Studio AB3

🚹BLOK–UA | Sasha Kurmaz | 04.11-20.12.2025🚹

Sasha Kurmaz (b. 1986, Kyiv) is a Ukrainian interdisciplinary artist and activist working with photography, video, installation, sculpture, and sound. Originally emerging from the graffiti scene, he continues to explore public space, social dynamics, and the tensions between citizens and the state. Since Russia’s 2014 invasion of Crimea—and especially after remaining in Ukraine during the full-scale invasion of 2022—Kurmaz has developed a significant body of work addressing the psychology of violence and the lived realities of war. He holds a BFA in design from the National Academy of Managerial Staff of Culture and Arts in Kyiv, where he currently lives and works.

Kurmaz has exhibited widely across Europe, with shows at institutions such as W139, ZKM, C/O Berlin, Künstlerhaus Vienna, the Saatchi Gallery, and the PinchukArtCentre. He has completed international residencies in Austria, Switzerland, Finland, the United States, and Germany. His awards include the C/O Berlin Talent Award (2016) and the Kazimir Malevich Artist Award (2020). His work has been featured in major publications including Vice, Liberation, FOAM, Bloomberg Businessweek, Rolling Stone, Die ZEIT, and Süddeutsche Zeitung.

The project Studio AB3 is financially supported by the State Culture Fund and the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.

Jazoo Yang (1979) is an artist based in Seoul (South Korea) and Berlin (Germany), enjoying a prolific career spanning Korea and Europe. Yang has attracted attention with her experimental works that traverse the boundaries of various genres, including painting, installation, live painting, public art projects, and street art.

She often distorts public spaces to profound ends. With a mixture of concept-focused art and an intriguing visual palette, she questions the relationship between ourselves and the spaces that we inhabit. Her more recent practice has focused on the transformation of housing in the city and the gentrification that is pushing local residents from their homes. The ‘Materials Series’ is an amalgamation of the diverse, the distant, and the disregarded. Formed of the lost fragments of urban life that she rescues before their inevitable disappearance – remnants of a building’s outer walls, scraps of wallpaper from an interior, the remains of antique tiles – these often silent, ignored objects are here transformed from the mundane, and framed to acknowledge the immensity of the intimate.

MgA. Lukáš Cinkanič (*1996) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where he studied in the studios of David Böhm, Dalibor Smutný, and Josef Bolf. He also completed an internship at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He primarily works with painting on canvas combined with screen printing. He explores the creative environment as an artistic medium, so his artistic expression is not limited to canvas but expands into public spaces.

“I use the medium of painting to renew and convey my memories. I create portals that bring my travel experiences closer to the viewer. The journey itself becomes a creative environment, where I make working records and large-scale paintings on the walls of abandoned houses in industrial landscapes. The specifics of wandering through the landscape confront the other places where I create.”