Conceptual Art by Jan Karpíšek | Bees, Puddles, Natural Processes

Pale skull-shaped stone on a bed of white and pink sheep's wool, black biochar twigs bristling from its crown, orange beeswax honeycomb at its side and dry eryngo above.

Skull with Wax Moth

installation of natural materials (stone, sheep's wool, biochar, honeycomb, acacia, ivy, eryngo and the activity of a wax moth larva), Rooted Everywhere symposium, Brno, height 35 cm, 2026

Blue-grey bleeding gorilla head with radiating strokes around its outline on white canvas in a wooden frame, surrounded by holes gnawed by bees and yellow-brown stains.

Gorilla (Bodhidharma)

honeybees interaction / food dye on canvas, 39 × 37 cm, 2026

Alternating horizontal stripes of blue-grey dye and cracked golden-yellow natural pigment on white canvas in a wooden frame, with irregular holes gnawed by bees in the upper half.

Stripes (Composition)

honeybees interaction / food dye and natural pigment on canvas, 40 × 37 cm, 2026

Bleeding blue-grey handwriting reading american foulbrood on white canvas in a wooden frame, dotted with yellow-brown stains and small holes gnawed by bees.

Tag (American Foulbrood)

honeybees interaction / food dye on canvas, 38 × 39 cm, 2026

Handwritten letter to bees in French opening with Mes chères abeilles, in biochar with honey on white canvas in a wooden frame, with holes gnawed by bees showing through the text.

Letter in French

honeybees interaction / biochar with honey on canvas, 40 × 37 cm, 2026

Pale grey raw linen with ochre tongues of natural earth pigment rising diagonally from the bottom edge; thin stalks of dry meadow grass are caught across the surface.

Flames

action painting (resulting artefact of the performance Vehicle After Twenty Years), natural earth pigments and dry meadow grass on linen canvas, hare glue, Krajina umění Jimramov plein air, 105 × 135 cm, 2026

Horizontal bands of ochre, pink and greenish natural earth pigment crossed by two blurred dark strips of biochar like rows of shrubs, all finely streaked from top to bottom.

Colorful Landscape

action painting (resulting artefact of the performance Vehicle After Twenty Years), natural earth pigments and biochar on linen canvas, hare glue, Krajina umění Jimramov plein air, 105 × 130 cm, 2026

Ochre canvas with a broad blue-grey band of biochar pierced by pale vertical streaks like birch trunks; green seeps into the upper corners, fine grass lines cross the surface.

Birches

action painting (resulting artefact of the performance Vehicle After Twenty Years), natural earth pigments and biochar on linen canvas, hare glue, finished by rain, Krajina umění Jimramov plein air, 100 × 130 cm, 2026

A saturated ochre band of natural earth pigment between pale linen flecked with turquoise drops above and a dark fringe of biochar rising like reeds along the bottom.

Pond in Winter

action painting (resulting artefact of the performance Vehicle After Twenty Years), natural earth pigments and biochar on linen canvas, hare glue, Krajina umění Jimramov plein air, 105 × 135 cm, 2026

Sea and Sky

reverse of a dried-up puddle, natural earth pigments and biochar on linen canvas, fixed with hare glue and shellac, 104 × 135 cm, 2026

Black Buddha

face of a dried-up puddle, natural earth pigments and biochar on linen canvas, fixed with hare glue and shellac, 135 × 105 cm, 2026

Black Buddha (reverse)

reverse of a dried-up puddle, natural earth pigments and biochar on linen canvas, fixed with hare glue and shellac, 135 × 105 cm, 2026

Buddha

natural pigments from Rudice on canvas (dried-up pool), 135 × 105 cm, 2025

Slope

natural pigments from Rudice on canvas (dried-up pool), 133 × 104 cm, 2025

Škoda Octavia

process painting (rusting metal on canvas), 40 × 120 cm, 2024

Score I.

honeybees interaction on paper, 30 × 37 cm, 2020

Anubis

honeybees interaction on canvas, 38 × 42 cm, 2020

Golden Cage

honeybees interaction on canvas, 42 × 42 cm, 2020

Pink Notes

honeybees interaction on canvas, 42 × 42 cm, 2020

Abstraction by Bees #3

honeybees interaction / colored papers, 70 × 80 cm, 2018

Abstraction by Bees #2

honeybees interaction / colored papers, 70 × 80 cm, 2018

Abstraction by Bees #1

honeybees interaction / colored papers, 70 × 80 cm, 2018

Vladimír Mečiar

honeybees interaction / ink on handmade paper, 39 × 30 cm, 2018