Michal Adamovský, MA, MFA, PhD

*1982, lives and works in Prague

 

2016 - 2023

Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. Film and TV School (FAMU)
PhD Study Program: Film, Television, Photography and New Media. Theory of Film and Multimedia Production.
Disertation thesis: Appropriation. Collision and Synergy in the Appropriation of a Foreign Work of Photography from the Perspective of Copyright.

2011-2014

Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. Film and TV School (FAMU)
Study Program: Film, Television, Photography and New Media
Field of Study: Photography, MFA

2008-2011

Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. Film and TV School (FAMU)
Study Program: Film, Television, Photography and New Media
Field of Study: Photography, BA

2002-2007

University of West Bohemia, Faculty of Law
Field of Study: Law, MA

 

Internships, Residencies:

2016

Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne
A ten-day research on copyright law

2013

MOMA Library and ICP, New York
Two-month scholarship for a copyright research

2012

Atelier de Visu, Marseille
A month photography internship in Atelier de Visu / Antoine d’Agata (Magnum photos)

Technical University Gratz
A half year experimental art project connecting analog photography and digital processing at TU Graz with architect Martin Kaftan, Msc, PhD

2011

Musrara School of Photography, Jerusalem
Student Exchange Program

 

Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions:

Artium, Broken Flowers, Prague, 2025 - 2026

Fine Arts Archive DOX, 6 Postcards, Prague, 2025

Klatovy / Klenová Gallery, Multicontact II, Klenová, 2022

4 + 4 Days in Motion, Erpet Smichov, Being someone else, somewhere else, at some other time, Prague, 2022

Fiducia Gallery, Multicontact, Ostrava, 2017

National Technical Gallery, Famugraphy, Acts from Groznjan, Prague, 2015

Whitepoint Gallery (Exhibit No.9), Exhibition, New Jersey, 2014

Czech China Contemporary (CCC), Shrapnel fired calms observer, Line of force, Beijing, 2013

Bibliotheque Départementale des Bouches-du-Rhône, Marseille vu par 100 photographes du monde, Marseille, 2013

Kunsthaus beim Angel, Luxembourg photomeetings, Yoga People, Luxembourg, 2013

Fotografic Gallery, Short story about an Island, Prague, 2013

GAMU, Yellow Playground, Prague, 2012 – 2013

Czech Culture Centre in Milano, Controluce, works of the current students of FAMU, Line of force, Milano, 2012

National Technical Library, PvinNTK, Exhibition of students and absolvents of photography department of FAMU, Shot & H.P., Prague, 2012

Chung-Ang Art Center Soul, Young International Emerging Artist, Exhibition, 2011

The Langhans Gallery Prague, EGO portrait x photography, H.P, Prague, 2010

 

Publications:

Adamovský, Michal. Appropriation. Collision and Synergy in the Appropriation of a Foreign Work of Photography from the Perspective of Copyright. Disertation Thesis. Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. Film and TV School. Prague, 2023.

Adamovský, Michal. Javorská, Iva. Holub, Lukáš. Law and the art world. Basic issues and concepts of intellectual property law for art school students. UMPRUM, AVU, Fair Art, Prague, 2023.

Adamovský, Michal. Appropriation. Collisions and synergies in specific cases. In Plagiarism, the art of imitating art, GMU, Gallery of Modern Art in Hradec Králové, 2022, p. 229 – 237.

Adamovský, Michal. Beginnings of Social and Legal Legitimization of Photography as the Work of Art. In: Selected Queries in Art Law. Masaryk University in Brno, Faculty of Law, 2017, p. 81 – 106.

Adamovský, Michal. Actual Queries in Photography and Law. In: Territories of Art 2017. Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, 2017, p. 96 - 115.

 

Lectures, Lectures in the Field of Photography, Art and Copyright:

Rudolfinum Gallery, A lecture and a panel in relation to the exhibition Controversies: A Legal and Ethical History of Photography, Prague

Institut of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Sudek Project, Reproduction of Works of Art and Copyright, Prague

Fait Gallery, Brno

DOX, Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague

AVU, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague

UMPRUM, Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague

FAMU, Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague

AMU, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Conference Territories of Art 2017, Prague

Masaryk University in Brno, Faculty of Law

Charles University, Faculty of Law, Prague

University Pardubice, Faculty of Restoration

University of Hradec Králové, Faculty of Education

University of West Bohemia, Faculty of Philosophy nad Arts, Pilsen

Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Department of Photography

New Gallery, Prague

Olomouc Museum of Art, Conference CEAD - Central european art database

CSU, Centre for Contemporary Arts Prague

4 + 4 Days in Motion, Prague