Karina Kottová, Ph.D.

Karina Kottová is a curator, writer, art director and creative practitioner. She is a co-founder of the EU network Islands of Kinship: A Collective Manual for Sustainable and Inclusive Art Institutions, curating the project Safer Space for the international network of Czech Centers. Her previous affiliations include Jindřich Chalupecký Society (2015-2025), MeetFactory international center for contemporary art (2012-15), DOX Centre for Contemporary Art (2009-12), and Museum Kampa (2007-2009). She lectured at the Faculty of Humanities and Faculty of Education at Charles University, currently teaching at the Anglo-American University.

Kottová worked on projects like INI Project, an independent process-oriented project space; the Věra Jirousová Award for art critics; Prádelna Bohnice, an engaging contemporary art space within a psychiatric hospital; and UMA Audioguide. She is interested in the feminist principles of establishing, managing, and curating art institutions and projects as well as in the emancipatory potential of the so-called “feminine” qualities—such as empathy, irrationality, or intuition within and beyond the art world.

Kottová earned a B.A. in Humanities from the Charles University in Prague and an M.A. in Art and Heritage: Policy, Management and Education from Universiteit Maastricht in the Netherlands. She defended her PhD. on “The Institution and the Viewer” at Masaryk University in Brno. In 2012 she was a Fulbright-Masaryk scholar affiliated with the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York. She participated in residency and research programs such as the Curatorial Program for Research, the Laboratory for Radical Peace, and the International Visitor Leadership Program. She participates in numerous committees and juries, as well as writes for exhibition catalogues, publications, and art media.

Contemporary Art, Art Theory, Curating, Art Education, Art Management

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