Clauda
Olga Krykun: Stardust for Tomorrow
20. 6. – 18. 7. 2026
In the exhibition Stardust for Tomorrow, Olga Krykun works with a visual language that at first glance appears nostalgic, fragile, and almost defenceless. Glittering flowers, girls’ faces, fluffy dogs, and decorative motifs, however, are not merely a play with kawaii aesthetics and the language of popular culture. Beneath their surface unfolds an experience of war, loss, and uncertainty, which fundamentally transforms the way these images are read. Krykun draws, among other things, on memories of the 1990s in Ukraine and on the environment of a souvenir shop, whose products circulate across different geographies, from Odesa to China. In her work, the world of cheap decorations, kitsch objects, and globalized images becomes material for uncovering political layers. Cuteness here functions as a tool that makes it possible to speak about pain in another language — through fragility and apparent innocence. The flowers in her paintings may become signs of celebration, remembrance, and grief. The exhibition thus reveals how closely tenderness and pain can coexist.
KodlContemporary
it’s giving real
16. 6. – 23. 8. 2026
Artists: Sarah Bechter, Václav Boštík, Arvida Byström, Hugo Canoilas, Natacha Donzé, Jan Kostohryz, Tadeáš Podracký, Gabriela Těthalová, Kristian Touborg
The group exhibition it’s giving real focuses on the current condition of the image and on how our ability to distinguish between reality, fiction, and representation is changing. Today’s visual culture is saturated with images that often drift away from their original referents and begin to function independently — as signs, atmospheres, projections, or constructions of credibility. The exhibition approaches the image not only as something we look at, but as an active force that co-shapes our understanding of the world. The participating artists move between painting, object, body, environment, and digitally conditioned experience. They open up questions of how meaning is produced, whom or what we trust, and which cultural habits influence our ways of seeing. The dialogue between contemporary positions and the work of Václav Boštík also reminds us that the uncertainty of the image is not merely a symptom of the digital age. Questions of vision, orientation, and the relationship between image and reality have repeatedly returned in art across different historical situations.
HIDDEN Bořivojova
Dora Hlinková: Čury Mury Fuk
7. 7. – 5. 9. 2026, Opening: 7. 7. 2026, 18:00
On 7 July, HIDDEN Bořivojova will open Čury Mury Fuk, a solo exhibition by Dora Hlinková. Hlinková works as a collector of small situations. Instead of grand events and clear narratives, she follows fragments that remain in memory precisely because of their quiet, unobtrusive nature. Her paintings grow out of walks, campfires, swimming in rivers, cooking together, or quiet moments that gradually acquire an inner significance. Čury Mury Fuk presents painting as a way of preserving the emotional density of experience. Recurring motifs of fires, rivers, forests, animals, or shared meals appear as places where relationships, closeness, and time spent with others become concentrated. Hlinková composes a map of situations that may have seemed ordinary, but retrospectively reveal themselves as carriers of meaning.
C12 Gallery
Michal Synek: Afterimage
17. 6. – 24. 7. 2026
The exhibition Afterimage presents the recent work of Michal Synek, in which the image becomes a record of movement, concentration, and layered memory. The exhibition title refers to the phenomenon of the afterimage — a visual trace that persists after the original stimulus has disappeared. This state between presence and echo is central to Synek’s painting. The artist works with gesture as a carrier of time. In his work, the painted surface does not appear as a firmly closed composition, but rather as a space in which residues of movement, rhythm, and inner experience are captured. His abstract paintings therefore speak not only of the moment of their creation, but also of what preceded it and what remains after it. The exhibition touches on themes of memory, a personal return to artistic practice, and the invisible connections that shape our experience.
HYB4 Galerie
Jan Vytiska: The village you really shouldn’t have gone to
12. 6. – 29. 8. 2026
Curator: Michal Štochl
In the exhibition The village you really shouldn’t have gone to, Jan Vytiska presents a painterly world that draws on folklore, folk tales, and rural imagination while avoiding nostalgia. In his work, traditional motifs transform into a contemporary mythology in which familiar environments become strange, restless, and often unsettlingly alive. Vytiska’s paintings are inhabited by beings on the threshold between humans, animals, masks, and mythical figures. For the artist, landscape becomes a psychological space in which rituals, encounters, and ambiguous stories unfold. Detail plays a distinctive role — ornament, decoration, textile, color structure, and small symbols give the paintings their layered quality. The exhibition presents Vytiska’s work as a place between tradition and its contemporary reinterpretation, between irony and seriousness, between fairy tale and nightmare. It is an entry into a village that feels familiar, yet from the very beginning it is clear that the rules of the ordinary world do not quite apply there.
