Haven, a collaboration with frantisek felix
“HAVEN explores the relationship between artist and viewer, creating a shared space for learning, expression and collaboration. The project centers around a modular table, designed for gathering and exchange, alongside paintings inspired by the concept of a greenhouse - blurring boundaries between inside and outside. Through a series of events from March 16-20 (2025), the public is invited to join the creative process, fostering dialogue and collective making. More than an exhibition, HAVEN is a living space shaped by community and connection.”
What is home? How to fit in? Can art finally be a place of comfort?
There are only four rules :
Make art because it is fun, because it feels good,
Share the process, the thoughts, the movement, in order to make the art transparent, create inclusive spaces, offer keys to unlock conceptual layers,
Find ways to slip through, playing with words to say what needs to be said.
Resist the market, where speculation has drained the poetry from the “making”.
This first event puts some questions on the dinner table in order to engage the audience into a collaborative exploration, like an invitation for the participants to introduce familiarity into the not-so-sacred-anymore art space, break away from the traditional white cube and start appropriating the walls of the gallery - through little games and exercises, designed to imagine drawing as a collaborative experience, trace new lines in the space and find ways to move hands, bodies, words. By drawing on ideas of domesticity, safe space and idleness, the project questions what it means to inhabit art, what are the boundaries between private and public, between space and experience and the limitations of traditional art spaces and institutional frameworks. This marks the initial step in a multidisciplinary process designed to transform the gallery into a more inviting, poetic, warm, and comfortable laboratory / adventure playground / house-of-the-party, through interactive actions centered on these big questions. Tiana will bring and scatter both her Fat Lady and other little stuff, loose parts and micro-traces to create a playful experience.
The process will be documented throughout the week in a zine-like self-published format, encouraging everyone to contribute their own personal stone to the collective building. The interplay between ephemeral acts of creativity and their archive in a permanent and static medium raises questions about memory, legacy, and the (unnecessary?) persistence of art beyond the moment of its creation.
