Anežka Bartlová: Crisis and criticism

Where:

• Auditorium H 301,

  • AFAD, Hviezdoslav sq. 18, Bratislava

When:

• Thursday, September 26, 2024 from 12:30

Anežka Bartlová: Crisis and Criticism

Talking about the crisis of criticism has become something of a cliché, but what does it really mean to write critically about visual art in the context of a chronically underfunded cultural sector and multiple ongoing crises? How can we maintain perspective and a sense of humor when we see the world rushing towards several foreseeable ends? Is criticizing the system becoming a new shared language?

We will explore and discuss these questions and challenges together, through the lens of contemporary visual art and writing about it.

Anežka Bartlová

is the editor-in-chief of Czech section of Artalk. She studied Art History at the Faculty of Arts at Charles University and UMPRUM, and earned her doctorate at the Department of Art Theory and History of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. From 2016 to 2019, she was an in-house editor at Art+Antiques magazine, and from 2018 to 2022, she was part of the editorial team of Notebook for Art, Theory, and Related Zones. She is interested in art criticism, memory, ecology, feminism, and their intersections in public space. In 2014, she received the Věra Jirousová Award for young art critics. Anežka Bartlová is a member of the Skutek Association, a solidarity platform for communication within and outside the art scene, and a member of the Feminist (Art) Institutions. She is the editor of the book Manual of Monuments (UMPRUM, 2016) and the author of Conditions and Assumptions (AVU, 2023).

*The lecture is part of the KEGA grant agency project: 001VŠVU-4/2022 "Contemporary Thinking on Exhibitions and Curating."

*Illustrative image, Monkeys as Judges of Art from 1889, is by Gabriel Cornelius von Max