interview

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.

Polish choreographer Iza Szostak’s circus is a philosophical system, a choreography of risk, precarity, and collective survival mirroring the contemporary condition. Discover today how her new performance Trapeze, premiering at Studio Hrdinů in Prague, turns the trapeze bar into a narrator, and the clown into an energy valve for a world on the brink of collapse.

“It is a story about a long night, about everything that disappears during the day and only comes out after dusk.” Polish fashion designer Pat Guzik breathes new life into her garments by collaborating with visual artists, such as Aleksandra Waliszewska and Zbiok Czajkowski, whose dreamy and tongue-in-cheek works adorn the skirts, sweatshirts, jackets, and other ready-to-wear pieces by the designer.

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.

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.

Georgian designer Lado Bokuchava, the founder of the eponymous fashion label, describes his upcoming Spring/Summer 2026 collection as “exploring the contrast between sophistication and unease”, among other things. In the interview with Lado, we went over finding femininity in unusual things, the timeless appeal of horror cinema, and the vision he wants to bring to our shared fashion ecosystem.

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.

“The idea is that we are not powerless and we refuse to be at the mercy of a system that hates us – find the others!” Horde, a new intriguing music project centred around Icelander Palli Banine, a multimedia artist and musician, recently released the debut single from their upcoming album, ‘Taking Reality by Surprise’. In the exclusive and extensive interview, Palli reveals the collective roots of Horde, the personal struggles of being “beached” on life’s shores and finding hope and deep affection regardless, and so much more than can fit into a single opening paragraph. We invite you to take your time with this genuine, sans-filter, and raw reflection of one’s life intertwined with art.

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.

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”.

If you were to guess that the self-described “esoteric designer”, Stjorn Revali, behind the label Storrveldi, was profoundly influenced by Sergei Parajanov’s The Colour of Pomegranates, you would be right. Her garments are intricately made, sprinkled with iconographic imagery and symbolism, heavy cotton lace, and Eastern European nostalgia. With the designer, we talked about the right to demand authenticity, separating the want from the need, imbuing photoshoots with storytelling, and more.

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.

“[My] pieces aren't about hiding the body; they’re about making the internal cosmic.” Fashion designer Layla Dian Jin’s generous, sometimes even sculptural silhouettes feature striking elements covered in gold foil against dark fabric, and browsing them feels like stumbling upon scattered golden nuggets in the dark sand of a cold stream. The designer sat down with us to talk perspective shifts, the silence of empty spaces, micro and macro scales, and more.

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.

Czech photographer Stanislav Palát is the definition of a one-man creative army. In the true spirit of “if it doesn’t exist, make it yourself”, he handles his own set design, lighting, makeup, 3D modelling, accessories, grading, and an array of other skills. The result is photographs with a touch of “Neo-Romantism”, fantasy, and exciting imaginary worlds, straddling the line between a fairytale and a fever dream. Enjoy the interview with the artist below.