Opening: Fotbal (group show) + friendly afternoon with a program for children

Alice Nikitinová (b. 1979, Žatec) spent her childhood in Kyiv, where she attended an art high school. She is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (Painting Studio I / Jiří Sopko’s studio) and completed a two-year residency at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam. In her paintings, objects, and installations, she transforms everyday experience and draws on the tradition of abstract painting by the avant-garde artists of the first third of the 20th century, especially Kazimir Malevich.

Source: https://artlist.cz/en/umelci/alice-nikitinova/

Daniela Deutelbaum is a gallerist and organizer from Prague. She runs the m.odla gallery in Holešovice, where she presents contemporary art in the shop window of a functionalist building on Antonínská Street. Together with other galleries (Laboratorio, Berlínskej Model), it forms the Holešovice triangle, which aims to bring contemporary art closer to people and revitalize public space. She co-organizes the event “Máme otevřeno – večer v galeriích na Praze 7” (We’re Open – An Evening in Prague 7 Galleries).

Source: https://artalk.info/news/mame-otevreno-vecer-v-galeriich-na-praze-7

Filip Beránek is a photographer based in Prague. He studied in the Advertising Photography Studio at the Faculty of Multimedia Communications, Tomas Bata University in Zlín. His work critically reflects on digital media and searches for new forms of the image suited to post-internet society.

Source: http://www.filipberanek.com/

Katarína Uhlířová took part in the UFF/FFU festival.

Lenka Vítková (b. 1975, Český Krumlov) is an artist building on the current of conceptual and post-conceptual art that Jiří Valoch opened up in the Czech context. Her work centers on language and text in visual art and strives for a lyrical capture of shifts in space and time. Since 2012, together with other collaborators, she has published the poetry magazine Mamka.

Source: Lenka Vítková – Artlist

Milan Bureš (b. 1954, Nový Jičín) is a Czech documentary photographer. He studied at the Faculty of Education in Ostrava and then at the Institute of Art Photography in Prague (1984–86). He has been working consistently in photography since the early 1970s. In 2022 he won the Reportage category of the Czech Press Photo competition and also received the Pavel Koutecký Award for best documentary film.

Source: https://www.milanbures.cz/en/introduction/

Pavel Havrda (b. 1984, Hradec Králové) is a multimedia artist, technician, and builder of interactive objects and musical instruments. He studied at the Faculty of Art and Design of Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem (Štěpánka Šimlová’s Digital Media Studio and Pavel Kopřiva’s Interactive Media Studio). In his work he uses photography, drawing, sculpture, and sound recordings, often incorporating found objects. His practice is process-based, ephemeral, and collaborative.

Source: Studio Hrdinů

Pavla Krkošková Byrtusová (b. 1981) lives and works in Návsí, near the Czech–Slovak border. She studied in the Intermedia Studio at the University of Ostrava and photography at the Faculty of Art and Design, UJEP in Ústí nad Labem. Her work includes drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, and illustration; she often documents situations she has lived through and draws inspiration from her native region and from the authentic expression of children and friends.

Source: iUmeni.cz

Robert Palkovič is a theater maker working as an associate director at Studio Hrdinů in Prague’s Veletržní palác (Trade Fair Palace). He also takes part in projects of the National Theatre in Prague.

Source: https://studiohrdinu.cz/en/robo-palkovic/

Tomáš Hrůza (b. 1979) is a visual artist and educator at FAMU in Prague. He studied in Pavel Baňka’s photography studio at the Faculty of Art and Design, UJEP, in Ústí nad Labem (2008). He works mainly in photography and video, with an interest in poetic reflection on nature. He is a co-founder of the organization Fotograf 07 (which runs Fotograf Gallery, Fotograf Magazine and Fotograf Festival), and together with his brother Petr Hrůza he founded the independent information platform ArtMap. He also co-founded the nonprofit Pilgrim, focused on revitalizing the relationship between people and nature.

Source: Tomáš Hrůza – Bio