Ivana Rumanová

Ivana Rumanová, 2021.

Ivana Rumanová is a cultural critic, curator and anthropologist based in Bratislava.

Ivana Rumanová studied cultural anthropology at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague and the Cultural Projects in the Public Space programme at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She worked as a curator at Nová synagóga Žilina (The New Synagogue of Žilina, 2016-2019) and as a project manager at tranzit.sk (2019-2021). She is a member of the editorial board of the magazines Kapitál (visual department, visual curator) and 3/4 which bring critical reflection on art and technology and their social and political overlaps. She also writes for Artalk.cz, Flash Art, A2, kød. Her recent work includes Seminár urbánnej imaginácie (Seminar of Urban Imagination, 2020-2021, with Eliška Mazalanová and Peter Szalay), which explores the right to the city in a time of climate crisis, Nikdy sme neboli bližšie (We Have Never Been Closer, 2021-2022, with Dušan Barok) at tranzit.sk, which reflects on the phenomenon of networked communities in relation to transitology, and the dramaturgy of Miroslav Tóth's techno-opera The Committee. She contributed to Martin Piaček‘s research project Liquid Dogmas (2020), and acted as dramaturge for choreographer Yuri Korec‘s physical performance Sapiens Territory (2020). She organizes the Kapitalks series of events and curated the Right to the City residency programme for the City Gallery of Bratislava (GMB). She has also collaborated with Nová Cvernovka, where she curated the programme Reaktor with the theme of solidarity platforms and radical care. (2022)

Publications

• editor, Nikdy sme neboli bližšie / We Have Never Been Closer (with Dušan Barok), Bratislava: tranzit.sk, 2021, 40 pp. Exh. booklet. Exhibition. (Slovak)/(English)
• editor, Artalk Revue 6: "Komunity" / "Communities", Artalk.cz, Dec 2021, PDF/sk, PDF/en. (Slovak)/(English)
• editor, Kapitál 6: "Vyvlastnenie", Bratislava: KPTL, Jun 2022. (Slovak)
• "Za plotom: bratislavský Istropolis pod tlakom developerského feudalizmu" (with Peter Szalay), Deník Referendum, 23 Jan 2022. (Slovak)
• Articles in Kapitál (Slovak)
• Articles in A2
• Articles in Flash Art CS (Slovak)

Interviews

• Matej Sotník, "Študovala na Sorbonne verejný priestor: Paríž je sofistikovane segregovaný", Aktuality.sk, 22 Sep 2015. (Slovak)