Day 3 (Thu 3rd June), 19:30: Toyen, The Dreaming Rebel
Anna Pravdová, will introduce us to the exhibition Toyen: The Dreaming Rebel (link can be found here), actually on display at the Wallenstein Riding Hall in Prague, which she co-curated with Annie Le Brun and Annabelle Görgen-Lammers.
Anna Pravdová is an art historian and curator of the Collection of Modern Art at the National Gallery in Prague. She holds a PhD in Art History from Charles University in Prague and the University Paris I – Sorbonne for her research on Czech artists in France from 1918-1945. She is the author of several monographs, catalogs, and studies concerning Czech artists living abroad and Czech-French relations in art and culture. She has curated a series of exhibitions on this topic, for example Jiří Kolář & Beatrice Bizot / Correspondage (2012); Jan Křížek (1919-1985) and the Paris Art Scene in the 1950s (2013); Caught by the Night: Czechs Artists in France 1938-1945 (2015), František Kupka (2018); Bonjour, Monsieur Gauguin, Czech artists in Britanny 1850-1950 (2018); Josef Šíma: The Road to Le Grand Jeu (2019); Toyen: The Dreaming Rebel (2021).
In 2015, she was a Fulbright Research Scholar at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she conducted research on Czech artists in the United States during WWII. Recently, she authored two monographs: Jan Křížek (1919-1985): The Human Must Be There and Senorita Franco and the Bloody Hound: The Painter, Cartoonist, and Illustrator Antonín Pelc (1895–1967) (co-edited with Tomáš Winter). Anna’s research interests include art history of the twenty century in the social and historical contexts.
