Tomáš Pospiszyl

Tomáš Pospiszyl (1967) is a critic, curator and art historian based in Prague. He worked as a curator in The National Gallery in Prague (1997-2002), was a research fellow at The Museum of Modern Art in New York (2000), and served at the editorial board of Umelec magazine. Since 2003 he teaches at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He is a board member of tranzit.cz. His publications include 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.

Publications

Books

• editor & trans., Před obrazem. Antologie americké výtvarné teorie a kritiky, OSVU, 1998, 189 pp. (Czech)
• editor, with Laura Hoptman, Primary Documents: A Sourcebook for Eastern and Central European Art since the 1950s, MIT Press, 2002, 304 pp. (English)
• with Petr Babák, Octobriana a ruský underground. Neuvěřitelný příběh Petra Sadeckého, Prague: Labyrint, 280 pp. [1] (Czech)
• Srovnávací studie, Prague: Fra, 2005, 180 pp. (Czech)
• editor, with Ivan Adamovič, Planeta Eden. Svět zítřka v socialistickém Československu 1948-1978, Prague: Arbor vitae, 2010, 248 pp. [2] (Czech)
• editor, with Eric Rosenzveig, CAS: Co to je? / What is it?, Prague: NAMU, 2013, 326 pp. (Czech)/(English)
• Asociativní dějepis umění: poválečné umění napříč generacemi a médii. Koláž, intermediální a konceptuální umění, performance a film, Prague: tranzit.cz, 2014, 208 pp. Publisher, TOC, Book launch. (Czech)

Essays

• in A2
• on Artalk

Links

• Profile at Academy of Fine Arts, Prague
• Profile on AbArt
• Czech Wikipedia