Sandra Baborovská

(born in 1982)

Sandra Baborovská studied Art History in Prague at Charles University and the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design.

Since 2009, she has been a curator at the Prague City Gallery (GHMP), where she primarily organizes exhibitions of contemporary art with connections to the past (Adéla Babanová: Back to the Adriaport, 2014; Radek Brousil: Black and White in Photography, 2016; Medium: Figure, 2017; Éntomos: Hulačová – Keresztes – Janoušek, 2018). Shortly after she joined the GHMP in 2009, she organized along with Karel Srp the long-term exhibition After Velvet in the Golden Ring House. At the same venue Sandra Baborovská also collaborated on the conception of the Start Up series for emerging artists, and in 2014 on interventions in the piano nobile (noble floor) of the Colloredo-Mansfeld Palace (Jan Pfeiffer: Ostentatious Abstraction, Adam Vačkář: First and Last Things) and at exhibitions on the 2nd floor of the Old Town Hall (Jiří Thýn: Archetypes, Space, Abstraction, 2011; Pavla Sceranková: Woman on the Moon, 2013). Her professional interests also include sculpture from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries (The Restless Figure / Expression in Czech Sculpture 1880–1914, 2016) and contemporary art in socio-political contexts (Carnations and Velvet / Art and Revolution in Portugal and Czechoslovakia (1968–1974–1989), 2019).

As part of the Art for the City programme, she is preparing exhibitions of light installations and musical performances from the Light Underground series (2020–2022) in the basement of the Stone Bell House.

Awards and internships

• 2007 – Università degli studi di Bologna (Storia dell’arte, Arti visive), Italy, Italian Government Scholarship
• 2009 – first prize for the final master’s thesis at the Academy of Art, Architecture and Design in Prague
• 2012 – European Seminar for Curators, Programme Courants, French Ministry of Culture / Maison des Cultures du Monde / in Cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs – France
• 2016 – best group exhibition of the year: The Restless Figure. Expression in Czech Sculpture (1880–1914)
• 2019 – Gulbenkian Scholarship, Lisbon, Portugal (Visiting Scholars programme 2019–2020)

Related exhibitions

intervention_1 Jan Pfeiffer: Ostentatious Abstraction
Passion, Dream, Ideal / Czech Art Nouveau Sculpture
Adéla Babanová: Back to the Adriaport
intervention_2 Adam Vačkář: First and Last Things
The Restless Figure / Expression in Czech Sculpture 1880–1914
Medium: Figure
Zdeněk Sýkora: Black and White Structure / Prague City Gallery presents works from its repositories
Radek Brousil: Black and white in photography
Carnations and Velvet / Art and Revolution in Portugal and Czechoslovakia 1968–1974–1989
Start up: Marie Tučková – Episode One: Bunny’s Departure
Éntomos: Hulačová – Keresztes – Janoušek
Light Underground / Light Installations
The Club as a Shelter (Light Underground III) / Light Installations
Jiří Thýn: Silence, Torso, the Present
Ivan Meštrović (1883–1962) Sculptor and Citizen of the World
Invaze / Invasion / Вторгнення