Videoarchiv

11 – 24 Oct 2021 | Alice Růžičková, Martin Búřil, Martin Blažíček, Martin Ježek, David Přílučík, Tomáš Kajánek, Oskar Helcel, Lenka Hámošová, Barbora Trnková & Tomáš Javůrek. Curated by Lenka Střeláková. | The exhibition follows various forms of moving image that accentuate the critical and self-reflexive potential of media art. The burden of proof is inverted with increasing regularity in relation to the digital image and contemporary technology. Mediated reality becomes argumented reality.

13 – 26 Sep 2021 | The exhibition The Czech Electronic Picture – Inner Sources was prepared in 1994 by the Association of Video and Intermedia at UVU and curated by Jaroslav Vančát. The current on-line exhibition is an attempt to reconstruct selected parts of one of the first significant presentations of Czech video art.

27 Sep – 10 Oct 2021 | The first study courses focused on video art and new media at art schools in Czechoslovakia (and later the Czech Republic) were established soon after 1989. The first wave saw the establishment, in 1990, of the Department of Animation and Video at the Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU), followed a year later by the New Media Studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (AVU). In 1993, the Faculty of Fine Arts (FaVU) at the Brno University of Technology was established, along with a specialised study course focused on electronic multimedia art. These were the three essential departments at which a new generation of art of the moving image in the Czech Republic was formed before the year 2000.

This publication, which is to be published in 2023, is dedicated to a critical assessment of the practice of the moving image in the Czech art world from the 1970s to the first decade of this century.

You can find works from the NFA Video Archive regularly presented at significant festivals or in various galleries.

The Prague City Gallery is currently presenting the first large-scale exhibition of the works of Jan Jedlička both in the Czech Republic and internationally. The exhibition includes screenings of his video pieces and accompanying programmes at the Ponrepo cinema.