David Böhm and Jiří Franta
Drawing as athletic performance, improvisation, or an endless dialogue between two artists. Since 2006, David Böhm and Jiří Franta have been pushing the boundaries of what drawing can be. They stage performances, shoot videos, build spatial installations, intervene in public spaces, and create murals and book illustrations. Their work resembles a diary, a comic book, graffiti, a physics experiment, or improvised choreography. They are fascinated by the creative process itself: rules and their breaking, chance, the passage of time, humor, and awkwardness.

Epos 257
For Epos 257, the city is not just a backdrop, but the very material itself. One of the most distinctive Czech urban artists has long worked with public space, its symbols, rules, and hidden conflicts. He started as a writer and created his first tags at the age of thirteen. The number in his pseudonym also refers to his beginnings—Section 257 used to refer to damage to another’s property, an issue the graffiti scene frequently encountered. Epos 257’s interventions often respond to sensitive social issues, power structures, or ways of using the city. His work is characterized by its invasiveness, a thorough engagement with context, and the ability to transform an ordinary urban situation into a powerful visual and social commentary.

Jan Fabián
The city as a lifestyle, a space, and an everyday routine. In his work, Jan Fabián combines architecture and visual art and has long observed how the urban environment shapes our behavior and our relationship to our surroundings. He is interested in urban density, suburbanization, transportation, and shopping, and their impacts on the human environment. He approaches the themes of his work from the perspective of a detached observer, and rather than offering clear-cut answers, he provides a sensitive mapping of the relationships between space, people, and the way we inhabit the city. His installations are often created specifically for particular locations and respond to their character and atmosphere.

Krištof Kintera
From old cables, plastics, or discarded appliances, he creates monumental installations that are both entertaining and unsettling. Krištof Kintera is one of the most respected contemporary Czech artists. He is currently also collaborating on the artistic design of the Dvorecký Bridge in Prague, where a unique light installation is being created, composed of lamps collected from various cities around the world, from Paris to the Vatican to Jakarta. His work is a playful and ironic critique of a consumerist, globalized, and overly technological society, in which there is also a heavy awareness of a possible collapse. From discarded objects, he creates an ironic commentary on the contemporary world and his own perspective on it. Through his imagination, he brings treasures from landfills and trash back to life via galleries and art collections around the world.

Benedikt Markel
When one mentions CAMP, a large part of its spatial character is associated precisely with Benedikt Markel. The architect and architectural photographer was instrumental in shaping the Center for Architecture and Metropolitan Planning and has long been involved in its exhibitions and further development. At the IXA studio, he is also working on the restoration of the Emauzy complex and the sensitive renovation of Prager's Cubes, a complex of significant modernist buildings that house the entire IPR Prague. Markel’s work combines respect for the original architecture with a precise contemporary approach to space, detail, and the way people use buildings.

Maxmilián Aaron Mootz
Prague as an endless open-air space open 24 hours a day. This is exactly how Maxmilián Aaron Mootz, the creator of guerrilla interventions, DIY objects, and expressive paintings set directly within the daily flow of street life, thinks about the city. In his work, he turns his attention to small-scale situations in public space, which he recontextualizes through bold color, modest gestures, and irony. Mootz combines the energy of street art with conceptual thinking and views public space as both a living laboratory and a gallery. His works appear spontaneous, yet they always respond precisely to a specific location and its atmosphere.

Tomáš Moravec
Subtle shifts in space, light, the universe, movement, or a minor intervention in reality—it is precisely in these situations that Tomáš Moravec’s work unfolds. An artist working at the intersection of installation, performance, and video, he has long explored how we perceive the space around us and how it is influenced by the surrounding context. His projects often function as sensitive case studies of human attention. Moravec builds on the tradition of institutional critique, yet works subtly and without ostentation. The result is situations that unobtrusively pull the viewer out of the automatic perception of everyday life.

Tomáš Staněk
The suburbs, concrete, graffiti, rap, and comics—Tomáš Staněk’s world is raw, multi-layered, and firmly rooted in the urban experience. The author of the cult comics METRO and PRÁZDNINY moves between illustration, freehand drawing, murals, and the post-graffiti scene. In his work, he captures the city as a living organism full of small stories, melancholy, and absurd humor. Together with the artist duo Obrass Akrobad, he creates striking murals and has long been developing a distinctive visual language inspired by the underground, DIY aesthetics, and the everyday life of urban peripheries.

Tomáš Svoboda
“We’re sorry. But who?” A seemingly ordinary sentence, yet one lacking a clear speaker, opens up questions of responsibility, language, and how we interpret institutions and public messages in Tomáš Svoboda’s work. The conceptual artist works with text, image, and sound in relation to language and thought. He focuses on communication, public space, and ways of perceiving reality. He uses video, photography, installation, and film, often in conjunction with architecture and scenography. His works respond to social and political situations and, through textual interventions, reveal hidden layers of meaning.

Agáta Tichá
Rewriting her own school report card to show nothing but top marks? Agáta Tichá can transform a small gesture into a precise commentary on the education system, authority, and social expectations. A visual artist and current student in the Graphics 1 studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, she works with installation, printmaking, and video art, often employing subversive humor, irony, and engagement with existing situations in her work. She is interested in the boundaries of authorship, institutional rules, and ways to disrupt established systems. She also founded Soklgallery, likely the smallest triangular gallery in Central Europe, functioning more as an artistic message than a traditional exhibition space.

Timo
“Don’t worry.” A short sentence on the wall that makes you laugh and, a few seconds later, leaves you feeling uneasy. Timo is one of the most distinctive figures in Czech street art and has been transforming public spaces into an ironic chronicle of society for decades. On poles, walls, or trash cans, he leaves wordplay, poems, and comments responding to politics, consumer culture, and the everyday absurdity of life. Although nearly every resident of Brno is familiar with his work, the artist himself remains anonymous. It is precisely this anonymity that allows him to move freely between art, activism, humor, and subtle social criticism.

Lenka Tyrpeklová
Art as a tool for dialogue where communication often fails. Lenka Tyrpeklová has long worked directly in prisons and, through art projects, addresses themes of punishment, guilt, resocialization, and institutional power. In her practice, she combines research, activism, and direct work with people serving sentences. But she doesn’t stop at merely documenting the system—she creates situations that enable the sharing of experiences and the creation of space for self-reflection. Her exhibitions bring experiences from a closed environment into public debate and ask what art can truly change.

Erika Velická
Rationality, magic, and childlike imagination intertwine in Erika Velická’s work to form strangely vivid worlds. The sculptor and visual artist creates figurative objects as well as large-scale spatial installations in which humans often appear alongside animals, particularly dogs—a recurring motif in her work. She is interested in beauty, the physical experience of space, and the human relationship to the surrounding world. Her works have been presented, for example, at the Shanghai Biennale and the M3 Art in Space festival. Since 2024, she has also led the Sculpture 1 studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague.

Vladimir 518
From graffiti and rap to extensive publications on architecture—Vladimir 518 has long been one of the most prominent figures in Czech urban culture. A multimedia artist, musician, and founder of the Bigg Boss label, he combines visual art, music, scenography, and urbanism into large-scale cultural projects. For example, he is behind the acclaimed books Kmeny (Tribes) and Architektura 58–89 (Architecture 58–89), which significantly transformed the public debate on Czech architecture and subcultures. In addition to his gallery work, he also engages in performative interventions in public space and audiovisual projects with the group SPAM.