Pavlína Morganová, Ph. D. is an art historian and curator, based in Prague, Czech Republic. Works as a director of the Research Center at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. She specializes in the Central and Eastern European art history, performance art and exhibition histories, lectures on Czech and Eastern European Art of the 20th century.
Author of the Czech Action Art / Happenings, Actions, Events, Land Art, Body Art and Performance Art Behind the Iron Curtain (Karolinum Press 2014), A Walk Through Prague: Actions, Performances, Happenings, 1949−1989 (VVP AVU 2017), co-author and co-editor Výstava jako médium. České umění 1957−1999 [The Exhibition as Medium. Czech Art 1957−1999] (AVU 2020), České umění 1980−2010. Texty a dokumenty [Czech Art 1980 2010. Texts and Documents] (VVP AVU 2011); České umění 1938 – 1989. Programy, kritické texty, dokumenty [Czech Art 1938 1989. Manifestos, Critical Texts and Documents] (Academia 2001). Contributed to a number of books, including State Construction and Art in East, Central Europe 1918–2018 (Routledge 2022); The Avant-garde and the State (Muzeum Sztuki, Łodz 2018); Kateřina Šedá UNES-CO company catalog and interim report on the organization’s activities (La Biennale di Venezia 2018), Fluxus East. Fluxus–Netzwerke in Mittelosteuropa (Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 2007).
Pavlína Morganová, Ph. D. is an art historian and curator, based in Prague, Czech Republic. Works as a director of the Research Center at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. She specializes in the Central and Eastern European art history, performance art and exhibition histories, lectures on Czech and Eastern European Art of the 20th century.
Author of the Czech Action Art / Happenings, Actions, Events, Land Art, Body Art and Performance Art Behind the Iron Curtain (Karolinum Press 2014), A Walk Through Prague: Actions, Performances, Happenings, 1949−1989 (VVP AVU 2017), co-author and co-editor Výstava jako médium. České umění 1957−1999 [The Exhibition as Medium. Czech Art 1957−1999] (AVU 2020), České umění 1980−2010. Texty a dokumenty [Czech Art 1980 2010. Texts and Documents] (VVP AVU 2011); České umění 1938 – 1989. Programy, kritické texty, dokumenty [Czech Art 1938 1989. Manifestos, Critical Texts and Documents] (Academia 2001). Contributed to a number of books, including State Construction and Art in East, Central Europe 1918–2018 (Routledge 2022); The Avant-garde and the State (Muzeum Sztuki, Łodz 2018); Kateřina Šedá UNES-CO company catalog and interim report on the organization’s activities (La Biennale di Venezia 2018), Fluxus East. Fluxus–Netzwerke in Mittelosteuropa (Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 2007).
Regularly participates in the international conferences, e.g. Exhibition Histories: What is to be Done? Methodological Challenges to Art Historical Research in Central and Eastern Europe, Iasi, 2023; Performance / Archiv Medien des Documentierens und Aufzeichnens, VALIE EXPORT Center Linz, 2023; Resonance III. The Exhibition as Medium on the Block, Prague, Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, 2022; Resonance II, Budapest, KEMKI, 2022; New Perspectives, Warsaw, Zacheta, 2019; Exhibitions as Sites of Artistic Contact during the Cold War, Iasi, 2019; Theorizing the Geography of East-Central European Art, Piotr Piotrowski Center for Research on East-Central European Art, Poznań, 2018; State (Re)Construction and Art in Central and Eastern Europe 1918-2018, Warsaw, 2018; chair of the session Performance Art in Central and Eastern Europe, 102nd Annual College Art Association Conference, Chicago 2014. Core member of the Resonances: Regional and Transregional Cultural Transfer in the Art of the 1970s research project and Travel Getty Seminar Connecting Art Histories – Confrontations: Sessions in East European Art History (2019-2022).
Regularly participates in the international conferences, e.g. Exhibition Histories: What is to be Done? Methodological Challenges to Art Historical Research in Central and Eastern Europe, Iasi, 2023; Performance / Archiv Medien des Documentierens und Aufzeichnens, VALIE EXPORT Center Linz, 2023; Resonance III. The Exhibition as Medium on the Block, Prague, Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, 2022; Resonance II, Budapest, KEMKI, 2022; New Perspectives, Warsaw, Zacheta, 2019; Exhibitions as Sites of Artistic Contact during the Cold War, Iasi, 2019; Theorizing the Geography of East-Central European Art, Piotr Piotrowski Center for Research on East-Central European Art, Poznań, 2018; State (Re)Construction and Art in Central and Eastern Europe 1918-2018, Warsaw, 2018; chair of the session Performance Art in Central and Eastern Europe, 102nd Annual College Art Association Conference, Chicago 2014. Core member of the Resonances: Regional and Transregional Cultural Transfer in the Art of the 1970s research project and Travel Getty Seminar Connecting Art Histories – Confrontations: Sessions in East European Art History (2019-2022).
Curator of the exhibitions: e. g. Gezwitscher – Kunst aus der Vogelperspektive (Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven 2023), Touching Time that Stands Still (Hunt Kastner Prague 2023), In a Skirt – Sometimes. Czech Art of the 1990s (Moravian Gallery Brno; Gallery of the City of Prague 2014), The Beginning of the Century (Gallery of Western Bohemia, Pilsen - House of Art, Ostrava 2012), Insiders. The Unobtrusive Generation of the Late 1990s (The House of Arts, Brno - FUTURA, Prague 2004).
Photo: ©AVU 2022 / R. Dětinský
Curator of the exhibitions: e. g. Gezwitscher – Kunst aus der Vogelperspektive (Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven 2023), Touching Time that Stands Still (Hunt Kastner Prague 2023), In a Skirt – Sometimes. Czech Art of the 1990s (Moravian Gallery Brno; Gallery of the City of Prague 2014), The Beginning of the Century (Gallery of Western Bohemia, Pilsen - House of Art, Ostrava 2012), Insiders. The Unobtrusive Generation of the Late 1990s (The House of Arts, Brno - FUTURA, Prague 2004).
Photo: ©AVU 2022 / R. Dětinský