The dynamic duo of gallerist Filip Kartousek and curator Kamil Princ brings you a deep but unconventional insight into contemporary fine art, whether of well-renowned authors or outstanding young talents from art academies. The personal interviews combine complex esthetic and philosophical topics with relaxed humor and non-conformist reveal of the secret sides of the author’s life and thoughts. Podcasts are held in Czech or English language.
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The dynamic duo of gallerist Filip Kartousek and curator Kamil Princ brings you a deep but unconventional insight into contemporary fine art, whether of well-renowned authors or outstanding young talents from art academies. The personal interviews combine complex esthetic and philosophical topics with relaxed humor and non-conformist reveal of the secret sides of the author’s life and thoughts. Podcasts are held in Czech or English language.
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July 21, 2026
HIDDEN Podcast: Klára Hartlová & Eva Fajčíková | Uncanny Paradise
<p>In this 63rd episode of the HIDDEN Podcast, we speak with painters Klára Hartlová and Eva Fajčíková about their joint exhibition Uncanny Paradise, presented by HIDDEN Gallery. Recorded inside the exhibition, the conversation with Filip Kartousek and guest host Kamil Princ explores the fragile boundary between beauty and unease, and how painting can reveal what lies beneath seemingly familiar worlds.The discussion begins with the concept of the uncanny itself – a place that appears comforting yet slowly becomes unsettling. Drawing on philosophy, psychology, and mythology, the artists reflect on how paradise can transform into a psychological landscape shaped by memory, anxiety, projection, and hidden narratives. From Heidegger, Freud, and Jung to fairy tales, folklore, and Disney’s Bambi, the conversation traces unexpected connections between contemporary painting and the stories that continue to shape our imagination.Klára Hartlová speaks about how psychology and psychoanalytic training influence her artistic practice, why she deliberately leaves room for the viewer’s interpretation, and how dreams, free association, and the unconscious enter her paintings. Eva Fajčíková discusses poisonous plants, mythology, religion, medieval symbolism, vampires, forests, and her experiments with beeswax, moss, scents, and even insect pheromones, expanding painting beyond the purely visual.Together they also discuss artistic collaboration, destroying unsuccessful paintings, finding ideas through reading and dreams, naming artworks, balancing intuition with discipline, and how two distinct artistic languages merged into a single exhibition. One of the highlights of the conversation is an open discussion about interpreting artworks and the relationship between the artist’s intention and the viewer’s reading.👉 Exhibition info: https://hiddengallery.cz/exhibitions/eva-fajcikova-klara-hartlova📍 HIDDEN Gallery, PragueThis conversation is in Czech.</p>
July 4, 2026
HIDDEN Podcast: Ester Wala on Limit Situations, Asphalt & Her Debut Solo Show
<p>Painter Ester Wala joins us at HIDDEN at (A)Void Gallery for a conversation recorded inside On the Edge, her debut solo exhibition. We talk about painting bodies suspended between stability and collapse, working with industrial asphalt and porcelain, why her titles arrive only after the painting is finished, and her path from architecture and graphic design into painting at AVU. Curator Kamil Princ joins the conversation. This conversation is in Czech.</p>
July 3, 2026
HIDDEN Podcast: Markéta Špundová & Viktorie Macanová on Feminism, Tradition & Christianity.
<p>In the new episode of the HIDDEN Podcast, we sit down with Markéta Špundová and Viktorie Macánová, the artists behind the exhibition MOTOROVKA at HIDDEN UMPRUM. We talk about where the deliberately provocative title came from, playing on the contrast between the "rough" chainsaw and the "domestic" bábovka (a traditional Czech bundt cake), and what that has to do with how we still divide men's and women's work today.Viktorie describes the making of her photo editorial Women Are No Bábovkas, shot at her mom's cottage, including the styling, the casting, and how she turns the Czech rural stereotype (a man with a chainsaw, a woman at the stove) on its head. Markéta talks about her project The Ten Commandments of Masturbation, born out of her Christian upbringing, the shame around sexuality, and how it gradually grew into a longer-term interest in feminism within the church.We go through the two artists' shared history, seven years since they first met at UMPRUM, through the collaboration between the ceramics and photography studios, the exhibition Husí kůže (Goosebumps), the project Beránci (a reinterpretation of the Easter lamb tradition), and now Motorovka. We speak openly about how hard it is to make a living as an artist in Czechia, the reality of selling photography versus painting, and why both of them are currently looking for a "normal" job on the side.We also touch on topics rarely discussed openly in the art world: peeing in public in broad daylight (and why it's still a problem for women), tattoos as a late rebellion against religious upbringing, and Viktorie's thesis on authentic family portraiture as a counterpoint to commercial studio photography.</p>
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