DOXYGEN: Rest Mode s Radkou Bodzewicz a kolektivem Monika

A fresh cultural emulsion: part exhibition, part workshop, part experiment. And above all, fresh oxygen.

DOXYGEN consists of lectures, workshops, discussions, creative workshops, and everything in between. Contemporary art, contemporary phenomena, contemporary personalities, and the contemporary moment. Evening gatherings at DOX, during which visitors can ponder questions and answers. Their own and those of others.

The desire for knowledge, success, and constantly pushing one’s own limits—themes that run through the literary work Faust—resonate today perhaps more strongly than ever before. The accompanying program for the exhibition by painter Radka Bodzewicz, which the artist herself will guide us through, connects themes of existential crisis, pressure to perform, and collective exhaustion with the contemporary experience of a young generation growing up in an environment of constant productivity and continuous self-improvement. The Monika art collective has long engaged with themes of exhaustion, rest, and the inability to slow down—not as personal failures, but as symptoms of the current system. The program will offer a space for sharing experiences of uncertainty, burnout, and the need to pause in an era that constantly demands more from us. What does “having it all” mean today, and what are we willing to sacrifice for it?

Monika is a collective identity. She is the superheroine of fatigue. Her body is a chronicle of all crises, marked by extractive capitalism and worn down by constant competition. Monika is an art collective consisting primarily (but not exclusively) of the bodies of Anna Chrtková (curator and set designer), Matyáš Grimmich (artist and facilitator), and Karolína Schön (artist and producer). The collective was founded as a tool for personal training for a future in which it will be necessary to reject (or at least radically reevaluate) the concept of individualism in favor of post-capitalist visions of social organization. In their work, they combine text, image, video, objects, and a performative approach. Their work has been presented in galleries and residency spaces in the Czech Republic and the surrounding region (Benešov Museum of Art and Design, TIC Gallery, Banská Stanica Contemporary, etc.).

For young people aged 16 to 30. The program lasts approximately 2.5 hours and includes a guided tour, workshop, and break.