Denisa Tomková, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theory of Art and Artworks at the Faculty of Humanities Charles University in Prague. Her monograph Empowering Aesthetics is forthcoming from Bloomsbury press.
She was a Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art History at the Centre for Audiovisual Studies of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) in Prague. She was the Curator of Editorial Programming at Kunsthalle Bratislava, Slovakia (2022-23).
She holds an MSc in Modern and Contemporary Art: History, Curating and Criticism from The University of Edinburgh and PhD in Visual Culture from the University of Aberdeen (2019). Her PhD research focused on socially engaged art from the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland.
Between 2015-2018, she was a member of the international research project ‘Comparing WE’s. Cosmopolitanism. Emancipation. Postcoloniality’ based at the University of Lisbon. Between 2019-2021, she worked for the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) in Berlin, as a research fellow, curator and a project coordinator. As a curator, she worked on the Secondary Archive project, an online platform dedicated to the creation of artists from Central and Eastern Europe. Between 2021-2022, she was a Curatorial and Publications Research Fellow at SixtyEight Art Institute in Copenhagen.
She has published in various international art periodicals including: Third Text, Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, FIELD: A Journal of Socially-Engaged Art Criticism, Camera Austria, L'Internationale Online, ARTMargins Online, Idoart.dk, Berlin Art Link, Kuba Paris, or Profil Súčasného Výtvarného Umenia. She edited the anthology Wandering Concepts/Putujúce koncepty (2023) published by Kunsthalle Bratislava and she contributed to the catalogue Robert Gabris. This Space is Too Small for Our Bodies (2023), published by Belvedere 21 gallery in Vienna.
Academic Positions
2023-
Assistant Professor in the Department of Theory of Art and Artworks at the Faculty of Humanities Charles University in Prague
2023
Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art History at the Centre for Audiovisual Studies of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) in Prague
Education
2015 - 2019
University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK, PhD, Visual Culture
2013-2014
2012-2013
The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. Master of Science, Modern and Contemporary Art: History, Curating and Criticism
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, USA
2011-2013
University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK, Certificate of Higher Education, History of Art
Research
2008-2011
Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia, Bachelor Degree, History of Art
2019-2020
European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC), Berlin, Germany. Research fellow. Comprehensive mapping of Roma Tangible Heritage
2015- 2018
University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal. Research Member - Comparing WE's: Community, Cosmopolitanism and Emancipation in the Global Context at Comparative Studies Center.
Professional membership
2020 -
Think-tank member. RomaMoMA (A transnational, collaborative and discursive art project of the European Roma Institute of Arts and Culture (ERIAC) and OFF-Biennale Budapest).
2017 - 2019
Social Reproduction in Art, Life, and Struggle. A Reading Group. Collective Gallery and The University of Edinburgh, UK.
2015- 2018
Research Member- Comparing WE's: Community, Cosmopolitanism and Emancipation in the Global Context at Comparative Studies Center. University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
Selected Awards, Grants and Fellowships
2022
2022
2020
2020
2016
2015
2013
Nomination for the Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory 2022.
Postdoc grant, Novo Nordisk Foundation, Mads Øvlisen Postdoc Fellowship Art
History Research 2022 for my project “Political Art in Post-Truth Politics”. – declined.
Grant for Female Curators from Visegrad Region - Secondary Archive project.
European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture, ERIAC, Berlin, Germany. Research
fellowship. Comprehensive mapping of Roma Tangible Heritage
BASEES Research and Development Committee to fund for the attendance at the
Conference.
The Elphinstone Scholarship, for the full tuition fees for 3 years of the PhD
studies.
The Foundation for the Development of Education scholarship for MSc studies.