Forget radical revolutions and formal experimentation. The diploma students view absolute originality as a myth and instead offer sensitivity, reuse and the search for new relationships within existing structures.

PAVLA BASTLOVÁ
Everything has already been done. I work with remixes and appropriations; I create feelings.

VOJTĚCH ČEPELÁK
“Reject novelty, embrace tradition.’’

MARTIN ŘEZÁČ
I’m not looking for a revolution in principles that are given and functional – a wheel remains a wheel and a house remains a house.

RACHAEL THORLEIFSON
Rather than inventing, I like to work with what’s already there.

VAVŘINEC VYORAL
People create from what they’ve experienced, seen and lived through, so in my opinion, complete originality is more of an illusion.

VIKTORIE SOUČKOVÁ
I believe that no work can be completely identical to another or entirely new, but it can share certain common traits.

VOJTĚCH HLAVÁČEK
The idea of total originality is a misconception. We all influence one another and that is what drives us.

MICHAL ŠEFRÁNEK
I often feel that we’ve already seen it all and that bringing radically new solutions to an environment strongly bound by technical and social norms is becoming increasingly difficult.

MARKÉTA VYCHODILOVÁ
I don’t think about my work in terms of novelty. The world is in general terms overexhausted and we all think we’re so innovative, but there are simply too many of us here to be innovative.

JIŘÍ GRUBER
I don’t think my work does anything fundamentally or groundbreakingly new. Moreover, I believe that such an ambition isn’t even necessary.

RADIM BROŽ
Whatever I finish is new, even if there’s nothing I can do about it. And in a few years, it will be old.

MATĚJ PAVELKA
I don’t try to be “new” or follow trends. For me, continuity and perseverance are important – a work grows gradually and gains strength over time.

BARTOLOMĚJ ŠOLC
Rather than novelty, my goal is to create something solid that I can be happy with.

AMÁLIE RYBÁKOVÁ
I don’t know if I’m doing or will do something new, or if new means better. I try to do things right.

MATOUŠ KUČERA
I don’t seek novelty in formal display, but in sensitivity to the human soul.

EVA KLEČKOVÁ
I find authenticity more important than “something new”. And perhaps, in the context of the times, it is always different, always new?

MATOUŠ KAŠPAR
I don’t see my role in producing the new, but in processing and showing what already exists from different angles.

MARTIN MLATEČEK
I don’t think I’m creating anything radically new, nor do I feel that it’s necessary in any way.

ERFAN SABZIPOOR
I try to create new relationships between existing elements. It’s less about invention and more about synthesis.

MARTINA ŠIKULOVÁ
Instead of chasing novelty, I’m interested in how things can be viewed differently.

EVE DAVID PATERSON MILLER My work does not aim for formal novelty, but instead looks to shift perspective.

MATĚJ HANUSCH
I believe that everything created today is new and relevant because it is created anew and in the present. Even if it involves copying the past and old art movements and styles, a work of art today is created under different conditions and from different motivations than in the past and thus it is original.

KEYA SINGH
Lived experience constantly offers newness.

TADEÁŠ POCHMAN
The creative process is fully immersed in the present – and thus simultaneously in the past and in a vision of the future. Whether I bring something new, I leave to the viewer.

DAVID TUREK
I wouldn’t say I’m doing something new, but I haven’t noticed many peers who approach art – and especially the creative process – in exactly the same way as I do.

KAREL VLADYKA
I work at the intersection of various practices and fields, which I hope makes my perspective quite unique and enriching. I am a drag queen and in both my life and art, my goal is to break down the binary boxes into which we are all forced from birth.

ALEXANDRA SUROVKOVÁ
Rather than a breakthrough, I’m interested in personal interpretation and my own visual language.

DEMIAN KOVALOV
Most likely, nothing fundamentally new is happening, yet I enjoy thinking that it is.

FILIP BRANDEJSKÝ
The word “new” truly reflects my convictions, my bull-headed stubbornness and my commitment.