heliogenic midwife ˚⊱🪷⊰˚





Jo Vávra
jo@lios.io

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Hello flower,
welcome to my page—here you can glimpse my creative practice.


BIO
I’m a cultural ecologist, artist-curator, researcher, and ceremonialist. With a background in design and visual arts, my focus as a curator and firestarter lies in the art of regenerative living.


My practice weaves together animism, Indigenous wisdom, myth, cosmology, ritual, performance, and land art. The knowledge I gather, through listening, investigation, meditation, and travel, guides me to grow heliogenic worlds out of the cracks of the capitalocene.


How?
By weaving community (co-regulating with land and its inhabitants), and widening the circles of awareness, presence, and memory. 

What is heliogenic world?  

The world around us is grown by reciprocity. Energy comes directly from the sun. Learning from plants and the wisdom of photosynthesis, we can now live from heliogenic energy to power our society. Tools are crafted to endure, not to break. We don’t produce waste. The economy is one of offerings — rooted in relationship.


I am the co-founder and co-director of LIOS Labs, a nonprofit association creating experimental formats for artistic and ecological education—spaces for healing and emergence, collective (un)learning, and mythopoetic land research. I host and facilitate pedagogical experiments, gatherings, and ceremonies.

CONTACT






July 2025, walking El Qhapaq Ñan to Machu Picchu

CV

upcoming
/ let’s hang out 
there ~~~>
MUTOGENESIS: INJECT~>LIOS
a part of Jerszy Seymour + S27 + Kunstgewerbemuseum “Mutogenesis”  exhibition + programme 
Berlin, DE
7 - 14 Setember 2025

1oth Anniversary of Landescape
TJ NYMPH DJ set 
Posto Segreto, Sicily, IT 
20-21 September 2025

Autumn Equinox
Musical Ceremony
Temple of Segesta, Sicily IT
22 Spetember 2025

Rimpatriata
Settevoci Festival
Alcantara Valley, Sicily, IT
24 - 28 September 2025

Kapaq Raymi/ Inti Raymi 
Winter Solstice 
location TBC 
21 December 2025 

LIOS: Leadershop Institute Of Self-development
(de)school garden
Sicily, It
2026


devotional
engagement

/ current projects 
𓂃 ོ☼𓂃LIOS Labs

𓂃 ོ☼𓂃𖤓 Miracle Network

𓂃 ོ☼𓂃𓋼𓍊 Heliogenesis


Sound Memory Series 



selected past projects
/ workshops / exhibitions / gatherings
Pedagogía del Paisaje
(Landscape Pedagogy)

public workshop
SACO Contemporary Art Biennial
Antofagasta, CL
July 2025

HELIOŚ
Summer Solstice Gathering
 
artistic direction + facilitation
LIOS Labs Błędowska Desert, PL
July 2025

SAAT Library
Sowing Seeds in the Desert

Culture Moves Europe Residency
curation + production
CECI foundation Berlin, DE
April - May 2025

Economics of Abundance
learning cohort
facilitation
School of Ecological Imagination
online
March 2025

Maha Kumbh Mela
Pilgrimage to Trivieni Sangam
Prayagraj, IN
February 2025

Ode alla Mandragora
ritual performance
Etna, Sicily, IT
November 2024

3rd Landscape Gathering
residency + public programme
artistic direction + facilitation
floating university Berlin, DE
October 2024 

Desert Transformation Lab (Laboratorium Pustynnej Wyobraźni)
summer (de)school laboratory
artistic direction
LIOS Labs Błędowska Desert, PL
June - July 2024

Sharing of the Fruits
performing arts festival 
artistic direction 
LIOS Labs Błędowska Desert, PL
annually 2022 - 2023

Arts of Ecology Platform
in situ residency programmes
artistic direction + facilitation 
LIOS Labs Błędowska Desert, PL
annually 2020 - 2025

Festival of Future Deserts
exhibition & public proramme
curation + facilitation
Magdeburg, DE
November 2022

OASIS art + science residency
onearth foundation
Mallorca, ES/ Bledowska Desert, PL/ Magdeburg, DE
concept + curtation
2022


education 
/ unlearning
/ remembering
/ experimentingss
LIOS Labs 
Bledowska Desert / Berlin / EU
laboratory of collective dreams
2020 - present

onEarth foundation
ecology-centered nonprofit org Kraków, PL
2019 - 2023

neue heaute e.V. + ACAU Bar
coop culinary space 
Uferstudios, Berlin, DE
2019 - 2021

Jojo’s Seaside 
farm to table resto & residency 
Fonte da Telha, PT
2018 - 2019

Wandering School
Dirty Art Department + MACAO
pilgrimage Delphi > Athens, GR
2018

Lucky Larry’s Cosmic Commune
snti-capitalist “B&B” & project space for Design Biennial
Saint Ettiene, FR
2017 

CECI Foundation
speculative + solid design studio 
Berlin, DE + planetary 
2015 - present


Villa Lena Residency
creative boomride
Toscany, IT 
2014 - 2015

Alter Shanghai
luxury fashion burnout
Shanghai, CN 
2012

TEKO Design + Business
design technical diploma 
Herning, DK 
2010 - 2012 

...exploring fauna, flora, dance, club, altered states of conciousness, nature of the self, and side hussle
Krakow, PL
1991 - 2010


awardsCulture Moves Europe Residency Host for Sowing Seeds in The Desert (LIOS Labs) 
2025

Goethe Institut Visual Art Project Fund for Desert Transformation Lab (LIOS Labs)
2024

SfdpZ funding for Desert Transformation Lab (LIOS Labs)
2024

European Cultural Foundation for Desert Transformation Lab (LIOS Labs)
2023

Ministry of Culture of Sachsen Anhalt for OASIS 2027: Festival of Future Deserts
2022

Die Stiftung für deutsch-polnische Zusammenarbeit for OASIS 2027: Strategies for Climate Emergency
2022

European Cultural Foundation for OASIS 2027: Strategies for Climate Emergency
2021

GVL stipend for the development of performing arts curatorial practice
2021

Fonds Darstellende Künste
GLOBAL VILLAGE funding for Teatro Urcylium
2021


publications
UDK Berlin, Planetary Embodiment Cooking with Words for Systemic Change & Solidarity
2023

Arts of the Working Class, “To see the world in the grain of Sand”
2022

Beyond the Sand: LIOS Labs 001ZINE
2021

Arts of the Working Class' 16th issue, FOOD EATS THE SOUL - Laetiporus Sulphureus
2021

Circadian, In, From & With: Exploring Collaborative Survival
2021              

residencies
MACA Alcamo 
Sicily, IT
2023

Torhaus
Berlin, DE
2023

Fundación La Tintorera
San Pedro de Atacama, CL
2023

MOOS Garden
Berlin, DE
2022

Posto Segreto/ Landescape
Alcamo, IT
2021

Notafe
Viljandi, EE
2021

The Palace
 
Gorzanów, PL
2020

Mingling for Chimera/ Landescape
Alcamo, II
2018

Villa Lena
Tuscany, IT
2014   





Last Updated 25.08.04