Sladovna

Sladovna brings education, art, and community together. We offer programmes for schools, professional development for teachers, school residencies, and student or volunteer placements. In collaboration with educators, we co-create new learning formats and share knowledge across disciplines. We are active members of national and international associations and contribute to the European Capital of Culture project in České Budějovice 2028.

Membership: Nová síť, AMG, ASFAV, uMĚNÍM, Hands on International, ICOM

In our work, we bring together art, narrative and active engagement. Every exhibition at Sladovna is a carefully crafted world that invites children and adults to step away from everyday reality and enter the heart of a story.

Here, the visitor is never a passive observer. They become a participant — someone who is drawn into situations that ask for action, collaboration, decision-making and responsibility for the choices they make.

We believe that this form of lived experience has a lasting impact. It stays with people, continues to shape them, and supports their creativity, sensitivity and confidence to explore. Sladovna is therefore not simply a place where art is presented. It is a space where art becomes an experience.

Our creative laboratories operate on the unique principle of collaborative creation. This is where art, education, and play converge, naturally involving artists, educators, children, and the wider public in our projects. This open process often serves as the foundation for new installations and exhibitions.

Sladovna offers artists and creative people an inspiring setting at the heart of a children's gallery, where art meets playfulness and imagination. The residential apartment provides the ideal space for focused work by individuals and teams. It is a place for the development of new ideas and interdisciplinary projects with an impact far beyond the borders of Písek.

Pilariste

a fantastic colourful play area for children aged 0 to 6, was created in collaboration with the Zoom Children's Museum in Vienna. The inspiration came from the work of the famous illustrator and native of Písek, Radek Pilař.

The Anthill

is a giant wooden labyrinth where upcycled material was brought back to life by the hands of Vladimír Větrovský and the Hřiště pod květinou team. This work of art, which you can touch, explore, discover, and be a part of, allows children to become ants, learn, and play freely.

Animarium

is not just a studio, but a professional base for every creative soul. Two superbly equipped animation studios (Stop-motion, 2D, green screen). Animárium offers programmes for schools, themed family or specialist workshops, animation camps, and an after-school club for children. The studio is available for individuals and groups. In collaboration with artists, themed programmes are created here that respond to current exhibitions at Sladovna. Animárium is a place where the creative process becomes reality.

The project partner is the Zoom Children's Museum in Vienna.

Creative Studio

is a continuation of the Laboratory concept, providing a space for all those who long to discover the world, not only through visual art and design. Playfulness and creativity go hand in hand here with knowledge and experience. Children and their adults discover their creative abilities, learn to cooperate, express themselves, and explore their own ideas. The theme of the studio changes regularly.

The Small Gallery

at Sladovna is a unique space focused on contemporary art. It collaborates with regional artists and a wider spectrum of visual creators. Since 2025, it has concentrated on contemporary authors, including emerging talents. The aim is to appeal to a younger audience through multimedia works and resonant themes. The gallery is open to experimental creation. Almost every exhibition is accompanied by a guided tour and a workshop.

Jan A jaK dál? (John — And what Comes next?)

This exhibition, inspired by the life and ideas of John Amos Comenius, transformed the entire Sladovna building into a journey through his world. Visitors moved through chapters of his life, themes and reflections that still resonate today in education, humanity and understanding.

The experience culminated in a powerful, almost cathartic moment — a space designed for pause, breath, and personal reflection.

The exhibition was created by an interdisciplinary team of seven authors. Their varied perspectives shaped a work that moved beyond the boundaries of traditional exhibition formats, offering a layered, contemporary and deeply human interpretation of Comenius’s legacy.

Voda mne napadá (Water Strikes Me)

This authorial exhibition emerged from a principle of creative recycling and gradually flowed through the hands of more than fifty artistic groups and individual creators. The project evolved as an open ecosystem of ideas, media and gestures, circling back on themselves much like water moving through a landscape.

Its aim was to awaken a more sensitive relationship between people and water — and perhaps even open a space for the reverse perspective: how might water perceive us?

The exhibition became a platform where environmental imagination, artistic experiment and children’s curiosity met. Its atmosphere balanced playful exploration with deeper reflection on how humans and natural elements might enter into dialogue.