Matěj Pokorný

FIRE FIRE BURN BURN

As part of Sofia Artfair

Curated by Filip Kartousek

Artists: Marcela Putna, Oskar Hořánek, Anna Krištofíková, Roman Košťál, Matěj Pokorný

FIRE FIRE BURN BURN brings together five painters whose work responds to inner pressure, physical presence, and the shifting nature of identity in an overloaded world. This exhibition is not built around a single theme, but around different approaches to what it means to paint today. How to hold emotion, personal depth, and visual integrity in a surface. Each artist speaks in a different language, but all share a commitment to going deep, visually, emotionally, and materially.

FIRE FIRE BURN BURN is not an exhibition about one single topic. It is an exhibition about urgency, structure, and visual thinking. It is not about aesthetic unity, but about a shared position. These are works that hold weight, emotional, visual, and personal. Whether through bodies, space, memory, or material, each artist builds images that act more like experiences than representations.

These five artists did not meet by chance. This is not a generational selection or a stylistic overview. What unites them is an approach to the artwork as a crossroads of inner and outer worlds. The image is not an illustration. It is an encounter.