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Ztohoven is an award-winning Czech guerrilla artist collective known for its artistically motivated pranks. The group consists of a core of around 20 regularly active artists, rising to around 100 when additional participants are called upon for a particular task.
Ztohoven aims for a limited number of high quality works, as opposed to concentrating on a high volume of minor works. Thus, the group tends to disappear from public notice for long periods only to resurface, sometimes years later. The group aims to use familiar tools and methods to challenge public perceptions of society.
Members of the group are anonymous, and use pseudonyms when appearing or commenting in public. Many of the names used by the group's members are puns, some of which (e.g. Roman Tyc, Dan Gerous or Ana Ward) are chosen to work in English as well as Czech.
Among the most active members are:
- Roman Týc
- Zdeněk Dostál
- Aleš Kodim
- Míra Svoboda
- Eman Cipace
- Otto Horší
- Dan Gerous
- Tomáš Jasný (alias Philip Dvorský)
- Tomáš Mrnc
- Petr Žílka
- Anna Bolická
and others
The Ztohoven name is itself a Czech-language pun, and can be read either as ("The way out"), or ("One hundred shits"). The group translates the name into English as "Out of shit".