A joint project of the Italian festival Baba Jaga, the Latvian publishing house kuš! and the FRAME festival includes, among other things, the Casa Baba 2024 residency programme.

Casa Baba’s 2024 residency program fostered vibrant cross-cultural exchange. Czech artist Jindřich Janíček spent a month in Rome, Italian artist Giulia Cellino travelled to Riga, and Latvian artist Jurijs Tatarkins enjoyed a residency in Prague.

This exhibition showcases the comics they created during their time abroad.

30.11.–1.12. 2024, FRAME, Theatre X10

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Pictoric is a Ukrainian community of illustrators, graphic designers, and artists who love to express their creativity and unique styles through modern visual arts. Their mission is to celebrate and promote illustration as a high-quality, meaningful art form with real aesthetic, social, and cultural value. Pictoric is passionate about building an international network of artists and curators while introducing Ukrainian illustration to the world.

One of the most powerful concepts they’ve explored is the idea of a “safe place.” In the context of the ongoing war in Ukraine, this idea has taken on a profound and urgent meaning. For many Ukrainians, the concept of a safe place changed dramatically. Even when they are outside the country, a sense of safety often remains elusive.

Pictoric asked 10 Ukrainian artists to share their understanding of what a “safe place” means to them today. Some continue to live in Ukraine despite the war, while others have found refuge abroad but return regularly to visit family. Some remain close to their homeland, while others have ended up on the other side of the world, in places like Canada or China. Their responses touch on questions that many of us struggle with: What is a safe place? Has the concept of safety changed lately? Do they even have a safe place anymore?

As a result, we would like to present 10 comics created by Anna Andreeva, Anna Ivanenko, Oleg Gryshchenko, Mari Kinovych, Veronika Kotyk, Jenya Polosina, Anna Sarvira, Olena Staranchuk, Yuliia Tveritina, Iliia Uhnivenko.

30.11.–1.12. 2024, FRAME, Theatre X10

At the beginning of the year, we assigned the students of the Comics and Illustration for Children studio at the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Art and Design in Pilsen the task of creating a one-page comic or illustration inspired by Franz Kafka’s short stories.

A common theme linking all the works is the idea of home, which appears in Kafka’s writings as a prominent motif, filled with deep, often unsettling questions about identity, safety, and inner freedom.

This exhibition presents a selection of the ten most interesting and inventive works that reflect Kafka’s ideas in various ways.

November 30 – December 1, 2024, FRAME, Divadlo X10

Flying cats and exploding dinosaurs! In animation, anything is possible! The interactive exhibition Animated Stories will take you into the world of animation and optical illusions.

The exhibition explores the phenomenon of apparent motion, which is the basis of both animation and film. Visitors can discover various aspects of this phenomenon at different stations.

All stations are suitable for children aged six and older, with some also appropriate for younger children. Visitors can create their own stop-motion animation, manipulate puppets, or explore optical illusions.

November 30 – December 1, 2024, FRAME, Divadlo X10

In the Didactic Illustration Studio at the Faculty of Design and Art Ladislav Sutnar in Pilsen, under the direction of Renáta Fučíková, 100 portraits of important migrants who left the Czech Republic for abroad or, on the contrary, came to the Czech Republic from abroad and found a new home there. Under the guidance of Marie Kohoutová, students of the Comics and Illustration for Children studio joined them with their short comics.

The exhibition was created in cooperation with Sutnarka, Czech Centres and the FRAME festival. With the financial support of Vektor Technická and Prague 6.