Denisa Štefanigová (b.1995) is a Czech visual artist and painter based in Brno. Her practice focuses on painting, which she expands into site-specific installations. She studied painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Brno University of Technology and subsequently at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Several internships and residencies have taken her to Bilbao, Stuttgart, Prague, and Budapest.

In addition to the Czech Republic, she has exhibited her work in Lithuania, Estonia, Hungary, Spain, and Germany—including at the Světova 1 Gallery in Prague, the Brno House of Arts, the U Dobrého pastýře Gallery in Brno, the EKA Gallery and Hobusepea Gallery in Tallinn, the Easttopics Gallery in Budapest, the Gedok Gallery in Stuttgart, the MO Museum in Vilnius, and the Noorus Gallery in Tartu.

In 2024, she was a finalist for the Cyprián Prize in Trnava, and in 2021, she was one of the 15 finalists for the Young Painter Prize for the Baltic countries. Her works are included in the KOGART Collection in Budapest, as well as in other private collections in the Czech Republic and Estonia.

Residency at Schaumbad: October/November 2025

Marin Katušić (b. 1990) lives and works between Vienna and Graz. After earning his degree in architecture from the Vienna University of Technology, he attended the master class in painting at the Ortweinschule in Graz.

His paintings are characterized by a balance between figurative representation and abstraction. By playing with the dissolution and fragmentation of memories and observations, he creates visual worlds that place the body and the environment within a dynamic tension between spontaneity and order. Themes such as melancholy, identity, social dogmas, and the fragile relationship between humans and nature are central to his work.

Residency at Schaumbad: September 2025

Dorsa Basij is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Tehran and Athens. In her artistic practice, she combines photography, video, installation, and sculpture. Her process-oriented approach is based on site-specific research and the transformation of materials. Central themes in her work include absence, erosion, reflection, and temporality.

With a particular interest in industrial landscapes and the forces of nature, she explores the intersections between personal memory and collective space. In her most recent works, she focuses on the effects of sunlight, wind, and water on fragile materials—and examines how these interactions reveal both decay and presence.

At the heart of her practice lies a fascination with the aesthetics of ruins, with disappearance as a form of memory—with the way places preserve what once was. She views unpredictability, instability, and failure as productive elements of her artistic process. She often works with natural elements—and with time itself.

With an academic background in biology, she has continued to develop her artistic practice and now works in a studio at the Deyhim Art Factory, an experimental art space in Tehran’s industrial district.

Residency at Schaumbad: July 2025

Nina Teresa Feuerstein draws on a wide range of elements and forms of expression. Her primary focus lies on photography, painting, sculptural works, sound and audio, film and video, as well as the broad field of ceramics. Each of these artistic elements is closely linked to her personal history and career path. Nina Teresa Feuerstein is well-versed in both theory and practice, always considering the history and original use of materials. This makes her ability to engage with materials, media, and their processing in an experimental and playful manner all the more impressive. Her approach to forms of expression and materials is, without exception, devoted, full of respect, and characterized by a sustainable approach.
Nina Teresa Feuerstein’s art is multifaceted, profound, and at the same time light and sensitive.
Text: Traudl Hartl

Exchange as part of the EU program “Culture Moves Europe” in 2024.

Štěpán Brož (born 1992, Prague) is a visual artist who works primarily in the field of painting, but also in drawing and illustration. He graduated from the Studio of Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno and from the Studio of Illustration and Graphics at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. He participated in academic internships at the Centro de Estudios Superiores de Diseño in Monterrey, Mexico, and at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, Belgium. He has also taken part in residencies at ESAC in Český Krumlov and at La Mano Press in Pátzcuaro, Mexico. His painting technique involves a time-consuming process of applying colored glazes and an intuitive—yet meticulous—search for the final form of the painting through the use of abstract color spots and imaginative stylization of figures. In his practice, he primarily explores manifestations of the grotesque in relation to their origins in the late Middle Ages or Renaissance and their modern or contemporary interpretations. Through his paintings, we can observe fragments of narratives unfolding in a fantastical universe, where twisted reflections of our reality emerge from a gloomy atmosphere. He exhibits primarily in independent galleries. He is currently pursuing doctoral studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno.

Exchange as part of the EU program “Culture Moves Europe” 2024.
Klára Čermáková (*1992 Kladno) is a visual artist / human being. She lives and works in Prague. Her work has been showcased in numerous group exhibitions across Europe, including the Czech Republic, France, Germany, and Slovenia. Klára has participated in various residencies, including in Budapest, Bucharest, Český Krumlov, Prague, Kollnburg, and Strasbourg.

Her objects and installations are linked by a fluid boundary between the natural and the artificial, the body and technology, and—last but not least—between art and science. The core of her work lies in intuitive creation and construction, grounded in the material itself and the joy of its transformation and discovery.

She views art as a unique form of communication that highlights the importance of imaginative and empathetic cognition, which are often overlooked. Her work questions the overemphasis on rational thinking and draws attention to today’s society’s inability to truly perceive its surroundings.

Klára’s interest also centers on the limits of contemporary labor and non-hierarchical social structures.

website:www.klarafrom.earth
instagram: @klarafromearth
arena: www.are.na/klarafrom-earth

Exchange during the 2022 exhibition “What Remains.”

Saara-Maria Kariranta (b. 1974) and Jarmo Ilmari Somppi (b. 1970) are artists based in Inkoo, Finland, who combine traditional sculptural techniques with everyday objects and new technology in their work. In recent years, their installations have focused on examining the practices of Western post-capitalist society. Through their collaboration, they create multi-sensory, charged spaces where the boundaries between the inanimate and the animate, the mental and the material, are blurred.