ArtDrop #001

WE are introducing a new HIDDEN Gallery format: curated drops featuring works by artists we work with closely – outside the exhibition programme. Each drop highlights artworks that deserve full attention even beyond the walls of the gallery.

ArtDrop #001 gathers six works linked by themes of transformation — of matter, bodies, landscapes and belief. Each painting captures a point where something shifts or mutates, forming a collective portrait of instability and new growth.

Anna Krištofíková

Anna Krištofíková - Prasklo to! (It broke!)

Anna Krištofíková - Prasklo to! (It broke!)

Created between the artist’s residency in New York and her solo exhibition Wild at Steel Heart at HIDDEN.

This painting captures a moment of emotional overflow — a sudden crack in the façade, where the image slips and something raw breaks through.
Krištofíková blends hyperreal portraiture with playful distortions, allowing the figure to oscillate between sincerity and absurdity, intimacy and theatrical exaggeration. The work stands at the threshold of two important periods in her practice, reflecting both the intensity of her time at Cooper Union and the growing confidence that shaped her later series.

Oskar Hořánek

Oskar Hořánek - Gathering forces II.

Oskar Hořánek - Gathering forces II.

A break in the middle of a mountain hike turns into an act of extraction — a search for the energy needed to reach the set goal.The painting reflects the constant demand for performance and a lifestyle in which productivity becomes a new form of faith.

A faith that, through its demands, makes us close our eyes to everything else.

Karolína Netolická

Karolína Netolická - Hlava labůzy (Head of the Labuza)

Karolína Netolická - Hlava labůzy (Head of the Labuza)

The painting comes from an extensive cycle titled Plastic World. In this world, boundaries do not exist — everything can be reshaped into any form. Head of the Labuza is the result of a synthesis between Medusa and a swan, creating a kind of plastic emblem of the contemporary era.

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Marcela Putna

Marcela Putnová - Reversed power (the apple of mockery)

Marcela Putnová - Reversed power (the apple of mockery)

Admiration for substitutes and stage-like facades distances us from the real essence.

But an artificial tree will never bear good fruit — sooner or later, it mocks us.

And while we believe we are making our own choices, we fail to see that the apple is being offered by someone else’s hand.

The painting can also be read as a reference to the motif of the forbidden fruit — a temptation that seduces more strongly than truth itself.

Paweł Sobczak

Paweł Sobczak - Source

Paweł Sobczak - Source

The painting was created for the solo exhibition The Blackness of the Salty Land at Jak Zapomnieć Gallery in Kraków. It refers to Silesia, the artist’s place of origin, known for its mining history and the marks it left on the landscape. Source explores ecological issues and reflects on the decline of mining and the depletion of natural resources. Religious motifs appear throughout the composition, influenced by the artist’s upbringing and interest in traditional iconography. This work also introduces the theme of disappearance, which later became one of the key elements in his artistic practice.

Matěj Pokorný

Matěj Pokorný - Unusual Plant

Matěj Pokorný - Unusual Plant

Unusual Plant is part of Matěj’s series Biomorphic Organisms, in which he explores the transitions between the body, plant life, and living matter. In this body of work, he examines how physicality can extend into the vegetal realm and how organic forms shift when we look inside their structures. His interest lies in observing the interior of living organisms — in recording the movement and energy inherent within matter itself.