PhDr. Magdalena Juříková

Magdalena Juříková works as an art historian and curator; since 2012 she has been the director of the Prague City Gallery. Her professional interest is Czech art of the 20th century and contemporary art, especially sculpture. She also regularly publishes articles and reviews.

Magdalena Juříková studied Art History at the Faculty of Arts of Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Brno. After her studies she joined the National Gallery Prague as an assistant and curator in the Modern Sculpture Collection, and later became head of the sculpture collection in the section of the Modern and Contemporary Art Collection. In 1993 she curated the Czech participation in the Venice Biennale (František Skála: Pilgrimage to Venice). She served as a consultant and secretary for the acquisition of works of art as part of the emerging collection of Komerční banka. Between 1999 and 2012 she was the director of the Golden Goose Gallery Endowment Fund.

In 2015, she was a dramaturg for the Brno Art Open – Sculptures in the Streets project, whose theme was the relationship between object and dwelling, sculpture and architecture, and their mutual connections.

In the past six years, Magdalena Juříková has curated or co-curated several exhibitions at the GHMP: Iren Stehli: Libuna and Other Essays, 2015; Květa Pacovská: Maximum Contrast, 2015; Václav Cigler: Here and Now, 2015; Jiří Příhoda: Sculptures, 2016; Josef Žáček: Anticorps, 2017; New Works in the GHMP Collections, 2017; Vladimír Škoda: Harmonices Mundi / Johannes Kepler, 2018; Jan Kovářík, Colorbond, 2020; No Art Today? – new works from the GHMP collections, 2021; and others.

She also co-founded the Hapestetika (Tactile Aesthetics) project, which brings together experts and lay people and focuses on making art accessible to the visually impaired, especially through exhibitions of tactile art.

She is a member of the purchasing committee at the District Gallery of Art in Litoměřice, the Bratislava City Gallery and a member of the board of the Academy of Fine Arts.