The jury of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award selected a total of five artists or art groups for the finals of the 32nd year of the competition. Among them is also Jakub Jansa, the head of the Performance Studio at the BUT Faculty of Fine Arts. Jansa graduated from the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague and has worked abroad in Switzerland, France and New York. Since last year, together with his colleague Julie Béna, he has been leading the Performance Studio at BUT. In his work he combines various media (video, performance, installation) and with their use he builds situations that connect reality with fiction. His early projects on social manipulation and self-development have resulted in recent years in a series of exhibitions under the auspices of the Club of Opportunities (since 2017). Through the narrative procedures and with a good dose of irony and absurdity, they reflect individual parts of authority and hierarchical relationships in society.

Jakub Jansa's work often deliberately balances on the edge - by not offering clear conclusions, it draws the audience into the game. Jansa has cooperated on individual chapters with philosophers Kamil Nábělek, filmmakers Kryštof Melka and Kryštof Hlůže, the fashion designer Karolína Juříková, and performers Jan Kostiha, Patrik Petr and Ester Geislerová. He exhibits regularly in the Czech Republic and abroad, in recent years at the Biennale in Athens, the CEAAC in Strasbourg, Pioneer Works in New York or the CAC in Tel Aviv, Israel.

The Jindřich Chalupecký Award is an award for young artists under the age of 35. The joint exhibition presentation will take place in the autumn of 2021 in Pražák's Palace in the Moravian Gallery in Brno, and should start on September 23, 2021. The international jury originally selected from almost 90 portfolios sent by authors presenting their work on the contemporary Czech art scene." Jakub Jansa creates engaging stories by imitating or lending his voice to inhuman entities, and the heroes of his videos are celery and tapeworms, for example. With his projects, he explores the late phase of post-internet art and corporate aesthetics, from which he critically distances himself and at the same time easily orients himself in them. In his creation he cleverly combines the international language(s) of contemporary art with local references," the jury's assessment of why he was chosen among the finalists, says. He was selected among the finalists together with Robert Gabris, Valentína Janů, Anna Ročňová and the artistic non-collective Björnsonova.