art

Ema Prosová's work doesn't announce itself loudly. Her drawings and paintings on silk operate in a register that's contemplative, layered, almost whispered: figures emerging from lychee fruits, hospital rooms floating in eerie space, architectural fragments mingling with natural forms. The work comes from years spent moving between cultures and techniques, learning lacquer painting in Vietnam, silk painting in Indonesia, living in Tokyo, and now finishing her degree at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague.

French painter and illustrator Sébastien Pastor navigates between naïve figuration and abstract expressionism, building visual worlds where bold color palettes pulse with rhythm and absurdity. Discover how his colorblindness became a creative signature and how he leaves room for the enigmatic in his works.

In my last year’s review, I wrote that some part of me wished to keep PAF jealously to myself. Either that wish has not been intercepted in the ether or has been twisted completely because the 2025 edition of PAF, Festival of Film Animation and Contemporary Art in Olomouc, Czechia, was bursting at the seams; again. However, it’s one of the Czech festivals that deserves to be sold out and a bit cramped, and I’ll tell you why.

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.

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.

Brace yourselves, the cultural highlight of the Prague autumn season is on. The iconic and boundary-smashing Lunchmeat Festival just launched in Prague and, as with every edition, we plan to savour everything it has to offer – and invite you along for the ride. The festival’s entire programming runs between September 22 and 28.

Giusy Amoroso, also known as Marigoldff, is an Italian artist currently living and working in Berlin. Her singular work encompasses immersive media, 3D sculpting and animation, VR, and XR, and her creations feel like creatures that would be right at home in the Primordial Soup Hypothesis. Enjoy the extensive interview with the artist below, where we talk about shifting meanings, deep sea fascination, sculpting hidden reality, and “the beauty in the unfamiliar”.

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.

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.

“Passionate love appears very similar to religious obsession.” What initially draws the eye to Edyta Olszewska’s paintings are the ubiquitous scattered glints and gleams – but once you get past the form and technique, it’s the symbolism that makes you stay. In the interview, Edyta talks about leaning into the mesmerising power of Christian processions in all their solemnity, drama, and opulence, ecstatic tensions, challenging inner dualities, and more.

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.

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.

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.

“I pull the symbolic scalp of their face. Then after modifications, I put it on”. Zbiok Czajkowski captures the shells and masks of people who were by chance caught in old photographs, and in his recent series “Scalps” he perfects his method with his mastery of airbrush. Read today’s interview to find out what lies beneath the surface.

Patrycia Pietka’s oil paintings dive into the intersections of spirituality, folklore, and female energy. Beyond her masterful form, the Polish artist, inspired by magical-realist and surrealist cinema, uses her works to capture the fleeting beauty of loved ones who passed away. Read today’s interview to learn about her process, inspirations and plans for the future.