BeneLon II. - Find the Gap
„Stand in line for watermelons!“
13.10 - 26.11.2006
opening: 12.10.2006, from 19.00 at the Centre for Central European Architecture
the exhibition will be opened by Radek Kolařík
venue: Centre for Central European Architecture, U Půjčovny 4, Prague 1
www.ccea-info.org
project concept: group Agents / Vendula Hladíková, Bernard Štorch, and Štěpán Toman
production for CCEA: Zuzana Bodnárová
graphics: Petr Štepán
The Prague Centre for Central European Architecture also in the autumn programming of its exhibition space in the vicinity of the main railway station prioritizes projects that present contemporary architecture in an original way, relying on experimental approaches from architects and other artistic media. The project BeneLon, which has been gradually developed since 2004 under the authorship of the group Agents consisting of three young architects, Vendula Hladíková, Bernard Štorch, and Štěpán Toman, follows non-traditional methods for presenting architecture. The word BeneLon in their rendition denotes a virtual counterpart of an urban organism, in which the fragments of two environments familiar to the authors - Benešov and Londons - intertwine.
BeneLon is an experiment, an architectural vision of a city whose organism transforms depending on the influx of new information or changing perspectives. Its final form does not exist, and as the authors themselves state: "everyone has the opportunity to influence BeneLon, to insert new information into it."
While the first part of the project (autumn 2005, Museum of Art and Design in Benešov) introduced the emergence and development of BeneLon (the prehistory of the place), BeneLon II - Find the Gap is about searching for fissures in the contemporary world. The authors perceive these "GAPS" also as places where the real and the virtual collide.
The exhibition at the Centre for Central European Architecture presents one of the possible "fissures" - a hypothetical marketplace with a stall selling watermelons, lying on the border of two realities, where there is a shift in the perception of time, space, and movement. The "queue for watermelons" then appears in this context as a gateway to a parallel world - BeneLon.
In the project BeneLon , the trio of architects included 23 other artists from the Czech Republic and abroad, whose inputs have influenced the project since its inception - (MIDORI AINOURA + CHRISTIAN HILBER, BEN VAN BERKEL + CAROLINE BOSS, MATT CRAWFORD with GARY MARINKO ARCHITECTS + HOFMAN AND BROWN ARCHITECTS, KRISTÝNA CIPROVÁ, FI3ER, ALICE FUNG, JAN HLADÍK, ALAN HILLS, EVA JIŘIČNÁ, TAKATOMO KASHIWABARA, RADEK KOLAŘÍK, DENISA KOLLMANOVÁ, MICHAL KUNC, CLAUDIO LUCCHESI, PETR MALÉŘ, KAS OOSTERHUIS + ILONA LÉNÁRD, JAKUB SRPA, VENDULA ŠAFÁŘOVÁ, TOMÁŠ VESELÝ, and others).
profile of the members of the group Agents
VENDULA HLADÍKOVÁ (1978)
Vendula studied at the University of Applied Arts in Prague and at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. From 2004-2005 and 2001-2002, she worked at the London studio Eva Jiricna Architects Limited. In the Czech Republic, she has been an external collaborator at Atelier Kunc, Prague since 1999 to the present.
BERNARD ŠTORCH (1976)
After graduating from the University of Applied Arts in Prague (Eva Jiřičná's studio) in 2003, Bernard began working at Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates in London / www.kpf.com, where he still operates today. Externally, he worked for the architectural studio of Bohuslav Štorch from 1999-2003.
ŠTĚPÁN TOMAN (1978)
Štěpán graduated from the University of Applied Arts in Prague (Eva Jiřičná's studio) in 2003, then moved to London, where he worked at the architectural studio Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates / www.kpf.com and later from 2005 in the Prague studio F2 Architects /www.f2architekti.cz. Since last year, he has been in the team of the architectural studio AI ° DESIGN / www.aidesign.cz.
opening: 12.10.2006, from 19.00 at the Centre for Central European Architecture
the exhibition will be opened by Radek Kolařík
venue: Centre for Central European Architecture, U Půjčovny 4, Prague 1
www.ccea-info.org
project concept: group Agents / Vendula Hladíková, Bernard Štorch, and Štěpán Toman
production for CCEA: Zuzana Bodnárová
graphics: Petr Štepán
The Prague Centre for Central European Architecture also in the autumn programming of its exhibition space in the vicinity of the main railway station prioritizes projects that present contemporary architecture in an original way, relying on experimental approaches from architects and other artistic media. The project BeneLon, which has been gradually developed since 2004 under the authorship of the group Agents consisting of three young architects, Vendula Hladíková, Bernard Štorch, and Štěpán Toman, follows non-traditional methods for presenting architecture. The word BeneLon in their rendition denotes a virtual counterpart of an urban organism, in which the fragments of two environments familiar to the authors - Benešov and Londons - intertwine.
BeneLon is an experiment, an architectural vision of a city whose organism transforms depending on the influx of new information or changing perspectives. Its final form does not exist, and as the authors themselves state: "everyone has the opportunity to influence BeneLon, to insert new information into it."
While the first part of the project (autumn 2005, Museum of Art and Design in Benešov) introduced the emergence and development of BeneLon (the prehistory of the place), BeneLon II - Find the Gap is about searching for fissures in the contemporary world. The authors perceive these "GAPS" also as places where the real and the virtual collide.
The exhibition at the Centre for Central European Architecture presents one of the possible "fissures" - a hypothetical marketplace with a stall selling watermelons, lying on the border of two realities, where there is a shift in the perception of time, space, and movement. The "queue for watermelons" then appears in this context as a gateway to a parallel world - BeneLon.
In the project BeneLon , the trio of architects included 23 other artists from the Czech Republic and abroad, whose inputs have influenced the project since its inception - (MIDORI AINOURA + CHRISTIAN HILBER, BEN VAN BERKEL + CAROLINE BOSS, MATT CRAWFORD with GARY MARINKO ARCHITECTS + HOFMAN AND BROWN ARCHITECTS, KRISTÝNA CIPROVÁ, FI3ER, ALICE FUNG, JAN HLADÍK, ALAN HILLS, EVA JIŘIČNÁ, TAKATOMO KASHIWABARA, RADEK KOLAŘÍK, DENISA KOLLMANOVÁ, MICHAL KUNC, CLAUDIO LUCCHESI, PETR MALÉŘ, KAS OOSTERHUIS + ILONA LÉNÁRD, JAKUB SRPA, VENDULA ŠAFÁŘOVÁ, TOMÁŠ VESELÝ, and others).
profile of the members of the group Agents
VENDULA HLADÍKOVÁ (1978)
Vendula studied at the University of Applied Arts in Prague and at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. From 2004-2005 and 2001-2002, she worked at the London studio Eva Jiricna Architects Limited. In the Czech Republic, she has been an external collaborator at Atelier Kunc, Prague since 1999 to the present.
BERNARD ŠTORCH (1976)
After graduating from the University of Applied Arts in Prague (Eva Jiřičná's studio) in 2003, Bernard began working at Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates in London / www.kpf.com, where he still operates today. Externally, he worked for the architectural studio of Bohuslav Štorch from 1999-2003.
ŠTĚPÁN TOMAN (1978)
Štěpán graduated from the University of Applied Arts in Prague (Eva Jiřičná's studio) in 2003, then moved to London, where he worked at the architectural studio Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates / www.kpf.com and later from 2005 in the Prague studio F2 Architects /www.f2architekti.cz. Since last year, he has been in the team of the architectural studio AI ° DESIGN / www.aidesign.cz.
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