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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.

FEB 20

HIDDEN Podcast — Tereza Mátlová on Painting Between Seasons, Emotion, and Identity

Czech painter Tereza Mátlová discusses her exhibition Between Winter and Summer at HIDDEN Bořivojova. In this conversation recorded inside the gallery, she reflects on her intuitive approach to color, the tension between figuration and abstraction, emotional states as a driving force of painting, and the long temporal process through which her works evolve. The discussion also touches on memory, identity, mythology, and the personal experiences that shape her visual language.

58 min
FEB 12

HIDDEN Podcast – Jiří Petrbok & Klára Hartlová on the Unconscious, Psychoanalysis, and Why Darker Paintings Feel More True

In this episode of the HIDDEN Podcast, we meet painter Jiří Petrbok and artist and psychotherapist Klára Hartlová for an open conversation recorded inside the alternative space of Hell Smoke BBQ. Together we discuss collaboration, intuition, and the role of the unconscious in painting. Petrbok speaks about working with overpainted images, fast digital sketches and instinctive decisions, while Hartlová reflects on how psychoanalysis, dreams and therapeutic practice shape her visual language.

51 min
JAN 4

HIDDEN Podcast #54 – Martin Mlateček o noční malbě na Žižkově a práci mimo ateliér

V tomto díle HIDDEN Podcastu mluvíme s malířem Martinem Mlatečkem v kontextu jeho výstavy Flâneur, která byla představena v prostoru HIDDEN AVU. Výstava vychází ze série nočních plenérových obrazů malovaných přímo na místě v Praze 3 – na Žižkově, v nočních a ranních hodinách. Rozhovor se soustředí na Mlatečkovu pracovní metodu: malbu venku bez návratu do ateliéru a práci v reálných podmínkách, které formuje chlad, únava, počasí a neustálý kontakt s okolím. Bavíme se o setkáních s kolemjdoucími, lidech vycházejících z hospod i o situacích, které se stávají přímou součástí malířského procesu – včetně rušení, hluku a nepředvídatelnosti. Mlateček se vrací i ke starším pracím, například k nočním plenérům z Pardubic nebo k obrazům vzniklým v opuštěných budovách, kde pracoval v prázdných interiérech a dostal se i do přímého kontaktu s policií. Rozhovor se dotýká jeho zázemí, vztahu k řemeslu, studia a fyzické reality práce mimo institucionální a ateliérové podmínky. Epizoda nabízí vhled do tvorby založené na přímé přítomnosti, disciplíně a vztahu ke konkrétnímu místu – malby vznikající v reálném čase a v reálných lokacích. -- Více informací: https://hiddengallery.cz ⁠⁠Výstava Martina Mlatečka: Flâneur (HIDDEN AVU)⁠ Instagram @hiddengallery.cz

51 min
12/08/2025

HIDDEN Podcast #53 — O těle, jizvách, bolesti a tom, jak vzniká forma

V tomto dílu Hidden Podcastu se setkáváme se sochařkou Marií Bokovou a umělcem Kryštofem Víchou, autory výstavy Distorza v HIDDEN UMPRUM. V otevřeném rozhovoru zkoumáme témata tělesnosti, fragmentace, funerální estetiky a osobních zkušeností, které formují jejich tvorbu. Mluvíme o práci s hlínou, o jizvách a proměnách těla, o psychosomatice, bolesti a o myšlence, že urna může být stejně intimním objektem jako socha. Epizoda propojuje osobní vhled, humor i teoretickou rovinu. Od psychoanalýzy přes tradiční čínskou medicínu až po kulturní rozdíly ve vnímání těla. Oba umělci sdílejí své tvůrčí procesy, přístup k deformaci i vztah k tomu, co je na lidském těle viditelné a co zůstává skryté.

1 hr
12/04/2025

HIDDEN Podcast – Episode 52: Ján Bátorek on Childhood Territories, Subcultures, and the Painting.

In this episode, we meet Slovak painter Ján Bátorek, whose work grows out of childhood territories, subcultures, and the overlooked architecture of everyday life. We talk about growing up in Čadca, the hidden spaces children claimed around panelák housing estates, and how these early experiences formed the emotional vocabulary of his painting.Bátorek shares how anime, emo aesthetics and early subcultures shaped his sense of identity, and how ordinary objects – railings, dumpsters, stairwells, concrete passages – became symbolic anchors in his visual language.This conversation dives into memory, transformation, escapism, and the raw realism that defines his work.Topics discussed:• Childhood landscapes and panelák environments• Early subcultures and identity formation• Escapism and emotional memory• Developing a raw visual language of painting• Working with everyday objects as symbols• The evolution of his style and artistic motivationAbout the artist:Ján Bátorek (born 1989, Čadca, Slovakia) is a painter based in Prague. His work blends raw realism, nostalgia, and personal mythology, built from the ordinary yet emotionally loaded environments of his childhood.This episode is in Czech.

1h 2m
10/25/2025

Jiří Marek on Layers, Destruction, and the Palimpsest of Painting

Recorded at Trafo Gallery during Jiří Marek’s exhibition Palimpsest, this conversation opens a window into the painter’s meditative and material approach to image-making. Marek speaks about the duality of construction and destruction, the act of erasing as a form of creation, and the emotional charge that remains within matter. His reflections unfold as a poetic study of painting as an archaeological process, a constant rewriting of surfaces, memories, and personal history.

1h 8m
09/09/2025

Katerina Šťastná

In this diploma-series episode of the HIDDEN Podcast, sculptor Kateřina Šťastná traces a path from photography studies to sculpture, from fast ink sketches on a tram to embroideries that take hours to breathe into being. Her recent installation pairs five monochrome embroideries on chiffon, studded with glass beads, with tender yet grounded sculptures in plaster and concrete.The through-line is breath: once a subject, now a tool for sensing shape without the limits of anatomy. The cycle also holds an intimate narrative about a mother–daughter relationship—how care can shelter, compress, and finally allow distance so both figures can grow. This episode is in Czech

44 min
09/08/2025

Ekaterina Gordeladze

In this 49th episode of the HIDDEN Podcast, sculptor Ekaterina Gordeladze speaks from the midst of her diploma installation at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (AVU). Graduating in 2025 from Figural Sculpture and Medal, she reflects on finding her language through shallow reliefs, the pull between painting and sculpture, and how intimacy, pressure, and space are negotiated on a plane only centimeters deep. Her recent series links bodies and thresholds using pigmented concrete, plaster, and experiments with transparent media.This conversation is in Czech

38 min

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.

Creator

HIDDEN gallery
Years Active

2021 - 2026
Episodes

56
Rating

Clean
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