The new rector of UMPRUM will again be Jindřich Vybíral

The Academic Senate of the AAAD in Prague elected the current rector of UMPRUM, Prof. PhDr. PaedDr. Jindřich Vybíral, DSc., as a candidate for rector on Monday, November 21, 2022. He is expected to resume his position after being appointed by the President of the Czech Republic in February 2023.
Elections for a new rector of UMPRUM were announced on October 10, 2022. Prof. Jindřich Vybíral was the only candidate. He presented his program to the academic community at a public meeting on November 8, and on November 21, 2022, the Academic Senate of UMPRUM decided on his continuation in leading the school.
During his current term, Jindřich Vybíral launched the new Technology Center of UMPRUM, to which most of the workshop facilities were relocated. Although many of his plans were complicated by anti-COVID measures, he worked on better collaboration between the school and industry, supported the internationalization of the school, artistic research, and further expanded interdisciplinary cooperation, deepening the themes of social responsibility and ethics. He intends to continue these activities in the future.
Jindřich Vybíral has been active at the AAAD since 1996. From 1997 to 2003, he was the vice-rector, and from 2011 to 2018, the chairman of the Academic Senate. From 2006 to 2019, he was the head of the Department of Theory and History of Art. In 2018, he was first elected rector of UMPRUM and took office in February of the following year.
He is a member of the Scientific Council of the National Gallery, the National Heritage Institute, and the University of Ostrava, as well as a member of the editorial board of the journal Art. His research focuses on the history of architecture of the 19th and 20th centuries and the methodology of art history. He is the author of dozens of scholarly studies and book publications.