Luminous Minds
14 November – 14 February
- Artists
- Lucie Jindrák Skřivánková, Michal Škapa
- Curator
- Michaela Mellová
- Location
- Vodičkova 37
The exhibition Luminous Minds brings together Lucie Jindrák Skřivánková and Michal Škapa in an artistic symbiosis, exploring the interplay of light, colour and distinct artistic languages. Both artists place a strong emphasis on chromatic intensity, allowing colour and light to merge into immersive visual experiences.The exhibition presents a series of collaborative paintings in which the artists employ a collage-like approach, combining painting, text and sculptural layers to create a dynamic dialogue of colours, forms and concealed messages. Each work emerges through an exchange: one artist initiates the composition, while the other responds, develops and transforms it. Michal Škapa introduces abstracted textual fragments and coded messages, embedded within multiple layers and inviting the attentive viewer to decipher their meaning. Lucie Jindrák Skřivánková, in turn, incorporates sculptural reliefs that extend the painted surface into three-dimensional space. The layers overlap, complement and interact while retaining their individual presence. Fragments of the original imagery, partly concealed yet still visible, suggest that each work carries a message that remains hidden without ever becoming entirely inaccessible.Neon, a recurring element throughout the series, lends the paintings a distinctive sense of vitality and energy. Each artist approaches this luminous medium differently: Škapa uses it primarily as a drawing tool, while Jindrák Skřivánková explores its more organic and tactile qualities. Light thus becomes the unifying element of the entire series, reinforcing its visual intensity and connecting the two distinct artistic approaches.Selected paintings are presented in frames featuring radiant colour gradients, enhancing the impression that the works extend beyond the canvas and into the surrounding space. While these frames amplify the chromatic experience in certain pieces, others remain unframed, establishing a considered contrast between different modes of presentation.
The exhibition also offers a glimpse into new directions within each artist’s individual practice. Michal Škapa introduces a series of ceramic vases, on which his characteristic textual language takes the form of diary-like entries. Although ceramics represent a new material in his practice, the creation of three-dimensional objects has been an integral part of his work for the past fifteen years. With this series, he explores a new sculptural dimension through the expressive possibilities of clay.
Lucie Jindrák Skřivánková, meanwhile, presents a body of individual work based on a deliberately restrained colour palette, inspired by an environment where natural light is scarce and the colour spectrum is reduced to a minimal range of tones. This approach marks an unusual departure from her otherwise vibrant visual language.
Luminous Minds therefore unfolds not only as a dialogue between two artists, but also as a creative laboratory in which both explore new possibilities of light, text and colour, expanding the boundaries of their individual practices through collaboration.
The exhibition presents a series of collaborative paintings in which the artists employ a collage-like approach, combining painting, text and sculptural layers to create a dynamic dialogue of colours, forms and concealed messages. Each work emerges through an exchange: one artist initiates the composition, while the other responds, develops and transforms it.
The exhibition also offers a glimpse into new directions within each artist’s individual practice. Michal Škapa introduces a series of ceramic vases, on which his characteristic textual language takes the form of diary-like entries. Although ceramics represent a new material in his practice, the creation of three-dimensional objects has been an integral part of his work for the past fifteen years. With this series, he explores a new sculptural dimension through the expressive possibilities of clay.
