Guided tour of (not) so far with Ivana Hrončeková
Join us for a guided tour of the exhibition (not) so far at TYRŠ the human lab. The tour will be led by curator Ivana Hrončeková, who will introduce the individual works as well as the broader themes connecting human interventions across plant, animal, and human communities.
The installation and film programme at TYRŠ the human lab examines the imprint of human power across different forms of community and coexistence. It moves from plant life, increasingly severed from the soil through advanced horticultural technologies, through animal breeding designed to maximise selected traits, to persistent colonial practices that continue to affect communities of humans, animals, and plants, as well as the non-living environment.
For Fotograf Zone Festival, Dominik Styk is creating an outdoor installation based on the growth of algae, situated somewhere between a sculptural and scenographic environment and a laboratory. Daily screenings in the cinema will feature Thérèse Anna Rafter’s film Hybrid, which confronts us with a human construction of “nature” through footage of a hunt seen from the perspective of a predator. Drawn from material originally produced for research purposes, the images initially make it difficult to tell whether we are looking through the eyes of a bird or those of a drone operator.
Oleksiy Radynski’s essay Where Russia Ends examines the overlooked history of settler colonialism and environmental destruction in Indigenous territories occupied by Russia. Polina Davydenko’s new film, meanwhile, takes a documentary approach to contemporary Russian imperialism and the effects of the ongoing war, focusing in particular on a community of former miners from the Donetsk region.
Info
Artists | Polina Davydenko, Oleksiy Radynski, Thérèse Anna Rafter, Dominik Styk
Curator | Ivana Hrončeková
Date | 1–11 October 2026
Opening | 1 October 2026, 19:00
Guided tour | Guided tour with Ivana Hrončeková, 16:00
Opening hours | Mon–Sun, 13:00–19:00
Venue | Tyrš the Human Lab, Kampa
Address | Nosticova 2a, 118 00 Malá Strana, Prague 1 (Tyršův dům tram stop)
Entry | Free
English friendly | Yes
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