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HIDDEN Podcast: Natalia Kleszczewska on Hauntology, Artificial Romanticism & World Building
In the new episode of the HIDDEN Podcast, we sit down with Polish artist Natalia Kleszczewska, whose first solo exhibition outside Poland, SPELLBOUND, is currently on view at HIDDEN Bořivojova in Prague.
Kleszczewska discusses Mark Fisher’s idea of “lost futures” and her concept of artificial romanticism, exploring how familiar images, myths and cultural references can become strange, alien and almost otherworldly. She talks about the figures that inhabit her paintings, the relationship between attraction and fear, and her interest in folklore, horror, science fiction and forgotten cultural traditions, including the Slavic figure of Marzanna and the Japanese tradition of Ohaguro.
The conversation also explores Kleszczewska’s approach to world building and her movement between painting, graphics and digital media. She reflects on her recent collaboration with Björk and Natalie Liu on Nerve Bloom, where her painted creatures and environments were transformed into an animated and sonic world.
SPELLBOUND is on view at HIDDEN Bořivojova: https://hiddengallery.cz/exhibitions/natalia-kleszczewska
12 Sept 2026
HIDDEN Podcast: Jan Vytiska & Jakub Janovský
In the new episode of the HIDDEN Podcast, we meet painters Jan Vytiska and Jakub Janovský in their joint exhibition THE DEVIL GAZES ALSO INTO YOU at Hell Smoke BBQ in Prague. Inspired by Nietzsche’s famous image of the abyss gazing back at us, the exhibition replaces the abyss with the figure of the Devil and explores memory, childhood, death, violence, folklore and the darker sides of human nature.
The conversation begins with the artists discussing each other’s work and the very different memories embedded in their paintings. Janovský speaks about childhood, post-communist landscapes, distorted memories and his series of concentration camps reconstructed from children’s building blocks. Vytiska discusses folklore, pagan rituals, desire, death and the recurring figure of the Devil in his paintings.
We also talk about cinema and the influence of Andrei Tarkovsky, the aesthetics of old Flash websites, moving images, music and underground communities, working with found photographs, and the return to traditional painting in the age of AI. The artists consider what makes a handmade image different from an AI-generated one, and why imperfection, mistakes and physical intervention may become increasingly important.
Finally, we discuss the idea of depression in art, the tension between darkness and colour, and whether images dealing with death and evil can ultimately become celebrations of life.
4 Sept 2026
HIDDEN Podcast: Martin Kolář & Matěj Pokorný on the Body, Technology & Violence
In the new episode of the HIDDEN Podcast, we meet painters and sculptors Martin Kolář and Matěj Pokorný in their joint exhibition HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE at (A)VOID Gallery. Built around Sartre’s famous proposition that hell is other people, the exhibition explores the uneasy relationship between people, the gaze of others, violence, technology and the human body.
The two artists created the exhibition through an unusual process of mutual influence. They visited each other’s studios, responded to each other’s ideas and gradually began transforming and reinterpreting each other’s motifs. The result deliberately blurs the boundary between original and copy, painting and sculpture, human and non-human.
Kolář speaks about his move away from pop-cultural references towards figures and forms that emerge directly from his imagination, his interest in toxic human relationships and the way violence and sexuality remain embedded in his work. Pokorný discusses his fascination with bones, biological structures and the physical resistance of sculpture, as well as his experiments with concrete, asphalt, silicon and other materials of civilisation.
We also talk about the human body as a last remaining form of resistance to technological optimisation, the possibility of imagining non-human intelligence, ancient Mesopotamian imagery, cyberpunk, artificial intelligence, destruction as part of the artistic process, and why both artists see the current exhibition less as a prediction of the future than as a reflection of the strange present we already inhabit.
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