Veronika Čechmánková is an intermedia artist working mainly with photography, video and installation. Her work focuses on the transformations of symbols and traditions over time, their transformations and possible meanings for the present. She selects visual and cultural elements from the past and explores their validity and possibilities, which she plays out in the current context. Her work combines a distinctive visual language with storytelling and often focuses on the relationship between man and nature or socio-cultural issues in contemporary society. She graduated from the Photography and New Media Studio at FAMU. Her work has been exhibited at galleries such as FUTURA Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague, Studio Vortex in Arles and the BF Artist Film Festival in London. During her studies, she participated in residencies at Casa Lü in Mexico City, the Czech Center in Paris, Joya: AiR Asociación de Arte y Ecología Vélez-Blanco or Residence Studio Vortex, leader Antoine d'Agatha in Arles. In 2023, Veronika was nominated by the Fotograf Gallery under the Future Photography platform in Amsterdam. In the same year, she was also nominated for the Czech Grand Design in the category Photographer of the Year.
She has been working at FAMU – the Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague – since 2022 as an assistant to the head of the photography department also spent one year as an assistant at the Imaginative Photography Studio. Since 2024, Čechmánková has been co-leading the Applied Photography Studio at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem.
2016–22
FAMU, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, studio of New Media, CZ / MgA.
2022
Joya: AiR Asociación de Arte y Ecología, Artist Residency, Vélez-Blanco, ES
2024
Art Grand Slam X Czech Center Paris, FR
2023
Casa Lü Artistas en Residencia, Mexiko City, MEX
2019
Residence Studio Vortex, leader Antoine d’Agatha, Arles, FR
2018
Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, studio of Sculpture, CZ
2012–16
Secondary School of Applied Arts in Uherské Hradiště, Applied Photography, CZ
2024
Nerůst, Vitríny Artbiom, Prague,CZ
2024
Lejdy Lena, Galerie Okraje, Tábor, CZ
2024
Vlákno Pavoukovo, Nau Gallery, Prague, CZ
2021
Light Match, Galerie NIKA, Prague,CZ
2020
White Snow, Karlin Studios, Prague, CZ
2020
So Close, So Far, JEDNA, DVA, TŘI Gallery, Prague, CZ
2020
Datura Match, City Surfer Office, Prague, CZ
2019
Meeting Point, Světová 1, Prague, CZ
2024
Art Icon - Corporeality, Bastille Design Center, Paris, Fr
2024
Madrid Fiesta Film Fest, Madrid, ESP
2024
Art Grand Slam - Sport in Art, Czech Center in Paris, Fr
2024
EcoSex, Slovenský Institut, Prague, CZ
2023
Video Arts / Films curated by Natálie Kubíková, MOLT Gallery Berlín, DEU
2023
Overload, Casa Lü Gallery, Mexiko City, MEX
2023
Feel The Reel International Film Festival, Glasgow, STC
2023
Mnoho podob citlivosti, Kampus Hybernská, Prague, CZ
2023
UFF - Festival současné umění, Fotofestival Uničov, CZ
2023
Kingdom of Hex, MeetFactory, Prague, CZ
2022
Artrooms Moravany 4, Pocta Moravanskej Venuši, Kaštieľ Moravany, Moravany nad Váhom, SR
2022
Polagraph Laboratoř - výstava, Polagraph Gallery, CZ
2021
Husitky na Baltu, Art Round, Katowicach,PL
2021
Kvantové Polia,Východoslovenská Galéria, Košice, SR
2021
Apostasia: Ritual od leating go.., Garage Gallery, Prague, CZ
2021
Černý Bávo - Bílej Boomber, GAMPA, Pardubice, CZ
2020
Everlasting, Pragovka Gallery, Prague, CZ
2020
Come Over When You‘re Sober, Galerie, TIC, Brno, CZ
2020
Limity Imaginace, Institut Úzkosti, Galerie knihovny GHMP, Prague, CZ
2020
Půda, Hlína, Zem, ETC Gallery, Prague, CZ
2020
DAS Experimental Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY
2020
Kořeny Roztou Dovnitř, Entrance Gallery, Prague, CZ
2019
PAF Olomouc, finalist, Other visions, Olomouc, CZ
2019
Basic Things, Galerie AMU, Prague, CZ
2019
OFF Festival, Bratislava, SR
2019
Brno16 – 60th International Short Film Festival, Brno, CZ
2019
Marienbad Film Festival, Mariánské Lázně, CZ
2019
When I Sleep He Dreams About Edible Vegetables, Vápenka, Prague, CZ
2019
BF Artist Film Festival, London, UK
2019
Polak w Polsce / Polak in Poland, Lodz, PL
2019
Studio Vortex, Arles, FR
2019
Foto, Atelier Glockengasse 8A, Vienna, AU
2018
Královská obora with Nela Britaňáková, Ukradená galerie, Prague, CZ
2018
Digital Naive, Holešovická šachta, Prague, CZ
2018
H_Da FBG Druckwerkstatt, photography festival, Darmstadt, DE
2018
A Guiding Dog For A Blind Dog, Futura, Prague, CZ
2018
KURS, Atelierhaus Kasernenstrasse 23, Basilej, CH
2018
Encontros da Imagem; art festival, Fake me…, Braga, PRT
2018
Apta Ad Viridatem, Galerie Znak, Prague, CZ
2017
Inferno, Kampus Hybernská, Prague, CZ
2017
Festival Artist in Musrara School, Jeruzalem, IL
2017
Fotobub, photography festival, Novo Mesto, SL
2016
Pocta Josefu Sudkovi, Student Price, Novoměscká radnice, Prague, CZ
2022
Flowers are not to be picked. Flowers are to be admired, photography zine, selfpublish,CZ
2021
Kodoma / Fanzin, publisher La Casa del Árbol bookstore, Buenos Aires, ARG
2020
On Freezing and Melting Time, catalog, FAMU Department of Photography, Prague & NYU Tisch School of the Arts, NY
2017
Fotopub, catalog, Photography festival in Novo mesto, Slovenia, SL
feat. Nela Britaňáková
2016–20
Flat DIY gallery Mladí a Neklidní in Prague, CZ
2019
I follow the Shapes of the Shadow of My Hand, Garage Gallery, Prague, CZ
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