FOTOGRAF ZONE FESTIVAL 2026
1. OCTOBER 2026 – 11. OCTOBER 2026
The festival approaches art not as an isolated sphere, but as part of a broader ecosystem of sharing and sensitivity. We are interested in forms of coexistence and attention that resist the logic of constant acceleration and turn toward more intuitive ways of engaging with natural resources.
Small moments in which one can once again experience closeness, focus, and a connection to that which cannot be fully owned or extracted. Here, art does not appear as a product, but rather as a training ground for developing understanding and discovering new possibilities, whether we speak of interspecies coexistence, different perspectives, or sustaining the local cultural ecosystem.
Fotograf Zone Gallery • TYRŠ the human lab • Public Space of the Holešovice Market • Můstek Metro Vestibule
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SAVE THE DATE – FOTOGRAF ZONE FESTIVAL 2026
Fotograf Zone Festival invites audiences to its 16th edition, taking place from 1 to 11 October 2026 across several venues in Prague. Under the title Wild Kin, this year’s festival will explore questions of relationships, attention, and forms of coexistence in the contemporary world.
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About The Festival
Opening: 16th Fotograf Zone Festival
We warmly invite you to the 16th edition of the Fotograf Zone Festival, taking place across several venues in Prague from 1–11 October 2026.
Radan Haluzík – Nature in the City, or the City in Nature?
We invite you to a lecture by Radan Haluzík: Nature in the City, or the City in Nature?
Gabriela Benish-Kalná – Anxiety of Multispecies Care
Gabriela Benish-Kalná examines the romanticisation of rural life and the modern dream of communal, self-sufficient farming. Her work addresses the growing urgency of the agricultural crisis while looking to long-established farming practices for ways of adapting to a new, life-threatening climate.
Šárka Zahálková – By Means of Exchange Goods and Services
Welcome to the waves of a capitalized landscape. Holešovice Market, originally a slaughterhouse, has for many years served primarily as a site of trade in diverse goods. It is a place where goods, services, contacts, ideas, and emotions are exchanged.
Guided Tour for Seniors
Elpida is a Czech non-profit organisation that has been helping people age actively and with dignity for more than 20 years. Through its educational and cultural centres in Prague, it offers a wide range of courses, creative workshops, lectures, and community activities for older adults. Elpida also operates the free Senior Helpline, publishes Vitalmagazine, runs the OLD’s COOL podcast, and develops projects that challenge stereotypes about ageing while fostering creativity, learning, and intergenerational dialogue.
Markéta Kinterová – Come Read With Us
Don't have time to read? Come and make some, simply by showing up. The festival reading room offers a quiet space for shared silent reading of books and zines from the Reading Against Acceleration exhibition. Or bring your own book. Tea, comfortable seating, gentle music, and time when there's nothing to do but lose yourself in a book.
Anna Mírková – Social Worlds of the River
A line branching across maps, a name, a source and an estuary; a metaphor, an image, a kindred species, a neighbour—what can a river be? Where do we draw its boundaries, and where do we draw the boundaries between ourselves and the river?
Denisa Půbalová – Playground for Soft Measures
The workshop invites participants to playfully explore how materials register their surroundings, and how we might perceive, map, and “measure” these traces differently. Working with soft and mutable materials—bubbles, foam, dough, or other living, transforming, fermenting matter—we will observe how relationships between the body and its environment become visible within and through them.
FOTOGRAF ZONE FESTIVAL 2026 – Wild Kin
Fotograf Zone Festival invites audiences to its 16th edition, taking place from 1 to 11 October 2026 across several venues in Prague. Under the title Wild Kin, this year’s festival will explore questions of relationships, attention, and forms of coexistence in the contemporary world.
Michal Kalhous – Goosefoot and Raspberries, The Road to Victory
The exhibition *Goosefoot and Raspberries, The Road to Victory* presents a series of photographs created over the recent period. It is an experimental tool of synthesis and a search for a path to fulfillment. At the same time, it is a purposeful, captivating exploration of suddenness and their relationships. *Goosefoot and Raspberries, The Road to Victory* is once again an attempt at a dialogue between inner experience and a higher, transcendent order.
Gabriela Benish-Kalná
Gabriela Benish-Kalná’s artistic practice has long focused on ecology and climate adaptation. Combining analogue photography and installation with direct social engagement, her work seeks to challenge the conventional divide between nature and culture while envisioning a more just and sustainable future.
The Real Image
Since the very beginnings of the medium, artists have used the apparent documentary quality of photomechanically reproduced images as a tool for manipulation and play. Whether altered mechanically in the darkroom or digitally, the “real” image is often subsequently manipulated for a variety of purposes, acquiring a new meaning that was not part of the original intention at the moment the shutter was released. In other cases, photographic documentation appropriated from the media is used artistically in montages, serving as a medium of wordless political critique.
Fotograf Zone Festival #16 team:
Exhibition Curators | Ivana Hrončeková, Markéta Kinterová, Anna Voswinckel
Program Dramaturgy | Markéta Kinterová, Barbora Vanická Čápová
Artistic Director of Fotograf Zone | Markéta Kinterová
Executive Director of Fotograf Zone | Marie Rozmánková
Festival Operations Director | Pavel Matěj
Research | Světlana Malina, Sára Märc, Tereza Špinková
International Grants Manager | Sandra Faragula
Office Manager & Fundraising Assistant | Aurika Bugaeva
PR & Social Media | Tereza Vacková
Social Media Manager | Klára Kudláček
Graphic Design | publikum.design / Anežka Hrubá Ciglerová, Richard Wilde
Web Editor & Distribution | Barbora Poláchová
Production | Kristýna Khinová
Technical Production | Martin Cink
The Fotograf Zone Festival is organized by Fotograf 07 z.s.
Jungmannova 19/7
Prague 1, 110 00
festival@fotograf.zone
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ORGANIZER
PARTNERS
Ministry of Culture Czech Republic
Městská část Praha 7
Česko-německý fond budoucnosti
Česká centra
Goethe-Institut Česká republika
PATRONAGE
Magistrát Hlavního města Prahy
Městská část Praha 7
Městská část Praha 1
Cooperation
Holešovická tržnice, Výstaviště Praha, a.s.
Dopravní podnik hl. m. Prahy
TYRŠ The Human Lab
Elpida
Botanická zahrada Přírodovědecké fakulty UK
Fakulta umění a designu UJEP
Hellichovka (VOŠ a SPŠ grafická)
International network
Futures, the European Photography Platform
Media partners
A2, Art & Antiques, ArtMap, Artalk, Artyčok.TV, Český rozhlas, Flash Art, Swarm Mag