KOLABO 2024
50 projects, 48 author collaborations, but only 3 main prizes. The curatorial selection moves on to the final round of the KOLABO design competition with a total of 20 works, which will be evaluated by an established expert jury and the winning ones will be selected. The names of the winners will be announced on Wednesday 4 December at the opening of the exhibition of the selected projects in the New Market Hall on the Trnavské mýto Square.
As part of the opening on Wednesday, you can also look forward to a special programme – a site-specific audiovisual collaboration between producer Whithe & Friends (Blanch x Blame Your Genes x Bulp) and lighting designers CTRL_SPACE.
Whithe will also be launching his fresh debut album A While during the evening, which he will be playing live in front of an audience for the first time. The collaboration guests are no accident – singer Blanch and producer Blame Your Genes collaborated with Whithe on the album. Blanch contributed vocals to two tracks, while Blame Your Genes contributed to the album’s final track.
The concert will be followed by an after party, where Whithe will perform a b2b DJ set with Bulp. Admission to the opening is free.
The New Market Hall was built because the Old Market Hall lost its original function after the war – for many years it was used by television. The new building grew up near the former central market, which had a long tradition. In the architect Ivan Matušík’s ideas, which were reflected in the project, streets, arcades and galleries were embedded. He designed a progressive structural system that gave the building a distinctive character. The main idea was to create an object in the form of a glass container with exposed air ducts. The all-glass envelope brought the bustling life of the market to the exterior.
The structure of the market hall is made up of a massive reinforced concrete skeleton, in which two blocks with sales and service areas on the ground floor and first floor are embedded. There are accessible staircases at both ends of the building. The basement was a large grocery store, with the main space used for individual stalls selling vegetables, fruit and other goods.
