Aleš Zapletal studied at the Academy of Arts Architecture and Design in Prague (painting studio of J. Černický and M. Meduna, studio of Intermedia Confrontation). Before UMPRUM he studied painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Brno University of Technology. At the Academy of Fine Arts he completed his PhD in the studio of Painting 2 by Vladimír Skrepl (2017–2021).

Aleš Zapletal’s work is based on his philosophically based thinking, through which he uncovers existential questions of the present, and on pictorial representation itself. Aleš Zapletal has exhibited at the House of Art Ústí nad Labem, NoD Gallery, Jelení Gallery and others, and has participated in numerous group exhibitions. In 2022, AVU Publishing House published his book Images of Philosophy and the Physical Mind.

MgA. Aleš Zapletal, Ph.D.

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