Jakub Frank

Jakub Frank (1993) is a curator and art historian based in Olomouc and Opava. He teaches at Palacký University and is the founding director of Kalliopi – Sommer Family Endowment for contemporary art. From 2019 to 2025, he curated modern, contemporary, and new media art at the Olomouc Museum of Art. He is active in Bludný kámen and has organized exhibitions and events focused on new media and sound art, as well as experimental music.

Since 2013 he has been the curator of Cella Gallery and Hovorny. Since 2017 he has been the curator of the art section of the Luhovaný Vincent festival and a member of the Olomouc collective 8848, and since 2020 he has been the co-curator of the Ostrava festival of art in public space Kukačka. His activities include mapping and promoting independent audiovisual culture and organising exhibitions and concerts in Opava, Ostrava and Olomouc. In 2016, he co-founded the dormant platform for the presentation of contemporary art. Kon:post. (2020, 2025)