SAHA Talks: Dr. Hana Janečková

Prague-based independent curator and writer Dr Hana Janečková will give a talk at SAHA Studio on Wednesday, March 25 at 6pm. In her presentation, she brings together curatorial practice and questions of the politics of the body to examine how embodied experience mark and build exhibition formats in both contextual and epistemic terms.
In her projects, Janečková explores how the processes through which bodies come together across different media generate both collaborative and critical positions. She also investigates how these processes challenge institutional frameworks and how body politics shape the ways contemporary art is interpreted and understood today.

 About Dr. Hana Janečková 

Dr. Hana Janečková is Assistant Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (AVU) and independent curator. She curated the Czech Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale (2024) with the project The heart of a giraffe is twelve kilos lighter, restaged as Echoes at the National Gallery Prague (2025). She co-founded Multilogues on the Now (2017-2021), a noted project concerning the politics of care in contemporary art and served as curatorial lead at Display – Association for Research and Collective Practice (2018–2022). Her recent exhibitions include Nature Red in Tooth and Claw (tranzit.org) and Divination from a Night Sky: The Role of Photography in the Post-Media Age (City Gallery Prague, 2022).

She was Fulbright Scholar 2021-22 (Rutgers University, Brooklyn Museum) and contributes her research to Socialist Anthropocene (UCL, London) and was an editor Animal Touch (2021) and Multilogues on the Now: On Glands, Membranes and Cavities (2022). Her writings appear in Radicalizing Care (MIT Press), Over Journal, Texte zur Kunst, Journal of Visual Culture, and others. Hana was the Visiting Critic at the ISCP New York, and presented her work in a number of international institutions including Villa Albertine, New York;  Museum of Zagreb (MUSA) 2025 and as the Stuart Hall Lecture at Goldsmiths College London, 2024. She is the member of the International Jury of Jindřich Chalupecký Award and is the author of upcoming book Beyond the Body: Feminist Alliances in Contemporary Art. She currently works on Duane and Tanya Lukin Linklater’s commission for the Galerie Rudolfinum (autumn 2026).