CYAN
Jakub Sýkora
04/12 2025 - 31/01 2026, Opening 04/12 at 6pm
An almost two-hundred-year-old cyanotype printing technique introduces a new direction in the work of Czech abstract painter Jakub Sýkora, whose practice over the past twenty years has examined the systemic logic of geometry. The exhibition presents two parallel trajectories: new acrylic paintings constructed from modular forms and calibrated spatial shifts, and experimental cyanotypes on glass and canvas shaped by the interaction of exposure, timing, surface, and edge. Instead of mirroring one another, these trajectories consider how visual order arises when intentional decisions meet the material agency of the medium — what kinds of forms become possible when composition and process share authority?
Jakub Sýkora (*1984, Rakovník) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague under Prof. Jiří Sopko in 2012. He received the Jan Zrzavý Prize (2013) and was a finalist for the Critics’ Award (2014). His work is held in public and private collections in the Czech Republic and abroad.
In the in | between
Christopher John Smith
22/10 - 23/11 2025, Opening 22/10 at 6pm
Items that once belonged to our everyday existence, items that once sat comfortably in our hands, now, through constant optimisation, made redundant. Some, by innovation, rendered obsolete. The relationship gone. The evidence of this contact is reflected on the surface*, worn, polished through the effect. The memory of which is clear to see but forgotten by the maker’s hand.
Smith draws inspiration from ordinary, often banal objects. Their prefabricated forms and the individual traces of wear enter the creative process as equal partners. Music is born from rhythm and from the fleeting moments when the drum falls silent. Chris renders this dynamic into the repetition of shapes and the empty spaces between them. Visual rhythms emerge, and the curves begin to tell their story.
Someone I Used to Know
About Evanescence and Light
Kamila Ženatá
14/8 - 12/10 2025
Events, people, situations, everything changes. They leave, they come, they return, they disappear. The light remains. Every morning the sun rises.
Kamila Ženatá’s latest exhibition explores the theme of transience—what disappears and what remains. The paintings, created during this year, carry a strong emotional charge and emphasize light as a symbol of life, transformation, and stability. “Light is life. When the sun rises in the morning, everything changes.”
Kamila invites viewers into a dialogue—a meeting with something they may have already experienced in their own life stories.
Cantastoria
Franco Hüller
24/6 - 2/8 2025
The Cantastoria presents recent artworks by Italian abstract painter Franco Hüller, tracing his ongoing exploration of how abstract sequences evoke our inner need for narrative.
At what point do colours spread across the surface turn into a story?
Franco’s oil-on-paper monologues reflect the shifting states of self-imposed isolation: avoidance becomes awareness, and half-intention calls forth deliberate accidentalities. As a result, backgrounds and forms dissolve into one another, collapsing atmospheric light and intuitive urgency into a continuous, non-linear visual chronicle.
These paintings are not meant to declare meaning but to open gates—the story is always present, yet it is the viewer who must uncover it.
Curators: Jakub Grosz, Kaciaryna Pikirenia
Topology of the Edge
Karolína Jež (Photography)
Jakub Grosz (Objects)
20/5 - 8/6 2025
The Topology of the Edge presents photographic works by Karolína Jež and spatial objects by Jakub Grosz. Through the language of minimalist geometric abstraction, both artists explore the mutability of boundaries and structures. Lines that at first appear firm and sharp dissolve into soft gradients under certain angles.
Working with material, light and scale, they create new dimensions of perceiving reality—as an open, ever-changing system in which continuous transformation occurs. The exhibition captures moments when form transcends its original function and boundaries become sites of emergence rather than separation. In doing so, they challenge our notions of stability and fixed order.
Karolína and Jakub draw from liminal life experiences, revealing how each edge can be both a lure into falling and a call to step beyond