Jakub Polách’s portfolio spans various mediums. So chaotic yet so good. In his practice, he explores the process of transforming regulated public space into an unregulated mediasphere. The projects explore the paradox of both extreme alienation and extreme belonging caused by escaping the real world on the internet so much that one might even become a fairy, mermaid, emo, fox, turtle, cat, dog, tiger hybrid princess. Across various projects and genres, he develops arguments suggesting that anti-dialogical nature of memes is not just a form of communication but a message in itself.

BIO
Jakub Polách (*1995) is a visual artist, graphic designer, and micro-influencer. He is a PhD student at the Department of Art History and Theory at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Brno University of Technology, where he studies the influence of internet meme culture on fan communities. Jakub has exhibited at the off-space gallery Cejla, Galerie TIC or the multi-genre cultural festival Transforma. He has also participated in group exhibitions such as Harvest, Slovak Venice, White. Blue. Red. and Big Golden Eyes. Collaborations include the Most Pride festival, Piotr Sikora, Jindrich Chalupecky Society or Ugly Brno.

In 2026, he released book Czechoslayvakia, so called guide to political imagination, an art catalogue, a theoretical anthology, a dictionary, and a literary-photographic meme fiction built around the eponymous fictional statehood. It blends political fan fiction with essays by guest authors who draw historical parallels between the themes of the visual arts projects and Czechoslovakism, digital anthropology, astrology, and internet meme culture.