The opening performance was presented by four Pilsen dance groups » Afresh Dance Community / » Dance Center Petry Parvoničové / » B-Original / » Spider Dance Company.. Each of the groups focuses on other dance styles from hiphop, contemporary, funky styles to modern acrobatics.

Choreography and concept / Martina "Maya" Matoušková


The MOVING FOREST project was inspired by the fairy tale of the woods where trees are moving at night, so those who get lost there, will never get out. Architect Gene Yamamoto from NL Architects has reportedly feared this idea till today. In Pilsen, we will try to reopen and deepen the traditional debate about the absence of greenery on the main Pilsen square and the adjacent streets using this experimental installation.
After the end of the installation, the trees will be used for an emerging land-art project before the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art.

» NL Architects

NL Architects is the architectural office in Amsterdam, founded by Pieter Bannenberg, Walter van Dijk and Kamiel Klaasse. Officially, they opened architectural practice only in January 1997, but have been working together since the early 1990s. All three graduated from Delft University of Technology.

NL Architects first outlined their success in the 1994 Archiprix student competition with the Carstadt project, which in an innovative way combined a department store and a garage in the historic centre of Amsterdam. Since then, they have established themselves as one of the most interesting architectural offices, combining the thoughtfulness of concepts with humour.

It is humour that is one of the great trademarks of architectural research of this leading European studio. There is not much humour in architecture, but NL Architects are looking at contemporary architecture and urbanism with a completely different prism.






foto © Matěj Veselý, Markéta Tichá, Hana Boříková

The same as four years ago in Amsterdam, the Dutch NL Architects studio wants to revive an inhospitable parking lot with this installation. Nine putting greens give the opportunity for the people of Pilsen to play minigolf while parking their car to combine these two activities. The aim is to draw attention to the potential of the unused areas in the city centre and to make sure whether these temporary new activities can contribute to their integration into the surrounding area. Besides, the place will be activated by a playful version of green grafitti.


» NL Architects

NL Architects is the architectural office in Amsterdam, founded by Pieter Bannenberg, Walter van Dijk and Kamiel Klaasse. Officially, they opened architectural practice only in January 1997, but have been working together since the early 1990s. All three graduated from Delft University of Technology.

NL Architects first outlined their success in the 1994 Archiprix student competition with the Carstadt project, which in an innovative way combined a department store and a garage in the historic centre of Amsterdam. Since then, they have established themselves as one of the most interesting architectural offices, combining the thoughtfulness of concepts with humour.

It is humour that is one of the great trademarks of architectural research of this leading European studio. There is not much humour in architecture, but NL Architects are looking at contemporary architecture and urbanism with a completely different prism.

Benedikt Tolar (1975) was born in Pilsen. Between 1996 and 2002, he was attending the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, first in the sculptural studio of Karel Nepraš, then at the studio of painter Vladimír Skrepl. He worked as a teacher, restorer and, of course, as a sculptor. His work was also featured in the Jan Hřebejk movie Pupendo as the work of the fictional artist Mára. Currently he is an assistant professor at the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen.

» Benedikt Tolar

Information - technology - ideas - the entropy of the great story of modernity... the opportunity of this “platform” to provide the viewer with a personal space for a public presentation of views, an ideogram of public demonstrations, vox populi, a demonstration without demonstrators ...

Realisation of the bamboo pavilion, which project was created during an international workshop at the occasion of the Prague exhibition of the prominent Japanese architect Kengo Kuma in cooperation with Archwerk.

» Galerie Jarolava Fragnera
» Kengo Kuma & Associates
» Archwerk

Projekt „Zvuk trávy“
vychází z vertikálního vědomí,
spirituální touhy po vnitřní harmonii
a splynutí s prostorem.
Je v něm obsažena i nekonečná potřeba po znovuzrození.
Trvání
v nikdy nekončícím cyklu opakované existence
a jako duální rozpolcení
i bezbřehá potřeba vlastního prosazení.
Od pravěku až po současnost
je aspekt vertikální energie,
expandujícím projevem všeho živého v prostoru.
Živé vědomí,
jako záznam,
reflexe pohybu a zvuku v prostoru
je esenciálním aspektem,
probouzejícím potřebu propojení
s principem nikdy nekončících proměn
procesů prolínání hmoty,
prázdna
a spirituality,
která je jejich součástí.

The object belongs to a series of outdoor installations that combine the theme of spatial abstraction of the typography font. Formally, deconstructivist tendencies are evident. In detail, you can find links to different directions of the twentieth century.

» Jan Zdvořák

The distinctive, deep pink 3D jigsaw puzzle called BLOOM is a toy designed for "gardening" in the city. The components allow to be put toghether in different shapes and objects, in spirals, branches or circles, but it is also possible to create functional furniture.

The forest can be understood as a landscape of our country, that has always been naturally covered by woods, the arable land and the land that had to be taken from nature to be changed into human dwellings. People took the land from the forest. Nowadays, we try to conquer nature more and more, sometimes we are mistaken, and nature symbolically presents our failure in its definitive form.

» Dagmar Šubrtová

The roundabout is not only a transport construction, but also an architectural and landscape element. His beautification for any purpose is becoming a very popular discipline in the Czech Republic. How far can the art go?

» Václav Fiala

Sit down – Relax – Have a break – Refresh yourself – Regain your strength - and look for the information.

» EGOÉ

An original children's playroom created by Pilsen sculptor Benedikt Tolar is made of plastic bins and containers, which wants to introduce even little visitors to the topic of waste and the art of recycling.

» Benedikt Tolar

An exhibition that together with the exhibition will bring visitors closer to the issue of planting the roofs and facades of buildings, with emphasis not only on design and technology, but also on sustainability and environment.


Green Roof of the Year

The exhibition presents the results of the three years of the Green Roof of the Year award. It will present the best in recent years in the Czech Republic in the field of greening of roofs, facades and other building structures.

» Zelené střechy

The Landscape festival team managed to save a synchronised swimmer, who was drowning at the confluence of the rivers ...........
For better personal security and greater enjoyment, the team members created her a pavilion where she can perform and show her refined movements.

The last piece of greenery has been fully used ... in the battle “City against Nature” who is your favourite?

What is common for us.
Dedicated to the brewery by your gardeners’

Reflections on anatomy and public space have led me to an eternal problem of gender imbalance that concerns the possibility of urinating outdoors. Men can stand at a tree or pillar to cover this piece of their body indispensible for this activity, which is only small, because the fashion also it at their side and does not force them to be almost half naked when urinating.

The purpose of ladies' field toilets is to allow women to urinate in the nature, as they usually do - in a squatting position, while at the same time being overtly hidden from behind. I suggest for this purpose wooden objects that in a minimalist way describe the bodily shapes of squatting women, in two types – Tent and Shepherd´s Hut.

I recommend that the field toilets should be organized in clusters, because women like to talk when pissing.

» Lenka Klodová

The panorama "Devil's Lake" captures the events surrounding the Berlin's Forest Lake, a popular destination for lovers of bathing. The visitor can enjoy the from the water on the banks.

The panorama consists of 11 large-scale charcoal drawings (2,6 m high and 36 m long), each of which has its thematic focus, also expressed in its subtitle:

Eden – Splash Beach – Venus Beach – Fuck Wood – Battle Wood – Float – Phoenix Wood – Dragon Wood – Christopher Beach – Shiva Shakti Beach – Sun.

» Kai Teichert

A strange floating object that may resemble a submarine. It is covered with pine bark, it creates an impression of nature, but in fact it is a certain contradiction. It's a kind of mimicry of art. It is inconspicuously embedded in the weak water stream of the river, and it sometimes tends to resist it somewhat due to the simple technological secret concealed inside the object.

The structure and consequently the P - 2 design are based on the principle of the seemingly random connection of wooden fruit and vegetables crates to as certain units that create the whole of the object. It can be said metaphorically that these articles are to be found in our micro and macro world.

» Michal Sedlák

Woman Landscape was originally created in 1991 at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. It was an eight-meter high model of a hundred-meter landscape that unfortunately hasn´t been realised yet. This year's third rendition will appear on the Bolevec Ponds in Pilsen.

» Kurt Gebauer

Let's give Czech landscape a swing!

Let's highlight the potential of interesting places ... let's draw attention to the beautiful but hidden place in our neighbourhood in a joyful way ... how? Let's hang a swing!

The Czech landscape is overwhelmed by information signs and educative nature trails that often do not respect the place itself. So we are looking for a way to point out interesting places in a way that will be sensitive to the landscape. We often discuss people's interest in the landscape, how it is being dominated by them, but the connection between the landscape and people is getting lost, as well as how this trend, which seems unsatisfactory, can be changed. We have come to the conclusion that there is a need to start with small things. One of these "small things" can be a swing - a symbol of common joy, playfulness and perspective. The swing as a symbol of getting to know the landscape and deepening of the relationship to it.

» naOkraji

What happens when a parallel path is created in the city by common streets and squares? How does it feel when we enter a new dimension where we will be completely free...? The parallel path offers us a space where we can walk or dance and refresh in the hot summer days.

» OTTOTTO

» H3T Architects

After the MOVING FOREST project dismantling from the NL Architects studio in the Place of the Republic, the festival will host a happening in the form of a land-art installation on the motifs of Ladislav Sutnar before entrance of the building of the Faculty of Design and Art.

» Fakulta designu a umění Ladislava Sutnara

“What a pity that drinking water is not sin… It could taste so delicious at once.”

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg