Brno Art Week at FFA, 20–26 April 2026
The Faculty of Fine Arts BUT will once again participate in this year’s Brno Art Week, one of the largest events dedicated to the visual arts in Brno. This week-long festival brings together galleries, museums, schools, and libraries, offering a program that includes exhibition openings, guided walks, tours, workshops, and a variety of other events.
As part of this year’s edition, which runs from April 20 to 26, FFA will participate with 14 events and 2 exhibitions by students and teachers. Visitors can look forward to open studios, performances, workshop, artist talk, and guided tours, among other things.
Events:
Developing camera films in Jobotéka Diskotéka
20–26 April 2026, 13:00–17:00 (except Wednesday 22 April)
Hlaváčova 20, Brno – 2nd floor of the building Orlovna-Obřany
Come to the photo lab with your own film, which you can develop for free with our help. Color or black and white, 35mm or roll film! We will show you how it all works and give you an insight into the operation of a small photo lab. The developing process takes about an hour. You can take your developed film with you or leave it at the photo lab for scanning (price according to the current price list). The program is open to the general public. Contact us via Instagram and arrange a time!
HERD – a spatial intervention of the Visiting Artists’ Studio
20– 21 April 2026, 17:00–21:00
Katakomby CED, Zelný trh 9, Brno
Herd, livestock, a group, a gathering, choreography. Bonded and separate, both at the same time. A meeting of (you name it) directed by a common space and purpose. Interacting partly willingly, partly because it was ordered to do so. Various types of herds in a mix. The performers watching the observers watching the performers. The air in the space is dense, the low ceiling gives a feeling of a borrow / a shelter / a bunker, depending on the needs. (text Zuza Golińska)
Performative action will take place on 21st of March.
Participants: Max Bailey, Eva Gatialová, Paulina Kaprálová, Anna Kosíková, Alejandra Sanchidrián Martins, Anna Roháčová, Sarina Salimi, Alina Shaikhutdinova, Josefína Strublová.
Visiting Artists’ Studio with supervision of Zuza Golińska and assistance of Šárka Zahálková.
The program will take place in collaboration with the Center for Experimental Theater.
Adam Michálek's performance at Billa (durational performance)
Tuesday 21 April 2026, 14:00–16:00
Billa, Náměstí Svobody 702/9, Brno
Another region is another cry, the time has come to come out. Come support Adam Michálek in his durational performance at Billa. You can recognize Adam Michálek by his famous shark cap. Not everyone can be Adam Michálek this year, but Adam Michálek can be anyone this year.
screening.13
Tuesday 21 April 2026 (19:00 doors, 19:30 start of the program)
Rello, Rybářská 13
Screening.13 is a music and film series held exclusively at Rello on Rybářská 13. Its aim is to create and strengthen Brno communities interested in audiovisual culture and offer them a curated selection of contemporary moving images, often with an overlap into music/sound. The projection evenings are dramaturgically led not only internally, but also by invited curators or existing collectives.
Program: Alex Sihelsk* – Zveromedze (2025), Kristýna Sidlárová – Digital Climate II. - I just want to feel solid ground under my feet (2022), live set fusarifusari
Open graphic workshops and ex-libris workshop
Wednesday 22 April 2026, 10:00–15:00
FFA BUT (campus Kraví hora, building number 12) Rybkova 23, Brno
Kateřina Beata Spáčilová and Pavel Kytner from the Department of Traditional Media at FFA will open graphic workshops for the public on Wednesday, 22 April 2026. Visitors can also look forward to a program where they will be able to make their own ex-libris, which will also serve as invitations.
Open Painting Studio 1
Wednesday 22 April 2026, 13:00–18:00
FFA BUT (campus Kraví hora, building number 7) Rybkova 23, Brno
From 13:00 to 18:00, visitors will be able to visit Painting Studio 1, view the students' work, and observe the work process in action. Prospective students can consult with the studio management or students about their work.
Those who lose their keys gain a little space in their pockets – reading authors' texts about their own creative process at Painting Studio 3
Wednesday 22 April 2026, 14:00–15:30
FFA BUT (campus Kraví hora, building number 9) Rybkova 23, Brno
Six planets have lined up in the sky. I am reading André Barbault's predictions from the 1960s for the period 2026–2030. According to him, this summer will be crucial in the awakening of humanity, there will be significant changes in the system, wars will be rejected, and society will become more just. What is supposed to precede this is what we are experiencing right now. All sorts of scenarios are running through my head. Then I remember that today is the deadline to join the Brno Art Week program. In the studio we have agreed to participate by reading our diaries. Now we have to quickly come up with a title and an annotation. On the table is a postcard from Malá Inventura with the inscription "Wait for the others." But there's no time for that. I open Paul Cox's book and randomly turn to a chapter titled "Those who lose their keys gain a little space in their pockets," which he borrowed from Alexandre Delaye. The whole chapter is about how it's good when things don't turn out the way we plan. I decided to borrow the sentence for the title of the event. Now for the blurb.
“The Space Between Views” – a guided tour of the work-in-progress diploma’s work by Tereza Brlicová
Wednesday 22 April 2026,16:30–18:00, guided tour at 17:00
FFA BUT (campus Kraví hora, building number 9) Rybkova 23, Brno
A guided tour, during which the author will present her work in progress, will take place at 17:00. The studio will be open to visitors from 16:00 to 18:00.
For the author, the interspace is a place where she works with gestural painting. She focuses on stylized forms of beings' gazes. She perceives the concept of "inter-space" as a dynamic field of energy between herself and another being or entity. This space has a physical, psychological, and intuitive dimension. The visual form of the paintings is often based on reflections of current life situations and relationships, which I understand as an experiential space. At the same time, the interspace blurs gender boundaries: the emerging face or scene is born from the subconscious and is not a portrait of a specific person, but a visual trace of mutual interaction. Tereza Brlicová explores the phenomenon of mirroring, relationship patterns, sensitivity, self-esteem, and boundaries. Gestural painting allows her to work with physicality and processuality. Through her paintings, she explores the present moment and authenticity. The series of paintings is based on mapping relationships, situations, or personal experiences. She focuses on gesture, trace, color, degree of stylization, choice of format, and installation.
Collective reading Active Listening Exercise
Wednesday 22 April 2026, 18:00
Galerie FaVU, Pekařská 436/78, Brno
Active Listening Exercise is a collective reading as a practice of attention. It slows down language and focuses on breath, pause, and resonance between voices. Listening becomes a form of care and a survival strategy in times of emotional overload, creating a temporary community of shared vulnerability. The program is also the closing event for Nikola Balberčáková's exhibition Swarming Tongues.
Music for musicians and the audience
Wednesday 22 April 2026, 19:30
Terén – Sklepní scéna CED, Zelný trh 294, Brno
Musicians play, listeners listen—right? In a series of events titled “Music for Musicians and Audience,” things are different. As part of this year’s Brno Art Week festival program, Terén is presenting two participatory concerts that expand on the traditional relationship between performers and the audience. Composers and musicians Ján Podracký and Matúš Kobolka will perform two concert works in a single evening, inviting the audience to a shared experience of listening, playing, and playfulness.
Public Pocket – artist talk with Zuza Golińska
Thursday 23 April 2026, 16:00
FFA BUT, building U1, room 202, Úvoz 33, Brno
Sculptures / spaces / rooms / institutions / functions / materialities / structures / grids / patterns / repetitions / layers / extensions / matching thoughts with forms / linking images / histories / identities / mythologies / bending / welding / sewing / constructing.
The conversation between Zuza Golińska and Šárka Zahálková will take the form of a friendly yet structured overview of these themes, with particular attention to the role of their Eastern European identity within their artistic approaches. The talk will be accompanied by images highlighting key moments in Zuza’s practice. These visuals will not only illustrate the discussion but also offer a visually engaging entry point into the ideas being explored.
The exchange will maintain an open structure and warmly welcome questions from the audience.
Zuza Golińska is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores the impact of architecture and public space on the individual. Her work examines how physical and mental well-being are shaped by the psychology of space, particularly in the context of civilisational acceleration and late-stage capitalism. Zuza often challenges the boundaries between functionality and aesthetics, investigating how spatial forms influence emotion and decision-making. In her recent work, she has focused on imagining future landscapes, with particular attention to the remnants of human presence – such as ruins and industrial by-products – marking the end of human-led labour.
Zuza Golińska is currently leading the Visiting Artists’ Studio at FFA BUT together with Šárka Zahálková.
The artist talk will be held in English.
Nothingness is the price I pay for understanding those I once loved (performance by Izbová Teplota)
Friday 26 April 2026, 18:00
Umakart Gallery, Lidická 1875/40, Brno
The performance explores a situation of gradually escalating fear of pollution, culminating in a confrontation among all the performers. This situation raises the question of what remains after desire has receded. Here, waste is not understood as a foreign element or as the result of external infiltration, but as a product of the local population, which uses it to assert its claim to public space and articulate its presence. The project stems from a critique of the concept of cleanliness and the processes through which public space is domesticated and subordinated to the logic of ownership. By bringing abject objects associated with urban development from the periphery back into the center of activity, it disrupts established norms of social order and opens up a field for the emergence of an action situation in which post-humanist figures of contemporary consumer society and its material production come to the fore.
The performance creates a temporary zone where fragments of human activity, stripped of their utilitarian function, persist outside the framework of everyday life. This space allows for a reevaluation of the relationships between the body, waste, and the environment, and challenges the boundaries between the center and the periphery. In the context of the theme of Resilience, the project focuses on forms of resistance to normative notions of order and value.
Opening of the studios M5 and exhibition opening at gallery Corridoor
Friday 24 April 2026, 18:00
Masná 5, Brno
Come join us for the official opening of the newly established M5 enclave studios. The program will include an opening of the exhibition at the gallery Corridoor and a presentation of works by Tereza Rausová, Gabriel Bardon, David Hudson, Petr Mucha, and David Tex Vystavěl.
Clara Goldenstein, Maedeh Hoseini - Garden as a reading room: Portable library for collective constellations at Obilní trh
Saturday 25 April 2026, 12:00
Obilní trh, Brno
For a while and together, we will inhabit Obilní trh park, between the water fountain and the statue Dívka se džbány. The garden becomes a space for contemplation and shared attention. To mark the first month of spring, the library will be brought into the garden. We will bring a portable “mini-library” composed of poetry, short stories, pocket dictionaries and theoretical fragments. Participants are invited to choose, exchange, read aloud, copy, use a book as an oracle, rearrange or position texts in relation to one another within the garden space. Through simple prompts, we will collectively generate temporary constellations of language – on benches, on the ground, between plants.
The session unfolds as a shared act of reading, writing and listening, re-creating meaning from existing materials through interaction with the site. By recombining together, we will play with the suspension of fixed narratives. This collective activation of language seeks to open meanings that emerge from in-betweenness and imagination. No final outcome is required; the focus lies simply on attention.
Language: English.
Exhibitions:
Swarming Tongues – Nikola Balberčáková
11 March – 22 April 2026
curator: Doris Sisková
Galerie FaVU, Pekařská 436/78, Brno (Distillery)
The exhibition Swarming Tongues by Nikola Balberčáková engages with themes of the medicalization of emotions, the anxiety of late capitalism, the disintegration of intimate bonds, and the search for survival strategies in an environment of emotional excess. Compressed, re-expanded, and adapted fondant refers to the body as a site of exhaustion as well as resistance, where nihilistic hope does not signify faith in a better future, but persistence despite decay. A shared reading of vulnerability creates a community of shared pain and offers collective resilience through the acceptance of systemic collapse. Dissonant frequencies continue to multiply, and our vibrating tongues together form a swarm of resistance.
Opening hours: Wednesday 22 April 2026, 15:00–20:00
Lištica (Lucie Lienerová) - Weed–Kiddie
11 March 2026 – 24 May 2026
curators: Viktória Pardovičová, Barbora Trnková
House of the Lords of Kunštát, Dominikánská 9, Brno
The exhibition represents the third act of the artist’s painterly practice, in which she develops narratives of the transformation of human and plant identity against the backdrop of posthumanist perspectives. We find ourselves in the midst of illustrations for an unwritten book, which evocatively invite us to search for a dialogue with an emerging new offspring—a being whose position between floral and anthropomorphic origins remains ambiguous, if it exists at all.
As part of Brno Art Week, a guided tour and artist talk will take place on 22 April 2026, at 17:00.
The individual events will take place under the dramaturgical and production guidance of students, teachers of the FFA BUT, or other institutions.
| Author | Mgr. Tímea Vitázková |
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| Short URL | https://www.favu.vut.cz/en//f26745/d322898 |