Opening of the exhibition The VIZIUM Awards 2024

April 29th, 2025 | 6PM - 10PM

The awards of the Czech Academy of Visual Arts have been given since 2021, always for exceptional artistic achievements of the previous year. Since 2024, the name of the award has changed to the VIZIUM Award. It is a Czech new term combining two meanings that reflect the values for which artists are nominated and awarded by the CAVU membership. These are the fulfilment of the “vision” in the field of visual art and at the same time the shifting of the “vision” of the discipline itself as an expressive field of visual art that is constantly evolving, changing and cyclically renewed. 

The VIZIUM exhibition at the Portheimka Gallery introduces the public to the two main categories in which visual artists are awarded. These are the categories Artist of the Year and Discovery of the Year. A total of eight artists are presented here who have either won the award in the past (Artist of the Year category) or are this year's finalists (Artist of the Year and Discovery of the Year categories). From the finalists, this year's winners will be announced during the exhibition.

The exhibition spaces on the two floors of the gallery are designed differently in terms of installation. On the ground floor, Margita Titlová Ylovsky (winner of the 2022 Artist of the Year Award), Jaromír Novotný (winner of the 2023 Artist of the Year Award) and Ondřej Přibyl (finalist for the 2024 Discovery of the Year Award) are exhibiting together. The second floor, which preserves the Baroque layout of the building and the character of its decoration, comprises a total of six rooms. In five of them, Kurt Gebauer (winner of the Artist of the Year 2020 award), Viktor Pivovarov (winner of the Artist of the Year 2021 award), Jindřich Zeithamml (finalist for the Artist of the Year 2024 award), Kateřina Komm and Lenka Falušiová (finalists for the Discovery of the Year 2024 award) are exhibiting individually. The sixth room is dedicated to the presentation of the Publication of the Year 2024 category.

With this exhibition, the Czech Academy of Visual Arts gives a glimpse of the best that is happening - at least from the perspective of its members and experts - on the contemporary Czech art scene. You can look forward to works by leading artists, which include expressive means of painting, sculpture, drawing, photography and installation. The curator of the VIZIUM 2024 Prize exhibition is Petr Vaňous, who was awarded in the category of Curator of the Year (for 2022).

Exhibition runs from April 30th to May 29th, 2025. 

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