BIO

Personal Details
Name: Viktor Takáč
Date of Birth: 8 October 1982
Marital status: single
Address: Kocianova 5, 155 15 Praha 5, Czech Republic
Telephone: +420 737 777 807
E-mail: tviktor@avu.cz
Nationality: Czech

Education

since 2007 Master’s programme in Intermedia Studies
School of Monumental Art (under Jiří Příhoda)
Academy of Fine Arts, Prague

since 2006
Master’s programme in New Media
School of New Media (under Michael Bielický)
Academy of Fine Arts, Prague

2005
Student mobility programme
Department of Sculpture, Object and Installation
Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava

2004—2007
Bachelor’s programme in Illustration for the Media and Didactic Purposes,
and Multimedia Design
Institute of Art and Design
University of West Bohemia, Pilsen

1999 – 2002
Information technology
Secondary technical school, Prague

1998 – 1999
Information technology
Secondary technical school, Dvůr Králové nad Labem

Awards
2007 – 1st prize in the “Different visions” competition at Olomouc Festival of Film Animation

Workshops, Festivals And Exhibitions:
2010
Transgression – Hong-Kong
DEMORAUM – Vienna
Collectors / The Czecho-Slovak Pavilion, Brot Kunsthalle – Vienna
Příjdu hned (Comming soon) – solo exhibition in gallery Pavilon, Prague

2009
Schodišťový efekt (Stairs efekt) – solo exhibition in gallery Ve sklepě, Prague
4+4 Dny v pohybu / 4+4 Days in Motion Festival, Prague
Drazí (The Dearest), Galerie Půda, Jihlava
Objekt animace. Třetí smysl. (Animation Object. The Third Sense), Zlín
Bad filming, BKC, Brno
8. přehlídka animovaného filmu (8th Festival of Animated Film), Olomouc

2008

solo exhibition, Galerie Pavilon, Prague
Expirace, Galerie Pavilon, Prague

2007
Gallery Output, Prague
Elektrická ovce (Electronic sheep), interactive installation of photo-cave system, Academy of Fine Arts, Prague
Jak vysvětlit videoart šnekům (How to explain video art to snails), Erik Sikora & Viktor Takáč, Austrian Cultural Forum, Prague
Prázdniny v Plzni (Holiday in Pilsen), Světozor Cinema, Prague
Ostrava Film Festival

2006
Presentation of video art, Bratislava International Film Festival (Slovakia)
Nefalešná stopa (Unfalse Trail), Police Museum, Prague
Přátelský film II / Friendly Movie II, Světozor Cinema, Prague
Přátelský film II / Friendly Movie II, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

2005
Serial Systems, Plauen (Germany):
New Media Festival, Cheb
10-day New Media workshop, Žilina (Slovakia)
a month stay in Ukraine: painting, drawing, photographing

2004

Exhibition of illustrations for The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke, Prague