MSc. Denisa Tomková, PhD. ****************************************************************************************** * ****************************************************************************************** Website: https://www.denisatomkova.com/ [ URL "https://www.denisatomkova.com/"] *========================================================================================= * Research area *========================================================================================= contemporary art theory, curating, queer theory, feminism, decolonisation, art of marginal socially engaged and collaborative art *========================================================================================= * Courses *========================================================================================= See SIS [ URL "https://is.cuni.cz/studium/eng/predmety/index.php?do=ucit&kod=92973"] . *========================================================================================= * Contact Information and Office Hours *========================================================================================= See SIS [ URL "https://is.cuni.cz/studium/eng/kdojekdo/index.php?do=detailuc&kuc=92973"] . Office: 1.10 *========================================================================================= * Education *========================================================================================= 2015-2019. University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK, PhD, Department: Visual Culture.    2013-2014. University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, Master of Science, Programme: Modern an art: history, curating and criticism.      2012-2013. University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, USA. Exchange. 2011-2013. University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK, Certificate of Higher Education, Programm Art.    2008-2011. Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia. Bachelor's degree, Programme: Histor *========================================================================================= * Professional Experience *========================================================================================= October 2023 - present. Assistant Professor at the Department of Theory of Art and Artwork Humanities, Charles University, Prague, the Czech Republic.   February 2023 - October 2023. Assistant Professor at the Centre of Audiovisual Studies. Fi of Academy of Performing Arts, Prague, the Czech Republic.   April 2022 - August 2023. Curator of Editorial Programming, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Slovaki   August 2021 - February 2022. Curatorial and Publications Research Fellow, SixtyEight Art I Copenhagen, Denmark.    July 2019 - May 2021. Research Fellow, Project: Comprehensive Mapping of Roma Tangible Her Implementation of Key Fundraising Activities. Project Coordinator, European Roma Institute Culture (ERIAC), Berlin, Germany. September - December 2016. Teaching Fellow. Introduction to Visual Culture. Department of Culture, The University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK *========================================================================================= * Professional Memberships *========================================================================================= 2020-Present. Think-tank member. RomaMoMA (a transnational, collaborative and discursive a European Roma Art and Culture Institute (ERIAC) and OFF-Biennale Budapest).      2017 - 2019. Reading and research group. Social Reproduction in Art, Life, and Struggle. C and University of Edinburgh, UK.     2015 - 2018. Research Fellow - Comparing WE's: Community, Cosmopolitanism and Emancipation Context at Comparative Studies Center. University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal. *========================================================================================= * Selected Publications *========================================================================================= ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Books ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ • Denisa Tomková. Empowering Aesthetics. forthcoming in Bloomsbury Academic. • Denisa Tomková (ed). 2023. Wandering Concepts / Putujúce koncepty. Bratislava: Kunsthall ISBN 978-80-973924-2-0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chapters in Books ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ • Denisa Tomková. "Project ERROR: Potential for Care Beyond Exhibitions" in Stella Rollig, Erharter (eds.) Robert Gabris. This Space Is Too Small For Our Bodies (2023, Belveder 21 Buchhandlung Walther & Franz König)  ISBN 978-3-7533-0535-6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ • Denisa Tomková. From Dialogical Aesthetics in Eastern European Art to ‘Falling in Love’ Other(s), Third Text, Vol. 34, 2020, pp.481-500. • Denisa Tomková. Zhu Fadong: Why Art Is Powerless to Make Social Change in Yishu: Journal Chinese Art, Volume 17, Number 1, January/February 2018, pp. 85-97. • Denisa Tomková. July 2018 - Biopolitical Art as Socially-Engaged Art in Central-Eastern New Millenium, PROFIL Súčasného výtvarného umenia, n. 2, 2017, Slovakia ? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Book Reviews ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ • Denisa Tomková. Book Review: Sociopolitical Aesthetics. Art, Crisis and Neoliberalism, i Journal of Socially-Engaged Art Criticism, Issue 20, Winter 2022 • Denisa Tomková. Book Review: Meiqin Wang: Socially Engaged Art in Contemporary China, fo of Contemporary Chinese Art, July/August 2020 ? • Denisa Tomková. Book Review: Klara Kemp-Welch: Networking the Bloc: Experimental Art in 1965-1981,  in  H-SHERA, March 2020 • Denisa Tomková. Book Review: Vesela Nozharova: Introduction to Bulgarian Contemporary Ar Camera Austria 148/2019 • Denisa Tomková. Book Review: Ana Janevski, Roxana Marcoci, Ksenia Nouril, eds. Art and T Post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe: A Critical Anthology. MoMA Primary Documents Serie University Press, H-SHERA, April 2019 • Denisa Tomková. Book Review of Marcin Moskalewicz, Wojciech Przybylski, eds. Understandi Europe, H-SHERA,  September 2018 • Denisa Tomková. Book Review of Socially Engaged Art After Socialism: Art and Civil Socie and Eastern Europe by Izabel Galliera, ART Margins,  May 2018 ? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Other ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ • Denisa Tomková. O queer časovosti a kolaborácii v súčasnom stave krízy. Rozhovor s Ľuboš Flash Art Czech & Slovak Edition 67, 2023. • Denisa Tomková. How Does a Collective End? An Interview with Robert Gabris and Ľuboš Kot October 2022. • ?Denisa Tomková. On Caring Institutions, Safe Spaces and Collaborations beyond Exhibitio with Robert Gabris, Third Text Online. September 2022. • Denisa Tomková. Emília Rigová a Petra Hanáková: Z materiálnej kultúry Rómov mamé dnes už torzo, august, Artalk.cz. August 2022. • Denisa Tomková. Príbeh ukrajinského pavilónu v Benátkach a tvorba výstav ako otázka kult Rozhovor s Mariou Lanko , Flash Art Czech & Slovak Edition, March 2022 • Denisa Tomková. The Story of the Ukrainian Pavilion in Venice and Exhibition-Making as a Cultural Survival: An Interview with Maria Lanko, ARTMargins Online, March 2022 • Denisa Tomková. Practicting Otherness: Kvet Nguyen. DokumentMagazín. 2022 • Denisa Tomková. Open Road / Phundrado Drom: Laying Foundations for the Roma and Sinti Ce RomaMoMA blog. September2022. • Denisa Tomková. Romani Feminism in Works of Female Roma Artists, Secondary Archive, Apri • Denisa Tomková. Collectively Imagining the Future: An Interview with Alicja Rogalska, fo Link, October 2020   *========================================================================================= * Curatorial activities *========================================================================================= September 2023: Nh?: The Space Between One End and the Other (Maithu B?i / Diana Cam Van N Nguyen / Kvet Nguyen / Minh Thang Pham / Anna Tran / Quynh Trang Tran / Nhu Xuan Hua), Kun Bratislava. Co-curated with Kvet Nguyen.   November 2022. Kvet Nguyen: Practising Otherness, Slovak Institute in Budapest.   September 2022. Still Here. Zichy Old Town Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia. Co-curated with association.   December 2021. The Book as Art and Vision, SixtyEight Art Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark.    May 2021. Roma Resistance and Resilience, ERIAC, Berlin, Germany. Co-curated with Tímea Ju Petrus    April 2020. Performing the Museum, ERIAC, Berlin, Germany.      March 2016. 3 Generations of Women Artists Perform, Thresehold Art Centre, Perth, UK.  Co- Bryzgel and Ilyiana Nedkova.    March-April 2013. TOTAL ART, Indi Go Gallery, Champaign, Illinois, USA.      January 2011. Jana Zatvarnícka: MonoPoly, Culture bar Hopkirk, Bratislava, Slovakia.   April 2010. Curator. Dva krát denne po jednom bielom príbehu, Axioma, Bratislava, Slovakia