Mgr. Pavla Machalíková, Ph.D.

Researcher at the Department Art of Art of the 19th-21st Centuries.

Pavla Machalíková studied art history at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University (Ph.D. 2004) and has completed research stays at Collegium Budapest (2001–2002) and Mt. Holyoke College (1992–1993). She works at the IAH since 2001. In her research she concentrates on art of the 19th century and its institution with a special focus on painting in the Czech lands and its shifts between traditional and modern topics (folk art, children´s art). Currently she is the leader of a research project Spaces, Objects, Authors and Curators: Building a Cultural Public in the Czech Lands 1790–1918 (GAČR 24-12190S. 2024 - 2026). Based on these project, she parcitipates in interdisciplinary discussions Bourgeois Public Discusses Art (in coop. With the Institute of Literary History CAS) which aims at a research of the modern art publics in East Central Europe. She participated in research projects on Czech painting of the 19th century and in a number of publications and exhibitions (”And Then I Saw a New Heaven and a New Earth. Apocalypse and the Arts in the Czech Lands, Go into the Countryside!, Not A Single Snake in Sight, Rembrandt´s Tram). Her last exhibitions project (in cooperation with Taťána Petrasová) Between the Wilderness and the Delirious Megalopolis: American Experience of Central Europeans in 19th Century Visual Culture (Western Bohemian Gallery, Pilsen, 2025) concentrated on the images and stereotypes connected to the cultures and societies of the Americas, including a critical view of the approaches to native nations.

Research outputs (selection):

Pavla Machalíková (ed.), Making Art Public. Exhibiting in the Czech Lands and in the Habsburg Empire in the 19th Century, Prague: Artefactum 2025

Pavla Machalíková – Taťána Petrasová, Between the Wilderness and the Delirious Megalopolis: American Experience of Central Europeans in visual Culture of the Nineteenth Century, Prague: Artefactum (forthcoming, 2026)

Pavla Machalíková, Flowers and Windows: The First Art Exhibitions in Prague in the Nineteenth Century and the Shaping of Modern Exhibition Spaces, Art East Central 3, 2023, 111–141

Kateřina Kubínová – Pavla Machalíková – Tomáš Winter (edd.), „... a viděl jsem nové nebe a novou zemi...“ Apokalypsa a umění v českých zemích, Praha – Plzeň 2023

Pavla Machalíková (ed.), Flying with Wax Wings. Josef Mánes (1820–1871), Prague 2024

chapters ´Josef Mánes´ and ´Visualizing the Bohemian Lands,´ in: Joep Leersen (ed.), Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe, Vol. I, Amsterdam 2022, 441–442 a 815–816 (https://ernie.uva.nl/)

Current projects:

Spaces, Objects, Authors and Curators: Building a Cultural Public in the Czech Lands 1790–1918 (GA ČR, 24-12190S, 2024–2026, principal investigator) – currently in progress: an edited monograph on exhibiting in East Central Europe in the 19th century, and an international workshop Asymmetrical Views: Art Exhibitions of the Nineteenth Century Revisited (https://www.udu.cas.cz/en/akce/asymmetrical-views)

Coordinator of the project Database of Art Exhibitions in the Czech Lands 1820–1950 (https://databazevystav.udu.cas.cz/en)

Collaborator and co-editor of the project The Academy of Fine Arts in Prague 1799–1999: The History of Art Education within the Context of Period Ideas about Art (in cooperation with VVP AVU Prague, GA ČR, 2026–2028)