The Chilean artists Guillermo and Sergio Núñez studied at UMPRUM in Prague in the late 1950s and early 1960s. From that point on, their careers developed on different continents. While Guillermo Núñez became a renowned figure of South America’s modern art, Sergio Núñez has largely been forgotten. The current exhibit recalls the less famous of […]
How did modern art and design emerge in Brno? What were the methods of arts and crafts education? And how did the former School of Arts and Crafts evolve into today’s Secondary School of Art and Design and Higher Vocational School Brno? The exhibition traces the hundred-year story of a Central European institution where local […]
How did modern art and design emerge in Brno, and what were the methods for arts-and-crafts education? This publication captures the century-long story of one Central European school that combined local folkloric traditions with the experimental artistic avant-garde, servility to political establishments with daring intellectual freedom, traditional craft skills with new media. The outcome of a project of team […]
On 7 and 8 November 2024, the international conference "The School of Arts and Crafts in Brno within the Contexts of Arts and Crafts Education, Politics, Culture and Industry" will take place at the Brno House of Arts. It will offer almost twenty contributions by Czech and international authors (see the attached conference programme with annotations of all lectures). A substantial part of the conference papers are the result of our UMPRUM NAKI team.
