Language accessibility: English with Czech subtitles
Free admission

This screening brings together video works by four artists featured in the GAMPA exhibition of the 2026 Biennale Matter of Art, Necessary Wishes—a biennale that understands artistic practice as a lived necessity: not an aesthetic choice or professionalized activity but an involuntary, embodied response to the conditions of existence. The works gathered here reflect the exhibition's core proposition—that art emerges not from institution or intention but from urgency.

The program opens up a space for speculation and imagination, tracing possible futures and glimpses of what is already becoming within a world in the midst of transformation.

The evening will start with an early film by Nosrat Karimi, the pioneer of Iranian animation, followed by a video performance by Cezary Bodzianowski (1968), whose intimate, often absurdist one-man performances unfold across city streets, public spaces, and cultural institutions. Calling his work “a personal theater of events,” Bodzianowski treats the city as a giant set, in which the audience is not a recipient but an element of the show itself. The screening also includes a video animation by Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven (1951), one of the pioneering figures of her generation. Her early works chart a territory where the erotic collides with machine-fetishism, shot through with a straightforward feminist tone that has pervaded her practice across decades. The evening will conclude with a short film by Liliana Zeic (1988), who's work is rooted in queer feminism and queer ecology—an artistic language that refuses the separation of body, desire, and environment.

Nosrat Karimi – Life
1966 animated film, 16:22 min
Courtesy of the artist’s family

Cezary Bodzianowski – Primo amore
2026 video documentation of a performance, 24 min
Camera – Daniel Kiermut
Courtesy of the artist and inLodz21 / Kamienica Hilarego Majewskiego

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven – Maybe this Time I Win
1989 animated film, 6:25 min
Courtesy of the artist

Liliana Zeic – The One Who Looks at the Sky
2023, 17:25 min
Courtesy of the artist