Jen Kratochvil
27.10. — 01.11.2024
→ Bucharest
Jen Kratochvil (born 1986, Czech Republic) is a curator and educator based in Vienna and Prague. They graduated from the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague and currently teaches at the Photography Department of the Film Academy in Prague. Kratochvil served as the director of Kunsthalle Bratislava until its recent closure by a current nationalist Slovak government. They were co-founder of Significant Other, a curatorial platform located in Vienna, operating within the larger Central European region, concerned with the overlaps of architecture and urbanism with art. Previously, Kratochvil worked as a freelance curator in collaboration with various institutions, such as Galerie Rudolfinum and the National Gallery Prague, independent spaces, and private galleries. Their long-term research explores various forms of identity de/construction in Eastern Europe through artistic practices and institutional engagement and critique. Their curatorial practice primarily focuses on time-based and lens-based media, with special attention to architecture, technology, and the potential of queer resistance amid a collectively experienced conservative turn within the region.