Jozef Mrva Jr.: Challenger Escape Plan

At Kostka Gallery, under the title Challenger Escape Plan, Jozef Mrva Jr. presents both his most recent and earlier painting in the form of an expansive spatial installation, developed in collaboration with Ondřej Doskočil.

Jozef Mrva Jr. (b. 1988), a Prague-based artist, curator and educator, and a graduate of the doctoral programme at FaVU BUT in Brno, combines mathematical models, found imagery and speculative philosophy with digital media (especially 3D animation and video), drawing and installation. In his paintings, he repeatedly works with the motif of the knot and cyclical structures as both a visual and conceptual method. His installations incorporate collage techniques using recycled plastics, as well as objects and videos often built on metaphors of the entanglement of communication networks, logistics and capitalism. He also engages with the hidden infrastructures of the platform economy and their environmental and geopolitical consequences. His work has been shown, among others, at A Promise of Kneropy, Kvalitář, AMU Gallery (with Filip Kolychev), Galerie Kurzor, the Brno House of Arts, Boccanera Gallery, and at Biennale Warszawa.

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Jozef Mrva Jr.: Challenger Escape Plan
Kostka Gallery
30. 1. – 19. 4. 2026 

Opening: 29. 1., 18:30 | free event 

Curator: Ján Gajdušek
Architecture: Ondřej Doskočil
Production: Nikol Hoangová
Graphic designer: Jakub Kučera

 

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