MODULES II – exhibition of final works from the Sculpture Studio and the Spatial Design Studio, Špilberk Castle
MODULES II – exhibition of final works from the Sculpture Studio and the Spatial Design Studio
Brno City Gallery / Brno City Museum / Špilberk Castle – West Gallery
28 May – 31 July, 2026
Opening: 27 May 2026, 18:00
Curator: Ilona Víchová
Last year, the Brno City Gallery launched a long-term project in which it annually presents selected final projects by a group of students from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Brno BUT at Špilberk Castle. The first edition featured works by students from the Spatial Design Studio; this year, the exhibition will showcase final projects from two sculpture studios—namely, the Sculpture Studio and the Spatial Design Studio. The exhibition presents the work of Valerie Moravcová, Kateřina Výletová, and Mikuláš Mitana, whose pieces explore the contemporary possibilities of sculpture, objects, and spatial installations.
Through her work, Valerie Moravcová clearly demonstrates the potential for moving beyond traditional sculpture toward free-form spatial arrangements. Within her artistic thinking, she finds connections between real space and formal or dimensional illusion, while also exploring themes of the optical transformation of a work resulting from changes in lighting conditions and the viewer’s movement. Through a spatial installation of reliefs, Moravcová creates fragments of interiors and imaginary rooms in which real space intertwines with mental imagery and memory. Building on her experience with traditional craft and graphic techniques, the artist here reimagines the principle of the matrix, which transforms from a means of creating an image into the final artifact itself, thereby shifting the focus from 2D to 3D and uniting the image with its medium into a single whole.
In her spatial installation, Kateřina Výletová transfers the traditional craft of embroidery from fabric to building materials. She draws on her personal experience with Moravian folklore, where traditional costumes, ornamentation, and handicrafts are a natural part of both festive and everyday life. She works with the idea of “dressing” architecture—just as she dresses herself in traditional costume, she symbolically dresses architecture as well. For her, the stitched objects reveal the relationship between the front and the back—that is, the tension between the visible and the hidden layers. She perceives embroidery not merely as decoration, but as a physical intervention into the material that is typically part of the hidden structure of architecture. What usually remains invisible becomes, in her work, a fully-fledged part of the resulting spatial form.
The title of Mikuláš Mitana’s thesis, PROXY, encapsulates the entire logic of the project: a representative, an intermediary, someone or something acting on behalf of another. Here, Mitana uses AI tools—specifically ChatGPT—as a system of constraints that forces him to break out of his habits and abandon established work procedures. The work addresses the conscious transfer of the executive part of creation to technical apparatus, instructional systems, and institutional procedures. It is not merely a technical process but a conceptual starting point—within which Mitana asks where authorship ends and the mediator begins. The resulting objects, made of bent steel rods set in motion by mini-rotors, represent a situation where the sculpture ceases to be a closed form and becomes a temporal event between a drawing in space, vibration, and subtle sonic resonance.
The work by diploma student Mikuláš Mitana is part of the exhibition Star System / FFA Graduate Works 2026, which will open on 24 June 2026, at 16:00 at the House of the Lords of Kunštát (Dominikánská 9, Brno).
| Author | Mgr. Tímea Vitázková |
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| Short URL | https://www.favu.vut.cz/en//f26745/d331416 |