Štefan Uhrecký (born January 9, 1995) is a Czech painter whose work explores the vitality of painting as a reflection of freely experienced reality — approached with a healthy dose of (dis)trust. His practice is defined by spontaneous, intuitive gestures that capture the immediacy of emotion and thought, unconcerned with expectation or outcome. Alongside this intuitive drive, Štefan’s paintings are grounded in constant self-reflection and a subtly subversive irony.

 In his works, the “high” and the “low” intertwine — seriousness merges with playfulness, and meaning is constructed through its own deconstruction. The solemn becomes light, and the light turns serious; not as a stylistic whim, but as a genuine struggle for self-understanding and authenticity within the act of painting itself.

 Štefan studied at the Secondary School of Art and Design in Helenín, where he developed his painterly language and sensitivity toward form, gesture, and irony.