Signal Space Prague Presents New Exhibition on the History of the Signal Festival

With more than 5.5 million visitors, the Signal Festival has become one of the best-known cultural events in Prague. A new exhibition at the Signal Space gallery is now looking back at the festival’s history for the first time.

The Prague gallery Signal Space is expanding its programme with a new exhibition that, for the first time, tells the story of the Signal Festival. The exhibition “Dream On! Where It All Began” combines archive materials, well-known installations and current works, showing how the festival has developed into one of the most significant cultural events in the Czech capital since 2013.

Since its founding, the Signal Festival has attracted more than 5.5 million visitors, according to the organisers. The original idea was to bring international audiovisual artists to Prague and transform the city into an open-air gallery for several days.

“Signal emerged from an idea where we did not know if it could even work. The exhibition returns to that exact moment, when a dream became a real project,” explained festival founder Martin Pošta.

Foto: Prague Daily News | Reflexe

The exhibition begins in the foyer with the installation “Reflexe” by Adam Cigler and Petr Vacek. The work consists of moving mirrors that reflect and transform their surroundings in real time. Visitors themselves become part of the installation. The project was created as part of the “Signal Calling” initiative, which the festival developed together with PrusaLab.

One of the central themes of the exhibition is video mapping – one of the best-known formats of the Signal Festival. Particular attention is given to the Basilica of St. Ludmila at Náměstí Míru, which has served several times since 2013 as the setting for spectacular projections.

Foto: Signal Space

For the exhibition, the church has been recreated using a two-metre-tall 3D model developed in cooperation with the workshop of Josef Průša. Several well-known projections from past festival editions are displayed on the model.

These include the work “Evoluce” by the studio Onionlab as well as “Caryatids” by French artist Yann Nguema. For the latter projection, the façade of the basilica was digitally animated using around 50,000 virtual bricks.

Foto: Prague Daily News | Signal Space

The exhibition is complemented by two large-scale maps. One highlights locations in Prague that the festival has opened to visitors in recent years, including the Invalidovna, the Archbishop's Palace, the hydroelectric power plant on Štvanice, and the Riding Hall of Prague Castle. The second map documents international locations of projects that were originally developed for the Signal Festival.

This year’s Signal Festival will take place from 14 to 18 October 2026 in Prague. Under the motto “Dream On! Sny a vize”, digital, light and kinetic art installations are once again expected to shape public spaces across the Czech capital.

Foto: Signal Festival

The exhibition “Dream On! Where It All Began” is accessible free of charge with a ticket for the main exhibition “Echoes of Tomorrow”. A separate admission ticket costs 99 crowns.

Signal Space is located in the Staroměstská tržnice and is considered the largest gallery for digital art in the Czech Republic. The gallery opened in October 2025 and has since welcomed more than 100,000 visitors, according to its organisers.

Tickets and further information can be found at www.signalspace.com.



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