Mushrooms in galleries, baking bread and ten layers of irony. A list of the things that diploma students are tired of.

JÁCHYM ŠIMEK
Institutional academicism.

MATĚJ HANUSCH
Not only in art, but also in society, I perceive an excessive emphasis on questionnaires. The constant asking of questions, which I find terribly tiring to fill out and answer.

FILIP BRANDEJSKÝ
I consider exhausted art to be boring. And I find it even more boring when something pretends to be something it isn’t.

VIKTOR PROKOP
It is mainly people who seem exhausted to me.

KLÁRA KUSÁ
Kitsch. Just take a walk around town. No need to say more.

ANTONÍN ZÁVODNÝ
For example: networking, the importance of self-presentation on social media, nepotism, Prague- centrism, gatekeeping, overuse of the terms “care” and “community”, mushrooms in galleries, baking bread as a performance, performative activism, performative dinners and art awards.

JAKUB HONS
From my subjective point of view, it’s what’s called trash ceramics. Not only does it keep repeating itself and look the same, but what bothers me most is the “messiness” of the object.

EMMA ŠTĚPÁNOVÁ
Cold, grey, concretoid detached houses, office buildings with large exterior steel blinds and “Entrepreneurial Baroque” architecture.

MICHAL ŠEFRÁNEK
When it comes to architecture, I consider the aesthetics of corporate business centres and investment housing to be exhausted and, by and large, boring.

VAVŘINEC VYORAL
On the current art scene, I often tend to be puzzled by various trends in painting that I find more decorative than substantive.

MATĚJ PŠENIČKA
Personally, I find the overly obvious use of trends bothersome. I understand that we draw inspiration from them and work with them, but in any case, the artist should pay attention to the final execution so that the work doesn’t look like it was copied from a Pinterest board.

MIROSLAVA MARTINCOVÁ
Today, I often encounter the repetitive use of predictable minimalist forms and sterile “Instagram-style” installations, which may look clean aesthetically but often lack depth or context.

DOMINIKA VYSKOČILOVÁ
Personally, I’m not a big fan of trends in art, though that sounds a bit paradoxical given the themes I draw upon.

ENISA SKOKO
Plagiarism, yeah – and AI art models, which go hand in hand with it.

JIŘÍ GRUBER
I, for one, don’t particularly enjoy reflections on social media and their role in our lives, or more generally topics like the digitisation of our experiences, etc., but let everyone focus on what they themselves deem appropriate and, above all, what fulfils them, even if it seems the most hackneyed to others.

DEMIAN KOVALOV
The romantic notion of the artist as a misunderstood genius died with van Gogh, yet its specter haunts Instagram, offering a whole range of different manifestations.

ERFAN SABZIPOOR
I find the hyper-individualization of contemporary art quite exhausting. When language tries too hard to create meaning instead of clarifying it, it disconnects the work from its audience.

MARTIN ŘEZÁČ
That’s a tough one; I don’t know.

KEYA SINGH
I am currently tired of the superficiality that persists in the structure of the art scene. Everyone claims to “care,” but very few actually act with “care.” I find this very, very, very boring.

KAREL VLADYKA
In today’s post-everything culture, I am bothered by – or rather, saddened by – the ten layers of irony we all defensively wrap ourselves in.

ALEXANDRA SUROVKOVÁ
I find overly complicated, hyper- intellectualised accompanying texts boring, as they are understood only by a narrow circle of insiders. In my opinion, art should not be based on a barrier of incomprehensibility, but on the ability to communicate.

EVE DAVID PATERSON MILLER
I am less interested in work that is too explicit for the viewer.

NINA SIBINSKÁ
What repeats itself is often considered exhausted, but the paradox is that what makes a given thing boring is its presentation.

MATOUŠ KUČERA
I’m exhausted by the garish effort to shock. Glass facades and convulsive curves that try to drown out the surrounding chaos are empty and boring to me.

MARKÉTA VYCHODILOVÁ
The works that address the crisis without being willing to take risks themselves.

MARTIN MLATEČEK
The theme of sustainability. A great example is the rain tower in the AVU garden. What exactly is its purpose and how well does it fulfil its function? How much money was spent on its creation? Could those funds have been put to better use for the same purpose? How does it relate to sustainability, aside from illustrating its opposite?