Prague’s Signal Space Launches a New Era of Immersive Art

Prague’s Neo-Renaissance Market Hall, once the city’s hub of trade and industrial elegance, has reopened as Signal Space, the city’s first permanent immersive art gallery. More than a gallery, it signals Prague’s shift toward forward-looking experimentation, embracing contemporary creativity alongside its rich history.

Signal Space offers a purpose-built venue for digital exploration, where visitors can experience pioneering works in light, visual media, and digital art, creating a new model for contemporary galleries and a space where digital art is presented to the public with the same care and intentionality as one might experience works by the likes of Picasso or Monet.

“People are smarter than institutions sometimes give them credit for. We didn’t build Signal because digital art needed hype. We built it because the public was ready.”

Through an interplay of algorithms and human intuition, spatial illusions and perceptual networks intertwined with sound, movement, rhythm, data, and light, visitors will encounter the work of artists and studios that are not only chronicling the evolution of digital art and culture but also actively shaping its future.

“The inaugural exhibition, ‘Echoes of Tomorrow’, explores how our visions of the future shape today. How dreams of what’s to come leave echoes in what already is. And how these echoes, in our cities, our technologies, and our emotions, are beginning to take form now,” says Signal Space Founder Martin Pošta.

Each month will highlight two works, with this month’s focus on ‘Body Sketches / Scale Studies’ by Zachary Lieberman (US), and the short film ‘FIGHTERS’ by Quayola (IT) and Max Cooper (UK).

‘Body Sketches / Scale Studies’ by Zachary Lieberman (US)

‘Body Sketches/ Scale Studies’ is an interactive installation by American artist and researcher Zachary Lieberman. As visitors interact with the installation through movement, their actions and gestures are transformed into digital drawings generated in real time.

Within the exhibition, the work explores the visual poetry of code and serves as a metaphor of a personal imprint in the future. Every visitor leaves a trace that instantly changes the environment around them, becoming part of a shared story.

Liberman is also an Adjunct Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Lab in New York. In his work, he creates performances and installations that take human gesture as input and amplify it in different ways, making drawings come to life, imagining what the voice might look like if we could see it, and transforming people’s silhouettes into music.

He’s been listed as one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People, and his projects have won the Golden Nica from Ars Electronica, Interactive Design of the Year from Design Museum London, as well as been listed in Time Magazine’s Best Inventions of the Year.

‘FIGHTERS’ by Quayola (IT) and Max Cooper (UK)

Renowned Italian artist Quayola, known from Ars Electronica, London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, and Sundance, presents an audiovisual work where robots and algorithms become sculptors inspired by Michelangelo. The piece ‘Fighters’ embodies the tension between past and future, craftsmanship and automation. It pays homage to Michelangelo while exploring the role of sculpture in the era of algorithms and robotic movement.

In ‘Fighters’, Quayola lets robots and algorithms carve a marble sculpture inspired by Michelangelo. The sculpture remains deliberately unfinished so the viewer can focus on the creative process, the tool marks, and the contrast between smooth and rough surfaces.

The film is accompanied by music by Max Cooper. In ‘Echoes of Tomorrow’, this work embodies a dialogue between past and future, between human hand and robotic arm, showing that innovation emerges not by detaching from history but by transforming it.

Founding Story

Signal Space gallery was born out of the success of Signal Festival of digital and light art, which, now in its 13th edition, has become the most visited cultural event in the Czech Republic, attracting 500,000 visitors to the city over four days each October and transforming Prague into an open-air gallery for projection mapping works and installations.

Recognizing the need for a permanent home for digital art, Martin Pošta, founder of Signal Festival, launched Signal Space, against all odds, to provide contemporary digital artists from around the world with a platform to showcase their work and connect with a global audience year-round.

“Each work offers a different way of thinking about the future, not as something distant, but as a web of choices, habits, memories, and technological gestures that shape our everyday lives. This first exhibition is not just a premiere, it is a manifesto,” says Pošta.

*Light Installation by Daniel Pošta and Lukáš Dřevjaný*

Future Activities

Beyond the exhibition, Signal Space will host a vibrant program of activities, including DJ sets, live performances, and a series of lectures, among them a notable talk on creative coding by Zach Lieberman.

It also features Signal Playground, an interactive space within the gallery where young children and families can begin to explore storytelling through digital art and technology, fostering a community-driven hub for art, culture, and innovation.

‘Echoes of Tomorrow ‘will run until the end of March 2026, ahead of the launch of Signal Space’s second exhibition the following month.