Homes, Haunts, Roots:

A Review Essay on the Exhibition Bydlet Ústí: Dostupné reality [Housing in Ústí: Accessible Realty], 7.3 – 28.6, Galerie Hraničář, Ústí nad Labem Exhibitors: Kateřina Bílá, Marie Čtveráčková and Martin Hůla, Kolektiv OPĚT:, Vanda Michalská and Šimon Sýkora, Martin Netočný and Medard Zeman, Jonáš Richter and Sláva Sobotovičová, Lukáš Šmejkal, Erika Velická Curators: Elen Kužvartová,…

Disturbing Pillow, Disturbed City: The New “Monument to Indifference” in Prague

On Tuesday, June 16, a new public monument bearing the title Pomník lhostejnosti [Monument to Indifference] was unveiled in Prague. Created at the initiative of the Platform for Social Housing in cooperation with the Czech Streetwork Association, the street medicine initiative Medici na ulici and the support of Prague’s Food not Bombs, it commemorates the…

Community and Urbicide: The Bedřiška Settlement in Ostrava

Between November 14 and December 8, 2025, a demolition crew knocked down several houses in the small settlement of Bedřiška in the Czech industrial city of Ostrava, intending to launch a complete clearing of the site. A unique instance of functioning coexistence between Roma and non-Roma residents in a local and national context harshly marked…