MgA. Veronika Šrek Bromová

Born in Prague in 1966. In 1993, she graduated from the Illustration and Graphic Design Studio led by Prof. Jiří Šalamoun at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (VŠUP /Umprum/). She belongs to a generation of artists who helped shape the dynamic and daring Czech art scene of the 1990s, she still between well evaluated artists. In 1997 and 2000, she was among the finalists for the Jindřich Chalupecký Award. In 1998, she received a residency scholarship from the International Studio Program in New York. Her work has been well received abroad, and in 1999 she was the first Czech artist to represent the Czech Republic at the Venice Biennale with her environmental installation Zemzoo. In 2003, she received a three-month scholarship from Kunsthalle Krems – Factory. From 2002 to 2011, she led the New Media II Studio (Photographic and Digital Image) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, collaborated for several years on summer schools with The School of the Art Institute Chicago, and since 2015 has been teaching Cross Media Art Studio, intermedia-focused courses, at Anglo-American University in Prague.

She applies elements of artefiletics and art therapy, in which she has accredited training, to her work and teaching. She also completed the ArteSur group dynamic-oriented psychotherapy training with a certificate. In 2011, she founded the Kabinet Chaos gallery in Střítež u Poličky, where she lives, and organizes art meetings, exhibitions, creative residencies, and workshops. She has participated in the creation of several performance groups, such as Sirény z Titanu and Die Fruchte, and has collaborated with Divadlo Bar, ŠumSvistu, and Kolouchův sen. She introduced digitally manipulated photographs, “unpainted images,” and provocative artistic gestures, “self-performance,” associated with gender issues to the Czech environment.

In her later works, the focus shifted to archetypes and rituals confronted with contemporary pop culture modernity. She expresses herself in a wide range of media, from photography, video, and spatial installations to objects. In recent decades, she has been working with themes of nature, developing her ritual performances and preferring natural materials, exploring the boundaries of painting and drawing, or transforming them into various craft techniques such as cyanotype, blueprint, and ceramics. Her work has a distinctly performative character. Veronika Bromová is represented in many Czech and international art collections.