Milena Slavická
Milena Slavická, born Rattayová (28 March 1949, Karviná, Czechoslovakia), is a Czech art historian, curator, art critic, editor and publisher, pedagogue and writer.
After graduating from high school in Prague, in 1968-1974 she studied art history and history at the Faculty of Philosophy of Charles University. In 1975 she defended her rigorous thesis.
From 1975 she worked in the National Gallery as curator of the 20th century Czech art collection, and from 1979 as curator of the 19th and 20th century international art collection. From 1977 she made private trips to Moscow to study the unofficial art there, and from 1978 she and Jindřich Chalupecký organised visits of Moscow non-conformist artists to Prague. In the second half of the 1980s she cooperated with the unofficial Gallery Opatov (1984-1990) and wrote for samizdat editions, including Někdo Něco [Someone Something].
Between 1990 and 1996 she worked as the editor-in-chief and publisher of the Výtvarné umění [Fine Arts] magazine, and in 1994-1996 she was the editor of the anthologies of the Výtvarné umění [Fine Arts]. In 1995-2002 she was the director of the Občanské sdružení pro podporu výtvarného umění (OSVU, Civic Association for the Promotion of Fine Arts) publishing house. She was curator of the Pi-Pi-Art Gallery (former exhibition hall of the Czechoslovak Writer, 1990-1991), chairman of the jury of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award (1994-1995). From 1998 she an external lecturer at the Department of Art History, FA TU in Liberec, from 1999 she was Assistant Professor of Art History at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. From 2001, she was part of the editorial board of Fotograf [Photographer] magazine.
In 1995 she was on a study visit to the offices of New Observer in New York. In 2004 she gave a series of lectures on unofficial Russian art at Grinnell College in Iowa, and on Photography and Painting at the Utrecht School of Arts. She was a member of the Grant Committee of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic (1992-1994), a member of the Scientific Council (2002) and the Acquisition Committee (2002-2004) of the National Gallery in Prague. She has been a member of AICA since 1992. (Source)
Publications[edit]
(in Czech unless noted otherwise)
- Anthologies
- editor, with Dorothee Bienert, Současné německé umění (Výtvarné umění 1), Prague: OSVU, 1994.
- editor, with Dorothee Bienert, Berlín dnes a tady (Výtvarné umění 2), Prague: OSVU, 1994.
- co-editor, B. K. S. Dvacet let tajné organizace (Výtvarné umění 3), Prague: OSVU, 1994.
- editor, Umění instalace (Výtvarné umění 4), Prague: OSVU, 1994.
- editor, with Jo Williams and Barbara Benish, Art in America (Výtvarné umění 1-2), Prague: OSVU, 1995.
- editor, with Marcela Pánková, Zakázané umění I (Výtvarné umění 3-4), Prague: OSVU, 1995.
- editor, with Marcela Pánková, Zakázané umění II (Výtvarné umění 1-2), Prague: OSVU, 1996.
- editor, with Jiří Fiala, Vilém Flusser, Moc obrazu. Výbor filosofických textů z 80. a 90. let (Výtvarné umění 3-4), Prague: OSVU, 1996, 252 pp. Excerpt. TOC.
- editor, UB 12, Studie, rozhovory, dokumenty, Prague, 2006.
- more
Literature[edit]
- Edith Jeřábková, "A ta věc se změní. Moskevští konceptualisté, Pondělí, Nová intimita a Výtvarné umění. Rozhovor s Milenou Slavickou" / "And the Thing Transforms. Moscow Conceptualists, Pondělí, New Intimacy and Výtvarné umění (Fine Art) Magazine. Interview with Milena Slavická", in Mezi první a druhou moderností 1985-2012 / Between the First and Second Modernity 1985-2012, eds. Jiří Ševčík and Edith Jeřábková, Prague: VVP AVU, 2011, pp 231-267. (Czech)/(English)
