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Grand Opening: Verticality of Places

Šárka Zahálková, Tomáš Moravec, Alena Klotzmannová, Faxen

The grand opening of the 7th festival will take place on Tuesday, June 16, 2026, at 6:00 PM at Pauza Palmovka. The opening marks the culmination of the festival's inaugural day and serves as the destination of the guided walk that connects Letná with Prague 8 earlier that afternoon.

During the evening, the curatorial duo Tomáš Moravec and Šárka Zahálková, together with the participating artists, will launch a season of artistic interventions and performances that seek to transform our everyday perception of Prague's locations through metaphorical thinking.

Immediately following the official opening, the programme will kick off with two live performances. In her one-off performative situation, Alena Klotzmannová will touch upon themes of human solidarity and symbolically connect the banks of the Vltava River using the motif of a boat. She will be followed by the Austrian collective Faxen, who, in collaboration with the Mikrochor choir led by Lukáš Prchal, will perform a series of live renditions of the Shepard tone scale – an acoustic illusion of ever-rising tones that reflects on the concepts of linearity and infinite growth.