About us

We created a study for the development of a creative area of 10 000m2 in the Tělovýchovná street in Praha - Řeporyje and for the revitalisation of the entire area surrounding the Studio Bubec. The project is divided in several phases and is conceived as a working process according to results of our fundraizing activities. The area is plan to have 4 main functions:

- an Open Art Studio,

- a Community center,

- a Cultural / sports center,

- a Sculpture park.

More about the vision here: „BUBEC: 10 000m2 of creativity“

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Since 2000, STUDIO BUBEC, has been not only a studio for its founder czech sculptor Cestmir Suska, but a cultural centre providing residency programs for czech and international artists, exhibitions, workshops for children and also an open studio for wide range of artists who came to Řeporyje to produce their art works. 

International artists' residencies currently offering residencies for 6 artists in the open space of the studio throughout the year, 24 hours a day, with possibility of accommodation on the spot.  It is the Artistic Board of the Studio Bubec that chooses the artists for the residencies; the residents are in touch with significant czech artists, can share their experiences with one and another and at the end of the stay they have the opportunity to present the results of their work in Bubec Gallery or within event Pick´n mix at the end of the year.

Plein-air art has been an important theme for Studio Bubec since its' founding. We install the artworks for short or long-term in public space and organize the public lecture. We invite groups of art students and international artists for intensive creative meeting in Studio Bubec.

Art Safari is an exhibition of the artworks of the czech and foreign authors. The works of the young artists and beginners are exhibited beside the pieces of the famous artists. The event takes place twice a year in the form of an art festival in which the workshops, musical and theatre performances are also taking part.

Exhibitions are organised in the foyer of the Studio or are realized outside the studio in empty buildings or in cooperation with cultural institutions in the city.

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Since 2014, Bubec ops is renting the land of 2409 m2 next to the studio, with the aim to build up a community center. The BUBEC GARDEN already host a creative playground with several sculptures, a community garden and a wooden house planned as a community kitchen and an outdoor space to work with children. We organise in the garden regular community events mainly intended for the local inhabitants.

BabyBubec – workshops, art courses and summer camps – we arrange a large number of creative workshops for children and adults straight in the Studio Bubec or in the Bubec Garden.

Theatre Bubec, founded in 2005 and headed by Arjana Shameti and Renáta Kubšová focuses specially on the puppet theatre for the youngest audience at the hospitals or children's homes.

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Since 2017, Bubec ops is running FESTIVAL M3 / ART IN SPACE and developing a contemporary sculpture park next to the Studio, which will include a ressource center for Art in public spaces.

Festival m3 is a yearly open-air art exhibition hosted by the Bubec art studio in cooperation with the Prague City Gallery, the Prague Institute of Planning & Development, Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (UMPRUM) and Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Prague (AVU). Through the interventions of selected artists, this exhibition seeks to interact with a space within the city in an unusual manner, and to offer visitors and local residents contact with contemporary art, confronting them with it and creating new territorial contexts. Aside from the cultivation of public space, the exhibition also aims to diagnose and question stereotypes both societal and local, and thereby initiate public discussion of various topics associated with specific issues that we experience in everyday life. In the future, this regularly recurring exhibition will be prepared by a select group of curators who will carefully pick local and international artists, locations, and topics to guarantee quality and diversity.