Antonín Brinda, a Czech artist based on the planet Earth, works in the fields of performance / urban / walking / body art. He creates minimalist, conceptual, long durational Works exploring areas such as urbanism, transportation infrastructure, political geography, or international mobility. To balance the serious topics, he also likes to present other types of performances that are more personal and humorous. He has gained his education in different fields of art and art theory (General Art Studies; Film Studies; Site-Specific Performance; Live Art and Performance Studies; Architecture and Urban Research) in Brno, Prague, Tallinn, Helsinki and Istanbul.

Apart from an artist, Brinda is also an organizer/curator of various (performance) art events and festivals. Examples of festivals include Performance Crossings (Prague, CZ), Performensk (Minsk, BY), Wärmflasche (Berlin, DE – Vernéřovice, CZ), Perform – or not (Tallinn, EE). He was a guest curator of Carbonarium (Kyiv, UA) and New Performance Turku Festival (Turku, FI). Since 2021, Brinda is co-running a series of performance events SPA – Studio Performance Art in Prague and since 2023 he is one of the curators of Prague’s MeetFactory Artists-in-Residence programme.

Since 2011, his performances were presented in various galleries and festivals as well as in less traditional venues within Europe, Asia and North America. Examples of events/platforms where Antonín performed include Asiatopia (Nakhon Pathom, TH), Blurborders Performance Art eXchange (Bangkok and Phatthalung, TH), Nomadic Red Corner and 976 Gallery (Ulaanbaatar, MN), Cattle Depot Artist Village (Hong Kong, HK), Air Hue (Hue, VD), Artbat Fest (Almaty, KZ), Trash Fest (Bishkek, KG), Absence Space (Tainan, TW), {\\}() {\\}∆‡!(){\\} (Chicago, US), ARé Fest (Yerevan, AM), 13festivalen (Gothenburg, SE), Supermarket Art Fair (Stockholm, SE), Sofia Underground (Sofia, BG), LAPSody (Helsinki, FI), A! Performance Festival (Akureyri, IS), Istanbul Performance Art (Istanbul, TR), Riga Performance Days (Riga, LV), Artifex (Moscow, RU), Performance Festival Malamut (Ostrava, CZ) or Festival of Naked Forms (Prauge, CZ).

Antonín would like to know, “How to make love with a city”