Following its 13th edition, which took place in June 2015, the Prague Quadrennial (nominated last year by EFFE-Europe for Festivals/Festivals for Europe among the first 12 most important European festivals) hosts the „PQ Transformations" Symposium, between March 17-18, 2016, at the Archa Theatre. This symposium aims to summarize the fundamental developments in the event over the last fifteen years, and will have a special focus on PQ 2015, as well as explore the possibilities for the future of the Quadrennial. It will be held in the frame of the international project SharedSpace: Music Weather Politics and it is one of the last events within the project.
With the support of the Romanian Cultural Institute in Prague, Ștefania Cenean - the country commissary (for the last editions, PQ 2011 and PQ 2015) -, appreciated in Prague for her activity during the last 7 years, will participate in the event with the lecture: „PQ's last two themes: tools for overcoming inertia".
PhD. Ștefania Cenean is a well-known scenographer, Director of the Scenography Department at the „I.L. Caragiale" University of Theatrical Arts and Cinematography in Bucharest.
Ștefania Cenean has been the curator and author of the themes for the main sections - Countries and regions section (Art as Sacrifice „Arta ca Jertfă"), Student section and Arhitectures at PQ 2011 - considered by specialists the best Romanian participation since 1969.
In 2015, Ștefania Cenean has been selected again as curator of the sections Countries and Regions (for which she created the theme Roots „Rădăcini", where she presented the values of Romania - legendary trees and portraits of priests who have been oppressed by the Communist regime). The general theme of the Quadrennial has been Shared Space: Music Weather Politics. For the new section - Space, she was invited by curator Serge von Arx to give a lecture about theatre and Gustav Klimt in Romania. For the Student Section (theme Freedom „Libertatea"), Romania presented scenographic models with videomapping, created by Bianca Veșteman, student in a Master Programme at the Scenography Department of the „I.L. Caragiale" University of Theatrical Arts and Cinematography in Bucharest.
