In the Contemporary Art Collecting lecture series you will learn from successful and emerging collectors, curators and experts in contemporary art investment what impulses led them to become interested in the contemporary art market. They will reveal how they build or help build their collections, and what their criteria are for selecting specific works. The lecture series is aimed at the complete layman with an interest in art, as well as collectors who are puzzling over how to evaluate their collection or create a remarkable and unique collection.
The lecture will be given by gallerist Blanka Čermáková.
Blanka Čermáková (*1979) has been working in the field of fine art since childhood. Her parents both taught at the SUPŠ in Turnov, her studies led her to the Arts Management in the field of museums and galleries and her first work experience was in the Department of Arts and Libraries of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, first as a clerk and then as a director. After four years, she moved to the Department of Public Communication at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where for 14 years she prepared graduate exhibitions, managed the Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts, and devoted herself to fundraising and publishing activities. In 2007, together with Jan Kaláb, Jakub Nepraš and Michal Cimala, she founded the Trafačka Society in the former Vysočany electrostation and since then she has been running an alternative gallery, where during eight years of activity 200 events for the public have been held, 35 art studios have been created and this platform became the basis for the creation of the private Trafo Gallery in 2016 in the Holešovice Market Hall.
Programme change subject to change.
