Kristýna Péčová

Kristýna Péčová is an art theorist and curator. She studied art history at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague. She then received her master's degree from the Department of Theory and History of Art at the Academy of Arts, Architecture & Design in Prague (UMPRUM). She currently works as a methodologist at the Department of Fine Arts at the same university. In 2022, she curated the UMPRUM school-wide biennial exhibition, ‘Procedure as Output’, which focused on artistic research. She also curates exhibitions of mainly younger artists in various Czech contemporary art galleries and has recently contributed to the ‘Secondary Archive’ platform. Previously, she had worked as Director of the ‘Pokoje’ young art exhibition or as the curator of the 29th edition of the International Symposium of Ceramics in Bechyně, dedicated to ceramics as a material of contemporary art. 

"Meta-art history: art history in contemporary (Czech) art."

Her dissertation project focuses on how art history enters contemporary art. The research is limited to the last thirty years and concentrates on the local art scene, where it tries to find various connections with previously created works of art. In her research, she is thus interested in how it is possible to reflect older art through contemporary visual creations. From direct appropriations, when older works are adopted either as a whole or for their main characteristic elements only, she wants to gradually move to the examination of other, more subtle connections. Therefore, the central theme is various "inner-artistic explorations".