Kampus Hybernská, room Cirkulární Hub (Hybernská 4, Praha 1, Czech Republic)

What is the current state of German-Czech culture of remembrance? What are the challenges in civic education, e.g. in youth encounters or in memorial site work? Is there a common understanding of the National Socialist injustice/ crimes or its significance for the challenges present-day Europe is facing? How does German-Czech memory culture resonate internationally, where are there points of contact or differences to other cultural contexts of remembrance? These are among the questions that will be addressed during the panel discussion.

The discussion starts with a welcome address by Prof. Kateřina Králová Ph.D. (Head of the Research Centre for Memory Studies, Charles University & Memory Studies Association), followed by a short introduction of the exhibition 'Voices of Memory' by Prof. Astrid Schmetterling (Co-Head of Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths University) and Nikita Kadan (artist). 

Afterwards, the panel discussion will follow.

The panelists are:

• Dr. Tomáš Jelínek, Managing Directorate Czech-German Fund for the Future
• Dr. Andrea Despot, CEO of the EVZ Foundation
• Olga Bubich, memory researcher, photographer and essayist
• Mirta Kupferminc, artist, lecturer and curato
• Filip Rambousek, German Embassy in Prague, will be moderating the discussion.

The exhibition "Voices of Memory" will show how the theme of memory permeates and is reflected in artistic practice. Through diverse means of expression, including photography, painting, installation, video, and sound, the artists engage with the legacy of an often difficult past. The exhibition brings together artists from different parts of the world whose work addresses personal and collective memories, along with memory inscribed in the natural environment. Their artistic practices explore themes such as remembrance, inheritance, resilience, the intersection between present and past, bodily experience and solidarity. The title of the exhibition evokes the various "voices" or perspectives of memory conveyed through the artworks, as well as the diversity of media used to express them.

The exhibition will present works by Olga Bubich (Belarus/Germany), Nikita Kadan (Ukraine), Michal Kindernay (Czech Republic), Magdalena Kracík Štorkánová (Czech Republic), Mirta Kupferminc (Argentina), Rosell Meseguer (Spain), Nela Milić (UK/Serbia), Michalina Musielak (Poland), Grace Schwindt (Italy/UK), Franziska Windolf (Germany).

The exhibition will be opened by the curators Branislava Kuburović and Irena Řehořová, together with the exhibiting artists.

It will be open from June 14 to 18.

This roundtable brings together four contemporary artists who engage with the complexities of memory-both personal and collective-through diverse artistic practices. Addressing themes such as wartime trauma, exile, the role of photographs in memory, geopolitics, materiality, and bodily experience, the participating artists examine how the past continues to shape present day experiences and identities. Through varied forms of expression, they explore the emotional, political, and sensory dimensions of remembering. 

The talks will take the form of four dialogues between each artist and an academic discussing the artist's work, followed by a moderated group discussion with all four artists.

The artists' work will also be featured in the concurrent exhibition Voices of Memory, held at Kampus Hybernská (Building A, 3rd floor), from 14 to 18 July 2025.

Roundtable participants:

• Rebecca Harris has organised educational projects, curated shows of contemporary artists, and worked at the V&A and Tate Archive as a researcher and writer. Presenting at cultural and arts organisations (ICA, JW3), while formulating her research activity through residencies at the Luminary, St Louis, USA, and Kunsthuis SYB, Friesland, NL. She is currently working on her PhD titled Material Thinking, Translation, Unmaking History: Reinterpreting Traumatic Resonance in Postwar Jewish Women's Art and Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London.
• Nikita Kadan works and lives in Kiev, where he studied at the National Academy. He views himself as a political artist. Nikita Kadan works with installation, sculpture, painting, graphics, often in interdisciplinary collaboration with historians, architects and human rights activists. He is a member of the artist group REP (Revolutionary Experimental Space) and founding member of Hudrada (Artistic Committee), a curatorial and activist collective. He has an international presence at exhibitions. and his works were presented in the Ukrainian Pavilion of the 56th Biennale Venice in 2015.
• Branislava Kuburović is a researcher, translator, and educator based in Prague, and writer in the interdisciplinary fields of performance and visual culture. Her research focuses on art & memory, and on art and performance working with marginal histories, including histories of exile and migration. Her published texts engage with the practices of a number of contemporary artists, and the final writing in many cases results from various processes of collaboration with the artists. 
• Mirta Kupferminc is a multidisciplinary artist born in Argentina to parents who survived Auschwitz. She approaches personal stories of loss and immigration to transform them into universal narratives. Exhibiting since 1977, she has had 100 individual shows in Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Uruguay, China, Switzerland, Spain, Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong, China, Germany, Israel, Poland, France, Hungary, UK, United States. Her works can be found in International Collections and Museums and she has received thirty two local and international awards for her work. 
• Rosell Meseguer is a visual artist and holds a PhD, Extraordinary Doctorate Award in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid, where she is a PhD mentor and supervisor as well as part of research groups. She has been awarded several grants by the Academy of Spain in Rome, the Botin Foundation, and the Miró Mallorca Foundation. Her work is in collections such as C.A.2M. Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo Madrid; AENA Foundation; Royal Academy of Spain in Rome; UNICAJA or IVAM, Valencia as well as in private collections in the United States (Board Whitney Museum, New York), Latin America (MAC Museum of ArtContemporáne of Santiago de Chile) and Spain (Seguros DKV).
• Irena Řehořová is an assistant professor at Charles University in Prague, at the Department of Theory of Art and Artworks. Her research focuses on the intersections of memory, (audio)visual media, and art. She published a monograph Film and Cultural Memory (2018). She has researched works of Czech artists whose work touches on the complex past of Czech-German relations and post-war expulsions of German speaking population from former Czechoslovakia. She has published articles on the politics of memory, mainly in relation to the legacy of Communism in Central East Europe. 
• Astrid Schmetterling is Senior Lecturer in Visual Cultures and co-Head of Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. Astrid Schmetterling's research focuses on the relation between history, culture and memory, between the act of bearing witness and the act of making art. In this context, she is interested in contemporary international arts practices (cf. her co-authored book with Lynn Turner on Visual Cultures as Recollection and her articles on Arnold Dreyblatt, Vivienne Koorland, Ulrike Grossarth and Uriel Orlow) as well as in early 20th century German culture (cf. her work on Charlotte Salomon and Else Lasker-Schüler). Schmetterling's writing is informed by the insights of diaspora, postcolonial and transcultural memory studies.
• Grace Schwindt is an artist based in London, UK working with sculpture, performance, film and drawing. Her process often originates from specific research and conversations with a wide range of people including activists, artists, musicians, politicians, refugees or her own family members. Schwindt's work  engages with trauma, injury, and the acceptance of these through strategies of tenderness and touch. She seeks to disrupt narratives on humans and bodies based on concepts of separation, instead promoting a history shaped by immediate touch. Schwindt's works have been presented in museums and galleries as well as in theaters andother performance contexts. Solo exhibitions include A History of Touch at Museum M in Leuven in 2025, When a Body Becomes a Landscape at Peter Kilchmann Gallery in Paris and When She Moves at Peter Kilchmann Gallery in 2024, Lacuna at Zeno X Gallery in Belgium in 2023, Defiant Bodies at Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland in 2022/2023, and many more.