Argišt Alaverdyan was born in 1991 in Armenia and lives and works in Prague. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague. His work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions including Masaryk University Brno (2023), GAVU Cheb, Czech Republik (2022), National Gallery Prague (2019), The East Slovak Gallery, Košice, Slovak Republik (2018).
In my artistic practice, I mainly focus on painting. For me, the image represents a dynamic field that can function as a language to express various phenomena, which I typically capture in abstract and/or metaphorical forms. I often focus on creating a fictional world that portray the diversity and interconnection of different realities, bearing characteristics of both physical and digital environments. My themes usually relate to individual identity in connection with robotization and digitalization, draw from gaming experiences, and encompass social and environmental issues. An important element of my paintings is the semiotic ambiguity of motifs. Just as avatars in games allow players to experience different identities, these paintings (Entity) reflect the complex and often elusive aspects of existence, not only human, that are decomposed and recomposed into new forms. They reflect the tension between the physical and the digital, the real and the imaginary. In this context, the idea of alienation and transformation resonates, where the physical reality meets the digital world, leading to ambiguity and diversity of perspectives and interpretations of what it means to exist in a digitally connected world. The Visitors series of paintings represent difficult-to-identify entities trying to communicate, but their message remains completely or partially misunderstood. These entities can be seen as a metaphor for foreigners facing the challenges of integration in a new country where they are often confronted with language barriers and xenophobia, or as a reflection of the dehumanization of nations through media manipulation. The images reflect the theme of communication between different worlds, similar to how xenolinguistics explores understanding between aliens civilizations.

Pavla Dundálková was born in 1990 in Zlín, Czech Republic and lives and works in Prague. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague (2012-2017). Her work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions including Center for Contemporary Arts Prague (2024) and National Gallery Prague (2017).
Topics that are close to my work are always based on a lived presence, daily experience and daily routine. Emotions and feelings from relationships or also from media reports stick to the things and transform them into objects. Although I focus on myself, in my work the visual of things is often inspired by stories, mythology, and poetry, I believe that even the most personal can be political. I am interested in the topics of relationships, gender and currently in topics of motherhood and aging. I most often present my work in an author’s installation. I use my objects as actors or witnesses to crime scenes that adapt to a given installation where they can become something else in a different context.

Jiří Pitrmuc was born in 1993 in Broumov, Czech Republic and lives and works in Prague. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague (2017-2020) and is currently pursuing his doctoral studies at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. His work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions including Museum of Fine Arts, Split, Croatia (2024), House of Arts, Ústí n. Labem, Czech Republik (2024), Galerry of Modern Art, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic (2022), Center for Contemporary Arts Prague (2020).
I am working within the fields of drawing, painting, sculpture, installation and performance. The connecting point amongst them is something I called a gesture. It is exceptional in its simplicity which provides the comprehensibility and opens a wide range of interpretations. It’s based on something really odd and outdated – the faithfulness and honesty of an idea. Nevertheless, the most important thing happens behind the gesture which from time to time adopts the classical art technique. These techniques become the tools in my current palette. If I do use them, it’s always in an ironical and very light form. I am questioning the academic role in its romantic perception. The subject of matter in my art practice deals with the term of systems and how we approach them. How we could enter these systems or leave them and what it brings to us. I am exploring the roles we take over. We are chameleons zigzagging throughout the socio-economic impacts of our own roles. We are doing it by earning money, using social status and background which determines our space for living. To reveal them I often use an autobiographical reflection of my own specific role of an artist who always has a set of tricks prepared under his hat.