Setkání s osobností české fotografie: VLADIMÍR BIRGUS

We cordially invite you to another meeting with personalities of Czech photography. Our nice guest will be a significant Czech photographer, college teacher, leading Czech curator and historian of photography, head of the Institute of Creative Photography FF Silesian University in Opava, Prof. PhDr. Vladimir Birgus. Since the beginning of the 70. In its black and white and since the early 1980s and in color photographic series, they have been trying to make many visual messages with a number of visual symbols and metaphors in which it thematizes human sadness, feelings of uprooting or loneliness in the middle of the crowd. As one of the first in the Czech Republic, he moved from sociological documents with clearly readable content to metaphorically and much more breadth conceived subjective photographs. 🔸
has so far presented his work at more than seventy author exhibitions in the Czech Republic and abroad. They are also part of the collections of a number of important institutions, including the Museums of Modern Art in San Francisco, the Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Tokyo, the European House of Photography and the National Library in Paris, the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, the Moravian Gallery in Brno and many others. Even foreign galleries, such as Czech photographic avant -garde, Czech photograph of the 20th century, the intimate world of Josef Sudek and a long series of other exhibitions. Architect Josef Gočár, Slezská 100/7, near Míru Square (Metro A).