Structures of Discretion: Artistic Event and Its Relation to Institutional Governance
The research addresses the question of how artistic experience can enter the field of institutional management and what specific modes of thinking about leadership may emerge from it. It is grounded in the idea that the relationship between art and management constitutes a tension in which distinct, partially incommensurable regimes of knowledge and practice collide. The research asks in what ways creative experience differs from established approaches to leadership, how an artistic event can affect institutional environments, and what can be learned from works that are not primarily conceptual but instead stabilize their meaning through their formal and tectonic qualities.
David Fesl
David Fesl is a visual artist who heads the sculpture studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where he also serves as Vice-Rector for Quality and Strategic Development. He has had solo exhibitions at Tomio Koyama in Tokyo (2023), Lulu in Mexico City (2021), Georg Kargl in Vienna (2020) and Karlin Studios in Prague (2020). He participated in a tandem exhibition at the Center for Contemporary Art Prague (2024, with Esther Kläs) and in group projects at Lombardi–Kargl in Vienna (2022, 2024), the Brno House of Arts (2021–2022) and the National Gallery Prague (2016–2017). He contributed to the concept and spatial design of survey exhibitions at Fait Gallery (2019, 2022) and of the Kontakt Collection anniversary event at the Secession (2024). He has repeatedly collaborated with the initiative Woods – Community for Cultivation, Theory and Art on organizing art symposia. His work was presented at the 5th edition of the Autostrada Biennale in Kosovo (2025)