Constant pursuit of new pathways and forms of expression is as ancient as art. Each leap forward, whether the discovery of pigments, the birth of photography or present development of AI, has been propelled by permanent quest for the unknown.

What largely endures, however, is the content: our dialogue with nature and with ourselves, the search for a meaningful spiritual depth, whilst cultural and historical references remain central impulses to creative art.

The fact that distinguishes present-day artists is the unprecedented breadth of available media and tools. Continuous rise of AI offers them a medium that enables them, for the first time ever, approach a quality that has long been reserved for music: liberation from material constraints.

For centuries, European art and philosophy have struggled with the hierarchy of arts, with material being at the heart of the debate. Does painting claim primacy because the act of painting elevates inferior substances? Or should sculpture, which transforms matter into something more valuable, take precedence? Or perhaps it should be music, unique in its immaterial existence, that merits the highest regard, precisely for its fleeting nature?

Generative AI introduces this transience to the visual arts, compelling us to principally examine the classical concept of art as an open-ended process.

Flaring Fragments of Future Past navigates the space between emerging possibilities and traditional media. 

The exhibition is a mere fragment of the current caesura in contemporary art. Through the lens of new technologies, it undertakes a form of aesthetic archaeology. Art history revisited.

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Museum Kampa, Prague, Czech Republic
Represented by Steinhauser Gallery & Gallery Kleindienst

Echoes of the Unseen reverberates through the folds of elastic time, where lived memories intertwine with those imagined ones. Set within interiors and exteriors that range from more to less real, these scenes capture transient moments – paused just before resolution or after their conclusion. They linger in space-time like relics of stories that may never have occurred, yet they press upon us with undeniable weight. These are the unseen strata of reality, resurfacing in hints, gestures, and atmosphere.

The joint exhibition brings together two artists of the same generation: Tilo Baumgärtel (b. 1972), based in Leipzig, and Mihael Milunović (b. 1967), who works and lives in between Paris and Belgrade. Each unfolds a distinct artistic universe, rich in layered visual narratives and shaped by singular dramaturgical strategies, set within a realm of a distorted reality. Both artists probe the human relationship to reality with nuance and sensitivity, subtly playing with the mechanics of depiction and the nature of perception. Beneath the surface of seemingly familiar scenes, they weave in subversive codes – echoes of psychological, social, political, historical, and imagined realities. Their works reveal a porous boundary through which memory, fiction, and the subconscious freely seep. Rather than depicting the world as it is, they bring to the fore irrationality, symbolism, and psychological events – often concealed beneath the surface of the everyday. Realism merges organically with the principles of surrealism, together revealing the tensions between power, vulnerability, and human estrangement.

Both artists navigate non-linear narratives, capturing fleeting, emotionally charged moments woven with absurdity, dreamlike imagery, and traces of memory – or the illusion of it. They conjure a bleak, often self-contained realities governed by an internal logic, where scenes remain fragmentary and open-ended, unfolding within intricately staged metaphysical spaces. Their collage-like compositions form dense visual fields that invite introspection and ignite the imagination…

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