Gabriela Benish-Kalná
Gabriela Benish-Kalná’s artistic practice has long focused on ecology and climate adaptation. Combining analogue photography and installation with direct social engagement, her work seeks to challenge the conventional divide between nature and culture while envisioning a more just and sustainable future.
Gabriela Benish-Kalná
Gabriela Benish-Kalná is a graduate of the Documentary Strategies Studio at FAMU in Prague. During her time in the United States, she became involved, among other initiatives, in the Indigenous-led Water is Life movement opposing oil corporations. In Europe, she later worked within an international network of climate movements coordinating strategies for systemic change. She is currently the director of the non-profit organisation ArtDialog and runs ArtMill – Center for Regenerative Art in the Šumava foothills, where she focuses on regenerative agriculture and building resilient communities.
Info
Artists | Gabriela Benish-Kalná
Curator | Gabriela Kotiková
Duration | 9 October – 1 November 2026
Opening | 8 October 2026, 6 pm
Venue | Center for Contemporary Arts Prague, Jelení gallery
Address | Dukelských hrdinů 500/25a, 170 00 Prague
Opening hours | Wed–Sun; 12:00–6:00 pm
Guided Tour for Seniors
Elpida is a Czech non-profit organisation that has been helping people age actively and with dignity for more than 20 years. Through its educational and cultural centres in Prague, it offers a wide range of courses, creative workshops, lectures, and community activities for older adults. Elpida also operates the free Senior Helpline, publishes Vitalmagazine, runs the OLD’s COOL podcast, and develops projects that challenge stereotypes about ageing while fostering creativity, learning, and intergenerational dialogue.
The Applied Photography studio at FUD UJEP – Photosynthesis
An outdoor exhibition in the refugium of the Botanic Garden of the Faculty of Science, Charles University presents projects by students of the Applied Photography Studio at FUD UJEP. The assignment was inspired by a conservation program for endangered plant species developed in cooperation with the Union of Botanical Gardens of the Czech Republic. Disappearing flora that can no longer reproduce independently in the wild and whose survival depends on human intervention became the subject of open-ended artistic interpretation.
Apple Harvest
Fotograf Zone Festival and Prague City Gallery invite visitors to take part in a shared apple harvest in the orchards of Troja Château. On selected festival days, visitors can come and pick apples from the local orchard and spend time in the gardens, which are usually perceived primarily as part of a cultural heritage site. In connection with this year’s festival theme, Wild Kin, we see the apple harvest as a small celebration of sharing, seasonality, and the mindful use of natural resources—and as a reminder that our relationships with places and landscapes are also formed through ordinary, everyday activities.