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Darja Lukjanenko

7. 10. 2025
Darja Lukjanenko is an interdisciplinary artist working across text, performance, and gardening. Her practice explores the postcolonial condition in regions affected by Soviet imperialism, with a focus on Ukraine, alongside themes of migration, identity, and collective memory. Her work is grounded in research, post-artistic strategies, and empathy-driven methods. She holds a BA in Journalism from Oles Honchar Dnipro National University (2016) and an MA in Fine Arts from the Academy of Arts, Architecture, and Design in Prague (UMPRUM, 2023). Currently, she is a PhD student at the Faculty of Art and Design at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, focusing on postcolonial identity and cultural practices for reconstructing collective memory in Ukraine after 2014. Her work has been presented internationally in Czech Republic, Ukraine, USA, Sweden, Greece, Ireland, Germany, Belgium and Poland. In 2024, she was named the main winner of the Secondary Archive OPEN CALL for young women artists from the Visegrad Group and Western Balkan countries.
 
Imagination Guide: Making Rockets Disappear https://makingrocketsdisappear.com/ 
Darja Lukjanenko on Secondary Archive https://secondaryarchive.org/artists/darja-lukjanenko/
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Petra Widžová

28. 7. 2025
Petra Widžová (*1991) is a graduate of the Faculty of Humanities at Charles University and the Curatorial Studies program at the Faculty of Art and Design in Ústí nad Labem. She focuses primarily on cultural management and works as an independent curator of contemporary visual art. Her practice explores new forms of mediating contemporary art, the theme of public space, and art projects with social impact. In 2023, she realized the curatorial project The Logic of Growth at MUD Benešov, which addressed degrowth ideas in contemporary art. She followed up with the group exhibition Good Job at Hraničář Gallery in Ústí nad Labem, which reflected on the issue of labour. She is the co-founder and curator of the Artmat project, which focuses on presenting young contemporary artists in public space. Since 2021, she has been developing international collaborations within this project in cooperation with the Czech Centres. She also co-founded the Vitríny Frýdlantská gallery and the Open Studios Prague festival. She is currently enrolled in the doctoral programme at the Faculty of Art and Design at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, where her research focuses on the topic of artistic estates.
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Martin Nitsche

23. 7. 2025

Martin Nitsche serves as the Chair of the Department of Contemporary Continental Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy of Czech Academy of sciences in Prague. His research focuses on phenomenology, phenomenological topology, philosophy of art, aesthetics, phenomenology of religious experience, and resilience theory. Nitsche formulated the “transitive-topological model of phenomenology” (Methodical Precedence of Intertwining. An Introduction to a Transitive - Topological Phenomenology, 2018). He also co-authored Phenomenological Investigations of Sonic Environments (Palgrave Macmillan 2024) and published Die Ortschaft des Seins. Martin Heideggers phänomenologische Topologie (2013). He was the guest editor of an Open Philosophy topical issue “Philosophy and Sonic Research - Thinking with Sounds and Rhythms” (2021).

Areas of expertise

Phenomenology, philosophy of place and space, philosophy of art, philosophy of religious experience, applied phenomenology.
In art theory specifically: phenomenology of art, immersive approach to art, art and religion or spirituality, art as a way of thinking, art and sound, art and place, topology of art, art and activism, resilience.

Selected publications

– NITSCHE, Martin, I. Gutierrez, J. Zelenka, V. Pokorný: Phenomenological Investigations of Sonic Environments, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham 2024. ISBN 978-3-031-65920-1. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-65921-8.
– NITSCHE, Martin. Methodical Precedence of Intertwining. An Introduction to a Transitive-Topological Phenomenology. Orbis Phaenomenologicus, Studien 44. 1. vyd. Würzburg: Königshausen u. Neumann, 2018. ISBN 978-3-8260-6219-3.
– NITSCHE, Martin. Metodická přednost spleti. Tranzitivně-topologický model fenomenologie. Praha: Togga, 2016. ISBN 978-80-7476-112-6.
– NITSCHE, Martin. Die Ortschaft des Seins. Martin Heideggers phänomenologische Topologie. Orbis Phaenomenologicus, Studien 33. 1. vyd. Würzburg: Königshausen u. Neumann, 2013. ISBN 978-3-8260-5181-4.
– NITSCHE, Martin. "Sonic Environments as Systems of Places: A Critical Reading of Husserl’s Thing and Space" Open Philosophy 4, no. 1 (2021): 136-148. https://doi.org/10.1515/opphil-2020-0164
– NITSCHE, Martin. “The Invisible and the Hidden within the Phenomenological Situation of Appearing.” Open Theology. 6(2020): 547-556, ISSN 2300-6579, https://doi.org/10.1515/opth-2020-0128.
– NITSCHE, Martin. “Transformative Impact: The Environmental Significance of Religious Conversions.” Open Theology. 5(2019): 241-248, ISSN 2300-6579, DOI: 10.1515/opth-2019-0020

Complete Bibliography

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