Helena Musilová

Helena Musilová works at the Prague City Gallery as deputy for Specialized Activities and as head of the Department  of Collections. She participates in the creation of the GHMP’s concept for professional work, exhibitions and publications, prepares her own authorial projects, and proposes works to be purchased for the GHMP’s collections. In the past, she worked as a curator at the Olomouc Museum of Art and the National Gallery Prague, lectured at the Department of Photography of the Film and TV School of the Faculty of Performing Arts (FAMU) in Prague and at the Seminar of Art History at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in Brno. She was the chief curator at Kampa Museum in Prague until May 2021.

Helena Musilová focuses on Czech and Central European art of the 20th century, especially on the situation of the art scene in the 1960s to 1980s, with an emphasis on the exchange and movement of opinions and sources of inspiration in the unfree space of the so-called normalization period. In addition, she deals with the system of organizing museum and gallery work and other issues related to gallery operations.

In recent years, she has prepared, for example, the exhibition and publication project Anatomy of a Leap into the Void. 1968 and Fine Arts in Czechoslovakia; a monograph on conceptual artist Jan Wojnar; a specialized publication dealing with the activities of Jiří Valoch in the 1960s and 1970s; and she participated in a research project on the new realisms in Czechoslovakia in the interwar period, in which she worked on a chapter on photography. So far, she has prepared several dozen exhibition or publication projects.

She studied Art History and History at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in Brno.

Related exhibitions

Prague Pallas & Moravian Hellas / 1902: Auguste Rodin in Prague and Moravia
Jitka Svobodová: Beyond the Edge of the Visible