Website: https://www.denisatomkova.com/
contemporary art theory, curating, queer theory, feminism, decolonisation, art of marginalized groups, socially engaged and collaborative art
2015-2019. University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK, PhD, Department: Visual Culture.
2013-2014. University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, Master of Science, Programme: Modern and contemporary 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, Programme: History of Art.
2008-2011. Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia. Bachelor's degree, Programme: History of Art.
October 2023 - present. Assistant Professor at the Department of Theory of Art and Artworks, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague, the Czech Republic.
February 2023 - October 2023. Assistant Professor at the Centre of Audiovisual Studies. Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts, Prague, the Czech Republic.
April 2022 - August 2023. Curator of Editorial Programming, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Slovakia.
August 2021 - February 2022. Curatorial and Publications Research Fellow, SixtyEight Art Institute. Copenhagen, Denmark.
July 2019 - May 2021. Research Fellow, Project: Comprehensive Mapping of Roma Tangible Heritage. Implementation of Key Fundraising Activities. Project Coordinator, European Roma Institute for Art and Culture (ERIAC), Berlin, Germany.
September - December 2016. Teaching Fellow. Introduction to Visual Culture. Department of Film and Visual Culture, The University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
2020-Present. Think-tank member. RomaMoMA (a transnational, collaborative and discursive art project of the European Roma Art and Culture Institute (ERIAC) and OFF-Biennale Budapest).
2017 - 2019. Reading and research group. Social Reproduction in Art, Life, and Struggle. Collective Gallery and University of Edinburgh, UK.
2015 - 2018. Research Fellow - Comparing WE's: Community, Cosmopolitanism and Emancipation in the Global Context at Comparative Studies Center. University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
Denisa Tomková. Empowering Aesthetics. forthcoming in Bloomsbury Academic.
Denisa Tomková (ed). 2023. Wandering Concepts / Putujúce koncepty. Bratislava: Kunsthalle Bratislava, ISBN 978-80-973924-2-0
Denisa Tomková. "Project ERROR: Potential for Care Beyond Exhibitions" in Stella Rollig, Christiane Erharter (eds.) Robert Gabris. This Space Is Too Small For Our Bodies (2023, Belveder 21, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther & Franz König) ISBN 978-3-7533-0535-6
Denisa Tomková. From Dialogical Aesthetics in Eastern European Art to ‘Falling in Love’ with the 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 of Contemporary 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 Europe in the New Millenium, PROFIL Súčasného výtvarného umenia, n. 2, 2017, Slovakia
Denisa Tomková. Book Review: Sociopolitical Aesthetics. Art, Crisis and Neoliberalism, in FIELD: A Journal of Socially-Engaged Art Criticism, Issue 20, Winter 2022
Denisa Tomková. Book Review: Meiqin Wang: Socially Engaged Art in Contemporary China, for Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, July/August 2020
Denisa Tomková. Book Review: Klara Kemp-Welch: Networking the Bloc: Experimental Art in Eastern Europe 1965-1981, in H-SHERA, March 2020
Denisa Tomková. Book Review: Vesela Nozharova: Introduction to Bulgarian Contemporary Art 1982–2015, Camera Austria 148/2019
Denisa Tomková. Book Review: Ana Janevski, Roxana Marcoci, Ksenia Nouril, eds. Art and Theory of Post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe: A Critical Anthology. MoMA Primary Documents Series. Durham: Duke University Press, H-SHERA, April 2019
Denisa Tomková. Book Review of Marcin Moskalewicz, Wojciech Przybylski, eds. Understanding Central Europe, H-SHERA, September 2018
Denisa Tomková. Book Review of Socially Engaged Art After Socialism: Art and Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe by Izabel Galliera, ART Margins, May 2018
Denisa Tomková. O queer časovosti a kolaborácii v súčasnom stave krízy. Rozhovor s Ľubošom Kotlárom, Flash Art Czech & Slovak Edition 67, 2023.
Denisa Tomková. How Does a Collective End? An Interview with Robert Gabris and Ľuboš Kotlár, Momus, October 2022.
Denisa Tomková. On Caring Institutions, Safe Spaces and Collaborations beyond Exhibitions: An Interview with Robert Gabris, Third Text Online. September 2022.
Denisa Tomková. Emília Rigová a Petra Hanáková: Z materiálnej kultúry Rómov mamé dnes už len chabé torzo, august, Artalk.cz. August 2022.
Denisa Tomková. Príbeh ukrajinského pavilónu v Benátkach a tvorba výstav ako otázka kultúrneho prežitia: 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 Matter of 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 Centre in Prague. RomaMoMA blog. September2022.
Denisa Tomková. Romani Feminism in Works of Female Roma Artists, Secondary Archive, April 2021
Denisa Tomková. Collectively Imagining the Future: An Interview with Alicja Rogalska, for Berlin Art Link, October 2020
September 2023: Nhớ: The Space Between One End and the Other (Maithu Bùi / Diana Cam Van Nguyen / Kimberly Nguyen / Kvet Nguyen / Minh Thang Pham / Anna Tran / Quynh Trang Tran / Nhu Xuan Hua), Kunsthalle 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 pať a pól 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 Junghaus and Andrea Petrus
April 2020. Performing the Museum, ERIAC, Berlin, Germany.
March 2016. 3 Generations of Women Artists Perform, Thresehold Art Centre, Perth, UK. Co-curated with Amy 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.
Charles University
Faculty of Humanities
Pátkova 2137/5
182 00 Praha 8 - Libeň
Czech Republic
