HIDDEN Podcast – Martin Gerboc – On the Body, Grotesque, and Painting

Martin Gerboc is an artist whose work operates on the edge of the grotesque, the physical, and the symbolic. In this episode, we talk about painting as a confrontatio, with the body, identity, and the darker layers of human experience.

We discuss the role of instinct in his process, the tension between control and chaos, and why certain images need to remain uncomfortable.

The conversation also connects to the recent exhibition with Anna Krištofíková, where both artists explore identity as something unstable, not hidden behind a mask, but intensified by it. Rather than concealing, the image exposes the deeper contradictions of the self.

This episode moves beyond interpretation and focuses on what painting does — not just what it shows.

https://hiddengallery.cz/exhibitions/anna-kristofikova-martin-gerboc