Kristek House

With the effectuation of his house, Kristek created a ‘dwelling place’. Yet, at the same time, he formed an object and a space that revitalized the cultural memory, evoked memories and generated an authentic social life. Under the influence of his artistic object, the non-place, a transit and anonymous space of spiritual rambling, uprootedness and existential solitude, is transformed into a place filled with identity, relationships and specific history. Today, the places enabling a meeting of people and sharing of their social lives do not need to be necessarily represented by buildings only, which fulfiled their function as churches or cathedrals in the past, for example.
From this point of view, the Kristek House enables a deeper reflection on everything that a new, and even more powerful and spontaneous public and social space may be. The effectuation of a project whose objective was to present the ‘house as an assemblage’ to the public can have not only an aesthetic but also a social and ethical function. This is because such an artistic concept of a house and home can create a unique space and a singular opportunity for a wide spectrum of various gatherings and social relationships.
The Kristek House is both a material and symbolic space, which stimulates human imagination and endows the gatherings of different generations, friends, neighbours and random passers-by with a fantasy dimension. The reason is that the edifice Kristek spiced up artistically represents a projection screen and, at the same time, an artistic challenge destroying the boring traditional depiction of our houses and cities. (...) When observing the Kristek House rising in the city space, we may dream, criticize or praise, yet we cannot suffer from indifference, everydayness or pettiness.
Barbora Půtová, Charles University.

The Kristek House was presented to the public in the happening Sisyphiade or Boulder in Time in 2018.