Only Friends

11 December 2025 4:30 PM – 22 February 2026 6:00 PM

Moravian Gallery in Brno | Pražákův palác | Husova  18 | Brno
moravska-galerie.cz

Participating children: Caroline, David, Eliška, Gábinka, Gábina, Julie, Kristy, Nela, Nikolas, Patrik, Sabina, Saša, Seba, Šimon, Štěpána and Tadeáš
Participating artists: Eva Koťátková, Květoslava Podhradská a kolektiv Comunite Fresca (Dana Balážová, Markéta Filipová and Marie Štindlová)
Conception: kurátorský tým Společnosti Jindřicha Chalupeckého (Barbora Ciprová, Tereza Jindrová, Nikola Ludlová) 
Production: Zlata Borůvková a Ondřej Houšťava (Společnost Jindřicha Chalupeckého), Aneta Chrástová, Miroslava Pluháčková (Moravská galerie)
Communication: Kristýna Sudková a Petra Švecová (Společnost Jindřicha Chalupeckého), Eva Kadlčáková, Sylvie Poukarová, Jana Plagová (Moravská galerie)
Graphic design for the exhibition: Tereza Hejmová
Graphic design of Krunýř magazine: Žofia Fodorová

How will I live when I grow up? What kind of relationships will I have? Children from the residential child care Dagmar pondered these questions in their own language and imagination in the Only Friends hotel project. They created a vision of a space based on friendship—a place for self-expression, shared creativity, and living out dreams.

The exhibition offers a glimpse into the world of children's ideas about home, where no one is alone, where everyone can find new friends and contribute their talents to make the hotel a real place where wishes come true. This vision inspires us to reflect on our own interpersonal relationships, the nature of community, and the ways we live our lives. It raises the question of how well the traditional model of isolated nuclear families suits us and encourages us to discover diverse forms of community living, where people share not only material resources but also care and support, and together create more than they could on their own. Come and be inspired, join in the children's dreams, and experience the atmosphere of the Hotel of Dreams as created by the children from Dagmar residential child care.

The exhibition is the result of collaboration between children from the Dagmar, artists Eva Koťátková, Květoslava Podhradská, and the Comunite Fresca collective (Dana Balážová, Markéta Filipová, and Marie Štindlová), the Jindřich Chalupecký Society, and the Moravian Gallery in Brno. The opening will take place on Thursday, December 11, 2025, at 4:30 p.m. on the ground floor of the Pražák Palace.