Exhibition: David Střeleček, Jakub Jansa, Karolína Juříková, Kristina Fingerland, Elena Pecenová, Štěpán Brož, Luděk Šofr, Vladimír Skrepl (PGS associates and quickies)

David Střeleček (b. 1994) is a Czech artist and designer. He graduated from the Sculpture Studio at UMPRUM (Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague). His work focuses mainly on objects and installations, dealing with humanity’s return to nature, nature as a concept, and the boundaries between the cultural and the natural, the living and the non-living. He releases music under the name Eva01 and is a member of the BCAA system collective.

Source: https://www.artmap.cz/artist/david-strelecek/

Elena Pecenová (b. 1994) is an artist and poet working at the intersection of performance and contemporary literature. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in the Graphic Arts II and Intermedia II studios. In 2020–2021 she ran Psí víno, a digital curatorial platform for contemporary poetry. Her poetry debut “Jako bych očima fotografovala stále ty stejné snímky” (As If My Eyes Kept Taking the Same Pictures) came out in 2022. She has presented performances at the Prague Quadrennial, FACT FESTIVAL in Budapest, and Next Wave at Divadlo Komedie.

Source: https://meetfactory.cz/cs/program/rezidency/rezidency-program/elena-pecenova

Jakub Jansa (b. 1989, Vyškov) is a Czech audiovisual artist and university lecturer. He studied at UMPRUM in Prague in the Supermedia Studio under Federico Díaz and David Kořínek (2011–2016). His work crosses genre boundaries from drama to absurd comedy, using fiction, humor, and elements of the grotesque to develop complex exhibition environments. In 2021 he received the Jindřich Chalupecký Award, and he has presented his work in Tel Aviv, New York, Basel, and Zagreb, among other places.

Source: SJCH

Karolína Juříková is a Czech visual artist. At the 11th edition of the UFF festival (2021), she exhibited at Šatlava – Muzeum vězeňství as part of the group exhibition PGS associates and quickies, together with David Střeleček, Jakub Jansa, Kristina Fingerland, Elena Pecenová, Štěpán Brož, Luděk Šofr and Vladimír Skrepl.

Kristina Fingerland is a Czech visual artist. At the 11th edition of the UFF festival (2021), she exhibited at Šatlava – Muzeum vězeňství as part of the group exhibition PGS associates and quickies, together with David Střeleček, Jakub Jansa, Karolína Juříková, Elena Pecenová, Štěpán Brož, Luděk Šofr, and Vladimír Skrepl.

Luděk Šofr is a Czech painter focused on plein-air landscape painting. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (diploma work 2024). His work, grounded in continuity, develops the broader theme of landscape—the matrix of ravine walls, a dry, emptied, yet still living landscape. For him, sight is the dominant sense and the eye an open organ.

Source: https://diplomkyavu.cz/cs/2024/ludek-sofr

PGS (PGS associates and quickies) is a collective platform/name used for a group exhibition of eight artists at the 11th edition of the UFF festival (2021) at Šatlava – Muzeum vězeňství. Gathered under the PGS name were:

• David Střeleček, Jakub Jansa, Karolína Juříková, Kristina Fingerland, Elena Pecenová, Štěpán Brož, Luděk Šofr and Vladimír Skrepl

The exhibition brought together a diversity of generations and media — from painting (Skrepl) to conceptual projects by younger artists to video. The opening took place on Saturday, July 17, 2021, at 15:30.

Štěpán Brož (b. 1992, Řež near Prague) is a Czech artist living and working in the Czech Republic. He studied in Painting Studio I at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology (FaVU VUT) and in the Illustration and Graphic Arts Studio at UMPRUM in Prague. He works in painting, drawing, printmaking, and illustration, is interested in music aesthetics and subcultures, and also creates comics.

Source: https://berlinskejmodel.cz/en/umelci/stepan-broz/

Vladimír Skrepl (b. 1955, Jihlava) is a Czech painter, art theorist, and maker of objects and installations. Although he did not study art (he studied ethnography at the Faculty of Arts of UJEP in Brno), he is today one of the most distinctive figures of the Czech art scene. In the 1990s he fundamentally shaped a new generation of Czech artists as head of the Painting II studio at AVU, where he taught until 2021. His work is characterized by an expressive style and an enduring attraction to figurative subjects.

Source: Wikipedia