The third international student book art competition BookVision is a testament to the growing interest of students in this project and its continually expanding geographical reach. This year, students from 37 art schools and 14 countries submitted a total of 152 works of art, from which an expert jury selected 88 works for an exhibition at the Gallery of the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Ostrava and awarded works in each selected category (artist’s book, book-object and digital book).

 

The competition is a continuous reflection of current trends and themes on which students are working in the creation of artist’s books, as well as the relevance of the actual book as a medium within contemporary visual arts. The book is an object that, thanks to its low demands in terms of space and the relative ease of dispatch from almost anywhere, allows artist’s books, book-objects, and related manifestations to be presented together in large numbers in the space of a standard gallery.

 

It is very interesting to see how certain tendencies, approaches, and issues repeat in young artists’ works of art even though they come from different countries and art schools, and how the book carries and creates a certain generational statement. A common form is fanzines, experimental, and original poetry, various forms of diary, playful material, graphic and typographic experiments, the involvement of artificial intelligence and digital technology, conceptual projects, and picture books. The authors address topics that touch them deeply in their own lives, their relationships to other people, the world and/or place, creating a way of coming to terms with both, past and present events, and an array of societal issues and topics.

 

The collective presentational form, created thanks to the BookVision 2024 competition, also speaks of a cultural diversity, not only in terms of content and topics, but also in terms of the chosen fonts, paper, format, printing, binding, and other materials and elements used. Together they form a final impression and experience when we can actually take the books in our hands – a key moment of the project as a whole experience.

 

 

Julie Kačerovská

exhibition curator 

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BookVision 2024

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Categories: artist’s book, book-object, other media

A total of works: 152

Selected book artifacts for the exhibition: 92

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Participating universities:

Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia – ABAV

Akademia Sztuk Pięknych im. Eugeniusza Gepperta we Wrocławiu – ASP Wrocław

Akademia Sztuk Pięknych im. Jana Matejki w Krakowie – ASP Kraków

Akademia Sztuk Pięknych im. Władysława Strzemińskiego w Łodzi – ASP Łódź

Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Katowicach – ASP Katowice

Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Warszawie – ASP Warsaw

Akademie výtvarných umění v Praze – AVU

Akademije likovnih umjetnosti, Sveučilište u Zagrebu – ALU Zagreb

Art & Design Institut v Praze – ADI

Colorado State University – CSU

Fakulta designu a umění Ladislava Sutnara Západočeské univerzity – FDULS ZČU

Fakulta humanitních věd, Žilinská Univerzita v Žiline – FHV UNIZA

Fakulta multimediálních komunikací Univerzity Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně – FMK UTB

Fakulta umění a designu Univerzity Jana Evangelisty Purkyně v Ústí nad Labem – FUD UJEP

Fakulta umění Ostravské univerzity – FU OU

Fakulta výtvarných umění Vysokého učení technického v Brně – FaVU VUT v Brně

Fakultet primenjenih umetnosti Univerziteta umetnosti u Beogradu – FPU Beograd

Filmová a televizní fakulta Akademie múzických umění v Praze – FAMU

Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht – HKU Utrecht

Hochschule Luzern – HSLU

Hochschule Trier – HS Trier

Institut für bildende Kunst und Ästhetische Erziehung, Universität Regensburg – UR

Natsionalna khudozhestvena akademiia Sofia – NHA Sofia

Pedagogická fakulta Masarykovy univerzity v Brně – PdF MU

Pedagogická fakulta Univerzity Hradec Králové – PdF UHK

Pedagogická fakulta Univerzity Palackého v Olomouci ­– PdF UP

Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche – UMH

Uniwersytet Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie – UKEN Krakow

Vysoká škola uměleckoprůmyslová v Praze – UMPRUM

Vysoká škola výtvarných umení v Bratislave – VŠVU

Vyšší odborná škola grafická a Střední průmyslová škola grafická v Praze – VOŠG Hellichova

 

Expert jury members:

doc. Eliška Čabalová, MgA. Julie Kačerovská, Ph.D., Mgr. Gina Renotière, Ph.D., 

doc. Blanka Růžičková, MgA. Tomáš Rybníček, MgA. Kateřina Zemanová

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Exhibition:

BookVision 2024

May 15 – June 14, 2024 

Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery (GAFU)

Černá louka 3398, 702 00 Moravská Ostrava a Přívoz

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Curator: Julie Kačerovská

Graphic design: Tři Grácie

Technical solution: Marek Franz

Collaboration: Jakub Konvica

 

The exhibition is held under the auspices of the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Ostrava and is co-funded by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, the City of Ostrava and Moravian-Silesian Region.