The VVP AVU (Academic Research Centre of the Academy of Fine Arts - "AVU Research Centre") is a centre committed to academic research, processing of original documentation, and critical evaluation and reinterpretation of Czech fine arts from 1945 to the present, with an emphasis on interdisciplinary study.
The goal of the VVP AVU is to expand the knowledge of the history of local fine arts and place this development into a broader international context. Currently, the centre uses the transformation period of 1980-2005 as its main subject of study. The VVP AVU is in the process of developing a documentation centre, compiling an archive of textual and visual materials. A bibliobase - database of bibliographical information on Czech art and the i-datum - database of contemporary art project are available online.
Published anthology of texts Czech Art 1980-2010. Texts and Documents
Lecture cycle upcoming.
The B-Movie DVD was released.
Exhibition The Islands of Resistance. Between the First and Second Modernity 1985-2012
New number 11/2011 Notebook for art, theory and related zones
Jan Zálešák, The Art of Collaboration
Tomáš Dvořák (ed.), Chapters from the History and Theory of the Media
The editorial board of The Notebook for Art, Theory and Related Zones is accepting essays and reviews for the upcoming first issue of 2012
The
AVU Research Center's on-line video-archive database
In May 2010 the AVU Research Centre's on-line video-archive database was launched
as part of the i-datum
contemporary art database.
Bibliobase part of the Subject Gateway ART
