Vladimír Véla
Vladimír Véla (*1980, Turnov) is one of the leading figures in contemporary Czech painting. His work draws on a classical training in painting, hyperrealism, and landscape painting, which he gradually transforms into a distinctive, minimalist, and expressive visual language. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in the studios of Zdeněk Beran and Milan Knížák. In addition to his own artistic practice, he teaches at the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen.
Vél’s painting oscillates between concrete representation and abstract symbols. It is characterized by reduction, the use of light, and a focus on the very process of the painting’s transformation. The artist has long explored the relationship between reality, memory, and imagination, repeatedly returning to motifs of nature, landscape, and organic structures. His works are included in the collections of the National Gallery in Prague, the Regional Gallery in Liberec, the Aleš South Bohemian Gallery, and the Gallery of Modern Art in Roudnice nad Labem, as well as in numerous private collections. He lives and works in Prague and the Český raj.
Rezonance
acrylic on canvas
190 x 185 cm
2026
Poloměr noci
acrylic on canvas
190 x 185 cm
2026
Počátek III. (První čtverec)
acrylic on canvas
270 x 130 cm
2024-2026
Počátek -
acrylic on canvas
300 x 130 cm
2026
Počátek II.
acrylic on canvas
300 x 140 cm
2025-2026
Průběh V.
acrylic on canvas
190 x 50 cm
2026
Uchopení III.
acrylic on canvas
115 x 93 cm
2026
Uchopení II.
acrylic on canvas
115 x 93 cm
2026
Uchopení I.
acrylic on canvas
115 x 93 cm
2026
Posun VI. (Vrstvy)
acrylic on canvas
50 x 40 cm
2026
Dvě hmoty č.II
acrylic on canvas
70 x 50 cm
2026
Průběh III.
acrylic on canvas
74 x 60 cm
2026
Průběh II.
acrylic on canvas
70 x 60 cm
2026
Průběh IV.
acrylic on canvas
74 x 60 cm
2026
Čas vzdálenosti II.
acrylic on canvas
150 x 140 cm
2026
Čas vzdálenosti I.
acrylic on canvas
220 x 160 cm
2026
Posun I.
acrylic on canvas
50 x 40 cm
2026
Posun II.
acrylic on canvas
150 x 150 cm
2026
Posun IV.
acrylic on canvas
35 x 30 cm
2026
Rozhraní IV.
oil on canvas
73 x 60 cm
2025
Otevřený trojúhelník I.
oil on canvas
70 x 65 cm
2025
Otevřený trojúhelník II.
oil on canvas
70 x 65 cm
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Jaro II. Probuzení
oil on canvas
140 x 100 cm
2026
Uvolnění VII
oil on canvas
116,5 x 81 cm
2023
Balance X
akryl on canvas
73 x 60 cm
2025/2026
Převis
acryl on canvas
73 x 60 cm
2026
Bez názvu
acrylic, pigments on canvas
40 x 30 cm
2023
Bez názvu
acrylic, pigments on canvas
40 x 30 cm
2023
Čtverec vzdáleností č. 4
Acrylic on canvas
50 x 70 cm
2024
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Bez názvu
acrylic, pigments on canvas
42 x 53 cm
2020
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Zdroj
acrylic, pigments on canvas
25 x 30 cm
2020
Bez názvu
coloured ink on paper
70 x 50 cm
2024
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Výběžek II
acrylic on canvas
100 x 150 cm
2024
Výběžek I
acrylic on canvas
100 x 150 cm
2024
Průběh I.
acrylic on canvas
190 x 60 cm
2026
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MEZI
acrylic on canvas
190 x 185 cm
2026
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Posun V.
acrylic on canvas
35 x 30 cm
2026
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Posun III.
acrylic on canvas
25 x 20 cm
2026
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Čtverce vzdáleností č. 5
Acrylic on canvas
50 x 70 cm
2024
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Čtverec vzdáleností č. 6
Acrylic on canvas
50 x 70 cm
2024
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Bez názvu
coloured ink on paper
60 x 45 cm
2024
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Bez názvu
acrylic, pigments on canvas
200 × 170 cm
2019
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Bez názvu
acrylic, pigments on canvas
300 × 120 cm
2023
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Zatmění
acrylic, pigments on canvas
200 × 170 cm
2024
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Jednotící prvek III.
acrylic, pigments on canvas
116 x 81 cm
2023
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Osa XII.
acrylic, pigments on canvas
70 x 80 cm
2020
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Osa XIII.
acrylic, pigments on canvas
60 x 80 cm
2020
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Osa XI.
acrylic, pigments on canvas
60 x 80 cm
2020
Odraz III.
Acrylic and pigments on canvas
150 x 140 cm
2021/2022
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Bez názvu
acrylic, pigments on canvas
116 x 81 cm
2023
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Posun I.
acrylic, pigments on canvas
116 × 89 cm
2023
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Posun II.
Acrylic and pigments on canvas
73 x 116 cm
2024
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Vladimír Véla originally entered the sphere of painting with propositions and ideas that he got from his previous education – trade. As a graduate of the Turnov Secondary Art Technical School he originally worked as an ironmaster. Equipped with this experience he then applied to the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. Painting represented a certain challenge for him – to master the fine arts means of expression, which led him to working on perfecting the illusion of painting. That is also why he chose to study in the studio of classical painting techniques, which was then led by Professor Zdeněk Beran. Later, however, he encountered limitations of this approach and out of the need to overcome the distance of the depicted and to enter the immediate process of the actual creation – something like its performance phase, he transferred to the Studio of Intermedia Work headed by Milan Knížák.