Martin Herold
In his work, he moves between painting and spatial installations that draw on observations of his immediate surroundings as well as on existing images. He repeatedly returns to architecture as a space of psychological experience—to the tension between the public and the intimate, between what a space represents and what it actually conveys. His work is characterized by expressive economy and a focus on detail: he works in thematic cycles in which each motif returns altered, shifted, and deepened. He has exhibited at venues including the Moosey Gallery in London, the Berlínskej model gallery and The Chemistry Gallery in Prague, the Gočár Gallery in Pardubice, and the 8smička art zone in Humpolec.
Artist's exhibitions
Apollo’s Tropic
Néphéli Barbas and Martin Herold explore architecture as a living archive: they interpret facades, ornaments, and traces of everyday use as places where time accumulates and rewrites itself. Their works—paintings, objects, and spatial installations—emerge through a process of give-and-take: the image responds to the object, the structure encounters its own disruption, and one approach triggers another. No form stabilizes permanently. The key to interpreting the exhibition is Miller’s Tropic of Cancer, not as a literary reference, but as a mode of movement through space: fragmentary, intermittent, constantly returning to places we have already seen but do not recognize. Apollo does not enter this world as a figure of harmony, but as a reminder that transformation need not mean loss—it can be a way to survive.
