Mgr. Vojtěch Märc, Ph.D.

Vojtěch Märc is an art historian and theoretician interested in the margines of specializations, disciplines and institutions. He studied history and theory of modern and contemporary art at the School of Applied Arts in Prague.
Email:vojtech.marc@avu.cz
Workplace:Research Board, Editorial Board, Academic Senate, AVU Trade Union, Department of Theory and History of Art

He curated the series Other Visions CZ 2023 for PAF Olomouc 2023. As a curator, he also worked at a gallery Fotograf, based in Prague, having organized the exhibitions A Concise History of Camera Traps (2021), Attacks on Commodities (2022) and Error of Measurement (2022). He published in the local journals such as A2, Artalk.cz, Art Antiques, Flash Art, Fotograf a Sešit pro umění, teorii a jiné zóny. He participated in a collective called Headless Studio and, as a member of Workshop for a Study of Extrasensory Aesthetics, he received Jindřich Chalupecký Award (2020). He has lectured at the Academy of Fine Arts since 2022.

List of Courses

  • Introduction to Thinking in Material
  • Laboratory of Unfocusedness

Selected bibliography

Märc, Vojtěch (2022), “Photogrammatics: Tracing and Unframing”, in Jitka Hlaváčková (ed.), Divination from a Night Sky Partly Covered by Clouds: The Role of Photography in the Post-Media Age, Praha: Galerie hlavního města Prahy, 54–69Märc, Vojtěch (2022), “How to Do Politics through the Window: Squatting in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic after 1989“, in Cyril Říha (ed.), The rule over your affairs once lost will return to you, Praha: Vysoká škola uměleckoprůmyslová v Praze, 544–596Märc, Vojtěch (2022), “Spaces of Expectation: Socialist Architecture and the Politics of the Future”, in Karolina Jirkalová – Veronika Rollová (eds.), The Future is Hidden in the Present, Praha: Vysoká škola uměleckoprůmyslová v Praze, 135–191Märc, Vojtěch (2022), “The Scientific-Technical Revolution in Urbanism of the 1960s.” In Cyril Říha et al., Architecture and Czech Politics from the 19th to the 21st Centuries: Critical Exhibition Catalogue, Praha: Vysoká škola uměleckoprůmyslová v Praze, 256–261Märc, Vojtěch (2022), “Tools of Segregation.” In Cyril Říha et al., Architecture and Czech Politics from the 19th to the 21st Centuries: Critical Exhibition Catalogue, Praha: Vysoká škola uměleckoprůmyslová v Praze, 360–365Märc, Vojtěch (2020), „Pseudoumělecký výzkum.“ In Milena Bartlová – Zdeněk Bezecný (eds.), Umělecký výzkum na UMPRUM, Praha: Vysoká škola uměleckoprůmyslová v Praze, 50–51Märc, Vojtěch (2021), “Death by Landscape? Geo-Pathogenic Zones as Architectural and Urbanistic Phenomenon.” Sešit pro umění, teorii a příbuzné zóny 30: 34–93 https://vvp.avu.cz/app/uploads/2021/10/marc-notebook-30-2021-translation.pdf.