Art re use functions as a “bank” of art material, offering artists, students, non-profit projects and galleries materials and tools to create, including know-how support and inspiration.

On the contrary, it will help cultural institutions, companies and art schools with a meaningful redistribution of used and currently unnecessary material, which they themselves can no longer store.

The basic benefit is to focus on one place the efforts of individuals and institutions striving for responsible access to raw materials. In addition to the material background for creation and exhibition activities, it also has an ecological and educational function. In the following, the building in Chlumova Street also offered workshops for the public and various educational activities focused on the topic of recycling.

“There is a huge demand for objects and materials that the warehouse of art material arranges for transportation, which proves that such a project belongs in the capital,” says Hana Třeštíková, Prague’s councilor for culture and tourism.

“I walked around the building for years, wondering what’s inside. It was a warehouse of ballot boxes, which is needed once a year. He considered getting help to live art in the practically unused building in the covid period as the result of great synergy between the Prague 3 district, ArtMap and the municipality, “says Michal Vronský, representative of the Prague 3 district and chairman of the Committee for Education.

“Thanks to the great demands in the gallery environment and the popularity of the project, gallerists, artists and curators began to address us with an offer of surplus material during the construction work. We set up a classic e-shop for distribution, published the material immediately and was gone within a week. Thus, a whole ton of material passed through the ceremonial opening – recycled mattresses, boards, beams, tiles, mesh and the like. Part of the warehouse function is the documentation, publication and presentation of projects for which the material was donated, “the result is Jan Vincenec, art re use project coordinator and warehouse manager.

The principle is simple. Anyone can choose from sorted items in the catalog on the reuse.artmap.cz website, put them in the basket as in the store. You only need to recommend contact details. Based on this order, an agreement is made via e-mail or telephone at the time of delivery. The only condition is the return of things to cultural operation.

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