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Radek Brousil & Viktor Timofeev: The Hammer Strikes the Bell

How can one depict the city today when it is no longer merely an urban whole, but also a psychic landscape, a data infrastructure, and a space of permanent tension? And how can one grasp the metropolis at the moment when its everyday reality breaks down into layers of personal projections, collective affects, and invisible systems that shape our movements, relationships, and modes of perception? The international exhibition project The Hammer Strikes the Bell by New York-based Latvian artist Viktor Timofeev and Czech artist Radek Brousil, prepared together with curators Boris Ondreička and Pavel Kubesa for Prague’s NoD Gallery, enters precisely this field of meaning. Here, the city does not appear as a stable backdrop, but as a living, multilayered organism in which subjective experience collides with the logic of late-postmodern infrastructures. The joint project by Brousil and Timofeev is conceived as a complex exhibition situation in which images, drawings, and a spatial site-specific installation are interwoven into a scenographic whole. The exhibition reflects the specific chronotope of the metamodern gigapolis — a city that is simultaneously a concrete place and a mental state, a set of material structures and a field of imagination. The artists are interested in the intricate image of buildings, people, technologies, and collective psyche that emerges from the structures of today’s metropolises. The exhibition is therefore not built on a mere dialogue between two media or two artistic signatures. More important is the very nature of their encounter: both Brousil and Timofeev have long cultivated a sensitivity to what remains beneath the surface of the visible world, whether power regimes, infrastructures, cultural codes, or unspoken models of identity. From this perspective, The Hammer Strikes the Bell transforms the gallery space into a situation in which the city becomes not only a theme, but also a method. The viewer does not enter a closed narrative, but rather a mutable scenery in which a wide range of individual and collective dramas may unfold. Viktor Timofeev (*1984), whose practice clearly extends beyond the framework of Central and Eastern Europe, is an internationally established artist living and working in New York, whose interdisciplinary practice brings together drawing, painting, video, sound, software, and experimental games into complex environments situated at the intersection of autofiction, worldbuilding, and systems thinking. In 2025, he presented his most extensive museum exhibition to date, Other Passengers, at the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga; he has also exhibited at the Hessel Museum of Art in New York, Bozar in Brussels, and the National Gallery in Prague. Radek Brousil (*1980) enters this dialogue as an artist who has long reflected on the relationship between image, material, and social reality. In his post-photographic approach, he combines photography with textile, object, video, installation, and painting, and consistently engages with socio-political and environmental themes, postcolonial tendencies, and the question of a “new sensibility.” His work grows out of a critical relationship to standardized interpretations of late capitalism, the Anthropocene, and global power relations, and has increasingly also turned toward the politics of time. Brousil is among the notable figures of the Czech art scene with strong international experience, as confirmed by his projects in London, Brussels, Budapest, Tokyo, and other institutions.  

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27 LITRŮ UMĚLÝ KRVE / Janek & Natálka & kol.

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27 LITRŮ UMĚLÝ KRVE / Janek & Natálka & kol.
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27 LITRŮ UMĚLÝ KRVE / Janek & Natálka & kol.
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27 LITRŮ UMĚLÝ KRVE / Janek & Natálka & kol.
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THE LEGEND OF LUNETIC / Janek & Natálka & kol.

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THE LEGEND OF LUNETIC / Janek & Natálka & kol.

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THE LEGEND OF LUNETIC / Janek & Natálka & kol.

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SCAMMERS ATTACK / Janek & Natálka & collective

Scamming is art. They have been with us since the beginning of mankind. They are all around us. And they are more and more of them. There´s no place you…

SCAMMERS ATTACK / Janek & Natálka & collective

Scamming is art. They have been with us since the beginning of mankind. They are all around us. And they are more and more of them. There´s no place you…

FAKE CRIME / Joke Division

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THE LEGEND OF LUNETIC / Janek & Natálka & kol.

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THE LEGEND OF LUNETIC / Janek & Natálka & kol.

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THE LEGEND OF LUNETIC / Janek & Natálka & kol.

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27 LITRŮ UMĚLÝ KRVE / Janek & Natálka & kol.

27 LITRŮ UMĚLÝ KRVE / Janek & Natálka & kol.

27 LITRŮ UMĚLÝ KRVE / Janek & Natálka & kol.

UNDERGROUND COMEDY CLUB

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JAK SE DĚLÁ DIVADLO / Divadlo MASO

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THE LEGEND OF LUNETIC / Janek & Natálka & kol.

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THE LEGEND OF LUNETIC / Janek & Natálka & kol.

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THE LEGEND OF LUNETIC / Janek & Natálka & kol.

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FAKE CRIME / Joke Division

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UNDERGROUND COMEDY CLUB

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27 LITRŮ UMĚLÝ KRVE / Janek & Natálka & kol.

27 LITRŮ UMĚLÝ KRVE / Janek & Natálka & kol.

27 LITRŮ UMĚLÝ KRVE / Janek & Natálka & kol.

THE LEGEND OF LUNETIC / Janek & Natálka & kol.

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THE LEGEND OF LUNETIC / Janek & Natálka & kol.

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JAK SE DĚLÁ DIVADLO / Divadlo MASO

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SCAMMERS ATTACK / Janek & Natálka & collective

Scamming is art. They have been with us since the beginning of mankind. They are all around us. And they are more and more of them. There´s no place you…

SCAMMERS ATTACK / Janek & Natálka & collective

Scamming is art. They have been with us since the beginning of mankind. They are all around us. And they are more and more of them. There´s no place you…

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FAKE CRIME / Joke Division

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UNDERGROUND COMEDY CLUB

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STOLOVÁNÍ/DINING: Igor Hosnedl

Igor Hosnedl: STOLOVÁNÍ/DINING
Text by: Julius Pristauz
Collaboration & Architecture: Pavel Kubesa
11. 9. - 13. 10. 2019
Vernisáž: 10. 9. 2019

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DINING

...and when mother saw her children play with their genitals 
searching, greedy but in awe
mother didn’t blink twice 
with a vigorous clout 
she cut off what was left uneaten by their hungry souls

Usually, a dining room is equipped with a rather large dining table and a number of dining chairs. Apart from that one will - the sooner or late - encounter more temporary interior: 
people, family, friends, colleagues and transitory guests.
They suffuse a given room or space with individuality, personalities, stories, and aura. 
Ultimately these spaces host, often highly precarious, social situations ruled by manners, certain traditions and more or less unspoken guidelines. They elude themselves from their purposed function and get charged with different meanings (far away from the realm of food).

In the exhibition DINING by Igor Hosnedl one can find exactly these spaces and moments as a starting point of subsequent narratives. Moments that are carved by questions of which forces control our social interactions and what results from them. 
What role do self-controlling mechanisms play in that? 
We are opposed to scenes in which the reflection of the self becomes inevitably important. 

when I hold the fish
I am the fish 
but
will the fish fall? 

Offering an ascetic way of looking at your own behavior and actions these works are reminiscing of habitual repetition, almost ritualistic rhythms. Depicting an assertive flux and sequences of movements, the paintings are home to tiny stages. Elements typically found in performative contexts – curtains, props, mirrors – suggest the awaiting of something – a spectacle that would lead to the lift of the curtain, to some kind of final wake up call. 
Whether that might be a form of acknowledgment that we are facing an extinction crisis or that confidence can be as mutilating and toxic as crippling insecurity – it is a form of enlightenment that the protagonists are worshipping and sacrificing to. 

she is definite 
patient but cruel, wild yet forgiving

While Hosnedl stays true to his very own iconography developed over the past years, this series appears to be even closer to a place that could eventually be called home. Motherly energies meet the earth’s most dangerous as well as endangered species. In a place, where consumerist societies sit in empty waiting rooms, trying to decode their reflection in the mirror. 

don’t you forget little kid 
her grapes will nourish our bodies
her words shall form our language

 

Julius Pristauz

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