> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.catapult-platform.art/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # What Cuteness Is Built to Hide - URL: https://www.catapult-platform.art/clauda-presents-olga-krykun-catapult-contemporary/ - Published: 2026-07-10T10:05:31.000Z - Updated: 2026-07-10T10:05:31.000Z - Description: Clauda presents Olga Krykun with the exhibition Stardust for Tomorrow in Prague, where kitsch sunflowers and kawaii softness conceal memories of war. - Author: Dominique Catherina Foertig - Tags: Prague, Painting, Exhibition ## **Olga Krykun at Clauda, Prague, *Stardust for Tomorrow***. [**Clauda** ](https://clauda.cz/?ref=catapult-platform.art)presents *Stardust for Tomorrow* by [**Olga Krykun**](https://olgakrykun.com/?ref=catapult-platform.art), on view through July 18, 2026. Sunflowers with faces are supposed to be harmless. Round cheeks, half-closed eyes, a soft palette borrowed from stationery sets and stickers. ![Olga Krykun, Stardust for Tomorrow, Clauda, Prague, 2026, visitor viewing a three-panel sunflower painting in a narrow room](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/olga-krykun-stardust-tomorrow-clauda-prague-2026-installation-01.webp) ****Olga Krykun,** Stardust for Tomorrow (installation view), 2026\. Photo: Eva Rybarova. ****Courtesy Clauda, Prague** The cuteness works like a quiet agreement, asking for tenderness and offering safety in return, until the question becomes what happens when that agreement is made under entirely different circumstances. **Stardust for Tomorrow** **Artist:** Olga Krykun **Exhibition:** Stardust for Tomorrow **Venue:** [ Clauda ](https://clauda.cz/?ref=catapult-platform.art) **City:** Prague, Czech Republic **Dates:** June 20, 2026 – July 18, 2026 **Hours:** Wed – Sat, 2pm – 6pm **Address:** Veverkova 28, Praha 7, 170 00 **Text:** Emma Hanzlíková **Photography:** Eva Rybarova **Image Courtesy:** Courtesy Clauda **Contact:** [hello@clauda.cz](mailto:hello@clauda.cz) --- The visual language recalls souvenir shops more than galleries, the kind of trinkets shipped in bulk and sold cheap at open-air markets. ![Olga Krykun, Stardust for Tomorrow, Clauda, Prague, 2026, steel radiator beside a bow painting and a dark star-face canvas](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/olga-krykun-stardust-tomorrow-clauda-prague-2026-installation-02.webp) ****Olga Krykun**, Stardust for Tomorrow (installation view), 2026\. Photo: Eva Rybarova. ****Courtesy Clauda, Prague.** That association is not incidental. Kitsch has long been a way of making the unbearable transportable, small enough to carry, soft enough to hold. --- > Cuteness offers the viewer a sense of safety it never fully owns. Underneath the glitter, the stem is already a skeleton. --- Clauda occupies a converted apartment on Veverkova Street, its rooms narrow and interconnected, doors framed in old varnished wood that predates the gallery by decades. Krykun's paintings hang close together, almost domestic in scale, so that a corridor becomes a room becomes another corridor. ![Olga Krykun, Stardust for Tomorrow, Clauda, Prague, 2026, dark canvas with small glowing faces near a bookshelf](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/olga-krykun-stardust-tomorrow-clauda-prague-2026-installation-03.webp) ****Olga Krykun**, Stardust for Tomorrow (installation view), 2026\. Photo: Eva Rybarova. Courtesy ****Clauda, Prague.** ![Olga Krykun, Stardust for Tomorrow, Clauda, Prague, 2026, sun and sleeping moon face on a purple starlit ground](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/olga-krykun-stardust-tomorrow-clauda-prague-2026-work-07.png) ****Olga Krykun**, Stardust for Tomorrow, 2026\. Photo: Eva Rybarova. Courtesy ****Clauda, Prague**. A ribbed steel radiator, original to the building, stands beside one canvas as an accidental sculpture, industrial and cold against the softness around it. The apartment format keeps the work at eye level and within arm's reach, closer to how these images might first have appeared, as souvenirs on a shelf rather than paintings on a wall. One triptych spans three roughly hewn wooden panels, its sunflowers rendered with closed eyes and a soft blush, stems twisting into loops that read as much like vines as like signatures. The panels do not sit flush against each other, tilted slightly so the flowers seem to sway even while perfectly still. ![Olga Krykun, Stardust for Tomorrow, Clauda, Prague, 2026, two rooms with a star-face canvas and a small four-face painting](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/olga-krykun-stardust-tomorrow-clauda-prague-2026-installation-04.webp) ****Olga Krykun**, Stardust for Tomorrow (installation view), 2026\. Photo: Eva Rybarova. Courtesy ****Clauda, Prague**. ![Olga Krykun, Stardust for Tomorrow, Clauda, Prague, 2026, three sunflowers with closed eyes on a deep blue painted triptych](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/olga-krykun-stardust-tomorrow-clauda-prague-2026-work-01.webp) ****Olga Krykun**, Stardust for Tomorrow, 2026\. Photo: Eva Rybarova. Courtesy ****Clauda, Prague.** ![Olga Krykun, Stardust for Tomorrow, Clauda, Prague, 2026, square canvas with small faces ringed in light on a dark ground](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/olga-krykun-stardust-tomorrow-clauda-prague-2026-work-03.webp) ****Olga Krykun**, Stardust for Tomorrow, 2026\. Photo: Eva Rybarova. Courtesy ****Clauda, Prague**. Nearby, a square canvas gathers a dense cluster of small round faces against a bruised, smoky ground, each one ringed in light like a struck match or a distant star, multiplying until they stop reading as individuals and start reading as static. A third work folds along its own hinge, a pink bow painted across two joined panels that meet in the middle like a book closing on itself, its ribbon trailing into a patch of dry, khaki-colored grass at the bottom edge. The gesture is domestic, almost dollhouse in scale, and it holds its crease visibly, refusing to pretend it was ever a single flat surface. ![Olga Krykun, Stardust for Tomorrow, Clauda, Prague, 2026, square canvas with small faces ringed in light on a dark ground](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/olga-krykun-stardust-tomorrow-clauda-prague-2026-work-02.webp) ****Olga Krykun**, Stardust for Tomorrow, 2026\. Photo: Eva Rybarova. Courtesy ****Clauda, Prague**. ![Olga Krykun, Stardust for Tomorrow, Clauda, Prague, 2026, close-up of orange petals around a blank painted face](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/olga-krykun-stardust-tomorrow-clauda-prague-2026-detail-03.webp) ****Olga Krykun,** Stardust for Tomorrow (detail), 2026\. Photo: Eva Rybarova. Courtesy ****Clauda, Prague.** ![Olga Krykun, Stardust for Tomorrow, Clauda, Prague, 2026, close-up of two closed eyes with painted eyelashes](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/olga-krykun-stardust-tomorrow-clauda-prague-2026-detail-04.webp) ****Olga Krykun,** Stardust for Tomorrow (detail), 2026\. Photo: Eva Rybarova. Courtesy ****Clauda, Prague** ![Olga Krykun, Stardust for Tomorrow, Clauda, Prague, 2026, sunflower face on black ground in a carved wood frame](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/olga-krykun-stardust-tomorrow-clauda-prague-2026-work-04.webp) ****Olga Krykun,** Stardust for Tomorrow, 2026\. Photo: Eva Rybarova. Courtesy ****Clauda, Prague.** The paintings arrive at a moment when soft aesthetics circulate faster than hard information, when a war can be scrolled past between a meme and a recipe video. Krykun, who grew up in Odessa and now moves between Prague and Japan, is not illustrating the war directly. ![Olga Krykun, Stardust for Tomorrow, Clauda, Prague, 2026, pink bow painting split across two hinged wood panels](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/olga-krykun-stardust-tomorrow-clauda-prague-2026-work-05.webp) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/olga-krykun-stardust-tomorrow-clauda-prague-2026-work-06.webp) ****Olga Krykun**, Stardust for Tomorrow, 2026\. Photo: Eva Rybarova. Courtesy **Clauda, Prague.** ![Olga Krykun, Stardust for Tomorrow, Clauda, Prague, 2026, carved wood frame corner on a black sunflower painting](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/olga-krykun-stardust-tomorrow-clauda-prague-2026-detail-02.webp) ****Olga Krykun**, Stardust for Tomorrow (detail), 2026\. Photo: Eva Rybarova. Courtesy ****Clauda, Prague.** She is showing how easily violence gets absorbed into a visual register built for comfort, the same pastel gradients and glitter effects that soften a phone screen at two in the morning. The sunflower, a symbol repeated across mourning and protest alike since 2022, appears here without a single overt reference to the conflict, and the omission becomes its own argument. If cuteness works as a coping mechanism, the exhibition asks what exactly it is coping with, and for whom. ![Olga Krykun, Stardust for Tomorrow, Clauda, Prague, 2026, close-up of an orange sunflower face with closed eyes](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/olga-krykun-stardust-tomorrow-clauda-prague-2026-detail-01.webp) ****Olga Krykun,** Stardust for Tomorrow (detail), 2026\. Photo: Eva Rybarova. Courtesy ****Clauda, Prague.** By the final room, the faces on the walls have started to blur into each other, sun and moon and flower losing their outlines under the same soft brush. Nothing here resolves into a single message. The paintings stay in the register of the lullaby, and a lullaby, sung long enough, starts to sound like something you are trying not to hear. [**Instagram Clauda**](https://www.instagram.com/clauda.cz/?ref=catapult-platform.art) [**Instagram Olga Krykun**](https://www.instagram.com/ok.rykun/?ref=catapult-platform.art) ![Olga Krykun, Stardust for Tomorrow, Clauda, Prague, 2026, corridor toward the entrance door with a radiator and painting](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/07/olga-krykun-stardust-tomorrow-clauda-prague-2026-closing.webp) ****Olga Krykun**, Stardust for Tomorrow (installation view), 2026\. Photo: Eva Rybarova. Courtesy ****Clauda, Prague.** **About Catapult Contemporary - Art Platform Submission** This is a exhibition review published by Catapult — an independent editorial platform for contemporary art, based in Vienna. We publish exhibition reviews, artist features, interviews, and critical context, with a focus on emerging and mid-career practices from Europe and beyond. [catapult.art](https://www.catapult-platform.art/) Want to be featured? [Submit your work →](https://www.catapult-platform.art/submit/) --- [Artist in Focus](https://www.catapult-platform.art/artist-in-focus/) ## Dominika Kováčiková Paints Girlhood with a Knife! 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