INI Project

The word SPACE symbolizes our long-term search for alternative ways to present contemporary art that go beyond traditional gallery formats. Space can be anything—from a studio to a symposium, from a kitchen to a stage. Conceptually, we want to draw on current events in the art scene that seem most urgent.

Over the years, INI Prostor has developed into a hybrid platform where art opens up space for social vision. Art and community building are two key practices that serve as tools and models for non-capitalist forms of coexistence. INI works with this vision by creating space for change, joint exploration, and study—through artistic projects as well as organizational and exhibition experiments. Together, we develop collective artistic projects based on critical questions and radical imagination.

Above all, the space should be alive, “performative” in the broadest sense of the word. Whether individual projects represent a series of events, discussions, and presentations, or emerging artistic and social experiments, the common denominator remains an emphasis on dialogue and processuality—rather than on the physical product. The values of sustainability and mutual care are key for us. We want to create a safe and horizontally oriented environment that is open to the challenges of the present. That is why we strive for long-term collaborations and activities that are necessary for building a functioning community.

We offer INI Project / PROSTOR for a period of three months to artists, theorists, and curators to freely transform it into their own studio, workshop, meeting place, or office. The only condition is regular public events, which usually take place once every two weeks. In an era that is strongly focused on the final product, we try to emphasize the process of creation itself, giving invited guests the opportunity to prepare new projects, works, or texts, but also to simply formulate topics that currently interest them and invite guests not only from the field of art who are close to their work or thinking. The individual outputs are more like partial experiments that may eventually lead to an exhibition, publication, etc. At the same time, all events are open to both the art scene and the wider public, so emerging ideas are often exposed to initial reflection and discussion in this way.