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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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MICHAELŮV MASHUP

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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…

JÁ, DIAGNÓZA / + - VeDvou

FAKE CRIME / Joke Division

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UNDERGROUND COMEDY CLUB

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About theater

Divadlo NoD is a traditional alternative theater in Prague. Currently, it focuses exclusively on deviced theater projects and, in addition to its own productions, is open to other projects and ensembles with the same focus. The artistic leadership of Divadlo NoD consists of director Janek Lesák and dramaturge Natálie Strýčková Preslová.

 

NoD Theater is an independent theater with its own productions and permanent repertoire, which focuses exclusively on deviced theater, i.e., theater that is not based on existing dramatic texts, but draws on current social events and topics, creates new stories, and seeks innovative ways to tell these stories. Each project created here is unique to NoD, its space, and its audience, and is the result of close collaboration between the entire creative team and the personal creative input of each of its members. Over the past few years, NoD Theater has also naturally become a generational theater, with most of its creators born at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s. 


The repertoire of the NoD Theater consists of theater productions by director Janek Lesák and dramaturge Natálie Strýčková Preslová (i.e., the artistic direction of NoD) and co-production projects created in collaboration with other ensembles and projects working in the field of auteur theater. We support the creation of original and unconventional concepts, emphasizing innovative technological work and the specific use of sound, light, film techniques, and other technologies. 

The NoD Theatre's resident ensemble, whose productions are original theatrical performances directed by Janek Lesák and dramaturged by Natálie Strýčková Preslová, consists of actors Martin Cikán, Láďa Karda, Lumíra Přichystalová, Jan Strýček, and Nela Štefanová. The permanent artistic collaborators of Divadlo NoD are Vojtěch Drobek Krátký and Matěj Procházka (sound design), Daniel Kozlík and Judita Mejstříková (lighting design), Ivo Sedláček (music), and Josef Ťupa (costumes). 
In addition to theatrical productions, NoD's dramaturgy also offers its audience an accompanying program (stand-up evenings, improv projects, Michael's Mash-up talk show) and regularly collaborates with theater festivals (Malá inventura, Jižní spojka...) and the Holocaust Victims Foundation.

In the 2025/2026 season, we will present projects by the Maso Krůtí (Oidipussy), Divadlo MASO (Jak se dělá divadlo) and +-Ve dvou (Já, diagnóza) theater companies.

We will also present productions that were created in the previous season as co-productions of Divadlo NoD and other independent artists - 8 Billion People Are Burning by the 8lidí ensemble and Spies (Bremen).

We regularly collaborate with the Joke Division (whose new project Fake Crime we will also present in the form of a co-production at the beginning of this season) and Improvariace.

We also provide the NoD Theater space for shorter-term or one-off projects of original theater. We regularly issue open calls to find new artistic partners, including young artists who are graduates of art schools. 

Divadlo NoD is a stage for various forms of contemporary original theater, and the projects we present at NoD are united by an interest in current events in the world around us. This allows Divadlo NoD to serve as a platform for audiences and creators to come together and discuss topics that concern us all.

Divadlo NoD is supported by grant programs from the Prague City Hall and the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.

Divadlo NoD implements its program with the support of ČEZ.

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