ART HISTORIAN

Pavlína Morganová, Ph.D.


CURRICULUM VITAE



Education:

1997

Charles University in Prague; Masters Degree in Art History

2006

Charles University in Prague; PhD in Art History


Employment:

2013-

Director of the Research Center, Academy of Fine Arts in Prague

2018-2022

Vice-Rector for Research and Development of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague

2014-2018

Vice-Rector for Study Affairs of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague

1997-

Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Research Center


Grants:

2021-2024

Visegrad Fund Grant: Resonances: Regional and Transregional Cultural Transfer in the Art of the 1970s, VVP AVU Research Center together with KEMKI and Artpool Budapest, Piotr Piotrowski Center for Research on East-Central European Art, Poznań and Komensky Université, Bratislava. Co-investigator.

2016-2018

Standard project of the Czech Science Foundation (GA ČR): The Medium of the Exhibition in Czech Art 1957–1997. The project focused on fundamental research into the history of exhibitions of Czech art from 1957 to 1997, examining the evolution of the exhibition medium and the changing role of the curator. Key questions within the theoretical and methodological framework of contemporary reconstruction exhibition attempts, the historicization of Czech art against the backdrop of pivotal exhibitions, the development of installation conventions, and the transformation of curatorial status are the topics of the introductory studies in the professional publication, which also includes an extensive archive of exhibitions from the period under study. Principal investigator.

2007–2011

Research project of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic (MŠMT ČR): Czech Art in the Period of Post-Socialist Transformation (1980–2005). The five-year research project focused on the fundamental research and interpretation of key moments in Czech art during the transformative period from the 1980s to the present, with an emphasis on non-aesthetic and intermedial overlaps. The results of the research and interpretative work were continuously documented and edited in constantly updated online databases and the physical archive of the VVP AVU Research Center. Co-investigator.

2007–2011

Research project of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic (MK ČR): Czech Art of the 80s and 90s – Reflection and Documentation. The five-year research project focused on gathering textual and visual documentation of Czech art from the 1980s and 1990s and subsequently critically processing this material. Co-investigator.

1999–2004

Research project of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MŠMT): Modern and Postmodern Art after 1945. The six-year research project focused on fundamental research, the processing of source documentation, critical evaluation, and reinterpretation of the history of Czech visual art after World War II, with an emphasis on reflecting the contemporary political-historical context and considering the parallel discourse of world art. Co-investigator.


Research Fields:

Central and Eastern European art after 1945, Czech modern and contemporary art, Avant-garde and Neo-Avant-garde Movements, Performance and Conceptual Art, Transition in the Post-Socialist region, Feminist perspectives, Art in public space, Exhibition histories

CURRICULUM VITAE



Education:


1997

Charles University in Prague; Masters Degree in Art History



2006

Charles University in Prague; PhD in Art History




Employment:


2013-

Director of the Research Center, Academy of Fine Arts in Prague



2018-2022

Vice-Rector for Research and Development of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague



2014-2018

Vice-Rector for Study Affairs of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague



1997-

Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Research Center




Grants:


2021-2024

Visegrad Fund Grant: Resonances: Regional and Transregional Cultural Transfer in the Art of the 1970s, VVP AVU Research Center together with KEMKI and Artpool Budapest, Piotr Piotrowski Center for Research on East-Central European Art, Poznań and Komensky Université, Bratislava. Co-investigator.



2016-2018

Standard project of the Czech Science Foundation (GA ČR): The Medium of the Exhibition in Czech Art 1957–1997. The project focused on fundamental research into the history of exhibitions of Czech art from 1957 to 1997, examining the evolution of the exhibition medium and the changing role of the curator. Key questions within the theoretical and methodological framework of contemporary reconstruction exhibition attempts, the historicization of Czech art against the backdrop of pivotal exhibitions, the development of installation conventions, and the transformation of curatorial status are the topics of the introductory studies in the professional publication, which also includes an extensive archive of exhibitions from the period under study. Principal investigator.



2007–2011

Research project of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic (MŠMT ČR): Czech Art in the Period of Post-Socialist Transformation (1980–2005). The five-year research project focused on the fundamental research and interpretation of key moments in Czech art during the transformative period from the 1980s to the present, with an emphasis on non-aesthetic and intermedial overlaps. The results of the research and interpretative work were continuously documented and edited in constantly updated online databases and the physical archive of the VVP AVU Research Center. Co-investigator.



2007–2011

Research project of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic (MK ČR): Czech Art of the 80s and 90s – Reflection and Documentation. The five-year research project focused on gathering textual and visual documentation of Czech art from the 1980s and 1990s and subsequently critically processing this material. Co-investigator.



1999–2004

Research project of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MŠMT): Modern and Postmodern Art after 1945. The six-year research project focused on fundamental research, the processing of source documentation, critical evaluation, and reinterpretation of the history of Czech visual art after World War II, with an emphasis on reflecting the contemporary political-historical context and considering the parallel discourse of world art. Co-investigator.




Research Fields:

Central and Eastern European art after 1945, Czech modern and contemporary art, Avant-garde and Neo-Avant-garde Movements, Performance and Conceptual Art, Transition in the Post-Socialist region, Feminist perspectives, Art in public space, Exhibition histories
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