Ora et lege

16/03/2026

A beautiful reflection on the final listening session of the Borderland Forest Spells residency, written by An Hoprich Smékalová for Naše Broumovsko. 🌿

Lekce o tom, jak si více naslouchat a vytvářet předivo vztahů.

04/03/2026

After one month of listening with the forests, mountains, rivers and communities of the Czech–Polish borderlands, we gathered at HOPRICH to close the residency with a Final Listening Session – a shared space of sound, voice and deep listening.

Thank you to everyone who came to be with us in silence, sound, songs and spells. For the moments of being together.

Photo: Vašek Matějíček

Borderland Forest Spells
Broumov Monastery (CZ)
1–28 February 2026

Residents: Agnieszka Bua, Liene Jurgelane, Hanna Grześkiewicz

Curated by Ora et lege
Producer Zaneta Vavrova
Graphic design Jakub Samek
Production Anna Iljašenko, Vašek Matějíček

Organised by Klášter Broumov - Vzdělávací a kulturní centrum. Supported by Culture Moves Europe, Státní fond kultury and Královéhradecký kraj.

Special thanks to Jakub, Kryštof, Father Ruda, Jena, Hana, Bára, Adam & Anna.

26/02/2026

Short interview by Naše Broumovsko with Liene Jurgelane, Agnieszka Bua and Hanna Grześkiewicz about their Borderland Forest Spells residency at Klášter Broumov - Vzdělávací a kulturní centrum and listening to the forests and landscape of the Czech-Polish borderland.

Rozhovor s rezidentkami Literárního domku.

21/02/2026

Borderland Forest Spells
Final Listening Session
Agnieszka Bułacik, Liene Jurgelāne, Hanna Grześkiewicz

27 02 2026 at HOPRICH
16:30 Doors Open
17:00~18:15 Listening Session

After one month of listening with the forests, mountains, trees, rivers, and humans of the Czech-Polish borderlands, the artists-in-residence are inviting for their final public listening session.

“During the residency we have been walking, recording, singing, and listening with the land. We have been tracing stories of displacement and re-rooting, following the echoes of migration in this landscape and in our own bodies, asking what myths might be seedling in the mountains and valleys that welcomed us.

This session is a shared listening space in which we will invite you to explore collectively what it could mean to form new kinds of kinship. Kinship beyond borders and beyond binaries. To become more q***r in our relation to land, by forming relations out of care and choice, instead of ancestral roots. To sense plants, animals, trees, ghosts and spirits as part of a wider circle of belonging.

Through voice, silence, songs, spells, and ritual we will invite into a space of deep listening. A space where we can practice gentler ways of being together in an unsettled world.”

The realization of the project is supported by Culture Moves Europe, Státni fond kultury, Královéhradecký kraj and Klášter Broumov - Vzdělávací a kulturní centrum.

18/02/2026

Borderland Forest Spells residency at Broumov Monastery.

February residents Liene Jurgelāne, Agnieszka Bułacik, and Hanna Grześkiewicz in front of their temporary home in Broumov – spending this month listening with the forests, mountains, trees, rivers, and humans of the Czech-Polish borderlands.

Photo: Anna Iljašenko

31/01/2026

Borderland Forest Spells residency at Broumov Monastery.
Meet our resident Liene Jurgelāne.

Liene is an artist, facilitator, curator, and anthropologist. Originally from Latvia, now living in Denmark. Her practice weaves together performance art, artistic research, and multispecies collaborations, rooted in earth-based wisdom traditions, especially those from the Baltic region. She creates spaces for deep connections - through sensory walks, participatory performances, workshops, DJ sets, festival programs, or medicinal gardens - spaces where humans and more-than-humans can meet in a reciprocal exchange.

Her work invites to move beyond extractive ways of relating with plants and trees, instead entering into dialogue with plant beings as collaborators and teachers. Through this embodied listening, she explores themes of community, ecological belonging, response-ability and agency in times of intersecting socioecological crises.

Photo: Mads Peter Laursen

30/01/2026

Borderland Forest Spells residency at Broumov Monastery.
Meet our resident Hanna Grześkiewicz.

Hanna Grześkiewicz is an artist, curator and researcher. Her work explores the relationship of art with social movements, feminist thought, border politics, and sound ecology. She works in collective, participatory, and public settings, which comes out of her engagement with q***r-feminist, migrant, and anti-imperialist social movements.

Hanna was the discourse curator for the IMPULS Festival in East Germany (2022-2023) and regularly produces work for radio. She was part of transmediale festival’s 2022 research group, and has presented her work – amongst others – at the Akademie der Künste (Berlin), CTM Festival (Berlin), Guildhall School of Music and Drama (London), Barbican Centre (London), Struer Tracks Biennial (Denmark), Gaudeamus Festival (Netherlands), and Sanatorium of Sound Festival (Poland), as well as numerous academic conferences. She has written for a wide range of publications, including from peer-reviewed academic journals, specialist art and music magazines, as well as daily newspapers.

Photo: Dimitri Djuric

29/01/2026

Borderland Forest Spells residency at Broumov Monastery.
Meet our resident Agnieszka Bułacik.

Agnieszka Bułacik is an artist, researcher and facilitator working with voice, collective singing, and embodied performance. Trained in visual arts, her practice has shifted toward sound and performance as tools for exploring relationality, presence, and collective experience. Her work centers on sensing, feeling, and deepening connections—to oneself, to others, and to the wider metabolism of planet Earth.

Bułacik is a co-founder of new visions, an arts and education collective supporting women and q***r artists and activists from Eastern Europe. She was a member of Otucha, a singing collective researching the social and ecological dimensions of song. As a performer and singer, she has taken part in works such as Who Would Have Thought That the Snow Falls, Treehumana, Wandering Voices, or Murmuring Through, presented in Germany, Poland, and Denmark. She holds an MA in Cultural Studies, a BA in Photography and Multimedia, and is currently a PhD candidate in Arts & Education at the University of Barcelona, where her research focuses on collective artistic practices and learning through the body.

Photo: Kasia Sekula

27/01/2026

Borderland Forest Spells is a one month residency in Broumov Monastery exploring the forest of the Czech–Polish borderland as spaces of memory, loss, and re-rooting. Shaped by histories of displacement and migration, the project listens to the forest as a living archive of ancestral memory and future imaginaries.

Through field recordings, voice, and participatory rituals, Agnieszka Bułacik, Liene Jurgelāne, and Hanna Grześkiewicz work with trees as witnesses and co-conspirators in times of ecological crisis, weaving sonic spells that mourn loss while imagining new forms of kinship across borders and species.

By resounding the forest, the project seeks to uncover an ecology of care that bridges myth, memory, and feminist solidarity, while conjuring the possibility of a borderless future.

Agnieszka Bułacik, Liene Jurgelāne, and Hanna Grześkiewicz in residence at Klášter Broumov - Vzdělávací a kulturní centrum.

Graphic design by Jakub Samek
Curated by Ora et lege
Producer Zaneta Vavrova

The realization of the project is supported by Culture Moves Europe, Státní fond kultury, Královéhradecký kraj.

23/12/2025

💥 Anna Sýsová for Flash Art Czech & Slovak Edition No. 78 on Ora et lege III : Saïat Nova – New Hour at Opatství VENIO - Klášter benediktinek na Bílé Hoře.

Bílá Hora Monastery (Prague, CZ)
31 August – 30 September 2025

Art & Performances Julie Béna, Ana Gzirishvili, Sophie Jung, Lina Lapelyte, Maia Naveriani, Deva Schubert & Chihiro Araki, Adéla Součková, Marie Tučková

Curated by Elene Abashidze

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11/10/2025

Thank you everyone who joined us for the performance program of Ora et Lege III ‘Saïat Nova - New Hour’ held as a part of Prague Art Week, which marked the closing of the exhibition. A huge thank you to the entire team and all our partners – see you again in 2027 for Ora et lege IV.

Photo: René Volfík

Ora et lege III
Saïat Nova – New Hour

Art & Performances:
Julie Béna, Ana Gzirishvili, Sophie Jung, Lina Lapelyte, Maia Naveriani, Deva Schubert & Chihiro Araki, Adéla Součková, Marie Tučková

Bílá Hora Monastery (Prague, CZ)
31 August – 30 September 2025
Opening: 30 August 2025
Finisage: 28 September 2025

Curated by Elene Abashidze
Graphic Design by Jakub Samek
Exhibition Architecture by OBJEKTOR
Table Design by Lado Lomitashvili
Production Zaneta Vavrova

The project was organized by Klášter Broumov - Vzdělávací a kulturní centrum in collaboration with Bílá Hora Monastery and E.A. Shared Space. The exhibition was part of the Prague Art Week Festival (25–28 September 2025).

The realization of the exhibition was supported by the Ministerstvo kultury České republiky, Státní fond kultury ČR, Hlavní město Praha, Pro Helvetia, Klášter Broumov, Nadace Benetheo. Program Partners Ovenecká 33, Prague Art Week, Swiss Embassy in Prague.

09/10/2025

Thank you everyone who joined us for the second performance program of Ora et Lege III ‘Saïat Nova - New Hour’ curated by Elene Abashidze in the frames of Prague Art Week.

Reading and listening session by rivermoans entailed activating Marie Tučková’s sound installation ‘Would you still drink me when I’m rotten’ following a short presentation into her research on the subject of the on-going water apartheid in Palestine.

The listening session comprised of reading a poem ‘Would you still drink me when I’m rotten’ alongside the running sound installation, as well as devoting 5 minutes of time to listening to ‘Lover’s Hymn’ by El-Funoun, Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe.

Photo: René Volfík