Tomáš Pospiszyl

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Tomáš Pospiszyl (1967) is an art historian, critic and curator based in Prague. He focuses on Czech and world art of the 20th and 21st century. Pospiszyl works at the Centre of Audiovisual Studies at FAMU (since 2003) and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (since 2012), where he also serves as the head of the Department of Theory and History of Art. Since its foundation he has been affiliated with the tranzit.cz association.

Tomáš Pospiszyl worked as a curator in The National Gallery in Prague (1997-2002). He was a research fellow at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (2000), and served at the editorial board of Umelec magazine.

His publications include the anthology Primary Documents; A Sourcebook for Eastern and Central European Art since the 1950s (2002), which he edited with Laura Hoptman, two volumes of his essays, Srovnávací studie (2005) and Asociativní dějepis umění (2014), and numerous catalogue essays and magazine articles.

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Books[edit]

  • with Petr Babák, Octobriana a ruský underground. Neuvěřitelný příběh Petra Sadeckého, Prague: Labyrint, 2004, 280 pp. [1] (Czech)
  • with Vanda Skálová, Alén Diviš, Prague: Nadace Karla Svolinského a Věry Kubátové, 2005, 252 pp. (Czech)
  • Josef Bolf: velká černá kniha / Big Black Book, Prague: Divus, 2009, 120 pp. [2] (Czech)/(English)
  • David Černý - Promrdané roky III / The Fucking Years III, Prague: Respekt, 2009, 120 pp. (Czech)/(English)
  • editor, with Ivan Adamovič, Planeta Eden. Svět zítřka v socialistickém Československu 1948-1978, Prague: Arbor vitae, 2010, 248 pp. Publisher. Review: Franc (Soudobé dějiny). (Czech)
  • Vladislav Mirvald, Prague: Arbor vitae, 2010, 160 pp. [3] (Czech)
  • Jan Pištěk. Živly / Elements, Prague: Arbor vitae, 2011, 88 pp. (Czech)
  • David Černý, BIGGBOSS, 2017, 336 pp. (Czech)
  • Posledních padesát let, Hradec Králové: Galerie moderního umění v Hradci Králové, 2020, 107 pp. Exhibition. Publisher. (Czech)
  • Rotrekl, Prague: Kunsthalle Praha, 2022, 336 pp. Publisher. (Czech)
  • with Veronika Čechová, Příběh Jindřicha Chalupeckého, Prague: Společnost Jindřicha Chalupeckého, 2022, 95 pp. (Czech)
  • editor, Jindřich Chalupecký. Texty a kontexty kritika umění, Prague: Akademie výtvarných umění, 2023, 396 pp. Review: Rampley (Centre of modern art & theory Brno). [4] (Czech)

Essays[edit]

  • "Odkud kráč Nočni chodci. K interpretaci malířského cyklu Františka Hudečka", Umění/Art 71:1, 2023, pp 40-49. (Czech)}

Further texts in A2, Artalk.

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