Lumír Hladík

"I decided to become the owner of the cosmic vector." Based on this decision, Lumír Hladík performed an action event in which he inserted a boundary stone and sign with infinity symbols into the earth of the surrounding…

“One day, I came to the realisation that it had been two years since I had last seen the sea. The sea has always been a symbol of freedom. I decided that two years was long enough (from an emotional point of view), and…

In the second half of the 1970s, Lumír Hladík realised several action art events within the Central Bohemian Region where he grew up. However, in retrospect, he says that choosing the landscape was merely just a tool,…

Whether Lumír Hladík was engaged with action art events in totalitarian Czechoslovakia or in Canada, he often placed his art in a forest environment. The character of a cultural landscape or, in contrast, the Canadian…

Hladík's simple action art events are constructed from deeper considerations, which were often based on conversations he had had with friends and artists who sought to deviate from the limited, thematic repertoire of a…

The action art events of Czech artists in the 1970s and 1980s took place outside the realm of public art events. Their reach was purely community, and in the case of Lumír Hladík, even almost solely personal. Perhaps…

The action art event Ritual murder of a stupid smirk was one of Hladík's few performances to have taken place in his own apartment. The short reveals the artist's interest in the everyday symbolism of small artifacts…