𝑀𝒶𝓇𝑔𝒶𝓇𝒾𝓉𝒶 𝐼𝓋𝓎

As our exhibition You can return, but no one will be there. comes to an end, I want to reflect on what we (me and @postsmrtne ) created together. Our artistic styles may seem opposite, but we strongly connect through themes of origin, childhood, nationality, trauma, and foreignness. This project feels like a culmination of many conversations we shared about home and the feeling of losing it. We wanted to materialise this experience: what does it feel like to leave a home, lose it, or return after a long time? We turned to personal archives — memories, family photos, childhood clothes, and toys. Everyday objects and rituals that once felt ordinary became precious through loss. We transformed them into transparent casts existing between presence and disappearance, like fragile memories that may never have fully existed. The works became imprints of our past. From clothes and toys to a crib transformed into a cage, childhood appears as something formative yet impossible to escape. Russian violence has imprinted itself into the singing of birds through a sound piece of Ukrainian birds imitating rockets and mines. Even the exhibition architecture became an imprint itself: fragments of furniture hidden beneath fabric. The exhibition ends with a cast of a key in a door — a symbol of leaving, returning, or unlocking the childhood cage. Which key it is remains up to you. Thank you to everyone who came, and everyone who helped bring this exhibition to life. 🪽 You can return, but no one will be there.
Margarita Ivy & Bystrík Klčo
17.4.2026 – 9.5.2026
Curated by Michal Pěchouček
Displayed at @arta_kkc 
Photos @_isonative

You can return, but no one will be there. Margarita Ivy @postsmrtne & Bystrík Klčo @bystrikklco Curated by Michal Pěchouček 17.4.2026 - 9.5.2026 at @arta_kkc Shot by @_isonative The exhibition You can return, but no one will be there. works with the motif of returning to a space that is still physically present, yet has lost its original inhabitants. Here, the gallery is transformed into a quiet environment where only traces of life and the imprint of time remain. The joint installation moves along the boundary between an intimate gesture and the archaeology of personal experience. The audience is invited into a place that feels both familiar and strange at once — a space one could return to, but where no one is there anymore. Thank you to everyone who kindly supported us in so many ways while creating this exhibition! 🤍🪽 @arta_kkc @ziburi.ziburi @domi_rusnak @unconductive_trash our dearest @polymer_ase 🫀and @tomas_visnovsky 🪡 Jan, Petr, and our dear parents, who raised us, helped us, and preserved many artifacts from our childhood. And to everyone who will come/came to see the show, thank you as well!

Margarita Ivy & Bystrík Klčo You can return, but no one will be there. / Môžeš sa vrátiť, ale nikto tam už nebude. The exhibition You can return, but no one will be there works with the motif of returning to a space that is physically present, yet has lost its original inhabitants. It explores the idea of home, its abandonment, and the possibility of returning to it… a return filled with a sense of familiarity, but also of loss. Here, the gallery transforms into a quiet space where only traces of life and the imprint of time remain. The collective installation moves along the boundary between an intimate gesture and an archaeology of personal experience. The audience is invited into a place that feels both familiar and foreign—a space one could return to, but where no one remains. Curator: Michal Pěchouček Graphic design: Bystrík Klčo Photos: @zlamal_adela 🗓️ 17.4.2026 - 9.5.2026 🕐 Opening hours: Thursday - Saturday, 2PM - 6PM Opening: 17.4.2026, 6PM Guided Tour: 17.4.2026, 5:30PM 📍Galéria ARTA, Kollárova 2, Piešťany, Slovensko

Link in @your_oddity bio 🫀🐇🤍 #oddities #curiosities #taxidermyart #postmortem

We created candles by taking a cast of real, forever sleeping bunny ⚰️🐇🤍 They are made of 100% soy wax. This is a sculpture-candle The thin candle element is replaceable (we include three extra with each piece)🕯️ We would be truly glad if these bunnies found their new home. You can write to me directly or contact @karpuchinagallery for inquiries 💌 🐇🪽 #oddities #odditiesandcuriosities #postmortemcast #taxidermy #ritualcandles

Throwback: me in my room with my baby bird 🐤 Captured by the lovely @wickeimack 🤍! Getting married with ….

Margarita Ivy Kolumbárko 🟣 Kurátorka: @vendulaburgr Foto: @vendulaburgr

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Hello that’s me in my natural habitat 🧹🌒

@postsmtne a @bystrikklco na našem festivalu loni představili dílo Displaced Home, které skrze dvě peřinky s ukolébavkami v kufru zkoumá kolektivní paměť a kulturní identitu při odchodu z rodné země. 🟣

Jak vnímá @postsmrtne téma aktualizace z pohledu umělkyně ukrajinského původu? 🟣

Visit to the studio, moments of me working with a forever-sleeping stillborn baby 🎠🪽, captured by @wickeimack 🤍 If you ever want to step into this quiet space, you are welcome 💌