Pavlína MorganováChercheuse invitée

Du 5 septembre au 5 novembre 2024

 Pavlína Morganová est historienne de l'art et commissaire, basée à Prague, en République tchèque. Elle est directrice du centre de recherche de l'Académie des beaux-arts de Prague. Ses recherches se concentrent sur l'histoire de l'art de l'Europe centrale et orientale, l'art de la performance et l'histoire des expositions. Elle donne des conférences sur l'art tchèque et de l'Europe de l'Est du XXe siècle.

Pavlína Morganová est auteur des 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-auteur et co-éditereur des Výstava jako médium. České umění 1957−1999, AVU,  2020; České umění 1980−2010. Texty a dokumenty,VVP AVU, 2011; České umění 1938–1989. Programy, kritické texty, dokumenty, Academia 2001. Elle a contribué à plusieurs livres, dont 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.

Elle a été commissaire des expositions suivantes: Gezwitscher – Kunst aus der Vogelperspektive, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, 2023, Touching Time that Stands Still , Hunt Kastner Prague, 2023, En jupe - Parfois. Art tchèque des années 1990, Galerie morave Brno; Galerie de la Ville de Prague 2014, The Beginning of the Century, Galerie de la Bohême occidentale, Pilsen − Maison de l'Art, Ostrava, 2012, Insiders. The Unobtrusive Generation of the Late 1990s , Maison de l’Art, Brno − FUTURA, Prague ,2004. Elle est régulièrement invitée à participer à des conférences internationales, par ex. Exhibition Histories: 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; présidente de séance Performance Art in Central and Eastern Europe, 102nd Annual College Art Association Conference, Chicago, 2014. Elle est membre principale du projet de recherche Resonances: Regional and Transregional Cultural Transfer in the Art of the 1970s, 2022−2023 et du Séminaire Getty Connecting Art Histories – Confrontations: Sessions in East European Art History -2019−2022.

English version

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).

Curator of the exhibitions: 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).

Regularly participates in the international conferences, e.g. Exhibition Histories: New Perspectives, Warsaw, Zacheta, 2019; Exhibitions as Sites of Artistic Contact during the Cold War, Iasi, Romania, 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).