A 4-kg work of art by Pavlína Rozsypálková made of concrete and fibreglass. 

A composition that builds on the artist’s previous work, combining two main themes – interpersonal relationships and impressions of life in an industrial city.

The sculpture reflects the artist’s impression of her stay in Ostrava, where life and industry mingle and interact together.

To create a work depicting the first contact between a man and a woman, the artist
was inspired by themes such as love, sex and libido – especially in the context of contemporary times. The imaginary object depicting a female human figure consists of hinges assembled into simple geometric structures, complemented by biomorphic shapes placed in its body.

The sculpture relates to the theme of love and sexuality. It depicts a bioorganism in which the artist created contrasts of colour, material and texture to express movement. This symbolizes affection for the opposite sex. The animal instincts and sexual needs are expressed by the claws. In order to avoid primordiality, the artist chose a stylization different from the shape of a human hand, as well as a colour scheme that may evoke a marine animal.

A work based on the format of the divination table from the Book of Changes (I Ching). The eight fields are symbols representing the basic principles of reality in Taoist cosmology, as well as the eight basic elements of nature.

Sculpture from the Attention people series, in which the artist focuses on communities and social groups. The motif of the cone is used as an attention-drawing element. It was inspired by the author’s stay in New York and her observation of the multiple, diversified communities creating a micro-world in the middle of a large metropolis.

A work relating to the legacy of ancient Egypt and the power of divinity, the daily birth of life and the triumph over death.

The inspiration for this work was the exploration of reality itself, the ability to perceive its true form, to distinguish truth from lies, fakes or superstition. For example, by using a machine that could give us objective insight and unambiguous answers.

A wall relief created in 2017. What served as the inspiration for this work was the theme of suburbanization, which is typical of the artist’s early work.

Memories frozen in time, fading with the passing of everyday life, distorted by time and the imperfection of human memory. They lose their contours with the passage of time. The clear outlines of images we don’t want to forget begin to blur and become indistinct scenes in our memory.

The author deals with the theme of the inner child. He works with the idea that this is one of the many layers of our personality that had its own time and space to exist before it was subsequently covered by a new layer. In his works, he visualizes the inner child and gives it certain connotations and attributes, such as weapons, armour or jewellery. He puts this child in different roles, poses and situations.

About half a meter high ceramic sculpture was created in 2023. The author of the work Magdaléna Roztočilová creates mostly figurative works, sculptures of strange, sometimes bizarre or fantasy creatures with attributes of human creatures and unreal amorphous shapes.

The almost three-metre high sculpture is inspired by medieval poetry, the history of sexuality and modern philosophy of the body.

The Pedestrian is an organically shaped sculpture that combines elements of amorphousness with a solid inner static. It can be seen as a model of futuristic architecture as well as a torso of a humanoid form.

The nearly two-metre high wooden work by Bedřich Mrkva was created in 2023.

The work represents a specific vegetative structure – an organism – a temple, which is composed of ornamental linear modules in which sculpture and drawing are naturally intertwined.

The work, made of plaster, was created in 2022.

The artist’s work is characterized by classical work with (figurative) sculptural imagery and references to various historical stages of European sculpture. It is also a set of several motifs that appear repeatedly in her work, as if they were insistently emerging from the artist’s subconscious from time to time. The most typical are the motifs of a dog and a hiding place.

The sculpture of the creature is based on an amphora, it is made of a concrete shell and inside it hides a massive empty space for storage. Solid, stable, neutral. It makes its present being known. At first sight you can see the mass of the body, the physical form. It is not obvious what contents are hidden inside. We store memories, a deeper psychic layer, the mind. Fascination with how the psychic layer affects the physical. Separation of body and mind, yet their interdependence and the formation of one whole. 

The sculpture was created as part of the thematic series Growing Up, which began several years ago, when the artist was interested in the intricate and mysterious processes of the formation and transformation of mass in the surrounding world. It is an effort to follow as closely as possible the paths that lead to the formation of new organic and inorganic entities in the natural environment, and thus to get closer to the primordial sources of vital force. A sculpture can be both a fossil and a living assemblage capable of expanding freely into space.

The author of the work, Michal Janiga, thinks in his work about the material, its context, in relation to the environment, landscape and history. For him, material is a repository of layered information, signs of life and ideas. He finds his form and adapts the material to it. 

The more than 2.5 m high work by Adam Hejduk was created in 2021. 

This work made of sand and resin was created in 2021.

A work from a series of white 3D print models prepared for the Mundus Imaginalis series. It  is inspired by Henry Corbin’s book of the same name, which explores the world of archetypes and the world of sensory perception. The main motifs here are eyes and tears. The tear/drop is a recurring shape that in the myths signifies the release of creative forces and the union of what has been divided.

The work was made in 2023 using a combined technique. The impression of a soft and cosy environment was created by filling the painting with foam. The artist was the winner of the Critics’ Prize for Young Painting in 2023.

Based on the metaphorical saying “living in a bubble”, the almost two-metre high sculpture made in 2020 speaks about the characteristic moments of the creative process.

The first sketch of a hand called Blessing. The author was trying to capture the gesture that he would apply to the larger-than-life figure of the walking Christ. The plaster original was created in 2014 as a springboard for work on the figure.

Sketch of the right hand. The artist tried to capture the gesture that he would apply to the larger-than-life figure of the walking Christ. The plaster original was created in 2017. The artist sees the offering or handshake as an important moment in our lives.

The sculpture was inspired by a meeting between the artist and a boy with cerebral palsy. The construction of his deformed hand is so specific that it has become a synonym for suffering and hopelessness, but at the same time a lifelong struggle, mental strength and humility.

The main theme of the work from the Man, Blood, Red series is the life-giving blood and the structure of the bloodstream, which is associated with the ubiquitous communication networks of today. It draws attention to the existence of the visible, but also the hidden, to the space of the “unknown” that constantly surrounds us and opens up a sphere of imagination that can give us access to unexplored levels of our being.