It is important that Czech regional galleries will focus on contemporary art, including the art of moving picture and so - to contribute to diversity of national heritage. Their exhibitions and aquisitions would be less dependent on politics of collection institutions in main centers.
The current acquisition activities of the Gallery of Modern Art in Hradec Králové (GMU) are to collect of both Czech and international visual art. This year we have established new "collection of moving image" to record and to reflect this field from the beginning of experimental tendencies in the 1960s to the present.
In a national and international context, we should consider or even strive to establish an independent institution, dedicated to the contemporary art of moving image and sonic arts (abroad, for example, Het Eye and LIMA in Amsterdam, Argos in Brussels, WRO in Wroclaw or the Video Forum NBK in Berlin). In addition to collecting activities, research activities, including mapping of the Central European region, could take place here.
František Zachoval is a publicist, educator and cultural manager. He is engaged on actual socio-political topics. In 2016 he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, where he later led the Digital Laboratory ( 2006–2014) and co-founded the international project and video online archive Artyčok.TV. He focused on topics as Creative Commons digital licenses, Open source (2008-2010), or migration and exile, for which he organized conferences. In 2015–2019 he was the director of the Czech Center in Bucharest, where he founded the Future Museum Art Gallery (2016), the Protect Public Space database (2017) and the Cinemascop Eforie Film Festival (2018). He is the editor of the publications Czechoslovak Home, Object and Items Found in Romania (2019) by Martin Papcun. Buildings / Spaces (2015) and Rudolf Valenta. Reconstruction (2014). Since 2019 he works as director of the Gallery of Modern Art in Hradec Králové.