Anna Sedláček Roubalová

Anna Sedláček Roubalová is an art theorist, who completed her bachelor's degree at the Faculty of Humanities (bachelor's thesis on Jan Steklík). She completed her master's degree at KTDU at UMPRUM (Master’s thesis on the Crusader school of pure humour without the joke and neo-avant-garde). Since 2021, she has been working as a gallery educator at the arto.to gallery in Uhelný mlýn, regularly writes reviews for Artalk.cz and occasionally publishes other texts. In 2021/2022, she was the curator of the NIKA gallery. Since 2022, she has been a student of the doctoral programme at UMPRUM, her dissertation is on textile art in the 1970s and 1980s in Czechoslovakia.

The meanings of textile art production in the 1970s and 1980s in Czechoslovakia

In her research project, Anna Sedláček Roubalová deals with textile art production in the 1970s and 1980s in Czechoslovakia. She focuses on this area from the point of view of its meanings in terms of limits of the fine and applied art, the use of textile art by official state structures for state promotion, and also on the meanings of this art form from the point of view of social issues connected with the status of women, most of whom worked in this industry. In addition to examining these three areas of meaning associated with textile art, the project also aims to make the unjustly forgotten creators who worked in this area visible.