Vašulka Kitchen Brno

Vašulka Kitchen Brno (VKB) is a place for research, artistic experiment and informal education in the field of new media art. It consists of the archive of Woody and Steina Vašulkas’ work and a permanent exhibition of their selected works. VKB organizes events aimed at commemorating and developing the artistic and philosophical legacy of the Vašulkas, pioneers in new media art with personal ties to Brno, and supports new media art production.

At the end of 2016, an initiative was established in Brno to found Vašulka Kitchen, an art space referring to the work of the artists Steina Briem Bjarnadottir and Bohuslav Woody Vašulka. In October 2018, in the cooperation with the Vasulkas, we ceremoniously launched the activities of the New Media Art Center in the House of Arts Brno. Its goals are to preserve and mediate the work of the Vasulkas and develop their legacy.

From the end of the 1980s and the early 1990s, several (non-profit) artistic initiatives in Czechia dealt with the art of video, electronic media, and later digital art. Today, VKB is one of the few specialized (non-academic) projects in this area. In the international context, it is part of a network of institutions focused on the promotion, archiving, research, or distribution of art based on moving images, sound, electronic networks, coding, and performativity as an artistic practice. (2022)

See also

• The Vasulkas

Links

• https://vasulkakitchen.org/
• Archived website
• https://wiki.vasulkakitchen.org/
• https://www.dum-umeni.cz/vasulka-kitchen-brno/t8317
• https://www.galeriejeleni.cz/2022/on-second-thought/