Denisa Tomková, PhD, is an art theorist and curator. She is a Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art History at the Centre for Audiovisual Studies of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) in Prague. She is also the Curator of Editorial Programming at Kunsthalle Bratislava, Slovakia.

 

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. Tomkova is working with the collective päť & pól as a theorist and curator for the upcoming exhibition project "Still Here" in Bratislava. The objective of the exhibition project is to highlight the importance of contemporary art production in imagining a new positive future, in strengthening communities, in stimulating public dialogue and in healing our collective body. 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.