Guided Tour: Art in Divided Time

Guided tour of the exhibition The Art of Activism with an informal discussion with the exhibition curator and selected artists will present parts of the installation while focusing on topics such as the current political situation in the Middle East, cultural identity, political pressure and solidarity.

Guests: Yasmin Golshani, Peter Watkins, Tamara Moyzes, and Shlomi Yaffe. The guided tour will offer personal commentary on selected installations and open space for informal discussion with the audience on cultural, political, and institutional issues.

The event is intended for the general public and experts alike and will be conducted primarily in English. A Czech interpreter will be available.

About Guests:

Tamara Moyzes is a politically engaged artist, curator, and researcher based in Prague. She completed her doctoral studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague; her PhD research focused on artistic activism and its impacts in practice. She has long been developing artivist strategies and understands art as a form of protest that, through direct interventions, community-based work, research, and interdisciplinary collaboration, brings social injustice into view. Moyzes works from the perspective of intersecting minority positions and draws on a practice grounded in lived experience. She founded the Artivist Lab gallery (2018); the gallery operates in collaboration with Prague City Hall and Charles University, focusing on connecting interdisciplinary communities around urgent social and political issues.

Shlomi Yaffe is an artist based in Prague. He holds a Masters degree from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Intermedia Department, Brno University of Technology, and studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. His work engages social and political questions related to pseudo-scientific ideas of race and the body, shaped by myth, assumption, and ideology. He is a co-founder of Artivist Lab and is currently working on a long-term project titled Lactism and Golemet.

Yasmin Golshani is an artist and human rights activist, who has been living and working in Prague for two decades. In her work, she systematically fights for the rights of Iranian women and has been organizing protests in Prague for years in support of the freedoms of Iranians who are rebelling against the repressive regime. She also recently organized an art collection in support of Alsu Kurmasheva, a journalist imprisoned in Russia in 2023–2024.

Peter Watkins is a British artist and educator based in Prague. His work begins with photography and extends into sculpture, video, installation, and text to examine trauma, loss, history, and the structures through which personal and collective memory are formed. Alongside his autobiographical practice, he develops socially engaged projects that focus on visibility, solidarity, and collective forms of image-making. Watkins graduated from the University of Westminster (2008) and the Royal College of Art (2014, Distinction). He lectures in Photography at FAMU, Prague, and is a regular guest speaker at several UK universities.