Jitka Hlaváčková

Jitka Hlaváčková is an art theoretician working since 2006 at the Prague City Gallery, where she curates the photography and new media collection. She has prepared a number of exhibition and publication projects, including An Album of Slow Images – Compositions and Artworks from the Uncertain Situations Series (2024); Thinking with Images – Visual Events by Miroslav Petříček (2023); Divination from the Night Sky Partially Obscured by Clouds – The Role of Photography in the Post-Media Age (2022) or Sounds Codes Images – Acoustic Experiment in Visual Art (2019); monographic exhibitions of Jan Jedlička, Tomáš Ruller, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Bohumil Krčil, and thematic exhibitions of Shadi Harouni, Roman Štětina, Zbyněk Baladrán, Jiří Žák, Michaela Maupicová, Darina Alster, Marie Lukáčová, Pauline Courniere Jardin and others. For several years she curated the Start Up series for emerging artists and the online video art gallery Projector. She also participated in the creation and development of the GHMP Art for the City programme, curated the m3 – Art in Space festival in 2021 and the Prague Biennale/Re-connect Art festival in 2021-2023.

In her research she focuses on theory of acoustic art, photography, video art and art reflecting technology in post-media contexts. She is also exploring the current strategies of urban and environmental art in relation to social, gender and community issues, and strategies of engaged and activist art. She is the editor and co-author of catalogues and theoretical publications, and is currently the principal investigator of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 international grant project “Spatial Practices in Art and ArChitecture for Empathetic Exchange” (SPACEx). She has co-organised the conferences Between Landscapes/New Aesthetics (GHMP–ČVUT, 2024), Whom Public Space Serves (GHMP–UMPRUM, 2024) and Gestures of Emancipation (GHMP–AVU, 2021). She is a member of the board of the Cultural and Creative Federation of the Czech Republic and the committee of the professional organization of visual artists and theoreticians, Spolek Skutek. She regularly participates in the work of professional committees, is a certifier of the Register of Artistic Outputs (since 2013) and currently also a member of the International Evaluation Panel of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. She graduated from the Faculty of Arts of Charles University with a Master’s degree and a Ph.D. in Art History.

 

Related exhibitions

Start up: Tereza Fišerová – Parallel Universe
Prague Fantastic Realism 1960–1967
Start up: Artur Magrot – It Will Not Take Long
Start up: Dominik Gajarský – Carausius morosus
Start up: Celeste Capine Hill – Killed by the Light
Start up: Jiří Žák – Rozštěpený epistemolog
Artur Magrot, Martin Chlanda and Jakub Rajnoch: A Processual Installation
Start up: Barbora Dayef – New Story
Shadi Harouni: I Dream the Mountain Is Still Whole
Start up: Valentýna Janů – Is Your Blue the Same As Mine?
Tomáš Ruller: Perform Made – Sustainable Flashbacks
Start up: Miroslava Večeřová, Pavel Příkaský – Antidote
Start up: František Fekete – Fluid Identity Club 
Start up: Jiří Hölzel – „UGBADQ“
Sounds / Codes / Images – Audio Experimentation in the Visual Arts
Start up: Eliška Havlíková: Hungry, For more.
Roman Štětina: Foreword
City Therapy
Jan Jedlička
Five Uncertain Situations
Divination from a Night Sky Partially Obscured by Clouds / The Role of Photography in the Post-Media Age