Join us for the opening of the IF LAB: Trajectories exhibition

We warmly invite you to the opening of a group exhibition presenting the outcome of the year-long Inspiration Forum Lab art and research programme. In its third edition, participants explored trajectories as movements across time, space, and different forms of experience. Through sand, stone, and steel, the three projects examine relationships between materiality, landscape, memory, and human and more-than-human perspectives.

The exhibition opens on Tuesday, September 15, 2026, at 6 pm at Display Gallery in Prague. It will run until October 25, 2026.

Participating artists and researchers:
Clara Baj (FR/BE)
Daniela Brill Estrada (CO/AT)
Penelope Cain (AU/NL)
Imke Hullmann (DE/NL)
Karl Kaisel (EE)
Seta Astreou Karides (CY)
Magda Kopańska (PL/AT)
Markéta Švarcová (CZ)
Mana Tashakorinia (IR/FI)

Programme tutors: Lenka Hámošová, Lenka Vráblíková
Coordination & co-curating: Šárka Zahálková
Opening: September 15, 2026, at 6 pm
Venue: Display Gallery, Dittrichova 9/337, Prague 2
Exhibition dates: until October 25, 2026

I like it when u sand (Clara Baj, Daniela Brill Estrada, Penelope Cain, Seta Astreou Karides) approaches sand not as a material but as a process and a mode of world-making. Through language, storytelling, and a constellation of objects, it explores the geological, social, and poetic trajectories of this seemingly ordinary yet fundamentally indispensable substance.

The participatory project Kladno Steel Stories Telling (Imke Hullmann, Markéta Švarcová) connects the personal memories of Kladno residents with broader reflections on collective memory, the right to the city, and steel as both the material and symbolic infrastructure of industrial techno-progressivism. Through fragmented narratives, it brings attention back to the people whose labour and everyday lives shaped the identity of the city without becoming part of its official history.

( ) in stone (Karl Kaisel, Magda Kopańska, Mana Tashakorinia) draws on the story of the Jaanikivi sacrificial stone and river in the Estonian village of Miikse, whose landscape was transformed by land improvement projects in the second half of the twentieth century. Through local micro-stories and multiple perspectives, the project explores relationships between humans, stone, and landscape, and ways of better understanding broader environmental and social transformations.

The Inspiration Forum Lab is organized by Ji.hlava IDFF’s Inspiration Forum in cooperation with Kersnikova Institute, Sensorium and Display – Association for Research and Collective Practice.

The project is co-funded by the European Union, Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic and Czech State Fund.

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.