Rebeka Provazníková

Rebeka Provazníková studied photography at the bachelor’s level and subsequently completed a master’s degree in curatorial studies. She currently works as a curator and project manager at the Prague City Gallery and serves as the program director of the exhibition of young art POKOJE. Although she is not a professional journalist, she is interested in developing her writing practice alongside her curatorial work.

She applied to the program in order to further elaborate on the theme of her master’s thesis and to step outside her comfort zone by exploring new approaches to writing and research. Her thesis focused on initiatives such as Secondary Archive and the Katarina Kozyra Foundation, which support women artists from Central and Eastern Europe. Building on this, she is particularly interested in examining the reception of the labels “feminist” and “feminism” in the region—how they remain controversial, and how the perception of feminism has evolved within the local art and cultural scene. Through her work, she aims to make these topics more accessible to younger audiences and to contribute to a broader understanding of feminist discourse in Central and Eastern Europe.

Revue Prostor ⟶

Articles

"There is no such thing as women's art." What we are afraid to hear in the word feminism

The sentence "there is no such thing as women's art" was voiced in the early 1990s in a survey conducted by art historian Věra Jirousová. Thirty years later, the same notion returns in a completely different atmosphere: at a time when the word feminism divides society much like the concepts of "woke", "gender", or "culture wars". What has changed in the meantime? How far have we moved forward? And why are these terms still perceived pejoratively even after all this time?

  • Author: Rebeka Provazníková
  • Medium: Revue Prostor
  • Original title: „Žádné ženské umění neexistuje.“ Co se bojíme slyšet ve slově feminizmus
  • Culture and Identity