Tereza Velíková

Velíková has long had an interest in the possibility of communicating human experience. She works with her own personal testimonies and those of others (e.g. Zpovědnice / Confessional, 2008, Domino, 2009, Špatně položená otázka / Poorly Phrased Question, 2013). However, the question of whether the individual’s experience can be shared with others is often subject to doubt or remains problematic.

The individuals providing testimony are usually left alone with their message within the visual space of the video. Sometimes the audio is desynchronised from the visual. The outcome is that Velíková’s work is not so much interested in sharing an experience with the viewer as formally examining the impenetrable barriers between individual and personal experience in human society. The ideal medium for this job and the predominant medium in her oeuvre is video. Her work is characterised by a precise visuality often linked with a verbal dimension. Another important feature is work with retrospective views of the artist’s childhood, both from the perspective of seeking to define her own identity (e.g. the installation Každý mě má rád / Everyone Likes Me, 2007), and in relation to the creative process (the audio-installation Rodinná umělkyně / Family Artist, 2006).

Another aspect of her art might be called video sculptures in which direct work with the body’s relationship to its surroundings or its link with specific objects is examined. However, this still involves a certain form of communication, albeit between the body and the intimate objective surroundings (e.g. I step where I belong, 2012). Velíková is a graduate of the Jiří David studio at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (VŠUP), after which she took a doctorate at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (AVU). She is also a gallerist and curator. Along with Tereza Severová she founded the Entrance Gallery in Prague in 2005.

Presenatations and Lectures:

2011

Dialog between Sound and Image, Watermill Center, NY, USA

2009

Očima žen (v rámci cyklu Pondělky s gender), Městská knihovna, Praha (přednášku moderovala Sylva Poláková)

Intermedialita – transformace pojmu a jeho možnosti a využití v současném umění, AVU, Praha

2003

Video Festival OKO, Praha

Autorská prezentace, Art Museum – University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA

Prezentace výstavy „Ženy“, Rudolfinum, Praha

Audiovisual – současný videoart III., kino Světozor, Praha

2002

Bodies, Technologies, Identities: Manufacturing the Self – Some Notes of Contemporary Czech Art by Women – přednáška Martiny Pachmanové, Ludwig Museum Budapest – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapešť, HU

Periferní vidění, přednáška Martiny Pachmanové v rámci bienále mladého umění

ZVON 2002, GHMP – Dům U Kamenného zvonu, Praha

Mezi první a druhou moderností – katalog k výstavě, Praha, 2012

Začátek století – katalog k výstavě, Plzeň, 2012

Ateliér č. 4/2011, článek Tereza Velíková a Lenka Vítková na téma chůze, text Viktor Čech

FlashArt Czech & Slovak Edition č. 17/2010, Tereza Velíková – Re-mix a re-konstrukce zvuku i obrazu v podání umělkyně, text Katarína Uhlířová

Dílna – 17. ročník Mikulovského výtvarného sympozia – katalog, Mikulov, 2010

V. zlínský salon mladých 2009 – katalog k výstavě, text Pavlína Morganová

Fotograf č. 12/2008, Praha, 2008, text Tomáš Dvořák

Už stovky let to nebolí – katalog k výstavě, Blansko, 2008

Praguebiennale 3 – katalog k výstavě, Praha, 2007

Prag 06 – katalog k výstavě, Vídeň, 2006

Věcné stavy – katalog k výstavě, Praha, 2006

120 let VŠUP – katalog ke 120. výročí VŠUP v Praze

Diplomky – VŠUP, Praha, 2005

Obsese sběru – katalog k výstavě, Oblastní galerie Vysočiny v Jihlavě, 2003

Germinations 13 – Play and Control – katalog k výstavě, Pori Art Museum publications, 2003

Korpus č. 1 – časopis VŠUP, projekt, 2002, text Martina Pachmanová

Ateliér č. 20/2002, rozhovor, str. 9