The Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space was established in 1967 to bring the best of design for performance, scenography, and theatre architecture to the front line of cultural activities to be experienced by professional and emerging artists as well as the general public. Since 2007, the Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute has been the producer of Polish exhibitions within the main PQ program.
The Prague Quadrennial is globally known as a two-week event taking place every four years since 1967 in Prague, Czech Republic. This model has been evolving. More and more designers now understand PQ as a platform: a continual stream of activities and collaborations happening across the globe with many different partners, creative professionals, artists, researchers, and theorists. Each on-site festival of PQ is now a culmination of the efforts of the preceding 4 years: a celebration and an opportunity for performing arts professionals from around the world to come to one place and share their work, ideas, and thoughts during the quadrennial festival.
While celebrating the diverse forms of performance design/scenography around the globe, the Prague Quadrennial strives to present it as an art form concerned with the creation of holistic performance environments, not just decorative backgrounds; these performative spaces creatively respond to current issues of our world, ask important questions, and invite us to participate in unique moments. Every four years, PQ’s central curatorial concept shapes the festival and offers its participants a fresh look at the artistic reflection of our times in performance designs and scenographies.
Source: pq.cz
Since 2007, the Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute has been the producer of Polish exhibitions within the main PQ program. In 2023, the work “Asylum” by Ksenia Makała was awarded with Responsiveness to Urgences award of the International Jury for the 15th edition of Prague Quadrennial in the category of Student Exhibition. In 2015, the Exhibition of Countries and Regions entitled “Post-Apocalypsis” and curated by Agnieszka Jelewska has been awarded the Gold Medal for Sound Design. The 13th Prague Quadrennial’s Jury appreciated the exhibition’s clever use of sound – the sensitive and interactive sound design reflects contemporary ideas relating to the relationship between man, nature and technology as part of a hybrid communications system.
