In the first part of our series, we introduced you to a photographer, a painter, and a poet from the first trio of HYB4 Art Studios residents. Today, we continue with another trio that is just as diverse as the first: a printmaking studio, an art collective "hidden" behind a single shared identity, and a painter who explores family memory in her work.
What happens when two different approaches to printmaking meet in one studio? One rooted in nature and landscape, the other in small, everyday situations?
That is exactly what Atelier Pala—a printmaking studio run by Paul Tuttas and Laura Hédervári, focused on original prints and experimental work with techniques such as linocut, etching, and woodcut. Together, they create a space for making, sharing, and discovering these processes.
Laura focuses primarily on intaglio printing and finds inspiration in everyday situations. Paul works mainly with woodcut and material printing, with his work rooted in nature and a personal connection to the landscape. The studio thus bridges traditional graphic techniques with an experimental approach to imagery.
Both are graduates of Prague's UMPRUM. Paul studied in the Illustration and Graphics Studio, where he created his diploma project Alt Jabel. Laura studied in both the Animation and Film Studio and the Illustration and Graphics Studio, and as early as 2015, she won the Grand Prix at the Student Design competition for her graphic work on the book Lomikel a jiné zádrhele.
You can follow Paul's work on Instagram (@paul_tuttas)
What if fatigue had a name and a body of its own?
Monika is a collective identity formed (primarily, but not exclusively) by the bodies of Anna Chrtková, Matyáš Grimmich, and Karolína Schön. By their own definition, Monika is a "superhero of fatigue," whose body is a chronicle of crises, bruised by extractive capitalism and exhausted by the constant chase for money, housing, artistic visibility, and recognition.
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Behind this shared identity lies a three-year process, which Anna Chrtková describes in her research paper Becoming Monika, published in 2025 in the Journal for Artistic Research. It began in 2020 with a research residency she initiated alongside Matyáš Grimmich, with Karolína Schön joining them a year later. The goal was to test how a shared, collective consciousness might function as an alternative to the individualism that today's society takes for granted. Through objects, situations, and stories, they collectively created and documented experiences associated with this form of collaboration.
Outside of the Monika project, all three continue their own individual work. Anna Chrtková focuses on scenography, including work for Divadlo X10 or Indigo Company, while Matyáš Grimmich explores themes of mental health and community in his graphic design, and Karolína Schön works with photography and personal projects centered on burnout. Under the Monika identity, however, they consciously dissolve their individual practices into one shared body and perspective, blending text, image, video, objects, and performative approaches.
Their joint project The Great Burnout (The Great Burnout), presented at TIC Gallery explores the theme of rest in a world overwhelmed by crises and unchecked self-destructive activity.
Three distinct creative practices stand behind this collective identity. Anna Chrtková is a set designer and curator who holds a degree in scenography from JAMU in Brno and in interactive media theory from Masaryk University. Matyáš Grimmich is a graduate of the Studio of Graphic Arts II at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, and his work focuses on themes of mental health, illness, collectivity, and community. Karolína Schön graduated from the Studio of New Media II at the Academy of Fine Arts (2021–2024) and previously studied imaginative photography at FAMU (2018–2021), with her diploma thesis focusing specifically on the topic of burnout.
You can follow Anna Chrtková on Instagram (@annachrtkova)
Matyáš Grimmich on Instagram (@matyas_grimmich)
Karolína Schön on Instagram (@_vetroplach_)
What if the body acts as an archive, storing relationships, losses, and the small, everyday moments that stay with us longer than we care to admit?
Painter and graphic artist Jitka Petrášová (born 1981 in Strakonice) works with figurative painting and printmaking, drawing on personal experience, memories, and things that are close to her in some way, whether in a positive or negative sense. Figures in motion, athletes, neighbors, and anonymous everyday characters become carriers of emotion, humor, and hidden tension on her canvases.
"For me, the figure is not a portrait of a specific person, but a way of thinking about the human experience. I perceive the body as a place of memory where relationships, losses, intimacy, uncertainty, and small everyday situations are stored," describes Jitka Petrášová her approach in her own artist statement.
She works intuitively, using bold color contrasts and a gestural style, believing that the best results come naturally and cannot be forced. She has long returned to the themes of home, family memory, and the experiences we carry from childhood, where personal events naturally blend with her imagination.
She graduated from the Department of Art Education at the Faculty of Education, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice (2000–2008) and the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (2019–2025), where she studied in the Painting I studio under Robert Šalanda, Painting IV under Marek Meduna and Petr Dub, and in the Guest Artist Studio under Anton Vidokle. She is also a co-founder and owner of the independent publishing house Knižnice Kodiak, which is dedicated to artist books.
Art historian Petr Vaňous wrote about her work:
"From a cluster of events and a plane of indistinguishability, figures, animals, flowers, environments, and places emerge before our eyes, representing the symbolic level of the artist's personal mythology. At first glance, the world here seems almost crazily cheerful, but a second look detects ingenious, omnipresent mimicry associated with social masking and communication strategies."
You can follow her on Instagram (@jitkapetrasov)
The first trio of residents showcased three distinct individual voices. With the second group, something else comes to the fore: the question of what it can mean to create together.
Jitka Petrášová works alone. Her canvases are created in the concentration of one person reflecting on their own memory, yet others enter them—neighbors, athletes, and characters she carries from childhood memories. Paul Tuttas and Laura Hédervári have established a shared studio. Each maintains their own style and themes, but they share space, printing techniques, and a desire to discover everything that printmaking can do. The Monika collective goes even further. Anna Chrtková, Matyáš Grimmich, and Karolína Schön decided to merge three separate artistic practices into one shared identity, allowing them to dissolve for the sake of a collective body.
Each of these approaches defines the space between an individual voice and a collective work differently. These are not three stages of a single journey, but three autonomous ways of rethinking the boundaries of authorship, collaboration, and the sharing of the creative process.
On Open House Day, on Thursday, October 1st, you can encounter these forms of creation directly in the resident studios.
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