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Soros centers for contemporary art: Atelier NOON in Prague 1999-2002
Schulmeisterová, Dita ; Pech, Milan (advisor) ; Czumalo, Vladimír (referee)
This thesis deals with George Soros foundation network, specifically with the Soros centers for contemporary art, their support of the art in post-soviet countries and the following transformation. One of the important tasks was support for artists in the form of grants. Attention is focused on one specific case and that is the gallery Atelier NOON, which was based in Prague in Smichov in 1999 - 2002. It was an unconventional combination of the art studio, that belong to the artist Petra Nováková Ondreičková, and exhibition space. The gallery is shown in context of contemporary art scene from those times, and it is also trying to show similar unconventional exhibition spaces. Keywords George Soros, Soros foundation network, SCCA, gallery, Atelier NOON, Petra Nováková Ondreičková, exhibition, 90', apartmant gallery
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Café as an architectural problem: four cafés in Ostrava
Schulmeisterová, Dita ; Czumalo, Vladimír (advisor) ; Pech, Milan (referee)
Café as an architectural problem: Four cafés in Ostrava Abstract The work is trying to reflect architecture in Ostrava on the example of four historic cafés. In detail it deals with café Elektra, Palace, Savoy and Fenix. The work analyzes their construction development, deals with current state and use of those spaces today. On those four places it is trying to present, how these cafés could compensate for non-ideal enviroment of industrial city. It presents the society which visited these cafés and that is especially in the era of the first republic when the boom of cafés was the biggist. It asks the question if Ostrava cafés was any different from Brno or Prague cafés, both in it is construction and social meaning. At last it is trying to find the parallel in today Ostrava cafés, show that even today in Ostrava we can still find places that are built on the elegance of old cafés interiors.
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