Dějiny umění jako (intelektuální) dobrodružství

We cordially invite you to participate in a symposium devoted to the seventieth birthday of Vojtěch Lahody, which will take place on 21-22. 10. 2025 in Prague. PhDr. Vojtěch Lahoda, CSc. (30. 1955–18. 3. 2019) He was an internationally recognized art historian who specialized in the history of Czech modernism and avant -garde in the European context, and his research often interfered with the second half of the 20th century. He is the author of many canonical review studies and monographs of artists. Since 1980 he has been a tribal employee, later director (1993–2001, 2012–2017) of the Institute of Art History of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. In addition to professional activities, he has devoted himself to university teaching since the 1990s. From 2000 until his death he worked at the Institute for the History of the Arts of the Faculty of Arts, where he taught the history of modern art. He was a teacher with an extraordinary ability to inspire his students - not only his lectures, but also a widely visited and thematically rich seminars and excursions. Lahoda's intellectual creativity and inspirational guidance have influenced many of his pupils who now work in the field of art history and in related disciplines. The aim of the meeting is to reflect and develop the principles that Lahoda promoted in its work and continues to develop its pupils and pupils. It is to point out the corners of art or ties that have until recently left in seclusion, on the edges of interest, or without connection with the so -called high art. This was also a frequent subject of delicious school work.

The format of the symposium
The symposium is planned as a two -day. The first day (October 21, 2025) will take place in the academic conference center in the form of conference contributions (15 min.). The second day (October 22, 2025) will take the form of excursions, visits and informal meetings led by delicious pupils/pupils, reminding the nature of Vojtěch Lahody's teaching "in the field".

Contributions
Topics we welcome at the symposium may be based on the following circuits, but are not limited to them:

-- "low" art- photographs, film, scenography, advertising, art brut, ...
- personalities and places outside canon, on the outskirts of artistic operation or interest
- Relationship of the Center and Periphery- Inclusion of Czech Art into International, especially Central and Eastern European Discourse Interdisciplinary dialogue, intertextuality
- artist as an institution
- role and activities of artists within cultural traffic
- contextual history of art and new approaches to evaluation

The second day- excursion and visits
format and selection of the second day is open. We offer the following options:
- Visits of institutions where pupils and pupils (museums, gallery,…) work for architectural or artistic places
- other creative forms of Lahoda's reference
We will connect and finalize any program. to: [email protected] and [email protected]

Deadline: May 5 2025
Kubištová (UPM)