Mgr. Petra Hlaváčková
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Petra Hlaváčková is architecture historian, curator and journalist, who has long been dealing with the topic of gender in art and architecture, feminist approaches in urban planning and gender politics of CS state socialism. Petra regularly writes reviews and reportages for the Czech and Slovak art, culture and political periodicals. She received international scholarships such as Aktion Österreich, Artist in Residence MQ Vienna or fellowship of Milena Jesenská in the Institute of Human Science (IWM) in Vienna. Currently she studies PhD at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (UMPRUM) and she is a member of the research project team Architecture and Emancipation in Czech republic after 1945 (National Gallery Prague + Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague).
Petra is also author and editor of the Brno Architecture Manual – a Guide to 1918-1945 Architecture – book and freely accessible database of Brno modern architecture (www.bam.brno.cz). She is co-author of the film Once you have a job, you have everything, about Roma workers coming to Czech countries from Slovakia after 1945, and dramaturg of the film documentary Housing Against Everyone (2021).
Petra is co-founder of 4AM Forum for Architecture and Media association, where she was curator of the Compact City exhibition, Art and Liberation. Europe 1943-1967: Revolting People exhibition and the Move the City laboratory of dance improvisation and movement in relation to architecture and public space. She is also author and curator of the research project Kill Your Idol – Psychoanalysis of contemporary architecture of the City of Brno involved in the Asking Architecture winning project for the exposition in the Czech and Slovak Pavilion at 13th International Architecture Exhibition of la Bienale di Venezia 2012. In 2021 her new audio/visual/movement research project Ruptures/Situations (Move the City and Ava collective) took place in the vila Tugendhat in Brno.
She is author and editor of several publications, e. g. Off Season (2017), Architecture of Care (2019) or Brno for Everyone: Sensitive Urban Planning. She was a lecturer of feminist art history and moderne architecture in the Department of Art History at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in Brno. She is a member of independent film platform Guerilla.film and co-founder of on-line magazine Artalk.cz (from 2008) focusing on contemporary art and architecture.
Publications, reviews and essays here.