The Department of Fine Arts invites you to an exhibition of works by students of design, architecture, and landscape architecture. The exhibition takes place in the atrium next to the plaster room from November 10 to November 24, 2026.
The PleinAir exhibition presents a representative selection of student works created between 2024 and 2026. It highlights the diversity of artistic output and approaches across individual fields of study (Architecture and Urbanism, Landscape Architecture, Design), presenting the free artistic perception of future architects and designers as they interpret the landscape. The exhibition creates a multifaceted picture of creative thinking, personal reflection on the surrounding world, and the search for new modes of artistic expression. At the same time, it demonstrates how vital a source of inspiration direct contact with the landscape or a specific environment can be, and how plein air experiences feed into the students' broader artistic and ideological direction.
The drawing practice (plein air) is a week-long creative stay in an outdoor environment during which students experiment with artistic creation in situ—whether in natural landscapes or urban spaces. The core focus is the sensory perception and experience of the outdoors, subsequently transformed into artwork through drawing, painting, or other experimental techniques (in the case of design). Students focus on capturing space and environment through the lens of their personal impressions and emotional responses to a given location. Using varied artistic methods (drawing, painting, photography, installation, etc.), they examine spatial effects, mutual spatial interactivity, and how space transforms under shifting light and color conditions.
The focus of the plein air course adapts to the specific specializations of each field. Architecture students concentrate primarily on perspective drawings of buildings set within their landscape context; their key task is finding the right balance between overall composition and individual detail, strictly attending to proportion and perspective rendering. Landscape architecture students turn their attention toward natural elements, vegetation, and the diversity of organic forms, interpreting landscape character through their own visual language while engaging with its color palette and atmosphere. Design students, alongside traditional artistic approaches, explore site-specific installations and environmental art, investigating contemporary human-nature relationships and conceptually framing their work with natural elements.
