What you see is only the beginning.
On 4 May 2026, School ARt Gallery opened its international exhibition at Galerie MEGA in Prague, bringing together street art, education and Augmented Reality in one public exhibition.
The exhibition presented works developed through the School ARt Gallery project in the Czech Republic, Italy, Portugal and Spain, where students, teachers and professional artists worked together to explore how physical artworks can be extended through digital content.
The result is an exhibition with two layers.
The first is what you see. The second is what your phone reveals.
Using the Artivive app, visitors can activate the artworks and discover animations, videos and other digital content connected to the physical pieces. The exhibition therefore brings one of the central ideas of School ARt Gallery directly to the public: an artwork does not have to end at the physical surface.
From schools into public space
The exhibition was developed as an additional activity of the School ARt Gallery project, with a simple ambition: to take the work created within the project beyond the participating schools and make it visible to a much wider audience.
Galerie MEGA offered a particularly fitting location.
Situated in the vestibule of Palackého náměstí metro station in Prague, the gallery places contemporary art directly into the everyday movement of the city. Instead of requiring audiences to enter a conventional gallery, the exhibition meets thousands of commuters and passers-by as part of their daily journeys.
In this way, the project moved from the classroom → to the school wall → to the digital layer → and finally into a shared public space.
Five countries, one exhibition
The exhibition brought together the different approaches developed across the European partnership.
Among the works presented was the Czech project created with visual artist David Strauzz and students from SUPŠ Jihlava–Helenín, alongside results developed by the project partners and associated schools in Italy, Portugal and Spain.
The opening also became an opportunity for the European School ARt Gallery community to meet physically.
International project partners attended the inauguration, including representatives of Mistaker Maker, Fundación XUL, CRHACK LAB and Consorzio Ro.Ma., together with participating artists including Tiago Hesp, Sofia Cande and Rinor Marku.
What had been developed over the course of the project in different countries could finally be experienced together, in one place.
AR in the metro
The unusual combination of street art, education, AR and a metro-station gallery also attracted attention beyond the project network.
During the Street Art Cities Prague Hunter Weekend, international street-art enthusiasts visited the School ARt Gallery exhibition as part of their exploration of Prague's urban-art scene. Street Art Cities highlighted the exhibition under “AR in the metro, Galerie MEGA”, with the group experiencing the works through their augmented-reality layers. One participant described the experience simply as “Mindblowing!”
Read the Street Art Cities article about the Prague visit
What you see is only the beginning
For School ARt Gallery, the Prague exhibition became more than a presentation of final results.
It demonstrated what happens when the project's different elements come together: students and teachers develop new skills, artists bring professional practice into the learning process, physical artworks are enriched through digital technology, and the results leave the classroom to encounter a wider public.
The artworks begin on the wall.
Through Augmented Reality, another layer begins.