Martina Pachmanová

Martina Pachmanová is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Art History and Theory at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design (UMPRUM) in Prague. As a researcher, writer and curator she specializes in gender, sexual politics and feminism in modern, post-war and contemporary art and visual culture, including design. She is an editor or co-editor of numerous books and exhibition catalogues, and author of several books: Mobile Fidelities: Conversations on Feminism, History, and Visuality (Prague 2001); Unknown Territories of Czech Modern Art: Through the Looking Glass of Gender (Prague 2004); The Birth of a Woman Artist from the Lemonade Foam: Gender Contexts of Modern Czech Art Theory and Criticism (Prague 2013); Civilized Woman: Ideal and Paradox of the Visual Culture of the First Czechoslovak Republic (2021), among others. Besides several monographs of contemporary Czech women artists, including Milena Dopitová, she also published several monographs of forgotten Czech inter-war female modernists related to their retrospective exhibitions: Milada Marešová (2008), Marie Galimberti-Provázková (2011), and Vlasta Vostřebalová Fischerová (2013), and Věra Jičínská (2023). Pachmanová‘s essays appeared in a number of publications published in English or German, including Empowerment: Kunst und Feminismen (Andreas Beitin – Katharina Koch – Uta Ruhkamp, Hrsg., Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg 2022); Feminist Art, Activisms and Artivisms (Katy Deepwell, ed., Valize 2020); A Companion to Feminist Art (Hilary Robinson – Maria Elena Buszek, eds., Wiley, 2019); Art and Theory of Post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe: A Critical Anthology (Ana Janevski – Roxana Marcoci, eds., New York 2018); Feminism – Art – Theory: An Anthology, 1968–2014 (Hilary Robinson, ed., Wiley 2014); Performative Gestures, Political Moves (Katja Kobolt – Lana Zdravkovic, eds., Ljubljana – Zagreb – Beograde, 2014); Gender Check: A Reader. Art and Theory in Eastern Europe (Bojana Pejić, ed., Vienna – Cologne 2010).