TIMO: Bude

Anonymous street artist TIMO, known for the inscription "Don't Be Afraid" on a Prague tunnel in Karlín, exhibits at Galerie Uhelný mlýn.

The exhibition titled "Bude" ("Will Be") presents small drawings and objects capturing both inner and real (dis)comfort — spaces of daily rest of an uncertain inhabitant that shape the value framework of their future behavior. Across situations and compositions, calm, comfort, grotesque, nostalgia, and fear alternate. These are glimpses into privacy, homes, and souls where individual character and collective mood are formed, and where the boundaries of what is still acceptable in today's society are established.

The exhibition is conceived discreetly: works are in small formats and the installation allows one to focus on each piece individually, as if it were a personal encounter. Throughout the gallery, empty space, calm, and silence are employed — in contrast to the once-noisy screw factory area and the nearby railway corridor. The Uhelný mlýn site is also enriched with several new TIMO citations and part of the exhibition is accompanied by blue railway signs and plaques.

"Bude" is the second exhibition within the gallery's 2026 exhibition plan titled "Just Rest." Following the exhibition "I Have Roots in a Flowerpot" at the House of Art in Brno (2024), this is the second opportunity for a more comprehensive introduction to this artist's work. TIMO (b. 1981), formerly performing under the nicknames FREAK and Bubák, has been active since approximately 1997 and has created over 500 works in Brno alone — on both legal and illegal surfaces. Among his most famous works are the inscription "Don't Be Afraid" on the Karlín tunnel or the repainting of the Home Credit logo in a Brno underpass with the slogan "Home Less."