KRA
KRA – Kravín Rural Arts is situated in the Vysočina region of the Czech Republic – a hilly area of Železné hory (Iron mountains) – in a small village Hranice u Malče. "KRAVÍN = cowshed. Because it is to cows we are indebted for this place.
As an art/culture organization KRA is driven by ecology as a creative potential. Each year we organize (international) art residencies, a festival with workshops and performances, several online and onsite participations. During the corona years we set up together with local partners around Chotěboř a new place: ButtuLab, a DIY creative coworking and design lab, promoting clean technologies and eco-skills. Each Summer we organize a small DIY festival, with field recording walks, exchanges of skills and ideas, workshops and open meetings, concerts and performances. Artists of any (or no) discipline are welcome throughout the year, to stay and research and/or create new work in our residency places, ateliers and garden, the surroundings.
Within our short history we moved from a curatorial practice inviting artists, to a local and collaborative setup. Over the years and around us, we saw the emergence of a small biofarm, an alternative school, after-school and artisanal organizations, a social café, a co-working space with a music venue and discussion/screening space, a social clothes exchange shop. This is extended to several regional and international cultural organizations within central Europe and the wider EU. We are contributing to an active exchange of our artists and residents within regional as well as new artistic networks, like CENSE and PAN…
KRA is happy to work within this local ánd international context at the same time. We try to take up a role in fostering new dialogues, introducing new eko-creative practices, experimenting with new art forms.
Apart from its own thematic lines, KRA is welcoming individual and group initiatives that are in the same boat, and are interested in artistic-ecological research and development, with a strong multidisciplinary nature. Currently we are also setting up an ecological sound art exchange FM/web radio and other projects with our local partners and sister organizations in Kerminy (FR/Bretagne), Berlin (DE), Cagliari (IT/Sardinia), Bratislava (SK), Gdansk (PL), …
The future is the countryside, country and world wide!" (2025)
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