About the International Curatorial Programme of Signal Festival
This year, Prague will once again welcome international curators and professionals from the field of digital art as part of Signal Festival. Supported by the PPF Foundation, the programme aims to introduce them to Czech artists and open up opportunities for international collaboration.
Seven guests from Australia, Spain, Finland, Taiwan, Switzerland, Sweden and France will come to Prague. They represent leading light festivals, cultural institutions, collections and creative platforms. During their visit, they will meet artists in their studios, explore the festival venues with Signal Festival curators and meet other figures from the Czech cultural scene.
The programme is primarily about creating connections that can lead to new opportunities for Czech artists – from international exhibitions and artistic commissions to residencies and long-term collaborations. Four days in Prague will offer an opportunity to discover the Czech art scene, exchange experience and build relationships that can continue beyond the Czech Republic.
„The Czech art scene possesses extraordinary talent and creative potential that deserves international recognition. Since systemic state support for art export is still developing, we aim to bridge this gap with the valued support of the PPF Foundation. By bringing world-class curators and experts to Prague, we create direct connections and open doors for Czech artists to international projects, residencies, and long-term collaborations“ comments Martin Pošta, CEO Signal Festival
The International Curatorial Programme is taking place for the third time this year thanks to the long-term support of the PPF Foundation.
Curators 2026
Dorothy Di Stefano
Curator & Founder MOLTEN.ART
An international curator and creative strategist specializing in contemporary spatial, digital and public art. Over more than twenty years, she has developed and curated cultural projects across Europe, the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region.
She is the founder of MOLTEN.ART, a platform connecting ideas, places and artists from different countries. Her work focuses on fostering international collaboration and exploring art as part of everyday life.
Nacha Delpiano
Founder & Director Brava Arts
A journalist and cultural manager who has been based in Spain since 2000. She specializes in artistic production, particularly opera and innovative classical music projects, and throughout her international career has worked in more than 30 countries with figures including Alondra de la Parra, La Fura dels Baus, Bob Wilson and Lotte de Beer.
She is the Production Director of the PAAX Festival and has long led Brava Arts, a multidisciplinary creative hub focused on artistic residencies, production and management.
Jarkko Halunen
Head of Events Lumo Light Festival
An experienced producer and project manager with more than twenty years of experience in cultural and public events. He works as Head of Events for the City of Oulu, where he leads a team responsible for major public events and the development of the local cultural environment.
Since 2017, he has also served as Head of Program of Lumo Light Festival, the largest public event in northern Finland. His work focuses, among other things, on the role of art and cultural events in transforming public space.
Kun-Ying Lin
Co-founder & Creative Director LuxuryLogico
A multidisciplinary artist working across contemporary art and culture, creative collaboration, technology-driven performance and participatory projects. His practice brings together music, philosophy, nature and technology through a distinctive visual and performative language.
His work has played a significant role in shaping major cultural and artistic projects in Taiwan. In 2019, he received the Presidential Cultural Award for Young Creators together with the LuxuryLogico collective. His participation in the Signal Festival curatorial programme is supported by Czech Centres through the Czech Centre Taipei.
Viola Lukács
Curator 0xCollection and Co-founder BINÁLÉ
A curator and writer based in Basel, where she leads the programme of the international art initiative 0xCollection. Her work explores the intersections of art, technology and ecology, with a particular focus on light art and the social impact of technological culture.
She gained international attention with the exhibition MetaMetria, dedicated to Bernar Venet. She subsequently collaborated with institutions including the Venet Foundation, the Kennedy Center and Postmasters Gallery in New York. She co-founded NFT DEB, the first European hackathon and conference dedicated to generative art, and is also the founding director of the BINÁLÉ media art biennial.
Géraldine Rusek
Collections Research Associate 0xCollection
An art historian based in Stockholm and Collections Research Associate at 0xCollection. Her work focuses on contemporary and digital art, materiality, ecological relations and the relationship between humans and more-than-human worlds.
She is interested in current transformations in artistic practice and explores questions surrounding the collecting and preservation of art.
Romain Tamayo
Project Manager and curator Fête des Lumières Lyon
Alongside producing the Fête des Lumières Lyon, Romain Tamayo develops other cultural and artistic projects in the fields of light and digital art, including La Madone in Lyon.
As part of LUCI and the Hacnum network, he leads international research into the future of light art festivals in cities and public space.
Czech Artists in the Programme
The guests will visit the studios of Czech artists whose practices explore the intersections of visual art, new media and technology. They will also meet Milan Cais at his festival installation.
Milan Cais
Co-founder of the band Tata Bojs and a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. Alongside projections and stage design for the band’s concerts, he works with sculpture, painting, watercolour and public-space installations, playfully and ironically giving familiar objects new meanings.
At this year’s Signal Festival, he presents the monumental audiovisual installation Into Imagination at Flemingovo Square in Dejvice.
Alex J. Jindrák / Modified.Studio
A multidisciplinary artist working with CGI, light, image and sound to create installations, projections and audiovisual environments. He explores artificial intelligence as a new tool for visual thinking. His Modified.Studio develops complex projects for global brands, cultural institutions and festivals.
Krištof Kintera
A sculptor who explores the boundaries of contemporary sculpture, from public-space installations to small kinetic objects. He became known for his Appliances series from the 1990s, which responded to consumerism and the aggressive advertising culture of the post-revolution era.
Jakub Nepraš
Drawing on scientific and philosophical knowledge as well as intuition, he explores society as a “superorganism” and the relationship between the individual and the whole. In his work, he gives contemporary society and technology natural, organic forms.
Jakub Pešek / Lunchmeat Studio
An artist, director and founder of Lunchmeat Studio, which has spent more than a decade working across media design, interactivity and new technologies. The studio creates projects for brands and institutions ranging from Netflix to the National Gallery Prague and, together with Apropos Architects, designed the Czech Pavilion at EXPO 2025 in Osaka. Since 2010, he has also organized the Lunchmeat Festival.
Jan Sládečko / ZenFrames
A digital artist and creative director with more than twelve years of experience at leading motion design and VFX studios around the world. Through his studio ZenFrames, he creates immersive worlds and interactive installations that connect image, space, breath and biofeedback.
Jan Slanina
A visual artist and student at the Intermedia Studio I at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. His work reflects on labour, technologization and their social impact. Neon is a defining element of his installations; he designs and produces it himself, using its glitches and failures as a metaphor for the instability of contemporary systems.