Applicants must submit their application to study at the Secondary School of Applied Arts in Uherské Hradiště by November 30th.

The entrance exam consists of a general talent test and another part of the admission procedure in the department chosen by the applicant. As a part of the admission procedure, in addition to the result of the applicant's talent test, the students ´ primary school grades are considered as well.

Talent Exam

Painted poster including writing
All applicants need to bring their own painting tools; the poster paper will be provided at school.
The time allowance for the task is 2 hours.

COURSE EXAM

portfollio
Presentation of one's own previously created work in the range of max. 20 pieces. The portfolio must also be submitted in digital form in jpg format (the size of the longer side is 2000px and 72dpi) and marked with the name: surname_name_num­ber, under which the candidate is taking the exam_year of the exam.

SAMPLE: NovákJan_111_2021

The portfolio and the digital documentation must be submitted on the day of the exam (on a USB drive that will be returned to the applicant on the same day).
Without the required digital documentation, this part of the admission procedure will not be considered fulfilled.

VLADIMÍR KOKOLIA

Born in Brno, a painter, graphic artist and an illustrator, the winner of the Jindřich Chalupecký Prize. Since 1992, he has been teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. His works have been shown in numerous exhibitions worldwide. He is also known for his musical and literary activities. For 13 years he was the singer of the Brno group E, which belonged to the top of Czech alternative underground music. In 2012, he received a prestigious award from Dalibor Chatrný, and in 2019 he became the tenth laureate of the Michal Ranný award. This award goes to artists who have significantly enriched the Czech visual culture while influencing the next generation of artists. He graduated from the Secondary School of Applied Arts in Uherské Hradiště in 1975. 

PATRIK HÁBL

Born in Zlín, a graphic artist, painter, and a teacher at the University of Applied Arts. In his work he is defined by two points of view, one using freestyle expression, the other more rigid geometric forms. As the only living Czech painter, Hábl was selected by the prestigious auction house Sotheby's twice. In 2019, he became the fifth living Czech from the post-revolutionary period included in the world selection of the best works of the 20th and 21st century. In addition to painting, Hábl also works with space. He has created a number of f contemporary art pieces in important historical buildings, among them, for example, the intervention of „Lenten paintings“ in the Church of the Holy Salvator. He graduated from the Secondary School of Applied Arts in Uherské Hradiště in 1993.

MILENA DOPITOVÁ

A native of Šternberk, she is a conceptual media artist with a social orientation, the only woman of the Pondělí art group, a laureate of the Michal Ranný award in 2011. She currently works as a teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where she took over from Milan Knížák and she now runs the Intermedia Studio. Her works grow from very intimate roots, they focus on ordinary life, individual experiences, everyday banalities. The leitmotif is the question of personal identity. Since the 1990s, Dopitová has displayed her art at prestigious exhibitions both in the Czech Republic and abroad. The Brooklyn Museum in New York, the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki are undoubtedly worth mentioning. Dopitová completed her studies at the Secondary School of Applied Arts in Uherské Hradiště in 1986.