The autumn season at Galaxie Cultural Station will bring four theatre premieres, two exhibitions, three new dance performances and a festival

Prague, September 18, 2025 – Jižní Město is to boast a new cultural and artistic hub. On Saturday, September 20, 2025, Galaxie Cultural Station will be officially inaugurated. Leading Czech theatre and art institutions will offer the general public a multicultural programme and a meeting place that caters to all generations.

The Big Bang Bar, a meeting place for all generations, lies at the centre of the halls used by the participating ensembles and institutions. It was designed by artist Krištof Kintera, who has transformed part of the former multiplex cinema into an installation that straddles the boundaries between design, art and an alchemist’s laboratory. The shelves here are filled with thousands of jars of ingredients and essences, creating the impression of something between a cosmic library and an experimental kitchen. Visitors will find approximately 3,000 bottles containing 936 human feelings and emotions. The installation, entitled How Can I Help You? builds on Kinte’s interest in language, its layers of meaning and its ability to convey what is invisible but intensely experienced.

Two premieres and international cooperation

 The Dejvice Theatre is entering its 34th season with a new artistic director, Jiří Havelka, who brings with him a new artistic team and a dramaturgical plan that takes full advantage of this temporary venue’s specific features. The Galaxie premises and their surroundings become an inspiration, a backdrop, a theme and a great challenge, all at once.

“Here, we can try out a completely different way of working in many respects... The Galaxie offers entirely new possibilities. It allows us a different approach to rehearsals, a different way of working with actors, the involvement of new collaborators, and an overall enrichment of the way theatre is created,” says artistic director Jiří Havelka.

Two premieres will be staged at the Galaxie: the documentary production Facka [The Slap] (November 2025), directed by Jiří Havelka, which draws on a real-life case; and a theatrical collage based on Marivaux’s writings, Sluhové [The Servants], directed by Irish director Wayne Jordan (March 2026). The ensemble’s first encounter with a foreign artist after a very long time not only brings a fresh outside perspective and new inspiration for the creative team, it also paves the way for further international collaborations that can push the ensemble’s work beyond the domestic scene.

TV Minor workshops and the relaunch of a classic fairy tale

The Minor Theatre is expanding its range of activities to a new location. The aim is to increase capacity, improve accessibility to the theatre for people living outside the centre of Prague, and create space for creativity, education, and social gatherings, drawing on the genius loci of the Jižní Město housing estate. The venue at its current address in the centre of Prague will remain open.

The first premiere will be on Sunday, October 5, with Betonová pohádka [Concrete Fairy Tale] by director Pavel Skála, inspired by the Jižní Město surroundings. This playful production shows that the power of imagination can transform everyday places into adventurous ones, and that good things can happen even where you least expect them to.

“For the last 33 years, I have been living in housing estates of various shapes, colours and forms. Behind every window and door there are countless stories playing out, but it is only when we step outside that they come together to form a single story of the entire housing estate,” says director Pavel Skála.

It will be followed by the renewed premiere of the cult classic Perníková chaloupka [Hansel and Gretel] with Monika Načeva and Petr Stach. This horror concert for your enjoyment by the creative duo Jakub Vašíček and Tomáš Jarkovský will be performed for the first time at the Galaxie Cultural Station on Friday, October 31.

Audiences can look forward to a number of popular titles, as well as educational and non-theatrical activities, including a new TV Minor Live workshop led by Zdeněk Pecháček. The Minor Theatre will also welcome guests to its auditorium, with Pavel Liška, Marie Ludvíková, and Josef Polášek appearing in the Christmas production of Psaní Ježíškovi [Writing to Santa] by Brno's HaDivadlo theatre on 21 December.

Two exhibitions and a rich programme smashing boundaries

4+4 dny v pohybu / Místa činu and curators Denisa Václavová and Ondřej Horák are opening two major exhibitions. Planeta Hlava (September 20–December 31, 2025) invites children and adults alike into a space where facial expressions become a landscape to explore and where understanding begins without words being spoken. This interactive exhibition, inspired by the book Hlava v hlavě [Head in Head], was created by David Böhm and Ondřej Buddeus.

The exhibition Sídliště (Housing Estate, September 20–December 31, 2025) captures life in Prague's Jižní Město district from the past to the present and features the work of more than 20 artists from several generations, including Magdalena Jetelová, Eva Koťátková, Josef Bolf, Kurt Gebauer, and Tomáš Svoboda.

The autumn theatre programme of the 4 + 4 dny v pohybu festival at the Galaxie will welcome a number of international ensembles and Czech artists. Visitors can look forward to original theatre and dance projects that transcend boundaries between genres, combine humour with serious topics, and raise social issues. In addition to outstanding international productions, there will also be premieres prepared specifically for the Galaxie and its surroundings – site-specific projects in outdoor settings, original performances, and productions reflecting current social events. The festival will thus offer a diverse mix of Czech premieres and progressive international productions that will transform the Galaxie venue into a lively space for contemporary theatre and dance.

Cross-generational performative art, a brand new festival and French choreography

DanceConnected brings a contemporary dance programme to the Galaxy that draws together generations, communities and diverse spaces – in close collaboration with artists from the independent scene. The season will open with solo performances by Temporary Collective, a family performance by Viktor Černický’s PLI KIDS and the cross-generational project Jáma lvová UNLIMITED.

The first edition of the Feet Forward Festival kicks off on 6 October, focusing on contemporary dance for children and young people aged one to 15. Over six days, it will offer award-winning performances, workshops, and discussions. 4 November will belong to teenage audiences with the premiere of the performance RESpekT. On 16 and 17 October French choreographer Marie Gourdain returns to the Czech Republic. She will present the Czech premiere of her new work Neznámý koeficient [Unknown Coefficient] – a choreography that breaks down the moment of shock and spreads it out over time to reveal its fragility, beauty, and horror. The performance will take place shortly after its world premiere in Leipzig.

 In addition to other performances, DanceConnected will also present site-specific and community projects and workshops, provide facilities for artists in the form of residencies, and, every Tuesday evening, put on regular contemporary dance lessons for the public led by personalities from the Czech dance scene.

New study programme blurs boundaries of light, sound and design

DAMU is launching a new accredited master’s programme in Light and Audiovisual Design for Live Arts (LAD-LA) at the Galaxy in the 2025/26 academic year. Students will learn lighting, sound, and projection design in a strictly integrated approach, working with all three media throughout their studies. In the second year of study specialisation is possible, provided that students complete the full range of joint courses. Specialisation is geared towards their final graduation project.

The programme is part of the DAMU Department of Scenography. Its aim is to provide artistic training to creators in live arts in the areas of lighting, sound, projection and video, who will also be able to choose the appropriate technical tools according to the needs of a specific project. Teachers from DAMU, FAMU and HAMU are involved in teaching the students. Lighting will be taught by Pavla Beranová, sound by programme guarantor Vratislav Šrámek, Tomáš Procházka and Jan Veselý, and projection design by Dan Gregor and František Pecháček. 

“The galaxy is becoming a laboratory where there are truly no limits to the imagination,” says the programme’s guarantor, Vratislav Šrámek.

Research into pilot cultural interventions outside the metropolitan centre

New research is focusing on the benefits of cultural events outside the city centre. “The qualitative research project Kulturní stanice Galaxie na Hájích (Galaxie Cultural Station in Háje) aims to map the impact of temporarily locating cultural infrastructure outside the centre of Prague, where most cultural institutions are concentrated. The lessons learned from the pilot project will serve as inspiration for future activities not only in the capital city, but also in other localities,” explains Lenka Fendrychová, a methodologist and analyst at Kreativní Praha, who is conducting the research for the Department of Culture and Tourism of the Prague City Hall. The research partner for fieldwork in the area is the STEM Institute for Empirical Studies.

Open Day on Saturday, September 20, will feature a rich programme

The public will be able to visit the Galaxie for the first time on Saturday, 20 September, when an open house will be held. Visitors can look forward to a symbolic march from Dejvice to Háje, meetings with artists, previews of upcoming programmes, musical and theatrical performances, and guided tours of the new Galaxie Cultural Station.

We would like to thank the City of Prague, the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, Respekt weekly magazine, PPF Foundation, and donors from the Donio campaign for their support.

“I am delighted that Jižní Město is gaining a new outlet for creativity and communal space thanks to the Galaxie Cultural Station, which connects cutting-edge art with the everyday lives of the people living in this part of the city. Prague has long supported the development of culture in its outlying districts, precisely so that high-quality theatre, visual arts, and dance projects can become a natural part of life for all Prague residents. Galaxie is an example of how culture can be brought closer to people, tearing down barriers and opening up new opportunities for cross-generational encounters,” says Jiří Pospíšil, Deputy Mayor of Prague for Culture, Tourism, and Heritage Preservation.

“At the PPF Foundation, we support exceptional individuals across various fields and seek synergies between projects that develop Czech talent. This results in new creative links and multiplies their positive impact. The Galaxie cultural station is an example of such synergy—it offers ensembles and cultural institutions not only facilities, but also space for collaboration that goes beyond their normal activities and allows them to inspire each other and enrich their audiences. It is a bold, site-specific project that opens the way for something new and extraordinary on the Czech cultural scene,” says Jana Tomas Sedláčková, a member of the PPF Foundation’s Board of Trustees.

For more information about the programme and ticket reservations, you can visit www.stanicegalaxie.cz/en.