CHAPTER I

Dark Northern Fields

Current constellation: 6 February – 5 May 2026
Vernissage: 5 February 2026

The opening chapter, Dark Northern Fields, brings together four artists whose works move between dialogical approaches, inner landscapes, romantic northern imagery, and archaic symbolism. Though their visual languages differ — ranging from painting and digital processes to symbolic and expressive forms — they share an interest in landscape not as scenery, but as a psychological and mythic field.

Across the exhibition, nature appears as something both external and internal: a site of memory, projection, and transformation. Romantic visions of northern terrain intersect with darker folkloric undertones, while constructed and mediated images question how reality itself is formed and perceived.

In this chapter, landscape and reality emerge not as fixed spaces, but as resonant territories shaped by perception, memory, and myth.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Martin Watch

Martin Watch (born 1990), originally a portrait photographer, has evolved into a distinctive painter working with structural techniques using a palette knife. His works, inspired by the human body as a mirror of the soul, explore existential themes and vulnerability.

Currently, he integrates AI-generated imagery into his process, merging digital aesthetics with the physical tactility of paint. The result is a series of deeply layered canvases that move between Neo-Expressionism and post-pop sensibilities, infused with metaphysical undertones. His practice is marked by ongoing experimentation with conceptual approaches and emerging technologies.

František FF Brukner (Jan)

František FF Brukner is a Czech multidisciplinary artist, writer, musician, and visual creator. His work moves fluidly across poetry, prose, music, and visual art — he composes, writes lyrics, photographs, creates collages, and paints.

Photography is his primary creative instrument. He layers his photographs into hypnotic collages, which he then digitally edits and colorizes. The resulting works are printed on acrylic glass or canvas and further developed by hand using acrylic paint. His practice reflects an understanding of the psychology of color and form, as well as influences from Surrealism, psychedelic abstraction, and Symbolism.

Moth

Working under the pseudonym Moth, she is a nineteen-year-old student at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. Her primary focus is oil painting inspired by Scandinavian Romanticism.

Her work combines the breathtaking natural landscapes of northern Sweden with the darker beings of Scandinavian folklore and mythology — the kinds of stories once told in the evenings by impoverished farmers and shepherds. This romanticized contrast serves as a continuous source of fascination and artistic inspiration in her practice.

Kateřina Slezáková

Kateřina Slezáková (born 1993) is a photographer and painter whose work long explores themes of wild nature, inner landscapes, and the archaic layers of human memory. She connects the raw forces of the natural world with personal symbolic dimensions and her own witchcraft practice.
In her paintings, she often works with natural materials such as stone, sand, ash, salt, and pigments, which she combines primarily with acrylic media. Here, material is not merely a medium, but an active carrier of memory, traces of time, and the energy of place.
Her practice moves between abstract landscape painting and ritual imagery. She creates spaces that do not depict specific locations, but rather evoke inner states, ancient archetypes, and quiet territories between the visible and the invisible. Her works function as portals, emotional maps, and symbolic landscapes in which the viewer can pause, slow down, and reconnect with their own natural essence.