Jitka Hlaváčková

Jitka Hlaváčková is an art theoretician working since 2006 at the Prague City Gallery, where she curates the photography and new media collection. She has prepared a number of exhibition and publication projects, including An Album of Slow Images – Compositions and Artworks from the Uncertain Situations Series (2024); Thinking with Images – Visual Events by Miroslav Petříček (2023); Divination from the Night Sky Partially Obscured by Clouds – The Role of Photography in the Post-Media Age (2022) or Sounds Codes Images – Acoustic Experiment in Visual Art (2019); monographic exhibitions of Jan Jedlička, Tomáš Ruller, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Bohumil Krčil, and thematic exhibitions of Shadi Harouni, Roman Štětina, Zbyněk Baladrán, Jiří Žák, Michaela Maupicová, darina Alster and others. For several years she curated the Start Up series for emerging artists and the online video art gallery Projector. She also participated in the creation and development of the GHMP Art for the City programme, curated the m3 – Art in Space festival in 2021 and the Prague Biennale/Re-connect Art festival in 2021-2023.

In her research she focuses on acoustic art theory, photography, video art and art reflecting technology in post-media contexts. She is also exploring the “public language of art”, i.e. current strategies of urban and environmental art in relation to social, gender and community issues. She is the editor and co-author of catalogues and theoretical publications, and is currently the principal investigator of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 international grant project “Spatial Practices in Art and ArChitecture for Empathetic Exchange” (SPACEx). She has co-organised the conferences Between Landscapes/New Aesthetics (GHMP-ČVUT, 2024), Whom Public Space Serves (GHMP-UMPRUM, 2024) and Gestures of Emancipation (GHMP-AVU, 2021).

She is a member of the board of the Cultural and Creative Federation of the Czech Republic and chairwoman of the professional organization of visual artists and theorists Spolek Skutek (since 2025). She regularly participates in the work of expert committees, is a certifier for the Register of Artistic Outputs (since 2013), and currently also a member of the International Evaluation Panel of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. She has been teaching at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU, since 2025). She completed her master’s and doctoral studies in art history at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University. She has three children.

Selected Bibliography

• HLAVÁČKOVÁ, Jitka, The SILENCE of Empathy Is DEATH of Everything, in: ALSU – ART for FREEDOM, STRENGTH, UNITY, Prague 2025.
• HLAVÁČKOVÁ, Jitka, Mikyska, Ian: Album of Slow Images. Compositions and Artworks from the Uncertain Situations Series, (exhibition catalog), Prague: Prague City Gallery 2024.
• HLAVÁČKOVÁ, Jitka, VÁCLAVOVÁ, Denisa: David Böhm, Jiří Franta – Fabulant, (exhibition catalog), Prague: Prague City Gallery 2024.
• HLAVÁČKOVÁ, Jitka: Between Landscape and Greenhouse: A Record of the Activities of the Studio of Joyful Thinking, in: J. Hlaváčková (ed.), M. Bartlová, V. Janoščík, M. Petříček, J. Přibáň, Thinking through Images – The Visual Events of Miroslav Petříček (exhibition catalog), Prague: Prague City Gallery, 2023.
• HLAVÁČKOVÁ, Jitka: Introduction to Divination in the Post-Media Age, in: J. Hlaváčková (ed.), Divination from the Night Sky Partially Covered by Clouds. The Role of Photography in the Post-Media Age, (exhibition catalog), Prague: Prague City Gallery 2022.
• HLAVÁČKOVÁ, Jitka, ŠUBRTOVÁ Dáša, FREMLOVÁ Vendula: Záznamy hudby Jitky Válové, in: ŽIVOT – revue pro literaturu, hudbu a výtvarné umění, vol. 14/2022, no. 16, Prague: Umělecká beseda 2022.
• HLAVÁČKOVÁ, Jitka: Traces of Invisible Landscapes, in: J. Hlaváčková, J. Jedlička (eds.), Jan Jedlička, (exhibition catalog), Prague: Prague City Gallery 2021.
• HLAVÁČKOVÁ, Jitka: Umělec nebo vetřelec. O roli umění ve městě, in: J. Trejbal, Pohyb tvůrce, Prague: Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague 2021.
• HLAVÁČKOVÁ, Jitka: The History of Sound in Visual Art as the History of Experimental Thinking, in: Sounds Codes Images, Miloš Vojtěchovský, Jitka Hlaváčková (eds.), Prague: Artmap 2020.
• HLAVÁČKOVÁ, Jitka: Myths about Realities (interview with Pavel Mrkus), Art&Antiques, April 2020.
• HLAVÁČKOVÁ, Jitka: Jiří Seifert, Prague: ArtHouse Hejtmánek 2019.
• HLAVÁČKOVÁ, Jitka: Roman Štětina – Foreword, (exhibition catalog), Prague: Prague City Gallery 2019.
• HLAVÁČKOVÁ, Jitka: Eliška Havlíková – Hungry, For more. (exhibition catalog), Prague: Prague City Gallery 2019.
• HLAVÁČKOVÁ, Jitka: František Fekete – Fluid Identity Club, (exhibition catalog), Prague: Prague City Gallery, 2018.
• HLAVÁČKOVÁ, Jitka: Miroslava Večeřová, Pavel Příkaský – Antidote, (exhibition catalog), Prague: Prague City Gallery, 2018.
• HLAVÁČKOVÁ, Jitka: Jiří Hölzel – “UGBADQ,” (exhibition catalog), Prague: Prague City Gallery, 2018.
• HLAVÁČKOVÁ, Jitka; ŠTEFKOVÁ, Zuzana: Shadi Harouni – I Dream the Mountain Is Still Whole, (exhibition catalog), Prague: Prague City Gallery, 2018.
• HLAVÁČKOVÁ, Jitka: Valentýna Janů – Is Your Blue the Same As Mine?, (exhibition catalog), Prague: Prague City Gallery, 2018.
• HLAVÁČKOVÁ, Jitka: Barbora Dayef – The New Tale, (exhibition catalog), Prague: Prague City Gallery, 2017.
• HLAVÁČKOVÁ, Jitka: Jiří Žák – Split Epistemologist, (exhibition catalog), Prague: Prague City Gallery, 2017.
• HLAVÁČKOVÁ, Jitka: Celeste Capine Hill – Killed by the Light, (exhibition catalog), Prague: Prague City Gallery, 2017.
• HLAVÁČKOVÁ, Jitka: Artur Magrot – It Won’t Take Long, (exhibition catalog), Prague: Prague City Gallery, 2016.
• HLAVÁČKOVÁ, Jitka: Dominik Gajarský – Carausius morosus, (exhibition catalog), Prague: Prague City Gallery, 2016.
• HLAVÁČKOVÁ, Jitka: Intrigued Observers, in: J. Hlaváčková (ed.), V. Lahoda, M. Rakušanová, Prague Fantastic Realism 1960–1967, (exhibition catalog), Prague: Prague City Gallery, 2016.
• HLAVÁČKOVÁ, Jitka: Start Up Party IV–V, in: Monika Doležalová (ed.), Start Up IV2014–V2015, (exhibition catalog), Prague: Prague City Gallery, 2015.
• HLAVÁČKOVÁ, Jitka: Jitka Chrištofová – Zářivé temnoty [Radiant Darkness], (exhibition catalog), Prague: Galerie Havelka, 2010.
• HLAVÁČKOVÁ, Jitka: Prostor mezi (The Space Between), in: BABOROVSKÁ, Sandra, SRP, Karel, (eds.): Po sametu: současné české umění s přesahy do minulosti (After the Velvet: Contemporary Czech Art with Overlaps into the Past), (exhibition catalog), Prague/Řevnice: Prague City Gallery and Arbor Vitae 2009.
• HLAVÁČKOVÁ, Jitka: Family Comfort: Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic – Prague / Jitka Hlaváčková. Flash art: the world’s leading art magazine: Czech & Slovak edition Prague: Prague Biennale Foundation, 2006- 3/13 (2009).
• HLAVÁČKOVÁ, Jitka: Prague City Gallery, in: Focused View: 1960s Graphics from the Collections of Member Galleries of the Council of Galleries of the Czech Republic, (exhibition catalog), Prague 2008.
• HLAVÁČKOVÁ, Jitka: Bohumil Krčil, Prague: Torst 2007.

 

Related exhibitions

Start up: Tereza Fišerová – Parallel Universe
Prague Fantastic Realism 1960–1967
Start up: Artur Magrot – It Will Not Take Long
Start up: Dominik Gajarský – Carausius morosus
Start up: Celeste Capine Hill – Killed by the Light
Start up: Jiří Žák – Rozštěpený epistemolog
Artur Magrot, Martin Chlanda and Jakub Rajnoch: A Processual Installation
Start up: Barbora Dayef – New Story
Shadi Harouni: I Dream the Mountain Is Still Whole
Start up: Valentýna Janů – Is Your Blue the Same As Mine?
Tomáš Ruller: Perform Made – Sustainable Flashbacks
Start up: Miroslava Večeřová, Pavel Příkaský – Antidote
Start up: František Fekete – Fluid Identity Club 
Start up: Jiří Hölzel – „UGBADQ“
Sounds / Codes / Images – Audio Experimentation in the Visual Arts
Start up: Eliška Havlíková: Hungry, For more.
Roman Štětina: Foreword
City Therapy
Jan Jedlička
Five Uncertain Situations
Divination from a Night Sky Partially Obscured by Clouds / The Role of Photography in the Post-Media Age