Zorka Lednárová: Where Freedom Ends
Artivist Lab, Prague
Opening: 16 April 2026, 18:00
Exhibition: 17 April – 14 June 2026
Curator: Tamara Moyses
Where Freedom Ends by Zorka Lednárová addresses the accessibility of public space not as a technical or administrative issue, but as a political, bodily, and institutional question. The project emerges from the artist’s residency at Artivist Lab and unfolds as a set of interventions, workshops, lectures, collected testimonies, and visual outputs that together examine for whom public space is truly intended—and for whom it remains conditionally or entirely inaccessible. The project’s fundamental premise is the recognition that freedom of movement is not evenly distributed in society; it is shaped by specific architectures, institutional operations, and by the degree of willingness to adapt environments to the diverse needs of their users.
This framework is developed in the exhibition through five interventions in which the artist symbolically and physically blocked entrances to public institutions that themselves are not accessible to wheelchair users. By doing so, she reverses the logic of exclusion and makes visible a situation that is often treated as a norm in the everyday functioning of the city. Crucially, these actions do not operate merely as individual gestures by the artist; they create situations in which the people present become participating actors in the project. Documentation of these public interventions subsequently becomes the main material of the exhibition, transforming an ephemeral event into a shared image of institutional inaccessibility.¹
Lednárová’s project not only thematizes this boundary but translates it into a visible, shared, and analyzable form. Its strength lies precisely in the combination of aesthetic gesture, participatory experience, and research tools that together create a form of artistic critique capable of entering both public space and institutional debate simultaneously.
