Summer cinema

Language accessibility: English with Czech subtitles
Free entry

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 screening includes video animations 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. These will be followed by works by Liliana Zeic (1988), rooted in queer feminism and queer ecology—an artistic language that refuses the separation of body, desire, and environment. Rounding out the program are video performances by Cezary Bodzianowski (1968), whose intimate, often absurdist one-man performances unfold across city streets and public spaces. 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 will conclude with an early film by Nosrat Karimi, the pioneer of Iranian animation.