prof. MgA. Tomáš Vaněk
| Position: | vedoucí pedagog |
| Email: | tomas.vanek@avu.cz |
| Workplace: | Intermedia 3, Subject Area Board – Fine Arts, Restoration, Architecture Programmes, Project Support Department, Academic Senate |
Tomáš Vaněk (*1966) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in 1990–97. He has been exhibiting independently since 1997. During his studies he founded the art group BJ (Bezhlavý jezdec/Headless Horseman) together with Josef Bolf, Ján Mančuška and Jan Šerých. Since 1998 he has used the name Particip for his works. It denotes actions and things conceived for a certain place and situation. In 2000, together with Vít Havránek and Jiří Skála, he founded Production of Activities of the Present – PAS, which, among other things, prepared and realised, in cooperation with the Projektil architectural studio and the National Library, Dan Perjovschi’s central artwork for the NTK in Prague 6. In his artistic work he often creates inconspicuous situations in public and gallery space, working with the phenomenon of templating in both semantic and media sense.
Since 2010, he has been leading the Intermedia 3 studio at AVU. In his studio teaching, he promotes the importance of conceptual explorations of individual working practices and their understanding in order to find individual and collective artistic positions for creating artistic objects and gestures. He was awarded the academic rank of Associate Professor in 2017 and the academic title of Professor in 2021. From 2014 to 2022, he served as Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts. At the AVU he holds the position of a guarantor of the Doctoral Programme in Free Art. He is a member of the Departmental and Artistic Council of UMPRUM in Prague, the Artistic Council of the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava and the Artistic and Scientific Council of the Faculty of Fine Arts of TUL Liberec.
He has had a number of solo exhibitions, with selections at Na bidýlku/Na perch in Brno, Display in Prague, ETC. in Prague, A.M.180 in Prague, PLATO Ostrava, DADS Liberec, Dům umění České Budějovice, Huntkastner Gallery in Prague, Bastart Bratislava, Space Bratislava, Index Foundation Stockholm, Camden Arts Centre in London, Swiss Cottage Central Library in London, Kunstbibliothek, Matthäikirchplatz in Berlin. He has exhibited in numerous national and international group exhibitions at the NGP, GHMP, Fokus Lodz Biennial in Poland, Manifesta 8 in Murcia, Spain, SNG in Bratislava, House of Art in Moscow, Blow De La Bara Gallery in London, Art La Vile Saint Etiene, University of Essex Gallery in Colchester, Czech Cultural Centres in Vienna, Bucharest and New York. He has completed international artist residencies at Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco, Museums Quartier 21, artist in residence, Vienna, Her und Hin, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Camden Arts Centre, Delfina Studio, London, ISCP Studio Residency, New York. He is represented in private collections and public collections of NGP, GHMP, GMU Hradec Králové, MUO Olomouc, Galerie Klatovy / Klenová.