Barbora Švehláková

Czech Republic

Barbora Švehláková (1988) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. During her studies she took part in a number of study exchanges, for example at the T.E.I. in Athens, she also studied in the studios of Ruth Noack (AVU, Prague) or Marwa Arsanios and Tony Chakar (Salzburg, AUT). She works at Artyčok TV, where among other matters she has produced a critical serial on the theme of university art education or attendance fetishism in cooperation with Janek Rous and Vjera Borozan (https://artycok.tv/cs/post/edu-01-ekonomika-vzdelavani ). During the period of 2019-2021 she was editor of the magazine Flash Art. She writes for a whole range of Czech and foreign journals (Flash Art, A2 Magazine, Artalk, etc.). Švehláková has exhibited her work primarily on the Czech independent gallery scene, but also abroad, for example, at exhibitions at the Limited Access film festival in Teheran (Iran, 2019), at the Czech Center in New York (USA, 2015), at the PAF festival in Olomouc (Other Visions section, 2016), the National Gallery Prague (2017), etc.