Tereza Severová

Bio

Tereza Severová has been active on the Czech art scene for almost two decades. In the years 1999-2005, she studied in the studio of Conceptual and Intermedial Art of Adély Matasová and later in the studio of Jiří David at the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague. During her studies, she completed foreign study internships at the universities of Rochester (UK) and New Mexico (USA), where she focused on deepening her knowledge in the field of photography. Her final diploma thesis from 2005 won, in addition to the VŠUP rector's prize, the Start point prize for the best graduate of Czech art schools. In the same year, together with Tereza Velíková, she founded the Entrance Gallery in Prague, presenting the work of the youngest generation of visual artists. She participated in its operation until 2019. She completed her doctoral studies at the Prague Academy of Arts in the New Media studio of Marcus Huemer (2011-2014). Currently, she is engaged in both pedagogical activities and her own artistic practice. It can speak to the viewer through suggestive images. Her work often has the character of artistic research at the same time. At the same time, contemporary visuality comes into her sights. In her work, she tries to reveal its principles and mechanisms. Working with new media becomes her technical background as well as the subject of research. Through the analysis of film language, specifically the principles of post-production of moving and still images and with the help of her own tools, she traces the ways in which modern technologies are prescribed in our perception, in recent years especially in the way we perceive the contemporary landscape.