Lenka Dolanová

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Lenka Dolanová is an art historian and curator at the Brno House of Art and the Chotěboř City Museum. Previously she worked at the Vysočina Regional Gallery in Jihlava, where she founded the IGLOO sound gallery, and at the East Bohemian Gallery in Pardubice. She is the author of a book on Steina and Woody Vasulka titled A Dialogue with the Demons of the Tools (2021), editor of the anthology Nejedna rodina: Jirousovi, Padrtovi, Ságlovi (2020), curator of numerous exhibitions and author of catalogues (among others Bohuslav Reynek and Čestmír Kafka), co-editor of the book of interviews Tam u šraňků bude přístaviště: rozhovory s umělci z Českomoravské povýšeniny (2019). Her research interests include the relationship between art, new media and ecology, and culture in the regions. (2023)

Lenka Dolanová taught experimental film and video at Charles University in Prague and at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Brno University of Technology. Between 2005 and 2006 she was Fulbright researcher at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. She received her PhD from the Prague Film School, FAMU. For a number of years she also worked in CIANT. She is a member of yo-yo and KRA - Kravín Rural Arts NGOs.

Publications[edit]

Books, catalogues, thesis[edit]

  • editor, Seno, sláma, řeřicha: práce v krajině a přírodní procesy v umění, Jihlava: Oblastní galerie Vysočiny v Jihlavě, 2015, 80 pp. Exh. catalogue. Publisher. (Czech)
  • editor, X: Čestmír Kafka, Jihlava: Oblastní galerie Vysočiny v Jihlavě, 2016, 47 pp. Exh. catalogue. Publisher. (Czech)
  • with Daniel Novák and Ilona Staňková, Tam u šraňků bude přístaviště: rozhovory s umělci z Českomoravské povýšeniny, Jihlava: Oblastní galerie Vysočiny, 2019, 461 pp. Book of interviews. TOC. (Czech)
  • editor, Nejedna rodina: Jirousovi, Padrtovi, Ságlovi, Humpolec: 8smička, 2020, 254 pp. Exh. catalogue. Excerpt. Exhibition. (Czech)
  • editor, Ruka v rouně. Bohuslav Reynek v pardubickém kontextu, Pardubice: Východočeská galerie v Pardubicích, 2021, 126 pp. Exh. catalogue. (Czech)
  • Kočka v nás: Sochař a hudebník Libor Krejcar, Prague: Argo, 2023, 176 pp. Publisher. (Czech)

Selected articles[edit]

  • "Na jiné půdě: nástin metodologie pro umění mediální ekologie", in Wittlichovi. Sborník žáků k 80. narozeninám Petra Wittlicha, ed. Marie Rakušanová, Prague: Karolinum, pp 323-342, 2012. (Czech)

Interviews[edit]

Films[edit]

  • Steina & Woody Vasulka, eds. Lenka Dolanová and Michal Kindernay, 2006, 41 min. Documentary on the Vasulkas, contains fragments from Connor's, Rubin's and Kirby's documentaries. [5]

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