Jo Vávra is an artist and designer, she creates spaces, situations, and future scenarios. Most of all she is a community weaver and connector. She is a co-founder of LIOS labs, a research platform for arts and ecology and residency program in Bledowska Desert, Poland, a co-founder of onEarth Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to sharing environmental awareness and promoting sustainable development, a co-founder of Berlin-based design studio and multidisciplinary platform for collaboration and cultural exchange CECI foundation, neue häute e.V and Ana Conda am Ufer.
Jo is a multidimensional woman, a global citizen, fungi intermediary, activator, and performer. She produces experiences, educational programmes and rituals to inspire new ways of being together with the living world.
Born in 1991 in Krakow, raised between Krakow, Stockholm, and Prague, Jo studied retail design at Teko University in Denmark. She began her professional career in Shanghai, from there she moved to Berlin, following her love for nightlife and underground culture. Jo is a passionate dancer, intuitive chef, and storyteller.
Projects
- CECI non-national reserve / ceramic studio inside LLCC, Design Biennale, St-ÉtienneNon-national Reserve has a trial meaning; it’s a functioning ceramic studio within the exhibition, a self-healing reserve and a home to Mudmenschen*. A place to disappear. Through working with clay, talking to the animals and absorbing the soughing surroundings visitors enhance their innate knowledge and feeling of the unity with the Universe. *Mudmenschen are two humanoid creatures found on earth by the hunters in a Tuscan forest in 2014. Since than travelling the world to fulfil their mission – to connect with the aliens through building the source out of mud. Escaping human interactions, they see animals as their link to the cosmic entity. CECI Foundation captured endangered Mudmenschen and gave them refuge in LLCC, to protect them from terror and help them fulfil their destiny. Many thanks to Futomania for providing the exhibition with handmade futons.
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