Women in Focus: Monika Čejková

Art historian, writer and curator of the Modern and Contemporary Art Collection at the National Gallery Prague, Monika Čejková, will open our new talk series, Women in Focus. Monika will discuss her interest in contemporary art, which paved her journey to becoming an author and curator. She will also describe her recent projects, mostly dealing with the notion and modification of art in the digital age. Specifically, she will talk about the philosophy of new technologies, artificial intelligence, cyberculture and the topics of the post-gender world, post-humanism and digisexuality.

Monika’s talk will be followed by a Q&A session with the audience.

About the speaker:

Monika Čejková is a curator of the next Fotograf Festival 2023: #Hypertension23 at National Gallery Prague and Ora et lege II at Broumov Monastery, 2023. Recent exhibitions include, e.g., The Palace of Concrete Poetry at Writers House of Georgia in Tbilisi (2022), Neo-rising at Polansky Gallery in Prague (2022), Ora et lege I at Broumov Monastery (2021), Fantasy Finery at Berlínskej model Gallery in Prague (2021), Blasted Heathat AM 180 Gallery in Prague (2020). She studied the History of Art at Charles University in Prague. She is currently undergoing a curatorial residency at the Delfina Foundation in London, during which she plans to continue to explore the theme of art in the (post) digital age and extend her research to art about the new identity of the human being whose original form has been abstracted by digital space.

In 2020, Monika launched a long-term nomadic project titled “Ora et lege” – a critical dialogue between contemporary art and the teachings of the Benedictine order and the Catholic Church. This project is thematically focused on the work of contemporary visual artists with text and paved the way for another subject that Monika is currently exploring: the literary turn in visual art, which has brought various forms of authorial writing to the fore relation to the overabundance of digital text.

More info:

www.monikacejkova.com

www.instagram.com/monika_cejkova

PART OF WOMEN IN FOCUS

Women In Focus is Czech Centre London’s new programme series introducing inspiring female personalities and their accomplished professional journeys. The themes of the discussions will include the arts, the fashion industry, architecture, ballet, and many other professional fields.

The series aims to unveil specific intricacies in various fields through dialogue and open discussion with the audience. Our speakers will also address the challenges that they encountered as professional women working in often male-dominated environments, and they’ll share practices that led to their successful and rewarding accomplishments.