Rooted Everywhere Symposium – connecting FFA students and alumni, 8–21 Sep 2025, Distillery, FFA Gallery
From September 8 to 21, 2025, the third annual art symposium Rooted Everywhere will take place at the Distillery industrial complex and the FFA Gallery (Galerie FaVU) at Pekařská 78 in Brno, focusing on bringing together and fostering collaboration between FFA students and alumni.
The Rooted Everywhere symposium is organized by the Faculty of Fine Arts at Brno University of Technology in cooperation with the všuderajče collective. Its aim is to create new, often intergenerational, connections between artists and to serve as a space for sharing experiences, opening new dialogues, and artistic collaboration between people who graduated from the same educational institution. The collective also strives to open up discussion on topics such as collaboration, collective practice, and the principles of non-competition. A total of 45 artists will participate in this year's symposium, who were again selected through an open call and divided into six creative groups based on common thematic areas.
This year's symposium will take place in two phases. The first, internal week will be devoted to intensive collaboration among participants within the author groups and the joint creation of works of art. The second week, from September 16 to 20, 2025, will feature a public accompanying program offering the panel discussion, the workshop, and the launch of the new semester FaVU New Season 2025. The culmination of the joint work of FFA students and alumni will be the opening on Wednesday, September 17, 2025. The exhibition will be open to the public from September 17 to 20, and those interested will also be able to learn more about the exhibited works and the concept of the symposium itself during two guided tours.
Accompanying programme for the public:
TUE 16 September 2025
16:00 Workshop Comunite Fresca (Pekařská 78, Brno)
A practical and narrative insight into the practice of Comunite Fresca. Through joint creation and discussion, we will explore possible ways of group painting and how other entities - architecture, light, and the users of space - become part of the collective.
WED 17 September 2025
18:00 Opening of the exhibition of artist groups (Pekařská 78, Brno)
favu label: DJ GOLEM, NOWALOVER
21:00 FaVU New Season afterparty (Rello, Rybářská 13, Brno)
Zaffer 9, dlab, greta spitfire
THU 18 September 2025
16:00 Guided tour of the exhibition of artist groups (Pekařská 78, Brno)
18:00 Sharing, connecting, collaborating: Discussion on the topic of collective practice among students and graduates of the FFA (Pekařská 78, Brno)
Discussants: Bernadeta Babáková, Hana Magdoňová, Bára Růžičková, favu label
Moderator: Viktória Citráková
The discussion on collaboration will focus on various forms of collective artistic practice, with an emphasis on transgressive and participatory management methods, the creation of network collectives, interdisciplinary collaboration, and collective authorship. The guests will open up a space for the exchange of ideas, inspiration, and the search for new forms of collaboration, such as creative interaction or community involvement. The discussion will be followed by a space for questions and joint reflection.
20:00 Performance Chaluha (Frída Kakao)
SAT 20 September 2025
16:00 Guided and performative tour of the exhibition of artist groups (Pekařská 78, Brno)
WED 17 – SAT 20 September 2025
Exhibition of artist groups open to the public
Opening hours: Wednesday–Friday 16:00–20:00, Saturday 10:00–18:00
Further information about the program will be published soon. A list of symposium participants, topics discussed, and more information about the symposium can be found at: Symposium Rooted Everywhere 2025.
Web: vsuderajce.favu.vut.cz
Instagram: instagram.com/vsuderajce
| Author | Mgr. Tímea Vitázková |
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Responsibility: Mgr. Klára Ergensová, DiS.