Exhibition: Tis (group show)

Antonín Mikšík (b. 1960, Šternberk) is a Czech photographer. In 1998 he completed his studies in art photography at the Silesian University in Opava. From 1985 to 1994 he helped organize unofficial exhibitions of amateur artists in the Uničov park and was a member of VSUV+H (Volné sdružení uničovských výtvarníků + Hostů – the Free Association of Uničov Artists + Guests). He documented underground events and holds a number of unique photographs of them. His photographic work has been presented at some ninety exhibitions, including in Poland, Germany, and Spain, and he has also made several films of his own.

Source: https://www.pametnaroda.cz/cs/miksik-antonin-1960

Filip Cenek (b. 1976, Jeseník) is a Czech visual artist and educator. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Brno University of Technology (FaVU VUT; Keiko Sei’s Video and Multimedia Studio) and has been its dean since 2019. He works with video, animation, and video installations, and his practice is marked by collaboration and the interconnection of media. He explores questions of capturing reality, the subjectivity of experience, and memory as an ever-changing archive of life.

Source: https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filip_Cenek

Iveta Schovancová (b. 1992) is a Czech artist. She graduated from the Photography Studio at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (UMPRUM) and from the New Media Studio II at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (AVU). She works with technical images, objects, embroidery, and installation. Her work explores the limits of the photographic medium and its restricted capacity to capture reality, inviting viewers to distrust the completeness of photographic testimony while leaving room for their own interpretations.

Source: https://seoul.czechcentres.cz/en/blog/2022/09/new-perspectives-iveta-schovancova

Jiří Šigut (b. 1960, Ostrava) is a Czech conceptual photographer. At the turn of the 1980s and 1990s he abandoned the camera and began working solely with the light-sensitive layer of photographic paper, which he places in nature — in pools, streams, fields, or meadows — where it remains for days or even weeks. Inspired by the music of John Cage, his work reflects the passage of time and the role of chance. In 2019 he received the Amber Award for artists from the Moravian-Silesian Region. He is one of the artists who have fundamentally changed how the artistic possibilities of photography are perceived.

Source: https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiří_Šigut

Lucia Sceranková (b. Košice) is a Slovak artist living and working in Prague. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava and at AVU in Prague (Vladimír Skrepl’s Painting Studio II). In her work she uses photography not to document but to creatively manipulate reality — her works unsettle viewers and make them question what they see, while carrying a subtle poetics and a harmonious calm in time. She has been nominated for the Jindřich Chalupecký Award and the Start Point Prize.

Source: https://www.sjch.cz/lucia-scerankova/

Markéta Othová (b. 1968, Brno) is a Czech photographer and printmaker. She studied at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (UMPRUM). She belongs to the generation of influential artists who established themselves on the art scene in the 1990s after the Velvet Revolution. In 2002 she became only the second woman ever to win the Jindřich Chalupecký Award. She works almost exclusively in large-format black-and-white photography organized in series, marked by a unique sensitivity to the banal and to everyday motifs.

Source: https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markéta_Othová

Matěj Pavlík is a Czech photographer and visual artist. He studied in the Photography Studio at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (UMPRUM) under Aleksandra Vajd and Hynek Alt, graduating in 2017. He is a member of the Extrasensory-Aesthetics Research Working Group, which researches Czechoslovak parapsychology and the relationship between art and science.

Source: Matěj Pavlík – FAMU seminar

Sláva Sobotovičová (b. 1973, Nitra) is a Slovak-Czech artist living in Prague. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava and the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, after which she began working almost exclusively with video. In her work she uses voice and music as tools for critical reflection on society, drawing mainly on memories and family situations that she then re-stages. Themes of feminism and gender stereotypes frequently appear in her work.

Source: https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sl%C3%A1va_Sobotovi%C4%8Dov%C3%A1

Václav Kopecký (b. 1983) is a Czech visual artist. He completed his master’s degree in the Photography Studio of Hynek Alt and Aleksandra Vajd at UMPRUM and his bachelor’s degree at the Faculty of Art and Design, UJEP, in Ústí nad Labem. In 2019 he defended his doctorate at UMPRUM. Since 2020 he has headed the Applied Photography Studio at FUD UJEP. He approaches photography not only as a tool for reflecting reality but also as a physical instrument that transforms our perspective.

Source: https://www.fotografcontemporary.cz/en/vaclav-kopecky/