MSA Prague 2025 – Pre-Conference Event: Voices of Memory

Curators: Prof. Branislava Kuburović (Prague City University) and Prof. Irena Řehořová (Charles University)

This special pre-conference exhibition explores how memory permeates and shapes artistic practice. Through a variety of media—including photography, painting, installation, and video—the featured artists engage with the legacies of often difficult pasts, offering diverse perspectives on remembrance and resilience.

Bringing together artists from different parts of the world, the exhibition highlights projects that engage with personal and social memory, as well as the memory embedded in the natural environment. Their work delves into themes such as inheritance, the intersection of past and present, bodily experience, and solidarity. The exhibition’s title reflects both the multiple “voices” of memory represented in the artworks and the wide range of artistic media used to express them.

Featured artists include:

• OLGA BUBICH, a memory researcher, lecturer, photographer and essayist, whose work explores the intersections of traumatic history, memory, and landscape. Before her forced exile from Belarus, Bubich was affiliated with the Belarusian State University.
• NIKITA KADAN, graduated from National Academy of Fine Art (Kyiv) in 2007. He works with installation, sculpture, painting, graphics, often in interdisciplinary collaboration with historians, architects and human rights activists.
• MICHAL KINDERNAY, an intermedia artist, curator, performer and lecturer at the Centre of Audiovisual Studies in Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and at Prague College. He is affiliated with Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno, where he is completing his PhD.
• MAGDALENA KRACÍK ŠTORKÁNOVÁ, an artist, art restorer, independent researcher and lecturer, specializing in mosaic art. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (2000-2005) in the Sculpture Restoration Studio. She completed professional internships and studies in Italy and the USA.
• MIRTA KUPFERMINC, an independent multidisciplinary artist, lecturer, curator and teacher, who lives and works in Buenos Aires. She often lectures on topics related to migration, memory and the Holocaust, which are frequent subjects of her work.
• ROSELL MESEGUER, a visual artist and researcher affiliated with Complutense University in Madrid. She is a recipient of the Extraordinary Doctorate Award in Fine Arts from UCM.
• NELA MILIĆ a research professor at the Buckinghamshire New University. She is also an artist and consultant with more than 25 years’ experience managing and executing projects with artists, academics, journalists and community groups.
• MICHALINA MUSIELAK, a Polish visual anthropologist, researcher and artist, currently a PhD candidate at the Centre for Research on Social Memory at the University of Warsaw.
• GRACE SCHWINDT an artist and researcher, affiliated with Goldsmiths University. In her astistic practice, she is working with sculpture, performance, film and drawing.
• FRANZISKA WINDOLF an interdisciplinary artist and researcher, whose work explores the performativity of sculptural and social bodies, often in collaborative settings.

Curators:

BRANISLAVA KUBUROVIĆ is a researcher, educator, and writer in the interdisciplinary fields of performance and visual culture. Her research focuses on art & memory, and on art and performance working with marginal histories, including histories of exile and migration. Her published texts engage with the practices of a number of contemporary artists, and the final writing in many cases results from various processes of collaboration with the artists themselves.

IRENA ŘEHOŘOVÁ is an assistant professor at Charles University in Prague, at the Department of Theory of Art and Artworks. Her research focuses on the intersections of memory, (audio)visual media and art. She published a monograph Film and Cultural Memory (2018), examining different representations of post-war expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia in Czech cinema. She has done research on the politics of curating access to audiovisual heritage in the Czech National Film Archive. Her published articles address the politics of memory, mainly in relation to the legacy of Communism in Central East Europe and Czech-German relations.

🗓 Plan Your Stay
Registration for the MSA 2025 conference is open until March 31st! We encourage participants to arrive early and book accommodation starting from Sunday, July 13, to make the most of the pre-conference events.

For more information and to register, visit: MSA Prague 2025