Kunsthalle Praha opens Persistent Worlds, the first comprehensive solo exhibition by Los Angeles–based artist and writer Alice Bucknell. Recognised as one of the leading voices of a new generation of artists working with video games, Bucknell recently made history when a video game they created was acquired by a major museum — a landmark moment for the medium’s recognition within an institutional context. Their practice uses the language of gaming and digital simulation to explore how humans, non-humans, and machines coexist. The exhibition invites visitors to step directly into these imagined worlds via large-scale video installations and newly developed cooperative games based on active participation and shared experience. The title Persistent Worlds comes from the realm of multiplayer video games, where virtual environments continue to evolve even when no one is playing. “Through Bucknell’s four most recent projects, the show suggests that digital worldbuilding does more than mirror reality: it unravels and unsettles it, opening space for speculation and for scenarios that might shape our shared future. Worldbuilding, then, is not merely a tool of fiction-making but a political gesture — an act of imagining worlds oriented toward societal change,“ describes exhibition curator Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás, who is an art historian, author, research associate at ECAL Lausanne, and lecturer at University College London. date and time Opening hours Mon 11:00—19:00 Tue closed Wed 11:00—21:00 Thur—Sun 11:00—19:00