Vladimír Havlík (born 7 February 1959) is a Czech action artist, painter and pedagogue.Research Centre of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Vladimír Havlík.
Education Havlík was educated at Palacký University (1978–1983) under the tutelage of Prof. , and at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University (1999).
Action art Art historian Pavlína Morganová has described Havlík's key role in the early days of Czechoslovak action art:
According to Czech curator and art historian ,
In 2015, on being awarded the annual Umělec má cenu prize in Olomouc, where he lives, Havlík reflected that he is always interested in "experiencing actions again" in the same places where he had initially practiced action art under the Czech communist regime during the 1980s. Moreover, nowadays he enjoys doing so in collaboration with younger artists such as Barborou Klímovou.Kvasničková, R., "Olomoucký performer Vladimír Havlík získal ocenění iniciativy Umělec má cenu", Czech Radio, 24 February 2015.
References
Further reading Havlík, V., Actions and Interventions 1978–1988 (Bratislava: Sputnik Editions, 2012).
External links Havlík, Yesterday (autobiographical silent film), , 1983–2008. Havlík, Němý film (Silent Movie, a remake of Yesterday and I Cut My Hair), Artyčok.tv, 2013.