Anna-Marie Kroupova, BA MA

Anna-Marie Kroupova, BA MA

University assistant, prae-doc

Anna-Marie Kroupová is an art historian specializing in transcultural exchanges and political aspects of art in the Central European space. She holds an MA in Art History, where she received the Sir Ernst Gombrich Talent Award for the best MA thesis in 2021. In her MA dissertation, she uses the example of the Czech modernist group Mánes in the early twentieth century to highlight the close relationship between the rise of Czech modernist art movements and the emergence of Czech nationalism in the years leading up to the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Anna-Marie’s PhD project examines the activities, artistic production, and experiences of art students from the Global South who studied painting, sculpture, and graphic arts at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts after 1968. By critically employing a transcultural framework and conceptualizing the Academy as a “contact zone,” the project aims to deconstruct the binary paradigm of Czech art historiography between East-West and official-unofficial, while diversifying it with a multitude of previously marginalized voices.

In addition, she is a Research Associate at the Belvedere, Vienna, and co-founder and editor of the peer-reviewed Belvedere Research Journal, an international open-access e-journal dedicated to Central European visual culture in the broadest sense. She collaborated on research projects and exhibitions at major European and American cultural institutions, including MoMA, New York; Belvedere, Vienna; MAK, Vienna; and the National Gallery in Prague.