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Toy Box

Young Czech street-artist and comics author. Her comics often deal with people who lack their voice in mainstream media - prostitutes, junkies, squatters, illegal immigrants. She studied interactive media and stage design and exhibited in various spaces, for example at Prague´s Biennale of Young Artists in 2010. She also creates and organizes her own theater performances. In 2010 she painted a large-scale graffiti comics on the wall of the Cross Club in Prague. She is a part of the Czech anarchist scene and lives in Prague.

Grzegorz Piątek

Grzegorz Piątek

Architecturalcriticand curator, graduated from the department of Architectureat Warsaw University of Technologyin 2006. From 2011 onwards he has workedwith the Foundation forArchitectureCenterin Warsaw.He is the curatorof exhibitions andart projectsrelated to architecture, inter alia  Hotel Polonia;“TheAfterlifeof Buildings” award the Golden Lionfor the bestnationalexhibition on theXIBiennale, Venice (with Jarosław Trybuś, 2008); Open: Poland. Architectureand Identity, Royal Institute of BritishArchitects, London(as part of“Polska!Year”,with RobWilson,2009);Modernización/Modernització, Cuenca / Barcelona(with J.Trybuś, 2010); Mountainfor Warsaw,Bęc ZmianaFoundation, Warsaw (2009).Currently he leads -LeCorbusYear-artisticeducationprogrammeon the occasion ofthe 125thanniversary ofLeCorbusier.Mr. Piątek has authored numerousarticles and essayson the topics of architecture,design, and city. During the years 2005 through until 2011, he was a member of theeditorial boardof the monthly "Architektura-murator". He was awarded ‘’The annual Laureate of award the Ministerof Cultureand National Heritage andDiplomaof the Minister of Foreign Affairsfor the promotion ofPolishin the world’’, in 2009. Photo: Mikołaj Długosz

Tomas Rafa

Tomas Rafa

Tomas Rafa is a Slovak artist whose works engage with social and political issues and explore the impact that art can have on reality. Through film footage and outputs in the form of reports Rafa defines the relativity of the boundaries between patriotism and nationalism (extremism). He approaches terms such as multiculturalism (Roma people), xenophobia, extremism and neofascism against the background of everyday life. The reports generated from Rafa's investigation contain content about new nationalism that is easy to understand by wide range of audiences.
 

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