year: 2025
place: Zámek Nová Horka, Studénka
curator: Veronika Čechová, Tereza Jindrová, Nikola Ludlová
artists: Dominik Adamec, Enge Klinkáč, Olga Krykun, Marie Lukáčová, Barbora Lungová, and Savka Marenić
Production: Zlata Borůvková, Ondřej Houšťava
collaboration: Jindřich Chalupecký Society, Museum of the Novojičín Region
The exhibition Whispering of the Walls continues the tradition of Interventions by Jindřich Chalupecký Society – a program based on responses to the specific context of a place: its architecture, history, and current museum presentation. The interventions enter existing interiors and permanent exhibitions, which they activate both thematically and physically through contemporary visual art. Individual exhibitors insert new layers of meaning into the space, often offering alternative ways of reading the present content – through the body, emotionality, care, vulnerability, or environmental awareness.
Nová Horka Castle served between 1964 and 2016 as an institutional facility for women with disabilities. Located within the castle premises, its capacity, architecture, isolation, and operational principles suppressed individual needs, differences, and freedom of movement. The spatial conditions did not meet standards of dignified living or accessibility.
The diary captures the period of transformation of the institutional care model and critically reflects on institutional forms of care. It makes visible invisible labour, subtle gestures, and relationships among women who are relearning what care means. The stories, inspired by conversations with women who lived in the castle and with social workers, use fiction to share gestures of care, not to reconstruct reality, but as a method of listening and understanding.
The diary captures the period of transformation of the institutional care model and critically reflects on institutional forms of care. It makes visible invisible labour, subtle gestures, and relationships among women who are relearning what care means. The stories, inspired by conversations with women who lived in the castle and with social workers, use fiction to share gestures of care, not to reconstruct reality, but as a method of listening and understanding.
