About Prague Quadrennial

The Prague Quadrennial is the world’s largest performance design and space, which enters in the fields of scenography and theatre architecture. The first ever exhibition took place in 1967 and from this date the performance has continued on yearly to this very day, and still continues to occur for the future. This design exhibition is widely recognized around the world, and has participants from more than 70 countries that take part in this event every year.

An event like this attracts thousands of people from all around the world. This exhibition includes more than 500 live performances for people to witness and enjoy. The performances take place in a number of different spaces around the city, about thirty different locations. It is obviously a enormous event and is enjoyed and experienced by many people all around the world.

Below are some images of previous performances displayed over the past years. 

The Colloredo - Mansfeld Palace 


There are so many different spaces and buildings within the city for producers and performers from all around the world to use for their exhibition displays. We are going to focus on a location called the Colloredo-Mansfeld Palace, Prague. The palace is close to the Charles Bridge as you can see below.

About The Colloredo-Mansfeld Palace

The Colloredo Palace is what you can call an architectural masterpiece of Baroque. The large palace has four extensions that are placed around a courtyard in Prague. The palace house was reconstructed in a renaissance style after the 1600’s. It was during the 17^th and 18^th century where the initial baroque changes was made to the reconstruction of the building, to make it appear as it is today. The designer and head of this project was Giovanni Alliprandi, and the architect was Franz Pree. The building contains a number of rooms, a Baroque dance hall, and a show room on the third floor. In 2010 the palace was given guardianship of the city gallery Prague, and opened to the public on June 2013. 

The following images are all of the interior and exterior of the Colloredo Palace. It is truly a beautiful building, and very interesting to create a display for this sight.

Exhibition spaces in the Palace

Exhibition space A is located in Colorado, called the Mansfeld Palace. This location is close to the Charles Bridge. Have a look at Google maps, and street views.

The rooms available are:

-       A2, 51m2

-       A9, 27m2

-       A4, 30m2
     
     Rooms A2 and A4 are both on the second floor of the Mansfeld palace. Room A9 is on the third floor

     of the Palace. There are floor plans and measurements of the rooms dimensions in the images below:

As a group we all decided that we wanted to use the biggest room for our exhibition display. The biggest room is A2 located on the second floor and measures up as 51m squared. We chose this room, so that we would have a big enough space no matter we wanted to put inside of it, the smaller rooms can be quite limiting and often restricting. 

Below are some images of this actual spaces interior: