A very specific feature of VP1 ART is the installation of unique art collections of Czech and international artists, with a focus on key artists of the North Moravia and Silesia region. Firstly, we should mention the unique collection of 78 original photographs by JINDŘICH ŠTREIT, who 16 years ago published a book Vítkovice, in which he spent a year collecting moments in his characteristic way around the workshops, offices and warehouses of Vítkovice. The captured moments are not only about work, but also about love, tribulation, even a banal snack, but mainly about the spirit of the industrial part of the engineering Vítkovice. The collection of these works by Jindřich Štreit is being exhibited for the first time in its entirety in VP1 ART, where it will be permanently housed.
Another permanent exhibition is the collection of prints, dry needles and drawings by JIŘÍ SLÍVA. This genius of humour, wine, coffee and jazz is exactly the right counterpoint to the industrial art of Štreit and Salich. He evokes the right atmosphere in the new architecture of the VP1 hotel and illustrates the well-known fact that humour simply belongs to life.
In addition, the three permanent exhibitions of Czech art personalities will be complemented by many Czech and international artists. Their works will be placed not only in the buildings of the VP1 hotel, but also in the surrounding area and in the outdoor part of the new restaurant.
The newly reconstructed hotel VP1 and its unique part VP1 ART are an interesting example of the fact that in Dolní Vítkovice not only technical industrial units are being revived and converted into buildings for everyday life, but also buildings from the socialist era are being reconstructed, of which many may have survived, but only a small part is being transformed into a contemporary architectural and artistic unique.