About
What is HoME?
HoMe is a collective of Pedro, Ana, John, and Aljoša — four international artists who met while studying at DAMU in Prague. Coming from different cultural and artistic backgrounds, we continue to shape HoMe as a space for encounter: a place where people, practices, and perspectives can meet.
For us, HoMe is not a fixed place, but an ongoing process of building relations. It is a structure held together through exchange — a bridge between the intimate and the public, between feeling and thought, between local and international contexts. Through performances, gatherings, workshops, and collaborations, we facilitate spaces for dialogue, care, collective imagination, and being together.
HoMe connects artistic languages and communities across visual and performance art, dance, puppetry, and object theatre. We work between established institutions and independent scenes, collaborating with partners across the Czech Republic, including the Prague Quadrennial, Archa+, Studio Alta, Damuza, and Ufftenživot, while also developing international collaborations with organizations and festivals such as Bunker in Ljubljana, Homo Novus in Riga, and Sampo Theatre in Helsinki. Remaining closely connected to alternative and emerging practices, we aim to create spaces for shared thinking, listening, and experimentation across different artistic and social contexts.
HoMe is a place for curiosity, playfulness, sensitivity, and shared presence — a shared home where encounters can unfold and experiences, ideas, and ways of being can be exchanged.
Creators
Aljoša Lovrić
Aljoša Lovrić is a Slovenian director, dramaturg and performer working between Ljubljana and Prague. His performances explore embodiment, pleasure, sound, and materiality as tools for collective transformation. Working across devised theatre, dance, object performance, and live sound, he creates sensorial experiences where bodies, rhythms, and materials generate temporary communities and spaces of encounter.
He studied Dramaturgy and Performing Arts at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT), where he received the University Prešeren Award, and later completed his MA in Directing of Devised and Object Theatre at DAMU.
His directing work includes Under Construction, winner of the Grand Prix at the Biennale of Puppetry Artists of Slovenia, as well as an essay on pleasure, IS JOY, and IS JOY II, presented internationally at festivals including the Prague Quadrennial and the Mladi Levi Festival.
Alongside his theatre practice, Aljoša works as a DJ, sound designer, and music producer, integrating sonic composition into his performance language and leading workshops in devised and embodied performance practices.
Ana Nežmah
Ana Nežmah is a Slovenian performance maker, puppeteer, and dramaturg working between Slovenia and the Czech Republic. Her work transforms objects, materials, and bodies into intimate performative landscapes, moving fluidly between puppetry, physical theatre, installation, and movement-based performance. She is interested in the poetic tension between body and object, and in theatre as a space for play, vulnerability, and shared sensory experience.
Ana graduated with highest honours from the Department of Alternative and Puppet Theatre at DAMU and also holds a master’s degree in Special Education. Her performances and collaborations have been presented by institutions including Studio DAMÚZA, Divadlo X10, Studio Alta, and Zavod Bunker Ljubljana.
Alongside her stage work, Ana explores accessibility and care as creative tools. Her interdisciplinary practice connects performance-making with pedagogy, inclusion, and alternative modes of spectatorship, creating work that expands who theatre is for and how it can be experienced.
Pedro Gramegna Ardiles
Pedro Gramegna Ardiles is a Chilean director, scenographer, and performance maker based in Prague. His work explores masking, costume, and making as queer strategies for disrupting the everyday, creating performances where bodies, objects, and visual worlds invite audiences into playful and transformative encounters. Moving between theatre, installation, and public space, his practice combines scenographic thinking with collaborative performance-making to imagine alternative ways of inhabiting reality.
Pedro holds an MA in Directing of Devised and Object Theatre from DAMU and a BA in Performance Design from University of Chile. He is the creator of works including Fire, Face, and Flesh, Máscara, and Home is the Place Where Our Memory Is, and has collaborated internationally as a dramaturg, costume designer, and lighting designer across Chile, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Slovakia, Switzerland, and Spain.
Since 2011, Pedro has led Complejo Conejo, a Chilean collective focused on performance in public space, presenting work at the Prague Quadrennial in 2015, 2019, and 2023. In 2023, he served as curator of the Chilean Pavilion, and since 2025 he has been part of the curatorial team of the Prague Quadrennial as Curator of PQ Performance for the 2027 edition.
John Álvarez Esparza
John Álvarez Esparza is a Chilean director, performance designer, and visual dramaturg based in Prague. His work brings together costume, scenography, moving image, and live performance to create immersive visual worlds where bodies, materials, and images become part of a shared dramaturgical language. Working across theatre, installation, and performance art, he is drawn to projects where visual design drives the emotional and narrative experience.
He studied Theatre Design and Dramaturgy at University of Chile and is currently completing his MA in Directing of Devised and Object Theatre at DAMU. As a director and playwright, he has created works including Te Prefiero Muerta..., Autoayuda, and Disfraz de Tigre, while also designing costumes, sets, and lighting for numerous stage productions.
In 2018, John was selected for an artistic residency at The Watermill Center, founded by Robert Wilson. Since 2011, he has worked with Complejo Conejo, presenting public space performances at the Prague Quadrennial in 2015, 2019, and 2023. In 2023, he was part of the curatorial and design team behind Memento Mori, the Chilean national exhibition at the Prague Quadrennial.