Meno Priezvisko
Meno Priezvisko
Meno Priezvisko
Tomáš Moravanský
Art Director, Artist, Curator
Tomáš Moravanský, also known as Panáčik (1991, Dubnica nad Váhom), is a post-contemporary artist whose practice moves across intersections of visual art, sociological and artistic research, performance, choreography, text, music, situation, stage and site-specific interventions, theory, and stand-up. Moravanský lives in Brno and works internationally. He runs the platform INSTITUT INSTITUT, which he co-founded.
Drawing on social psychology, memetics, and daily observation, he tests material through interaction and repetition—a process akin to a comedian trying out new jokes, yet also to an evolutionary mechanism in which ideas, forms, and information continuously transform, grow, spread, and mutate in dialogue with their environment.
Moravanský keeps surprising us with experimental exhibition formats that play with institutional logic, bureaucracy, and media space, while emphasizing spatial dramaturgy, performativity, interaction, and humor—sometimes a trap, sometimes a bridge, always slightly off-center, always ironic. His tools are language, perception, choreography, and timing, which he bends and tests in ever-new contexts.
His work has been presented at more than two hundred thousand and five million institutions—both at home and abroad. Highlights include the 2024 Summer Olympics Art Programme (Czech Centre Paris), the National Gallery Prague, where he staged a billiard-table massage, or the Zlín Youth Salon. His music project Panáčik caught the attention of BBC 1. Among his unforgettable actions is an intervention in the live broadcast of Slovak Radio, where he had a sports commentator cover his concert in real time. He was a finalist of the Art Grand Slam organized by Sport in Art with Dead in the Pool (with Tereza Sikorová)—a five-hour performance where, apart from a clown lifeguard and people floating, almost nothing happens. As a laureate of the Oskár Čepan Award, he continues to seek new situations in which his research can resonate. He is currently completing a PhD in Theory and History of Art at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno. What is his favorite color?
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CONTACT INFORMATION
Website: www.institutinstitut.com
Instagram profile: @institutinstitut
Personal instagram profile: @panacikhaha
Buy music: https://panacik.bandcamp.com/
Email: institutinstitut.oz@gmail.com
Email for music & performance: panacik.booking@gmail.com
Phone: +421 907 056 220 / +420 792 373 281
WhatsApp: +420 792 373 281
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2018–present | INSTITUT INSTITUT of Contemporary Art and Theory, Art Director
2017–present | Independent practice under trade license
2007–present | Panáčik, Composer & Producer of music+visual project
EDUCATION
2025 | PhD Fine Arts, Department of History and Theory of Art, Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology, Supervisor: Václav Magid
2018 | MgA Intermedia, Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology
2014 | BcA Conceptual Tendencies / Video / Intermedia, Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology
AWARDS | GRANTS | FELLOWSHIPS
2024 | Laureate of Oskar Čepan Award, Foundation – Center for Contemporary Art, SK
2024 | Finalist of Art Grand Slam Award, Sport in Art, CZ
2024 | Visual Arts Programme (A stipend), Slovak Arts Council, SK
2022 | Other Visions & Honorable Mention, PAF Olomouc, CZ
2022 | Visual Arts Programme, Slovak Arts Council, SK
2021 | External Commission for Contemporary Art, Apexart, New York, USA
2020 | Interdisciplinary Projects Grant, Slovak Arts Council, SK
2020 | Black Box Scholarship, TIC Gallery, Brno, CZ
2020 | Scholarship, Young Urban Performances, Osnabrück, DE
2019 | Finalist of Other Visions, Kinečko, Bratislava, SK
2018 | Dance Programme Grant, Slovak Arts Council, SK
2013 | Radio_Head Awards, Nominations: Best Album, Single, RTVS
2012 | Radio_Head Awards, Nominations: Best Album, Single, Performance, Debut, RTVS
2009 | Best Animated Film, Animofest, Bratislava, SK
2008 | Best Experimental Film, Ostrava Pictures, CZ
RESIDENCIES
2025 | Budapest Gallery, Budapest, HU
2023 | Banská St a nica Contemporary, SK
2023 | RESI.DANCE, Komařice, CZ
2022 | New Synagogue, Žilina, SK
2021 | Egon Schiele Art Centrum, Český Krumlov, CZ
2020 | Gallery XY, Olomouc, CZ
2020 | Theatre Pôtoň, Bátovce, SK
2020 | Stanica Žilina-Záriečie, SK
2020 | Brno Artist in Residence, CZ
2019 | Kulturák Archa, CZ
2019 | Czech Centre Sofia, BG
2012 | Deep Camp, Ostrava, CZ
2011 | Artmill, Prague, CZ
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 | HAHA, New Synagogue, Žilina, SK
2025 | I Don’t Need Another Exhibition, Budapest Gallery, HU
2024 | Hoarding, MEDIUM Gallery, Bratislava, SK
2024 | I Still Don’t Understand Grafitti, Artrooms Moravany 6, Moravany nad Váhom, SK
2024 | Inside the Movement (Art Grand Slam), Czech Centre Paris, FR
2024 | Museum of the City that Missed its History, Turec Gallery, Martin, SK
2024 | Inside the Movement (c. Tereza Sikorová), SmetanaQ, Prague, CZ
2023 | Smell of a New Car, Třinec Gallery, Třinec, CZ
2023 | KIDS!, HALLE 13, Vienna, AT
2023 | F-word (F is for Fantasy), SPZ Gallery, Prague, CZ
2023 | I Don’t Understand Grafitti, Platform 1-12, Topoľčany, SK
2023 | Those Who Looked Out the Window, Parter BSC, Banská Štiavnica, SK
2023 | Autograph Session, Hovorny, Opava, CZ
2023 | Star Trek Deep Space 9 – 1080p 12 Hours, Bludný Kámen / Cella, Opava, CZ
2022 | What Time is Now (w/ Svätopluk Mikyta), Glassyard Gallery, Budapest, HU
2022 | Sands of the Microworld 3.0, DOM festival, Bratislava, SK
2022 | THERE THERE, MEDIUM Gallery, Bratislava, SK
2022 | Sands of the Microworld 2.0, TIC Gallery, Brno, CZ
2022 | New Horizon (c. Svätopluk Mikyta), Emmanuel Walderdorff Galerie, Hofgut Molsberg, DE
2022 | Nothing Important Happened Today Part II, HELMUT Gallery, Leipzig, DE
2021 | Nový Prostor.app, TIC Gallery, Brno, CZ
2021 | Humblebrag, OFF/FORMAT, Brno, CZ
2021 | Carpet Stories v.3, Sngg Studio, New Synagogue, Žilina, SK
2021 | The Man Who Returned from Space Back to Earth, Studio PRAM, Prague, CZ
2021 | Sands of the Microworld, Gallery of Jozef Kollár, Banská Štiavnica, SK
2021 | Microsleep, Museum of Art, Olomouc, CZ
2021 | Transferred Attention, XY Gallery, Olomouc, CZ
2020 | Repository, Komnata Gallery, Zlín, CZ
2020 | Carpet Stories v.1, XY Gallery, Olomouc, CZ
2020 | Still Room, Industra, Brno, CZ
2020 | Still Files, Young Urban Performances, Osnabrück, DE
2020 | INSTITUT INSTITUT: Acupuncture of Exhibition Space (squared), Pragovka Gallery, Prague, CZ
2020 | Still Left, Brno House of Art, G99, Brno, CZ
2019 | Fragment 0 (c. Veronika Žilinská), TIC Gallery, Brno, CZ
2019 | Virtual Introduction (c. Tereza Sikorová), Kunsthalle, Osnabrück, DE
2019 | INSTITUT INSTITUT: Acupuncture of Exhibition Space, FaVU Gallery, Brno, CZ
2019 | Deconstructing the Island (c. Tereza Sikorová), Museum of St. Anastasia, Burgas, BG
2019 | Sequences (c. Tereza Sikorová), Egon Schiele Art Centrum, Český Krumlov, CZ
2018 | Still Live, FaVU Gallery, Brno, CZ
2015 | FUCK (c. Václav Stratil), PLATO, Ostrava, CZ
2013 | FUCK (c. Václav Stratil), Drdova Gallery, Prague, CZ
2011 | A Mistake, Faculty of Fine Arts, Poznań, PL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 | Enter the Room, Prague City Gallery – Stone Bell House, Prague, CZ
2024 | Zlín Youth Salon 2024, Regional Art Gallery Zlín, CZ
2023 | INSTITUT INSTITUT: Raising Awareness, 4+4 Days in Motion, Erpet Center, Prague, CZ
2021 | The Art of Appreciation, Modern Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, CZ
2021 | INSTITUT INSTITUT: An Adult Video Store Nostalgia, Brno House of Arts, CZ
2020 | BLACK BOX, Festival Ars Electronica, Linz, AT
2016 | Afterlife, Czech Centre Berlin, Gallery TZB, Berlin, DE
CURATORIAL ACTIVITY
2024 | Museum of the City that Missed its History, Turec Gallery, Martin, SK
2024 | Hoarding, Adam Turzo, MEDIUM Gallery, Bratislava, SK
2023 | Smell of a New Car, Třinec Gallery, Třinec, CZ
2023 | Specimens, Adam Turzo, Parter BSC, Banská Štiavnica, SK
2023 | an•ti•hyp•na•gog•ic, D. Ponomarevová, MEDIUM Gallery, Bratislava, SK
2022 | THERE THERE, MEDIUM Gallery, Bratislava, SK
2022 | AfterSphere, Dominik Hlinka, New Synagogue, Žilina, SK
2022 | Nothing Important Happened Today Part II, HELMUT Gallery, Leipzig, DE
2021 | Nový Prostor.app, INSTITUT INSTITUT, TIC Gallery, Brno, CZ
2020 | Repository, Komnata Gallery, Zlín, CZ
2020 | Carpet Stories v.1, XY Gallery, Olomouc, CZ
2020 | Still Room, Industra, Brno, CZ
2020 | INSTITUT INSTITUT: Acupuncture of Exhibition Space (squared), Pragovka Gallery, Prague, CZ
2020 | Still Left, Brno House of Art, G99, Brno, CZ
2019 | INSTITUT INSTITUT: Acupuncture of Exhibition Space, FaVU Gallery, Brno, CZ
2019 | Deconstructing the Island (c. T. Sikorová), Museum of St. Anastasia, Czech Centre Sofia, Burgas, BG
2019 | Sequences (c. T. Sikorová), Egon Schiele Art Centrum, Český Krumlov, CZ
2018–now | INSTITUT INSTITUT
PERFORMANCE | CHOREOGRAPHIC WORK | SITE-SPECIFIC | HAPPENINGS
2025 | HAHA, Stand-up, SK
2025 | Bolka feat. Panáčik. feat Bolka feat. Panáčik, Performance, Kiosk, SK
2024 | AHA/HAHA, performance / happening, Oskar Čepan Prize, SK
2024 | Stand-up series, ArtBar, Brno, CZ
2024 | Body Double, Festival of Naked Forms, UMPRUM, Prague, CZ
2024 | Searching for the Common Sense, Kiosk festival, Žilina, SK
2024 | The Disgruntled Guide to Public Space, N:ear festival, Banská Štiavnica, SK
2024 | Listening Device, public interventions, Brno, CZ
2024 | Peep Show, Stanica Žilina-Záriečie, SK
2023 | The Pool, National Gallery Prague – Studio Hrdinů, Prague, CZ
2023 | No It Does Not Happen, Nová Cvernovka – Telocvičňa, Bratislava, SK
2022 | Lucky Hat, CED – Teren, Brno, CZ
2022 | Dead in the Pool (Slovakia), KIOSK 15, Žilina, SK
2022 | Dead in the Pool (Croatia), FAKI Festival, Zagreb, HR
2021 | Cottage in the Lake Basin (c. František Chaloupka), Opera, PLATO, Ostrava, CZ
2021 | Dead in the Pool (c. Tereza Sikorová), City Swimming Pool, Brno, CZ
2021 | Still Live DJs, Basement Project, Olomouc, CZ
2021 | Carpet Stories v.2, Stanica Žilina-Záriečie, SK
2021 | Interpellations, CnK Záhrada, Banská Bystrica, SK
2020 | New Life (How to Walk into a Room – And Own It), House of Jan Hála, Važec, SK
2020 | Conditional Constructions II, TIC Gallery, Brno, CZ
2020 | Afterparty, Pragovka Gallery, Prague, CZ
2020 | Safety Air Refresher, Divadlo Na Orlí, Brno, CZ
2020 | Conditional Constructions I, G99 & TIC Gallery, Brno, CZ
2019 | Nové Sady 3, Global Genocide INC., Teren, Brno, CZ
2019 | Continuum, Carbonarium Performance Art Festival, Kyiv, UA
2019 | With Culture We Stand (c. Tereza Sikorová), Diera do sveta, Liptovský Mikuláš, SK
2019 | Sea From the Elevation Floor, Island of St. Anastasia, Czech Centre Sofia, Burgas, BG
2019 | Attraction (c. Tereza Sikorová), Island of St. Anastasia, Czech Centre Sofia, Burgas, BG
2018 | Physical Introduction (c. Tereza Sikorová), BuranTeatr, Brno, CZ
2018 | Still Live DJs, A4, Bratislava, SK
2017 | Törless (c. Tereza Sikorová), Theatre Disk, DAMU, Prague, CZ
2016 | White Nightingale, Theatre Feste, Boskovice Festival, CZ
2016 | Cottage in the Lake Basin, Opera, Konvikt, Music Olomouc, CZ
2013 | MRAKODRAP, theatre play, Kabinet múz, Brno, CZ
2012 | Authors Play, Deep Camp, Ostrava, CZ
2007–present | Panáčik, approx. 200 live music performances
PUBLICATIONS | MUSIC & SOUND | GAMES | LITERATURE
2025 | HAHA comedy podcast, season 1, INSTITUT INSTITUT
2025 | Míny, single, Panáčik music project, supraphon records
2024 | AHA Contract, Oskar Čepan Prize, INSTITUT INSTITUT
2021 | An Adult Video Store Nostalgia, Videogame, INSTITUT INSTITUT
2021 | Microsleep vol. 1, Pictorial Publication in Motion, INSTITUT INSTITUT
2021 | O / Panáčik, Music Album, Supraphon Records
2021 | Panopticon, Opera Libretto, Janáček Theatre, National Theatre Brno, CZ
2020 | Safety Air Refresher, 8-Channel Sound Composition, JAMU
2018 | White Noise Cube, Supraphon Records
2017 | Iszek Baraque, Studio Album, G. Institute, Brno, CZ
2017 | Parolapolea, Soundtrack to V. Černický’s Performance, JAMU, CZ
2017 | Effortless Land, Soundtrack for ZDRUHESTRANY, Studio 12, Bratislava, SK
2016 | Láška, Panáčik & Václav Stratil, Studio Album, Fait Gallery
2016 | TAKE, Panáčik, Studio Album, FullMoonZine
2014 | POSTMODERNA, Panáčik, Studio Album, Supraphon Records
2014 | Záhrada, Panáčik, Soundtrack to Feature Film, Self-release
2013 | MRAKODRAP, Panáčik, Studio Album, Supraphon Records
2013 | MRAKODRAP, Soundtrack to Theatre Performance, Self-release
2013 | Best of Václav Stratil, Studio Album, FaVU
2012 | Figure I–VII, Graphic Scores, G. Institute
2012 | Záhrada (Garden), Panáčik, Studio Album, Molon Records
2010 | Comeback, Panáčik, Studio Album, Supraphon Records
2006–2009 | Allegations, Panáčik, Music Collection, Self-release
IN COLLECTIONS
(available upon request)
ARTIST TALKS | LECTURES
2025 | Summer School of Thinking, Lecturer, FaVU, Brno, CZ
2025 | Summer School of Joke, Lecturer, FaVU, Brno, CZ
2025 | Artist Talk (Stand-up), Brno Open Studios, CZ
2024 | Summer School of Joke, Lecturer, FaVU, Brno, CZ
2024 | Media Improvisation Workshop, FaVU – Photography Studio, Brno, CZ
2024 | Session 6: Disruption of Public Space, Lecture, Gallery of Jaroslav Fragner, Prague, CZ
2023 | Brno Open Studios, Performance, INSTITUT INSTITUT, Brno, CZ
2023 | Interactive Open Studio, Banská St a nica Contemporary, SK
2022 | THERE THERE, Performative Lecture, MEDIUM Gallery, VŠVU, Bratislava, SK
2022 | Contemporary Art in Discussion, Lecturer, Art Centre UPOL, Olomouc, CZ
2022 | Interactive Storytelling I, II, Lecturer, FaVU, Brno, CZ
2021 | Interactive Storytelling, Lecturer, FaVU, Brno, CZ
2020 | How to Walk into a Room – And Own It, Workshop, House of Jan Hála, Važec, SK
2020 | Write as They Dance, Workshop, KIOSK 13 – Festival of New Dance and Theatre, Žilina, SK
2019 | Artist Talk, Kunsthalle, Osnabrück, DE
2016 | How to Make a Hit, Workshop, G. Institute, Brno, CZ