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The aim of the Centre for Modern Art & Theory is to promote research and teaching in the fields of modern and contemporary art, visual culture, aesthetics, design, and art criticism. It is composed of academic staff and students at various stages of their scholarly careers. Members of the centre develop and articulate original research, critically engage with current scholarly knowledge, and support junior colleagues in their career development.

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1 May

Call for Applications: ProletGard ERC Starting Grant Project

We are sharing a call for applications for two postdoctoral positions in the ProletGard ERC Starting Grant project, The Cultural Vanguard of Workers' Movements: A Social History of East Central European Avant-Garde between the Two Wars, which has recently begun and is hosted by the Kassák Foundation in Budapest.

1 Apr

CFP – From Comrades to Exotic Others: Global Art in the Exhibitionary Practices of Central and Eastern Europe

We cordially invite proposals for papers for the international conference From Comrades to Exotic Others: Global Art in the Exhibitionary Practices of Central and Eastern Europe, which will take place from the 5th to 7th of November 2026 at the Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures. The conference forms part of Matthew Rampley’s research project Czechs and the Colonial World: Design and Visual Culture since 1848, funded by the Czech Science Foundation.

28 Feb

Getty’s Connecting Art Histories: Modernism’s Future Pasts

We cordially invite you to participate in the workshop Modernism's Future Pasts: Abstraction and Identity in 'East-Central Europe', 1910s–1930s, organised as part of Getty Foundation's Connecting Art Histories initiative.

Part of the workshop will take place in Brno, where you will be welcomed by our colleague Matthew Rampley and have the opportunity to attend a lecture by the head of our centre Marta Filipová.

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Call for Applications: ProletGard ERC Starting Grant Project

CFP – From Comrades to Exotic Others: Global Art in the Exhibitionary Practices of Central and Eastern Europe

Getty’s Connecting Art Histories: Modernism’s Future Pasts

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