Marie Kordovská

Marie Kordovská

Czech Republic °1992 

Research focus: theory of architecture, architecture exhibiting, alternative curatorial practices, popularization

organizace: UMPRUM

Mgr. Marie Kordovská studied Theory and History of Modern and Contemporary Art at UMPRUM, where she is currently pursuing her PhD studies. She is studying architecture theory and is particularly interested in expanded notions of exhibiting architecture. In 2015, she founded the Respekt Madam project, which promotes Czech post-war architecture through lectures, guided tours and other events. In 2022, she travelled to Montreal's Canadian Centre for Architecture for an internship, where she worked on exhibiting and archiving of architecture in practice. She publishes texts on architecture, produces cultural events and works as a curator - in the past, for example, she has collaborated with the Portuguese artist Anna Pérez-Quiroga or the Czech painter Alžbeta Skálová. Currently, she runs the 400 ASA gallery of documentary photography.

Research

The aim of Marie Kordovska’s Ph.D. project is to focus on expanded notions of curation in the field of architecture exhibitions. Architectural exhibitions usually focus on the personality of the architect and the historical context of construction, through texts, photographs, or two-dimensional projects or models of the buildings on display. In her work, Kordovska wants to define the current praxis of curatorial practices in architecture exhibiting, including the newly realised permanent exhibitions of architecture at the National Gallery in Prague and Architekturzentrum Wien. Based on a critical reflection of this production, she will then focus on such exhibitions that depart from the classical narrative of the historical or monographic exhibition. She is interested in projects that place architecture and the lived environment in the context of social, climatic and other issues, while working with different media, scales or social activation of the visitor. She will also mention cases where curators focus on working with space as such and explore areas bordering between architecture and art.