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Marie Holá, Matteo Ruggiero, Jáchym Šimek, Filip Vedra

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Opening
Performance

On Friday 27 June 2025, a performance/one-off exhibition conceived by Filip Vedra will take place in City Surfer Office from 19:00 onwards. Free entry.

 

Artists

Matteo Ruggiero is a multimedia artist who combines digital technologies with music and DIY electronics. His work focuses on exploring the boundaries between human experience and systemic mechanisms, striving to understand our contemporary existence through the lens of technology, film, gaming, and mechanical rhythms. His creations deconstruct the subtle routines of everyday life, where we, as humans, navigate existence similarly to NPC characters—programmatically, predictably, constantly fulfilling predetermined tasks.

Jáchym Šimek is a sculptor who continually tests the medium of sculpture. This is primarily manifested in his deconstructive approach, through which he examines the limits between painting and sculpture within the territory of three-dimensional objects. His reliefs and busts can be perceived as records of more complex narratives, characterized by symbolic thinking on themes at the intersection of posthumanism and the natural (physical) sciences. Currently, his work can also be seen at the Zlín Salon of Young Artists in the Regional Gallery of Fine Arts in Zlín. Šimek has been a student of the Figurative Sculpture Studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague since 2020, where he continues his studies in the studio of Malba 3, led by Josef Bolf, Jakub Hošek, and Nik Timková, starting from the academic year 2023/2024.

Marie Holá focuses on visual arts with an emphasis on sculpture, objects, and installations. In her work, she engages with principles and processes derived from biological, medical, and technical environments, transforming them into a sensory and emotional framework. She explores how these structures—shaped by the pressures of late capitalist society on both bodily and social resilience—affect the fragile aspects of the human body, psyche, and inanimate objects. Through materials and forms, she blurs the boundary between function and aesthetics, examining their emotional impact.

Filip Vedra is an interdisciplinary artist who explores power dynamics from a multidisciplinary perspective. In his practice, he critically engages with power structures and speculative realities, utilizing new media such as 3D software and game engines to map specific discourses of contemporary society. He studies in the Intermedia Studio at the Faculty of Fine Arts at VUT and has completed internships in the Critical Optics (F1) studio of Aleksandra Vajd and Martins Kohout, in the Planet B module led by Klára Peloušková and Veronika Miškovičová, focusing on civilizational and environmental issues, and at the Future Architectures (A2) platform at UMPRUM. He further developed his approach during an internship at Every Island and Atelier Brenda in Brussels.