▼ Jana Kořínková ▼

Jana Kořínková (*1981) is a Czech art and architecture historian specializing in the visual culture of public space, especially during the socialist period, and the work of the architect Adolf Loos. She works as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology and is the director of the university publishing house VUTIUM. Her key publications include: Aliens and Herons (2013), Building Houses is Not Enough: Visual Culture and Public Space in the City of Brno after the Second World War (2015), Adolf Loos the European: Not Just Brno Traces (2020), Adolf Loos and the Confiscated Memories of the Family of Viktor the Knight von Bauer-Rohrfelden (2019). Her curatorial exhibitions include: Adolf Loos – Viktor Bauer. Confiscated Memories and Adolf Loos the European. Not only Brno footprints. Jana Kořínková is also active in the field of teaching and research, where she focuses on the relationship between art and architecture in the 20th century, and participates in the creation of exhibition catalogs and professional publications.

▼ Ladislav Jackson ▼

Ladislav Jackson (*1985) is a Czech art historian, curator and publicist. He specializes in 19th and 20th century architecture and design and queer studies in art history. He works as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology. He is the author of a number of publications and exhibitions dealing with modern architecture, design and queer culture. His key publications include: Images of Queer Desires: Queer Art and Visuality in the Czech Lands (2024), The Myth of an Architect: Jan Kotěra 150 (2021), The Structure of the City in the Green: Modern Architecture in Hradec Králové (2017), Jan Kotěra in Hradec (2016), Shapes, Colors, Comfort: Furniture Jitona (2019). He is the author of the curatorial exhibitions: What a Material: Queer Art from Central Europe (Amsterdam, 2012), Spaces of Desire: Is Architecture Sexy? (Prague, 2016), Shapes, Colors, Comfort: Furniture Jitona (2018—2023), Philosopher of Structures: Architect and Engineer Jaroslav J. Polívka (2021 and 2022), Queer Ecologies (2024), Karol Radziszewski: Nobody's Gonna Know (2024). Jackson also contributes to professional journals and anthologies, where he addresses topics such as gender, sexuality and their relationship to architecture and visual culture.

▼ Martina Lehmannová ▼

Martina Lehmannová (*1978) is a Czech art historian and curator specialising in applied arts, design, and collecting. She graduated in art history and history from the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in Brno and also studied at the Universität Wien. She worked as a curator at the Moravian Gallery in Brno, where she focused on the furniture and textile collections, and participated in the administration of the Birthplace of Josef Hoffmann in Brtnice and the Jurkovič Villa in Brno. She later worked at the Museum of the Capital City of Prague and the Museum of Applied Arts in Prague. In 2017–2020, she was the director of the Lidice Memorial. Her major publications include: From Far and Near: Medieval Imports in Moravian and Silesian Collections (2009), Jurkovič's Villa in Brno (2013), Codes of Ethics (2014), Jaroslav Horejc / Master of Czech Art Deco (2016), Remember Lidice (1967–2017): 50 Years of the Lidice Art Collection (2017). She has curated exhibitions focused on applied art and design, including exhibitions at the Birthplace of Josef Hoffmann and Jurkovič's Villa. As director of the Lidice Memorial, she organised exhibitions commemorating the history of Lidice and developed international cooperation in the field of museology.

▼ Klára Eliášová ▼

Klára Eliášová is an architectural historian who, in her publishing, lecturing, organizational and curatorial activities, focuses on the issues of industrial cities, especially the activities of the Baťa company, as well as post-war architecture and the possibilities of its protection. She was part of the interdisciplinary teams of the NAKI research projects Panel housing estates in the Czech Republic as part of the urban environment: Evaluation and presentation of their residential potential (texts in the publication Paneláci / Paneláks 1) and Industrial City and its transformations in the 20th century (co-author of the catalog Baťa House: disappearing elements of Zlín architecture). Since 2012, she has been a member of the 4AM/Forum for Architecture and Media association, and in 2014–2019 she participated in the functioning and conception of the PRAHA cultural space in Brno. As a guide for architectural walks or the author of the texts of the Brno, Pilsen and Zlín architectural manuals, she actively strives to communicate architecture to the wider public. Since 2020, she has been working as an editor and expert guarantor of the Zlín Architectural Manual.

▼ Kateřina Jandová ▼

Kateřina Jandová (*1999) is a Master's student in Art History and Cultural Management at the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno. Her Bachelor's thesis focused on 18th-century French painting, particularly Parisian salons and period art criticism, based partly on research in Montpellier. Her current research explores gender, corporeality, and the position of women in post-war art. She is also engaged in cultural projects that explore connections between mental health and contemporary art.