About teachers

Initially, he worked as a psychotherapist, later studied theatre and radio dramaturgy (Academy of Performing Arts Prague) and obtained European Diploma in Cultural Management (Delphy). He worked as a radio dramaturg and led several theatre companies (DivadlospodKobyly, IN-THEATRE). He also wrote several theatre and radio plays (i.e.Rodinný přítel, Lehký jako prach, Emina, Na účet volaného) and a novel (Vyslanci Brna). He has lectured at more than twenty universities and art colleges over Europe and on the American continent. At present he links his erudition of psychology in the context of vision, perception, the way of reading and interpretation of art, including the issues of creativity and talent development.His research workwithin the academic activities focuses on visual perception of art, illusion, experience, empathy and its impact onan individual and public area. 

PAINTING

doc. ak. mal. Roman Franta is active at the Czech art scene since 1995, when he introduced himself with his first big project called Tataku (he examined the possibility of expressive painting in the connection with the Japanese rhythmic music). Since 1997,  he works as an Associate Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. As the artist, he concentrates mostly on the painting. When he starts to paint a picture he always works with a clear concept. The uniqueness of this concept lies in the fact that he reacts at those means which usually serve as means of painting used to display something outside the picture. The images are grouped into individual cycles which always solve one problem. Among the first to include are the composition of simple geometric surfaces in primary colors. As opposed to them there is a cycle of gestural and calligraphical pictures. In the next stage, he made several artifacts with isolated details of images from art history. This was followed by details of natural structures (fruit, tree trunks, agave leaves, etc.). Outfall of these efforts appear in the pictures with swarm of beetles (CPB) or other species (reptiles).

"Šípková Růženka" 2017

"Dobrodruh" 2016

MgA. Markéta Bábková is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, studio of painting III, school of Michael Rittstein / Josef Bolf. She studied at the Universitatea de Arte in Bucharest. In 2019, she received the Graphics of the Year Award in two categories - student work and print from above (main prize). She is also the winner of the Audience Sympathy Award at the 14th Critics' Prize for Young Painting 2021. She regularly participates in national and international symposia, residencies and exhibitions.
Bábková expresses herself artistically through painting and printmaking. Her thematic work explores the mapping of work, public and intimate environments. The depicted still lifes, interiors of apartments and studios carry an individual memory. These records refer to previous situations. The work reflects the moment itself, the interrelationships between objects, the variety of shapes, as well as capturing human presence. Together they create a multi-layered portrait.

                       "Všude něco je" 2022

prof. ak. mal. Jiří Lindovský - Graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague as a student of prof. Ladislav Čepelák. Since 1992 he led here the Studio of Graphic Art and Drawing. Beginning of Lindovský individual creative work has been shaped by a focus on the most classical art themes such as still lifes and portraits. His next work is characterized by a reflection of the world of technology. From the exact forms of airplanes and aircraft equipment to the completely free and creative parallels between technical and organic world. At the same time he cyclically returns to the theme of still life and explores its possibility of inclusion into the contemporary art. He was awarded a drawing prize by the Premi Internacional de Dibuix Joan Miró and a Vladimir Boudník Prize lifetime achievement in graphics. His work is represented in many important domestic and foreign collections.

Ing. MgA. Lenka Černotová, Ph.D.- in 2015 graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, studio of graphics II, prof. Vladimír Kokolii. A year earlier she completed her doctoral studies at VŠB-TU Ostrava. The topic of her dissertation was: Processing of industrial waste for the preparation of pigments and their use in restoration techniques. The blackness of the pigment she prepared was patented.  She studied for 3 years at the Academy of Fine Arts im. She spent 2 years in the Jan Matejko Studio of Art in Krakow, Poland (intermedia studio, sculpture). She has a Bachelor's degree in restoration of mural painting and sgraffito at the University of Pardubice in Litomyšl. He is mainly engaged in painting and drawing. Complementary techniques, which throw painting into other contexts, are graphics, photographs from photo traps, mind maps. Currently she is studying in the doctoral program at the Academy of Fine Arts, in the studio of Prof. Vladimír Kokola, the theme of her work is PAINTINGS WITH WOLVES. Her biggest solo exhibitions so far were in 2020 at the Bold Gallery ("Wolf") and Pragovka ("Wolf who turned into a planet and then became a blob"). Last year she presented the exhibition "Svorka" at the Lapidárium Gallery in Broumov and participated in the group exhibition "Human-Animal II. Wolf full, sheep whole, pig laughing" at the Gallery of Artists of Spiš in Spišská Nová Ves.

Mgr. et MgA. Eva Vápenková graduated at the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University and then from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, specialization Restoration of Fine Arts of Painting and Polychrome Sculpture (Professor Karel Stretti), and Graphics I (Prof. Jiří Lindovský). She worked on a publication dedicated to the personality of Ladislav Čepelák, part of which is also a study of the Landscape in the Intaglio in Bohemia. In the last year of studying at the Academy of Fine Arts, she received an atelier award. Since 2016, she has been a member of the Hollar Association of Czech Artists and in the same year she received the Hollar Foundation Award in the XXII. Festival of Chamber Graphics. In her work, she focuses mainly on techniques of etching, as well as on ink and watercolor paintings. Thematically she focuses on capturing the landscape, from which she removes unnecessary impurities by distillation and slicing. The principle of her creation is the realization of emptiness, the penetration into the essence by taking away the superfluous. That is the revelation that is discrete in all meanings and which plays all possibilities capturing the traces that others leak.

"Snídaně" 2018

"Grafting n.2" 2021

"inanitas"

doc. MgA. Miro Švolík studied photography at the Secondary School of Art and Design in Bratislava (1975-79) and the Department of Photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (1981-87). He worked as Head of the Creative Photography Studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava (2009-2017). The main part of his photographic work is characterized as an arranged, staged photograph. It most often displays human figures and their details. He also deals with photographic collages and assemblies. His entire work brings forth the imaginary thread of the relationships between man and woman. His work is rooted in the 1980s and draws on the energy and life of the Slovak New Wave community. In 1990, he was awarded the Young Photographer Award at the International Center of Photography in New York. His photographic works are represented in many collections in our country and around the world, for example in UPM in Prague, in MoMA in New York.

"A lietať"

MgA. Adam Kencki graduated from the Studio of Creative Photography at the University of Ostrava and the Studio of Advertising Photography at Tomas Bata University in Zlín. In his work, he focuses mainly on what could perhaps be called documentary photography, although his circle of interest gradually turns from the outside inwards. He most often uses film cameras and black-and-white film for his work, although the resulting works are increasingly supplemented by digital interventions and various intermediate elements. In 2021, his work was included in a selection of 150 European Fresh Eyes photographers. The joint publication , which is the result of an exhibition of the same name in the Kabinet T. gallery, classmates and friends Elsa Rauerová, Matěj Skalický, Chrenka and Adam Kencki, won the Most Beautiful Czech Book of 2021 award in the Bibliophilia and Authorial Works category.

Ing. Arch. Anna Šlapetová graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University in Prague, then completed an internship in Berlin with arch. Hilmer & Sattler and since 2003 has been an independent authorized architect and a member of the Chamber of Architects of the Czech Chamber of Architects. Since 2003, she has been actively involved in the building of the municipality of Dolní Břežany as its chief architect. She is mainly engaged in complex realizations including interiors - family houses, (new buildings and reconstructions) and public buildings (schools, kindergartens) as well as houseboat construction. Her awards include the Family House in South Bohemia, which was selected by the Foibos publishing house for the book "Buildings of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia 1918-2018" published in 2018 - among the 100 buildings of the century, she received a nomination for the Building of the Year of the Central Bohemian Region in 2017 for the completion of the pavilion, connecting neck and canteen of the school in Dolní Břežany and her Houseboat Anna was presented in the annual Grandprix arch. She also provides expert advice to municipalities and towns and sits on competition juries. In 2023, she was the winner of the Architect to Municipality Award for her long-term contribution to the development of Dolní Břežany.

"Now I can say bye"

MgA. Nicky Shushulov, Ph.D. - pedagogue, visual artist and graphic designer from Bulgaria. In his works he moves at the interface of several genres, he likes to experiment with a wide range of art forms. Characteristic for him is a combination of traditional and new media, contemporary art, such as illustration, painting, murals, installations, digital photography and graphic design. His projects are on display in the galleries of  the contemporary art in Sofia. He participates in a number of international design projects.

MgA. Jozef Mrva Jr., Ph.D. (1988) is a visual artist, educator and graphic designer focusing on digital media, mainly 3D animation and digital collage. Through videos and gallery installations, he explores space as an abstract, mathematical quantity, the perception of which intertwines with current geopolitical problems. It uses philosophical speculation, mathematical graphs, found digital photographs, internet memes and other approaches. His work has appeared at the WRONG Internet Biennial (2016), in the finals of Other Visions at PAF (2017), The One Minutes Festival (2017), the Warsaw Biennial (2018) and group exhibitions in The Hague, Milan and Bratislava.

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"KnotCapital"

PHILOSOPHY OF THE ARTISTIC EXPRESSION

PhDr. Ivona Raimanová - an expert in the field of philosophy, aesthetics and art history, a longtime university pedagogue. Akcent of his theoretical attention is paid to the problems of creativity, ethics, aesthetics and art. He conceives ethics in the context of the creation, as an expression of individual freedom as possible, within the limitations of the various historical eras. He deals with the phenomenona of creation as a free self-realization of the individuals connected with the aesthetic problems of personality development - and also the society. "Because even in the creation in which dominates personal aesthetic pleasure, we can not forget about the other ones. However, without creation we would live in the crush with loneliness of emptiness" ....

Ing. Jaroslav Halík, MBA, Ph.D. is an experienced long-time lecturer and consultant in foreign trade and marketing management. He served as a marketing manager and business director in a number of multinational companies. Lectures at universities both at home and abroad (VŠE Praha, MUP Praha, RIT New York, Brunel University London, University of New York Prague). He is the author of many professional publications. Within his subject, he shows students how to promote and commercially realize works of art and how to manage entrepreneurial activities in the field of culture.

Mgr. Martina Vítková studied the theory and history of visual arts at the FFUP in Olomouc. She is currently pursing doctoral studies focused on contemporary art and current theories at ÚFU FF CUNI in Prague. The issue of exhibitions, galleries and museums has long been devoted to the practise of collecting institutions and organizing exhibitions for non-profit and private galleries. The course looks at the possibilities of cooperation between cultural and memorial institutions on the one hand and the artist and his collaborator - curator - on the other. The subject deals with the exhibition as a medium and different installation possibilities in a white cube environment, a specific environment and a public space.

prof. PhDr. Julius Gajdoš Ph.D. studied theater and radio dramaturgy at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and was awarded the European Diploma in Cultural and artistic management (postgraduate studies under the Council of Europe and the EU). He worked in the field of psychology and psychotherapy, he founded and led an international theater company IN-THEATRE, wrote several plays and radio plays, theoretical studies on theater, incl. psychological context. Investigator of several research projects in the field of art theory. Currently he is dedicated to the creative, research and teaching activities..

Mgr. Susanna Wagner, Ph.D. is the art historian, curator, critic. She studied art history and Italian at the Charles University in Prague. She lectures art history in the international program at Charles University in Prague. As a curator was involved in the realization of more than 70 exhibitions. In 2009 she published a book In Space 2000, where she writes about the works of contemporary Czech artists working with space. She is the author of many texts in catalogues and magazines about the work of contemporary artists, particularly sculptors. She worked long time as the curator at the Office of the President of the Czech Republic  exhibition program, of the contemporary Japanese art, at the gallery Rudolfinum - but also as the curator of exhibitions in alternative clubs and at Futurum Blatiny in Prague. In the 80s of the 20th century she was a co-editor of samizdat magazine Someone which focused on the contemporary art. In the years 2003-2010 she was a director and since 2010 she is the artistic director of the charitable company Spacium, ops, focusing on art projects in public space.

Kateřina Veleta Štěpánová, MA, Ph.D. studied Culture at the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University, where she focused on the anthropological theme of exotic ethnographers exhibited in Czech culture. The subject of the presentation of foreign cultures was also studied at the University of East Anglia, specially at the Sainsbury Research Unit, where she studied Art of Africa, Oceania and the Americas. He works at the Náprstek Museum, the Museum of the Capital City of Prague and cooperates on international projects.

Doc. PhDr. Martin Soukup, Ph.D. Cultural Anthropologist Martin Soukup
focuses on the history, theory and methodology of cultural anthropology. He pays special attention to New Guinea, where he conducts field research, he has also conducted fieldwork in the Philippines and India. He has studied visuality and the ethnoaesthetics of alliterative societies, with particular reference to material culture. He is the author or editor of nearly twenty books and dozens of studies. He is a laureate of the Neuron Prize.