Tomáš Moravanský (*1991, Dubnica nad Váhom), also known as Panáčik, is a post-contemporary artist whose practice operates at the intersections of visual art, sociological and artistic research, performance, choreography, text, music, situations, stage and site-specific interventions, theory, mail art, and stand-up comedy. He lives in Brno and works internationally. He leads the platform INSTITUT INSTITUT, which he co-founded.

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His work functions as a living laboratory for exploring the micropolitics of everyday life, the economy of attention, movement, affect, and the social mechanics of behavior. Drawing from the arsenal of social psychology, memetics, and daily observation, he tests material through interaction and repetition—a process comparable both to a comedian trying out new jokes and to an evolutionary mechanism in which ideas, forms, and information continuously transform, spread, grow, and mutate in dialogue with their environment.

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Moravanský consistently surprises with his exceptional intellectual performance. He develops experimental exhibition formats that play with institutional logic, bureaucracy, and media space, while emphasizing spatial dramaturgy, performativity, interaction, and humor—always slightly off, ironic, sometimes a trap, sometimes a bridge. His tools are language, perception, choreography, and timing, which he bends and tests in ever-new contexts.

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His work has been presented in more than two hundred thousand and five million institutions—both at home and abroad. Among them were the 2024 Summer Olympic Games (Czech Centre in Paris), the Zlín Youth Salon, or the National Gallery Prague, where he arranged for a billiard table to be massaged. His music project Panáčik was broadcast on BBC 1. Unforgettable events include an intervention into live broadcasting of Slovak Radio, during which he had a sports presenter comment on his concert in real time. He was a finalist for the Art Grand Slam (organized by Sport in Art) with the five-hour performance Dead in the Pool (with Tereza Sikorová), in which—aside from the presence of a clown as lifeguard and floating bodies—almost nothing happens. As a laureate of the Oskár Čepan Award, he continues to search for new situations where his research can resonate. He is currently completing a PhD at the Department of Theory and History of Art, Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno. What is his favorite color?