Jitka Hlaváčková

Mgr. Jitka Hlaváčková, Ph.D., is an art theoretician working at the Prague City Gallery (since 2006), where she curates the photography and new media collection. She has prepared around thirty exhibition projects so far, including Sounds / Codes / Images – Audio Experimentation in the Visual Arts (2019) or Prague Fantastic Realism 1960–1967, monographs on Jan Jedlička, Tomáš Ruller, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Bohumil Krčil, and thematic exhibitions of Shadi Harouni, Roman Štětina and Zbyněk Baladrán. For several years she curated the Start Up series for emerging artists and the Projektor (Projector) online video art gallery. Jitka Hlaváčková is involved in the preparation of the GHMP Art for the City programme and in 2021 she was the curator of the m3 – Art in Space Festival and the initiator of the Gestures of Emancipation symposium. In her research she focuses on the history and theory of acoustic art, photography, video art and art reflecting technology in post-media contexts of contemporary life in general. In parallel, she also explores the “public language of art”, i.e., current urban and environmental art strategies in relation to social, gender and community issues. She completed her master’s and doctoral studies in Art History at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University.

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