Tereza Stejskalová is a curator and researcher based in Prague, Czech Republic. She is the director of tranzit.cz and a co-founder of the Biennale Matter of Art. During 2018-2022 she worked as a researcher and lecturer at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. She collaborated on many exhibitions and projects all around Europe. She publishes texts in academic and non-academic journals and is an editor of several publications.
Selected exhibitions:
Matter of Art Biennale, second edition, City Gallery Prague & Matter of Art Biennale, Prague (co-curated with tranzit.cz, Piotr Sikora, Renan Laru-An, Rado Ištok)
We Are All Emotional, Festival of performance, Theater X10, Prague (co-curated with Raluca Voinea, Livia Pancu, Georg Schöllhammer, Judit Angel, Dóra Hegyi)
Biafra of Spirit. Third World Students in Czechoslovakia, part of OFF Biennale Budapest 2021
Come Closer, Matter of Art Biennale, first edition, City Gallery Prague & Matter of Art Biennale, Prague (co-curated with Vít Havránek)
Allied, Kyiv Biennale (co-curated with East European Biennale Alliance)
Selected publications:
Books
Death to the Artist! Long Live the Helper, tranzit.cz, 2024
Who is an Artist? Prague: Academy of Fine Arts, 2015 (co-authored with Barbora Kleinhamplová).
Edited volumes
Soft Spots, Biennale Reader, Prague, Leipzig: Matter of Art Biennale, Spector Books, 2022
(co-edited with Piotr Sikora, Renan Laru-An, Rado Ištok).
Come Closer: Biennale Reader, Prague, Geneva: Matter of Art Biennale, JRP|Ringier Kunstverlag AG, 2020 (co-edited with Vít Havránek).
Filmmakers of the World, Unite! Forgotten Internationalism, Czechoslovak Film and the Third World, tranzit.cz: Prague, 2018.