Liquid Tension

Byoungchan Yun is a Korean designer working between Seoul and Prague, and Lucie Jindrák Skřivánková is a Czech painter and multimedia artist known for her large-format paintings, murals, and textile objects.

Each approaches their medium—glass and painting—from different cultural and material backgrounds. Yet, in this exhibition, they create a shared space where form and fluidity, past and present, intertwine.

We live in an era that strives to name, grasp, structure, and categorize everything. In a society yearning for control—over time, the body, nature, and emotions. However, precisely where logic falls short and precision meets its limits, the realm of art begins. The exhibition Liquid Tension emerges as a quiet resistance to this pressure. It celebrates tension and harmony, spontaneity and form. 

The collaborative project by Byoungchan Yun and Lucie Jindrák Skřivánková is the result of a long-term dialogue between two cultures, two approaches to material and creation. Both artists find inspiration in each other’s countries—Yun in the Czech Republic, Skřivánková in South Korea. This cross-border interest goes deeper than mere aesthetic fascination—it embodies mutual listening, openness to otherness, and embracing tension as a form of sharing. 

The central object of the exhibition is a reinterpretation of the traditional Korean moon jar, which here becomes a bearer of shared form. Glass, designed by Byoungchan Yun and blown by Czech glass masters, meets the painting of Lucie Jindrák Skřivánková, which flows spontaneously across its surface, settling, resisting control. Her paintings arise without the use of a brush, through gravity, chance, and trust in a process that cannot be fully directed. This approach serves as a counterbalance to Yun’s design precision, who nonetheless seeks fragility, subtlety, and tension in his work. 

Liquid Tension is not just the title of the exhibition—it is the principle upon which the entire project stands. It embodies the tension between form and fluidity, between control and release, between two creators who have met in a space of mutual respect. 

The exhibition was created with the support of the Ministry of Culture and the State Fund for Culture.