ABOUT FESTIVAL

In 2012 TINA B. will present international art on the theme of ART AND HAPPINESS. The Festival will bring to Prague art that not only has an aesthetic dimension but is also meaningful on an emotional level. The seventh year of the festival has set its goal high: to get the inhabitants and tourists of Prague in a positive mood.  

The artists invited to take part in TINA B. 2012 will use their works to invoke positive emotions, smiles, and feelings of happiness in viewers. Everyday 21st-century reality in big cities like Prague is a constant source of stress on people. The festival aims to distract people, at least for a short while, from their everyday worries and allow them to relax in the presence of art with a positive mood.  

Each year as many as a hundred artists converge in Prague for the festival and this year we will be asking them: ‘Can art make society happy? Is it possible to use art as an effective treatment for physical and mental problems? How does art influence our mental development and social integration?’

An international team of curators and unusual venues

The festival has invited in the following curators:

• The Korean section: JW Stella (Korea)

• European Horizons: Kirsimaria E. Törönen-Ripatti‘ (Finland)

• Czech Art Photography section: Štěpánka Šimlová (CR)

• Art for Children: Tina de Falco (Italy)

• Polish section: Kamila Wielebska (Poland)

• Performance section

• Golem – Transformation & Metamorphosis: Jocelyn Fiset (Canada) & Shalom Neuman (USA/CR), Doron Polak (Israel), Monika Burian Jourdan (Germany)

• On the Road: TINA B. (international)

• Special section: TINA B. (international)

• Art Film & Videos: TINA B. (international)

In 2012 the TINA B. Festival will again appear in unusual venues:

• Klementinum – the interiors and exteriors of the National Library

• Czech Centre Prague

• Vernon Gallery

• Vernon Projekt

• Gallery of Art for Children

• open-air installations in Vyšehrad

• the interiors and exteriors of Žižkov Tower

• the exteriors of the buildings of the Jewish Museum in Prague

• the Bio Oko cinema will screen, among other things, art films presented at the Cannes Film Festival

• more venues to be added

An introduction to the festival’s sections

/WOORI: 우리/ - The Korean section: JW Stella (Korea)

JW Stella is focusing on looking at the gender and intercultural relationship within people and their society specifically the city of Pargue through the intriguing perspectives of Korean contemporary artists. The research based and site-specific installations will be shown throughout the city, such as Zizkov Tower, Klementinum National Library, Vysehrad Park, Bohemian Road, and Bio Oko Cinema. 

European Horizons: Kirsimaria E. Törönen-Ripatti (Finland)

European horizons offers opportunities to participate, learn and experience artistic actions aiming to increase a sense of cultural cohesion, inclusion and happiness.

Czech Art Photography section: Štěpánka Šimlová (CR)

What happens to an at first glance static image when other dimensions are added to it? What happens if this happens to a very controversial opinion? Young and talented art photographers communicate with performers, filmmakers, and other artists to communicate their ideas by combined means regardless of what country they are from.  

Art for Children: Tina de Falco (Italy)

Where does children’s creativity begin and end? Where does art for adults begin? Whom do adult artists create for and who holds the keys to the future? Can adults accept the opinions of children, and vice versa, will future generations understand their parents and grandparents

Polish section: Kamila Wielebska (Poland)

Kamila Wielebska primarily uses video art to reveal the connectivity of society, its pleasures, but also its opportunistic nature, and all the opportunities that we have open to us in the age we live in. 

Golem - Transformation & Metamorphosis: Jocelyn Fiset (Canada) & Shalom Neuman (USA/CR), Doron Polak (Israel), Monika Burian Jourdan (Germany)

Was the Golem real? What does the symbol of its existence reflect? Is it about destruction or creativity? Birth or death? Progress or regression? TINA B. has opted for the path of joy and creativity. How will artists from Europe, Asia, Africa, or America approach it?

On the Road: TINA B. (international team)

As TINA B. floats through the world of fantasy, she encounters unusual ideas that she can’t resist and she simply picks them up and works with them.

TINA B. Special Section (international team)

Atypical venues, unusual conditions and shocking content? TINA B. transcends the boundaries between spaces, disciplines, cultures, opinions, and their concepts. 

Art Film & Videos: TINA B. (international team)

Video and projections are among the essential forms of new media. The most current impressions of video art and film authors will be revealed at Bio Oko cinema.

TINA B. also prides itself on its important cooperation in the international field. Not only does the festival draw foreign guests and artists to Prague each year, it also travels abroad. In past years TINA B. took place in Venice and Vicenza, Italy, in Leipzig, Germany, and in Gdańsk, Poland. In the coming years it plans to go to Cannes and New York and is negotiating cooperation in Saint Tropez and Peking. 

The VIP Opening Days of TINA B. 2011 witnessed some interesting festival launches, with performances and screenings in unusual locations, such as a nuclear fallout shelter beneath Hotel Jalta on Wenceslas Square. Discussions on ready-made art with the Italian curator Igor Zanti proceeded at BIO OKO cinema in Holešovice and performances went on in the public space. However, they also saw the opening of a new exhibition space, Vernon Depot, and culminated in the grand TINA B. Party on board an old excursion boat anchored opposite (A)void Gallery on the quay below Rašín Embankment.