Re-connect Art 2025: WELL-BEING

The fifth edition of the Re-connect Art contemporary art festival will focus on Well Being this year. The festival will take place from 5 to 15 June in the gallery and outdoor area of the Veleslavín Chateau. In addition to an art exhibition, there will be live performances, artist talks, a debate, and therapeutic and self-care sessions.

The project aims to highlight the imbalance between life and work, the need for rest and self-care, as well as care for immaterial values. Through artistic interventions, we will respond to the history and present of the Veleslavín chateau and its surrounding gardens.

A pressing need to restore respect for physical and mental health, self-care and care for life in the community, is demonstrated by the magnificent cultural monument such as the Veleslavín Castle, which until recently had been closed to the public for a number of years and was dilapidated.
The theme of well-being is deeply connected to the essence of art itself. Art is a nourishing form of self-care, a cultivation of values, an occasion for socializing, a mechanism for social self-reflection, and an irreplaceable source of spiritual nourishment. Today, however, we encounter its underappreciation and undervaluation, which results in a shared experience of exhaustion in the art sector. The creation of art and its mediation is usually a very demanding endeavor, connected not only with the creative process itself, but also with a number of other activities—administrative, organizational, and operational. Artists often find themselves on the brink of their material, physical, and mental strength, and given the tradition of low valuation of cultural production and the lack of legislative support in our country, they face existential questions.
Therefore, the festival addresses this problem through artistic interventions and also includes elements that expose the precariousness of cultural workers, using the festival itself as an example.
Curators: Elis Unique, Tereza Nováková, Barbora Trnková, Veronika Zapletalová.
Participating artists: Eliška Šárková, Martin Zetová, Phila Primus, Vladimír Turner, Libuše Vendlová, Darina Alster + Peter Bill + Viktor Takáč + Magdaléna Šipka, Matyáš Grimmich, Petra Pětiletá, Jatun Risba, Viktor Takáč, Jana Orlová, Yustin Castillo
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Exhibition 5. 6. – 15. 6. 2025
Opening hours:
Mon – Fri 15.00 – 18.00
Sat – Sun 13.00 – 18.00
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6:00 Opening ceremony of the exhibition /Phila Primus, Vladimír Turner, Libuše Vendlová, Darina Alster, Peter Bill, Eliška Šárková, Jatun Risba, Jana Orlová, Viktor Takáč, Petra Pětiletá/
7:00 Live performance /Martin Zetová/
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16:30 Somatic meditation session /Yustin Castillo/
17:00 Live group performance Tree of Life / Darina Alster, Peter Bill, Viktor Takáč, Madgaléna Šipka and collective/
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17:30 Artist Talk and discussion / Vladimír Turner/
18:00 Advisory circle / Matyáš Grimmich/
The festival will feature workshops for schoolchildren led by artist Libuše Vendlová.
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Re-connect Art is an international festival of art and life that focuses on supporting live art, new media creation, and audience development through interactive and participatory artistic approaches.
The festival is being held with the kind support of the Prague Biennale Foundation. The project has received financial support from the State Fund for Culture of the Czech Republic. Prague 6 Municipal District has provided free access to the castle and cultural activities.
The event is being held thanks to the voluntary participation of the project’s authors, artists and participants, whose unpaid work is a contribution to our common well-being.
The current program can be found at: www.re-connect.art
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