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06—09 2026
Jihočeský kraj
The 19th edition of the Art in the City festival returns to the towns of South Bohemia with Fragility as its central theme. Fragility calls for care, attention, caution and consideration in a world where society is ever more divided and the pressure to maximise profit disturbs delicate balances.
The fragility of ecosystems, of relationships, of democracy, but also of materials and of the things we make – these are the subjects of this year's edition. They are equally challenges, reminding us that some things and some systems need constant care. In a consumer world focused on the new, the better and the easily replaceable, we have often forgotten to care for what we ourselves, our ancestors or our societies have built and created. The question remains whether our own society is capable of creating values that future generations will hold in esteem, whether it can repair the mistakes of the generations before it, and whether it can keep from burying the world in banality, superficiality, disrespect and waste.
Art in the City 2026 puts these questions into public space – quite literally. The works standing in the streets, parks and outskirts of South Bohemian towns set out to give substance to what usually stays invisible or overlooked. Fourteen artists present their work here.
Running alongside the outdoor installations is an accompanying exhibition of glass sculptures by studio SIN at Galerie Rabenstejnska. Glass serves here as a direct metaphor – beautiful, transparent, solid, and at the same time so fragile and easily broken. The sculptural installations in the streets work with fragility more freely: they give form to intangible and delicate bonds, or else use the material itself as the visual statement.
Fragility is not only a theme here, but a challenge: to live more consciously, to care for what we have, to have the courage to name what is falling apart – and, at the same time, to hope that tenderness and attention can be as powerful as force and noise.
Enjoy the summer in the city, look around you, and take care of things, of systems and of one another.
Michal Trpák
Sculptor and founder of the Art in the City festival
Wimar van Ommen
Anatomy of a Landscape
Lukáš Rais
Anuloid
Petr Mucha
Ascension
Michal Trpák
Beetles
Zuzana Kantová
Concrete Garden
Jiří Němec
Face to Face
Robert Ondráček
Heavy is the crown
Zdeněk Ruffer
Ionic Column
Čestmír Suška
Knights
Michal Trpák
Little Knight
Libor Hurda
Punk’s not dead
Jaroslav Róna
Robot Marvin
Marek Rejent
Skull
Diana Winklerová
Space-Shift
Simon Martin
To Get Around ART RESIDENCE
Veronika Bělská Durová
Wolf Soap
Michal Trpák
Beetles
Jakub Flejšar
Chubby and Connection with…
Jaroslav Róna
Waldemar
Michal Trpák
Gaia Lipenská
Jakub Flejšar
Fear of Change
Libor Hurda
Keep calm
5. 6.—13. 9. 2026 Galerie Rabenštejnská The CRYSTAL SIN exhibition, prepared together with SIN Studio Gallery, presents contemporary art objects in crystal, in which a transparent material becomes a carrier of emotion, of the body and of inner images. In the space of Galerie Rabenstejnská the crystal is not decoration but substance — captured light that reveals and distorts, unsettles and attracts. 27. 8. 2026 | 18:00 Galerie Rabenštejnská Join us for a walk among the sculptures with a guide. You can look forward to meeting the artists behind the works on show and to a commentary full of stories and background. Touch the sculptures and discover their hidden stories with us! The walk takes about 2 hours. In bad weather (heavy rain) the event will be cancelled. The tours are free of charge.
Art Events 2026
Crystal Sin
Guided tour
