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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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SCAMMERS ATTACK / Janek & Natálka & collective

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SCAMMERS ATTACK / Janek & Natálka & collective

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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.

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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

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FAKE CRIME / Joke Division

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UNDERGROUND COMEDY CLUB

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Stanislava Benešová, David Kolovratník, Václav Sigurson Kostohryz: Between Us

Video NoD & Café NoD
Stanislava Benešová, David Kolovratník, Václav Kostohryz: Between Us
Curator: Veronika Zajačiková
​June 1 - 25, 2017

Exhibition project of finalist of independent art festival Samorosti 2016

Three authors meet in a thematic exhibition. It combines not only interest in the human-animal captured in its specific environment, the authors conduct a quiet dialogue across genres, across the worlds of animal and human realms.

“Maybe, there is a beast ... What I mean is ... Maybe it's only us.”
William Golding" Lord of the Flies

STANISLAVA BENEŠOVÁ reflects social and moral issues in her paintings. She wonders what distinguishes humans from animals. Are they just social norms and education, which can oſten be completely artificially created? ”Concept Between Us, associated me the word MIMIKRY. Meanwhile, I understand them as a mask between us as people in society and among us as humans with (animal) instincts. "To succeed and to succeed in society, we put our masks on trying to meet the patterns of good man. However, we suppress our natural instincts and instincts that are closer to the animal world.“

In the second thematic group, Stanislava touches the phenomenon of WOLF CHILDREN. How would childrenwithoutcare,withoutthecriticalpatternof adults, be different. The author in the compositions puts children in the role of a wild game, whose life and movement is documented by a photopasting record. Simple, unbridled play for children, set in a different context, can be a struggle for life.

BETWEEN US, the quiet companions live 
Some people perceive them as a thing Some are eaten
Some are passing by car
Sigurson is aware,
Their joy and sorrow, and the pure, self-confident soul
They are a great inspiration for him and it is for those creatures,
Which he has met and will meet,
Very grateful 

The creation of VACLAV SIGURSON KOSTOHRYZ moves within the limits of small sculpture, which however grows in size with acquired experience. Václav invites the viewer to the intimate world according to Sigourson. Special for this exhibition, author
prepared three bronze sculptures from Sigurson's Animals series. In NoD, the premier will have a couple of kiwi birds, a bunch of kaloons or a host of chameleons. The modeling
of the animals that it deals with in the present time was preceded by an interest in the human figure, especially in capturing a person in
an intimate emotional situation. Animal figures are created with ease, capturing animals in their natural beauty and fragility. 

DAVID KOLOVRATNIK is in his new interest in the unprecedented past of part of his family. It processes an inherited photo archive, fragments of which are the masterpiece of the large screen. Characters, however, who can oſten only think of who they are or have been, are building into completely new, never-awaited, and oſten absurd, frightening situations and relationships. Although his painting is slowly turning away from him so oſten obsessively repeated central theme of the previous work – fish, the feeling of some silence and submergence remains here as well.

The paintings for the exhibition "Between Us" are complemented by a videoprojection composed of bands of cinemas. Their original damage has created new abstract shapes blending with characters and deforming the original, unreadable information.

Video NoD & Café NoD
Stanislava Benešová, David Kolovratník, Václav Kostohryz: Between Us
Curator: Veronika Zajačiková

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