TEREZA ŠPINKOVÁ

Resident October 2023

Tereza is a theorist, publicist and curator based in Prague, Czech Republic. After studying art theory at Academy of Art, Architecture and Design in Prague, she worked mainly for cultural and non-profit organizations.

As a curator, she has worked on art with environmental overlaps in public space and outside galleries.

Currently, she is pursuing her PhD at the Department of Environmental Studies at the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University in Brno, where she deals with the relationship between human and non-human entities and their (non)representation in contemporary art in the context of environmental theories, ethics, rights and nature protection. She is the editor and project manager of the Artyčok.TV platform, which deals with contemporary moving image.

She is also a member of the editorial board of Fotograf magazine and Flash Art magazine.

presentation of Tereza Špinková's work and  screening of the two proposed films: 

  • David Přílučík: Breed (2022), 33:57

  • Denisa Langrová: Elementary tendencies of comradeliness and relations (2021), 16:36

" Why look at animals? It is a short but inspiring essay by the British theorist John Berger, even after fifty years. I borrowed it for the title of the evening (and slightly altered it) at the Domus Artist Residency, where I will present two artists who explore our (human) relationship with animals. Animals are everywhere and nowhere at the same time - they shape our childhood, our relationship to nature, our culture. As real beings, however, they enter our lives somewhat differently - as meat, as leather for our shoes, as a pet, as a wild animal locked in a zoo. In my PhD research, I am concerned with artists who, through their work, create new narratives in which animals are not objects or background of human stories, but become subjects, actors. I continued this research during my residency in Italy.

On Thursday evening, I will show two Czech films that I have been working on. It is a film about Czechoslovakian wolfdogs by David Prilucik, which deals with their breeding and also their right to life and freedom. The second film is about our coexistence with cows by Denisa Langrova."