Kryštof and Mariana Balabán – ceramics and pictures of Ostrava, railways and trams – exhibition

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About the exhibition

The Advent series at Míčův dům opens with a pair from Ostrava. Kryštof Balabán of Keramika Strom brings tea sets, teapots, cups and mugs in stoneware. Mariana Balabánová exhibits pictures with motifs of the Ostrava region, railways and trams. Both the ceramics and the pictures are for sale.

The exhibition is part of the series Advent at Míčův dům: four Advent weekends with artists who create with you at one table.

Part of Series: Advent at Míčův dům

Dates28 Nov – 3 Dec 2026

VenueMitcha Gallery · More about the venue

ArtistsKryštof Balabán, Mariana Balabánová ·Profile

ReservationNot needed – come any time during opening hours

Opening hours

On Saturday the sales exhibition is open from 10 am to 7 pm, on Sunday from 11 am to 5 pm. On other days by telephone appointment.

Arrange a visit: +420 774 972 724

Admission

Free admission

No advance registration is needed for the exhibition.

ArtistKryštof BalabánKryštof Balabán has been working with ceramics since 2007. A love of tea brought him to clay, so tea sets are his main theme. He shares a workshop with his parents in Vřesina near Ostrava, where he works with stoneware fired above 1200 °C and colourful effect glazes. His teapots and cups keep shapes that have passed through hundreds of years of tea tradition and yet carry his personal signature. In his reliefs and sculptures he is inspired by trees, landscape, industry and trams, for example in the cycle Heaps, based on the slag heaps of Ostrava.

ArtistMariana BalabánováMariana Balabánová has always been fascinated by architecture and the spirit of a place. As a teenager she briefly tried graffiti, but soon found she was drawn more to the atmosphere of the places where it appears than to this kind of art itself. From the streets she took a feeling for the city, its walls and the places most people simply walk past. She is most drawn to the moments when nature meets industry: trees growing out of abandoned halls, grass between the rails, a landscape slowly taking back what people once took from it. And rails in general, tram and railway. She knows them up close like few others: in Ostrava she drives a tram herself. So she sees the city from the cab, in all weathers and at every hour of the day, and what she glimpses along the way comes back in her drawings.

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Where to find the exhibition

Mitcha Gallerynám. Míru 26, 675 51, Jaroměřice nad RokytnouShow on map

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