Michal Škapa
Marek Šilpoch (1992) was never one of the writers, but graffiti as part of the city’s visual culture has always attracted him. He was, however, closer to the electronic music and clubbing scene. He is also associated with sprayers due to his intense interest in fonts and specifically graphic design, which he devoted himself to together with the principles of visual communication during his studies at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts.
The school that he finished in Rony Plesl’s glass studio. His intermediate approach corresponds to the breadth of his scope. For several years now, his work has been characterizedby prefabricated lighting objects and installations with an emphasis on an industrial look. On one hand, there is a clean purity of shapes, on the other hand, dystopia and an almost cyberpunk aesthetic and unprecedented composition in the DIY style.
A wellthought-out design concept is mixed with intuition, and methods based on controlled chance and spontaneous interventions. He treats light like a color, which, however, he does not avoid and uses it in an action-like way - prints, drips, slashes.
He has a weakness for neon lights and old industrial components, be it light sticks, fluorescent tubes, or factory furniture elements. The combination of these elements serves not only to effectively shape his work but, above all, to emotionally transform reality and its experience.

Solo exhibitions
2023
Enigma, Znojmo, Gallery and Prostor
Code Keeper, Baerum Kulturhus, Sandvika, Norway
2021
T2B, Prague, Václav Špála Gallery
Lost In Translation, České Budějovice, R2020
Periphery, Broumov, Children's Gallery Lapidárium
2020
DUO NEONE (with Michal Cimala), Trafo Gallery, Prague
2019
Street code, House of Arts in Opava
2018
BABYLON, Villa Pellé Gallery, Prague
2017
ANALPHABET, Trafo Gallery, Prague
2014
GRAFFOMAN, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
2012
Wall to wall, GAVU Cheb
2011
00 NIC, Trafo Gallery, Prague
Group exhibitions
2022
Wall Street, Villa Pellé Gallery, Prague
2019
Revolutionary 30, thirty years of freedom on your own skin, Prague
2018
Signal festival, Prague
2017
Crew picture, OGV in Jihlava
No More Crew, Urban Spree Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2012
OBSESSED BWITH THE CITY, Municipal Library, GHMP, Prague
2011
Can You Dig It?, Prague House, Brussels, Belgium
2010
METROPOLIS, DOX, Prague
METROPOLIS, EXPO, Shanghai, China
2009
Write the Wall, Berlin, Germany
2008
NAMES, international festival of street art and graffiti, Prague
City Celebrities, Moravian Gallery in Brno
2007
Street Art Prague, Školská 28, Prague
2004
Infiltration, Regional Gallery Liberec