAL
Belgium – for an excellent and original presentation of theatre architecture
Czech Republic – for its exposition dedicated primarily to theatre spaces and theatre architecture with a view towards the Archa Theatre in Prague by architects Miroslav Melena and Ivan Plicka and graphic designer Robert V. Novák
INFORMATION MATERIALS
Nominating commissioners, auspices
Letters: 1995_letter001.pdf
Ground-plans of exhibition spaces: 1995_ground-plan001.pdf
Brainstorming: 1995_brainstorming001.pdf
Diploma: 1995_diploma001.pdf
Acknowledgments: 1995_acknowledgement001.pdf
PROPAGATION
promotional and program materials, press releases
PHOTOS
STATISTICS
Number of Participating Countries: 42 (of the original 45 applicant countries, Azerbaijan, the Philippines and Venezuela cancelled or did not respond when contacted)
Number of Participating Artists and Collectives: 331 scenographers, architects and creative collectives
Number of Exhibiting Czech Artists and Architects: 23
Number of Exhibiting Schools: 69 from 26 countries
“Publications on Scenography” section: 16 countries with 107 exhibits
Exhibition Space Used in the Industrial Palace: 8,537 m2
Installation materials: made-to-order by Výstavnictví Chmura, Ostrava. The original idea of purchasing mannequins from the Kotva department store (Výstavnictví did not have enough) was rejected for its high cost. Nor did we make use of the offer by the Premonstratensian monks from Strahov monastery, who offered the PQ costume section the use of their chasuble hangers, because this type of equipment was not suitable for exhibition purposes.
Number of Visitors: Approximately 10,000 paying visitors (not including group tourist visits, which were not registered).
Tentative budget: CZK 9,600,000
TEAM
President of the PQ Board for PQ 95: Michael Prokop, 1st Assistant to the Minister of Culture.
PQ Committee Members: Helena Brabencová, Anna Freimanová, Václav Králíček, Jana Kučerová, Jaroslav Malina, Bohumil Nekolný, Hana Nestěrenková, Ota Ornest, Jana Preková, Petr Řehoř, Jan Vančura
General Commissioner: Helena Albetová
Secretariat: Miroslava Potůčková
Architect and designer: Jan Švaříček
Production: Petr Hájek
Public relations: Ivana Ryzcová
Realization: Výstavnictví Chmura, Ostrava