ARCHITECTURAL PROJECTS:
Loft renovation
House conversion I
Loft renovation II
Playwood Cottage
House with a Plinth
Reclaimed Landfill
House Extension
Mom's kitchen
Common Spaces of Panel House
Cottage in Sázava
Conversion of Industrial
Competition - memorial
Room for Plants
Competition - water pump
WORKSHOPS & EDUCATION:
Puppet show: Behind the Silver house
Neighborhood workshop: House Signs
Report about Public Spaces
Festival Waiting for a Change
City and Space
Our yard
Celebration of Garden
PERFORMATIVE INTERVENTIONS:
Performative Audiowalk: Whisper in the Valley
Superheroine from the Palm Garden
Performative Audiowalk: Home again
Radio Křoví
Performance: Storm and stars
Sewing, stitching, knitting
The Secret Garden: Mystery of Ms.Warden
Beauty in Landfill
Public Curtain
PUBLICATIONS:
Earch_On Collaboration
ERA 21: Reflection on Postmodernism
Landscape (Ex)Change
In Situ
Everything can be in the yard
Informal
Beautiful Rose
Thinking Together
year: 2024
place: Prague
concept,script and direction: Savka Marenić
costumes: Savka Marenić
video: Nika Datiaschvili
sound design: Jonáš Richter, Jonáš Balcar, Nikola Janković
performers: Nikola Janković, Gabriela Veselá, Milena Raičević
photos: Adéla Vosičková
collaboration: Umění pro město, GHMP
An immersive audio-walk and performance set around Vyšehrad metro station and Nusle Bridge gradually reveals the secrets, legends, and identity of this space. The Nusle Valley, with its iconic bridge, becomes the stage for a performative experience that blends historical and fictional narratives, weaving together reality and myth. What do we discover when we view the space through the eyes of a tourist or follow a romantic date unfolding in this vulnerable environment?
Whisper in the Valley explores the performative qualities of public transit spaces, offering a different perspective on a place marked by trauma. Through fiction and performance, it aims to highlight the care and our new connection to the space that has been deeply marked by the physical, urban impact of Nusle Bridge, as well as by its psychological and social implications. The Nusle’s bridge which connects the city, it is also a site of personal loss and various transformations, its presence linked to many suicides and social changes that have left an indelible mark on the valley.
The walk was enriched by original music, field recordings, and costumes that amplify the narrative and stimulate the audience's imagination and interpretation of story.
video: ©Nika Datiashvili
photos, copyright to ©Adéla Vosičková
year: 2024
place: Hradec Kralove
collaboration: UMPRUM, Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague
concept,script and direction: Savka Marenić
costumes: Savka Marenić
performer: Nikola Šmeralová
sound design: Jonáš Balcar
photos: Anna Hubená, Savka Marenić
The performance was part of the student project called Radio Křoví realized in Hradec Králové. The fictive story and author’s performance called The Superheroine from the Palm Garden revived the building designed by famous Czech modern architect Jan Kotěra and its surrounding park through guerrilla gardening. The performance and accompanying audio-story gradually narrated the forgotten stories of the Palm Garden building, which was originally a multifunctional hall with a cinema and palm trees—a symbol of the cultural life of Hradec Králové and gathering place for its residents. After privatization, the building transformed into a casino, where greenery and cultural activities were replaced by gold-plated decorations, gambling, and cold lights.
The narrator of the story is the sculpture on the building’s facade — the superheroine Gardener. Her unique superpower lies in caring for plants and the ability to hear them. Through this, she offers a new perspective on traditional superhero abilities: instead of fighting and destruction, she uses her powers to protect and nurture greenery, emphasizing the importance of ecological aspects of gardening and the care for urban green spaces.
photos, copyright to ©Anna Hubená
year: 2024
place: Hradec Králové
collaboration: UMPRUM, Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague
production, dramaturgy, conversations and publication: Savka Marenić
photos: Anna Hubená
graphic design: Šárka Blažková, Pája Smekalová, Sara Maria Szyndler
Radio KŘOVÍ is a creature that speaks and captures individual phenomena of the urban organism, revealing them through reports, songs, performances, interviews, events, and tangible works in the public space of Hradec Králové. The project was carried out by the Studio of Fine Arts 1 at UMPRUM. Following a pre-prepared script, KŘOVÍ visited thematically significant locations and, using QR codes linked to its live 24-hour radio broadcast, introduced listeners to places that are intriguing, overlooked, or problematic. KŘOVÍ revitalizes urban spaces and invites people to discover and inhabit them.
Kino Křoví:
-NET WORTH (Tamara Spalajković, Daniel Rajmon, Jakub Daněk)
-Sauna (Jasmina Lustigová, Sofie Gjuričová)
-Trávníkář (Nikola Šmeralová, Anežka Stupková)
-Na strání (Nika Datiashvili)
year: 2024
place: Jihlava, Czech Republic
collaboration: The Jihlava Architecture Manual (JAM)
The townhouses in Jihlava have undergone extensive historical and cultural transformations, from reconstructions to changes of use. Looking at their facades, we cannot fully describe what jewels they hide inside. Originally a generous building for a single owner, it had been adapted for rental housing for several families through the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods. Silver House No. 21 tells different stories and surprises with its secrets.
A puppet show was held in the Red Salon of the Silver House with an aim to create new stories and experiences associated with this historic building. Together with the children and people passing by we think on the possible stories that could have taken place there and the characters that could have inhabited that mysterious place.
The aim was to use puppet theatre to explore the architecture and creative writing to connect with the space. A model of the same space is created to discover the space. The fictional characters and additional scenography are made in collaboration with children to support the fairytale which was written during the show.
The aim was to use puppet theatre to explore the architecture and creative writing to connect with the space. A model of the same space is created to discover the space. The fictional characters and additional scenography are made in collaboration with children to support the fairytale which was written during the show.
year: 2024
place: Prague
collaboration: Tereza Melková, Petrohradská collective
The performance was part of artist Tereza Melková's exhibition "𝒲𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝐼 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝓀 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓂𝓎 𝒽𝒶𝓃𝒹𝓈, 𝐼 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝓀 𝓈𝓁𝑜𝓌𝓁𝓎" which she created during her residency in Petrohradská collective. Together we created a story about sewing, stitching, and knitting that focuses on healing, thinking slowly, regeneration, and vulnerability in connection with nature. While we were performing and reading the story, we stitched and knitted broken parts of our bodies with the audience, trying to restore dry, dead plant roots. The forest and its roots are metaphors for mutual support, care, and slow healing. We read fairytales where characters transform themselves into plants or trees - not as an escape or surrender, but as an act of emancipation and finding freedom and stability in connection with nature and ourselves.
installation: Tereza Melková
performers: Tereza Melková, Savka Marenić
design of bookcover: Savka Marenić
the narrative: Tereza Melková, Savka Marenić
curator: Edita Malina (Štrajtová)
audio: Trevor Linde
photo: © Romana Kovacs
