PLATO, Ostrava, Czech Republic
Kino Kosmos
29.05.2025 – 26.10.2025

We at Kollektion888 are proud to have contributed a significant selection of works by Andreas Greiner as loans to the exhibition Kino Kosmos at the PLATO Museum. In line with our self-conception as an actively circulating collection, we regard the act of exhibiting not merely as the provision of objects but as part of a public, socially engaged practice, embedding art within those discursive spaces where the present and future are negotiated.

Greiner’s work—positioned between artistic research, speculative ecology, and post-anthropocentric perspectives—opens precisely those critical intersections of aesthetics, science, and society that we seek to foster as a collection. By placing these works into curatorial contexts that transcend mere representation, we aim to support formats of dialogue, reflection, and responsibility.

Our involvement in Kino Kosmos is therefore understood as a consistent continuation of our collection’s ethos: art should circulate, create relevance, and sharpen public discourse. We sincerely thank the team at the PLATO Museum for the precise, sensitive, and ambitious curatorial framework in which Greiner’s works are newly and productively reinterpreted. – Kollektion888, May 2025

The exhibition Kino Kosmos presents and explores an archive of ideas occurring in one of the most interesting regions in the Czech Republic, a region that could serve as an unexpectedly sensitive seismograph recording contemporary discussions about theory, fiction, satire, science fiction, activism, and confession. The real Kino Kosmos, as well as its mental dimension, is transformed, through works of art, into an open space in which different layers of meaning and experience intertwine. A specific cinema, as a building with a specific function, acquires meaning not only as a geographically localized entity but also as a spatial and cognitive structure – and offers a new perspective for thinking about the relationships between film, language, the natural environment, and a unique territory.

Using audiovisual works, sculptures, and photographs, the exhibition’s curators explore the specific (filmic) grammar of place. And through speculations about cinematography, the local dialect, and sculptural, regional, and borderline spaces, they speak about experiences, dimensions, and the particular states that resonate in this grammar. The cinema, or the kino, and the cosmos, or kosmos, as both reality and metaphor, thus generate information enabling the curators to reflect on the conventions of two-dimensional (film) projection but also on the universe itself. The exhibition designers chose the artworks and art interventions based on how they can grasp and express the unique nature of place though a visual sensitivity we could tentatively call “hypercontemporaneity”. The exhibition, therefore, transforms into an autonomous world in which investing in fiction is more reliable than betting on reality. – PLATO, May 2025

Artists featured in the exhibition:
Vladimír Bichler, Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács, Andreas Greiner, Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff, Selmeci Kocka Jusko, Stéphanie Lagarde, Rudolf Štafa, Markéta Žáčková
Curators: Daniela and Linda Dostálková