Tomáš Kovařík

Spanish illustrator Laura Mestre transforms emotional overflow into tender visual poetry, using symbols of water, flowers, and cracks to map the quiet beauty hidden within difficult experiences. Discover how metamorphosis, instinct, and a fanzine called "Hay que volver" helped her reclaim drawing as both refuge and release.

Czech painter Lukáš Šmejkal traces the unstable boundary between body and terrain, composing lyrical visual assemblages where electric pylons become threads and human figures dissolve into the landscapes they inhabit. Discover how photography, movement, and Baroque verticality shape his meditations on perception in today's interview.

Czech painter Jiří Bartoš captures the fleeting architecture of human memory through soft, atmospheric cloudscapes entirely from imagination. In today's interview, discover how a shift from flora and fauna to sky and light reflects his own journey of learning to walk alongside his past rather than against it.

Visual artist Ekaterina Skvortsova-Kowalski celebrates the overlooked yet aggressively present: stray cats, neon-clad janitors, dust-covered plants... transforming everyday resilience into joyful resistance. Discover how three cities, spontaneity, and a refusal to darken the world shape her vibrant practice in today's interview.

Czech glass artist Anna Jožová transforms molten glass into synthetic paradises that question our curated relationship with nature. In today's interview, you will learn how New Zealand's wild landscapes awakened her practice, and why her artificial Eden might be more unsettling than darkness itself.

Fashion designer Alicia Gu weaves mythology from grief and renewal, creating garments that pulse with vulnerability and ceremonial power. Discover how childhood magic, ecological loss, and the death of the last unicorn shape her romantic approach to fashion as living storytelling in today's interview.

Polish artist Marta Antoniak transforms plastic debris from 1990s capitalism into seductive yet dangerous surfaces, where childhood toys and shattered Christmas baubles become archaeological evidence of transformation. In today’s interview, you’ll get to discover how Marta paints with objects rather than pigments, creating works that sparkle with both promise and threat.

Polish composer Rafał Ryterski creates multimedia "total pieces" that blend classical music approaches with experimental electronics to create a genrebending, political sonic landscape. Read him trace his path from childhood encounters with The Prodigy to abandoning academia, and catch him live at Sanatorium Sonorum 2025.

French photographer Camille Leprince transforms bodies into atmospheric forces through long exposures and oxidizing metals, creating portraits that pulse with erotic vulnerability and sacred darkness. Discover how cinema, intimacy, and the alchemy of time shape his haunting choreography of contemporary heroes in today's interview.

Alex Valentina navigates the fluid boundaries between digital precision and organic spontaneity, creating hybrid worlds where flora meets code and dreams dissolve into UI. Find out how the Milan-based creator uses technology not as an end but as a telepathic tool, chasing creative breadcrumbs through a practice he calls personal archaeology.

Italian artist Chiara Baima Poma transforms ancient stories into paintings that pulse with joyful sacredness; visual incantations that embroider mystery rather than explain it away. Learn how travel, ritual, and Renaissance traditions shape her contemporary practice in today’s interview.

Polish artist Zuzanna Romańska wields beauty to subvert and step into its costume to excavate violence and trauma beneath ornamental surfaces. Her archetypal figures transcend time and identity, captured between worlds. Join her mythmaking rebellion against linear time in today’s feature.

Justyna Baśnik creates a para-religious iconography to examine the post-truth world, and offers an atheistic spirituality through art. Accept the Polish artist’s invitation to her alternative belief system and learn about her approach in today’s feature.

Jakub Ružinský bridges medieval iconography with contemporary expression, creating works where mysticism and neo-expressionism converse. Through a metamodern framing, he explores beauty as both a mask and portal, inviting viewers to a place where opposing truths can exist side by side. Join us on this journey today, and learn about Jakub’s creative approach, love for history, and the insight that infuses his brushstrokes.

Wincenty Czwartos’ battle paintings navigate between Baroque excess and avant-garde abstraction, creating a contemporary visual language of war. Learn how the rising Polish talent transforms violence into contemplative panoramas where competing aesthetics and opposing realities collide.

Louise Reynolds transforms media overload into intimate drawings on wood, creating stillness in today’s chaotic information landscape, combining anxiety and tragedy with humor and triviality into her very own take on magical realism. Read today’s interview to learn about Louise’s artworks, and how the balance she crafts comes into being.

Katharina Schmitt transforms Kafka’s In the Penal Colony into a dreamlike stage experience, with the execution machine becoming its own character. On the backdrop of minimal dialogue and an experimental singer as the machine's voice, the production explores how humans relate to the sight of suffering. Read today’s interview to find out why you don’t want to miss Studio Hrdinů's latest inscenation and how your own act of watching it will be questioned.

Paweł Olszczyński’s latest painting series border between a reframing of surrealist ambitions and a radical commentary on form itself. Read today’s interview to learn about Phantoms, and how Pawel invoked them into being through a personal emotional alchemy, intermedia techniques, and early-20th-century influences.

In Alexandra Kamova’s works, dreams become a cipher. Through surreal landscapes, she creates places where beauty and sadness coexist, like asphalt cracked by blooming flowers. Read today’s interview to learn about Alexandra’s creative trajectory, poignant views on topics ranging from biology, philosophy and music, and glean the keys to reading her art.

François Thevenet moves between media as smoothly as he combines colors in his vivid paintings. Having recently discovered the joy of oil painting, his new oeuvre shows a new break in his artistic career. Read today’s interview with the acclaimed artist to learn about his influences, why he is inspired by martial arts, and how the environment informs his creativity.