Light as a Bridge Between Continents and the Human Soul

Answers to questions from the website Žiju.cz, April 2026.

1. Last season meant a huge expansion for your company – you lit up 22 exhibitions across Europe. What do you consider your greatest professional and personal triumph?

The "Heart of Europe" exhibition at Žluté lázně (the Yellow Baths) in Prague gave me great joy. Not only did it become one of the most visited exhibitions in Prague, it even surpassed our first edition in attendance. The aim of this exhibition was to reveal a kind of spiritual architecture of Europe and to remind us that Europeanness is a living process that we shape every day through our lives and our approach to others.

I was also pleased when our Christmas decoration on Old Town Square caught the attention of the American CNN. In a report at the beginning of Advent they mentioned the Prague markets and the Prague Christmas tree as one of the most beautiful places in the world. I believe my professional triumph is still ahead of me, because for every creative work it holds true again and again. And for that opportunity I am personally always grateful.

In your projects you often use the word "story". Is light for you more than a technical discipline?

I perceive light on many levels, from the symbolic one that has accompanied us since creation, to the light that for us Europeans represents clarity, harmony, moderation and knowledge. From this symbolic meaning I naturally move on to the technical execution, where I use light as a tool. I am very pleased when our installations also bring a certain kind of insight or lesson. It often happens that people in the towns where they live truly notice the local history for the first time only at the moment when our exhibition illuminates it. For me, then, light is not only a means of illuminating space but, in a figurative sense, also of enlightenment. As our motto says, light is both beginning and goal.

Where are your next steps heading? Your vision clearly goes beyond the borders of our continent.

I am delighted with our twenty-two European exhibitions, but I admit we are already beginning to look towards other continents too. This summer a large exhibition awaits us in London, and I believe that other European markets will gradually open to us as well. We are expanding cooperation in Croatia, Switzerland, Romania and elsewhere. The fact that our work can speak to the world was confirmed for us by the trade fair in Frankfurt. Our installation aroused genuine interest among visitors from all continents, from America and Mexico through Australia to Dubai and Qatar. I look forward to where new challenges will take us.

How do you manage to connect the world of business with poetry and philosophy, which you used to teach? These seem to be disparate worlds…

Perhaps it may seem so, but for me these two worlds are closely related, because both require creativity as a fundamental principle of life. When I decided to test my own creativity in practical life and to enter business, it was a turning point for me, for which I am nevertheless grateful today. It allows me to carry knowledge and experience from the world of literature, philosophy and art into tangible reality.

Into our light exhibitions I try to put a kind of "poetics of the spirit". I believe that in this way we can contribute to the cultivation of the public space we enter, and create within it a place for pausing, for joy and for mutuality.

What mark would you like to leave on cities and on people in five years' time?

I wish for our projects to continue to extend this phenomenon, moving from simple illumination to inner enlightenment. I want the world around us to be, thanks to our work, a little kinder, and I would very much like people, thanks to our stories, to feel connected with the history of the places where they live, and with one another.

What concrete form will that take in five years? I honestly look forward to it. I am ready to accept all future challenges with an open mind and heart, in joyful anticipation.

Published in: Žiju.cz, 3 May 2026.