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In his first institutional solo exhibition, the 1995-born, Prague-based artist Jakub Choma integrates elements from digital gaming realms into a sprawling installation that captivates audiences through its interlocking layers, hybrid material assemblies, and a richly charged atmosphere. Drawing on narrative strategies akin to worldbuilding (1), Choma transforms the exhibition space of the Heidelberger Kunstverein into a dungeon-like (2) setting—a site oscillating between some kind of open-world level (3) and a weird sort of parkour training module fantasy (4). We wander through a landscape that is both artificial and real. The environment the artist has created does not seem to be a seamless, unbroken vision of a digital future. Nothing here is finished; everything appears to be in a state of transformation. The space partly resembles a factory hall, a shrine, a dump and a workshop: Structures that evoke machines, a constant electronic hum that makes one think of server farms or dat…
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In his first institutional solo exhibition, the 1995-born, Prague-based artist Jakub Choma integrates elements from digital gaming realms into a sprawling installation that captivates audiences through its interlocking layers, hybrid material assemblies, and a richly charged atmosphere. Drawing on narrative strategies akin to worldbuilding (1), Choma transforms the exhibition space of the Heidelberger Kunstverein into a dungeon-like (2) setting—a site oscillating between some kind of open-world level (3) and a weird sort of parkour training module fantasy (4). We wander through a landscape that is both artificial and real. The environment the artist has created does not seem to be a seamless, unbroken vision of a digital future. Nothing here is finished; everything appears to be in a state of transformation. The space partly resembles a factory hall, a shrine, a dump and a workshop: Structures that evoke machines, a constant electronic hum that makes one think of server farms or dat…
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