Viktorie Vítů, PhD Candidate

Researcher at the Department of Art of the 19th–21st Centuries and CVF – Photography Research Centre

Viktorie Vítů is a co-investigator of the five-year grant project Lumina Quaeruntur The Matrix of Photomechanical Reproductions: Histories of Remote Access to Art. She studied Philosophy at Charles University in Prague (BA 2017) as well as Art History at the same university (BA 2018) and Theory and History of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (MA 2020). She is currently a PhD candidate in theory and history of contemporary art at the Academy of Fine Arts, under the supervision of Prof. Tomáš Pospiszyl. In her bachelor thesis, she dealt with the topic of technical reproduction of artworks, specifically in the texts of Karel Teige, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor Adorno. Her master's thesis, which was awarded the Rector’s Prize at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, was dedicated to the Czech physicist Vilém Santholzer, his interest in machine aesthetics, and his photographs of radiation. She subsequently published an article on this topic in the magazine Umění / Art. She also works in the field of gallery education and has been a member of the curatorial team of Fotograf Gallery (2023 and 2024), which she led from 2022 to 2024.

Main research output:

Viktorie Vítů, Santholzer: vědec a avantgardista mezi krásou stroje a záření, Umění / Art LXIX, č. 4, 2021, s. 438–457

Current projects:

The Matrix of Photomechanical Reproductions: Histories of Remote Access to Art (Lumina Quaeruntur, 2023–2027)