PLATO to get facilities matching European standards. Our activities in the listed heritage building will be launched in September 2022 with the international exhibition ‘Optimised Fables about a Good Life’.

The historical slaughterhouse building (Porážková St. 26) will open for good on 22 September 2022. The regular opening hours will be six days a week, on Wednesdays until 8 pm.

The grand opening of the new PLATO venue and the opening of the first ever exhibition will take place on Wednesday 21 September 2022 at 6 pm. Come join us!

PLATO‘s activities in the listed heritage building will be launched with the international exhibition ‘Optimised Fables about a Good Life’. Entering a new phase of PLATO’s work, we have decided to centre our attention, quite symbolically, on the question of what it means today to have a good life.

The quality of life is not only part of the opening exhibition, but also of the overall approach to the transformation of the slaughterhouse into a contemporary art gallery. How does PLATO contribute to making Ostrava a better place to live?

• Quality of architecture Robert Konieczny, the designer of the slaughterhouse conversion, and KWK Promes Studio

• Quality interior design with original furniture Interior designer of the slaughterhouse building: Yvette Vašourková

• A garden and park of 9,000 m2 set into the surroundings Design: Robert Konieczny and KWK Promes, MS-projekce s. r. o.
  Garden layout: Denisa Tomášková

• New café It will serve people without any requirement to visit an exhibition or any other gallery programme; like at the previous venue, it will be run as a social business.

• Ecological and sustainable principles The greenery around the slaughterhouse building has been designed with permaculture principles in mind, to provide a habitat suitable for the life of insects and small urban fauna.
  Greenery will enter the interior of the former slaughterhouse in the form of plants and an eco-friendly grow room.

A series of guided tours will be dedicated to the exhibition, the interior and the landscaping of the surrounding area. Follow our website.

Investor: The City of Ostrava
Cooperation: PLATO and the Municipal Studio of Spatial Planning and Architecture (MAPPA)