Distorted Session #7: Výstava zblízka

Up Close: A Closer Look at the Exhibition – this is a new tour format in which we’ll take a behind-the-scenes look at our current exhibitions together. Interesting facts, new insights, practical tips, and more—all presented in an easy-to-understand and accessible way, led by the House of Art’s docents!

On Saturday, June 20, 2026, starting at 2 p.m., we’ll take a closer look at the Distorted Image exhibition. Chapters from the early days of video art. Why is it worth seeing the exhibition more than once? How were the first TV theme songs and animated music videos created? Why was Brno, of all places, the cradle of video art in our country? And is there a bit of a video artist in all of us? You’ll learn all this and much more on this tour.

Vstupenky jsou k zakoupení v předprodeji na pokladně Domu umění nebo na GoOut

About the Exhibition<br>
Exhibition Design: Kateřina Radakulan

The exhibition explores the origins of video art in the former Czechoslovakia, as well as in Poland and Hungary. It covers the period from the late 1960s to the mid-1990s. The selection of key events and artworks cannot be separated from the overall social and political context, which largely determined access to technology, methods of working with video imagery, and the possibilities for sharing it. Using examples of works from various countries, the exhibition inspires viewers to seek out differences as well as parallels and points of connection.

The exhibition includes experimental films, recordings of performances and events, and early animations, which complement the overall picture of the development of this art form. An important part of the exhibition consists of independent video magazines and news reports on politics and culture distributed on videotapes (including Originální Videojournal, Videomagazín Vokna, Videomagazín Karla Kyncla, and Infermental). In addition to single-channel video, the exhibition features various forms of video installations and video sculptures, many of which have survived only in documentation.