Mgr. Karel Císař, Ph.D.

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  • Education:
    • 2006 Ph.D., Philosophy, Charles University, Prague
    • 2001 D.E.S., Philosophy, University of Geneva, Geneva
    • 1998 Mgr., Philosophy, Charles University, Prague
  • Academic positions:
    • 2008- Assistant Professor, Art History and Aesthetics, The Academy of Art, Architecture and Design, Prague
    • 2000-2008 Lecturer, The Academy of Arts, Prague
    • 2000- Research Fellow, Institute of Philosophy, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague
  • Honors and Awards:
    • 2008 British Academy, London.
    • 2008 quartier 21, museumsquartier, Vienna.
    • 2007 Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, Directeur d´Etudes.
    • 2003 Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart.
    • 2001 International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York.

    Karel Císař specializes in the aesthetics, with an emphasis on theory of interpretation and theory of twentieth-century art and photography. Císař recently published extended studies on temporality of the avant-garde, archaeological turn and theories of appropriation. His shorter essays on contemporary art appeared at volumes published at Austria, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan and Poland. Císař has lectured widely, including recent and upcoming talks at Royal College of Art, London, Columbia College Chicago and the 99th Annual Conference of the College Art Association, New York.

  • Books:
    • Beckett: filosofie a literatura, (with P. Koťátko, edd.), Prague: Filosofia 2010.
    • Věci, o kterých s nikým nemluvím, Prague: Agite/Fra 2010.
    • Markéta Othová, (ed.), Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König 2009.
    • Co je to fotografie?, (ed.), Prague: Herrmann a synové 2004.
    • Text a dílo: případ Menard, (with P. Koťátko, edd.), Prague: Filosofia 2004.
  • Articles (selected):
    • "Esse est percipi: Film", in: Císař, K. and Koťátko, P.: Beckett: filosofie a literatura, Filosofia, Praha 2010, p. 117-125.
    • "A New Cartographer", in: Kenichi Kondo (ed.): MAM Project: Katerina Seda, Tokyo: Mori Art Museum 2010, pp. 67-72.
    • "K simulakrovému čtení díla Andyho Warhola", in: C. Říha, (ed.), Nefoťte mě před knihovnou, Prague: VŠUP 2009, pp. 109-114.
    • "Zeitkristalle", in: Císař, K. (ed.): Markéta Othová, Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König 2009, pp. 144-147.
    • "Archivy současného umění", in: S. Baborovská a K. Srp: Po sametu, Prague: GHMP 2009, pp. 8-12.
    • "Libovolný okamžik. K užití fotografické sekvence a série v současném českém umění", 65. Bulletin Moravské galerie, Brno: Moravská galerie 2009, pp. 108-115.
    • "Any-instant-whatever, On the use of photographic sequences and series in contemporary Czech Art", in: Karol Hordziej, Wojciech Nowicki (ed.), Photomonth in Krakow 2009, Foundation for Visual Arts, Krakow 2009, pp. 77-79.
    • "Poznámka k temporalitě avantgardy". Česká literatura. Vol. 56, č. 5 (2008), pp. 705-708.
    • "The Wealth of Poverty", in: Jan Šerých, tranzit, Prague 2008, pp. 10-14.
    • rev. on: Witkovsky, Matthew S., Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945. Umění. Vol. 56, n. 6 (2008).
    • "Antologie, archiv a historické a priori", in: Ševčík, J. et al. (ed.), (A)symetrické historie - zamlčené rámce a vytěsněné problémy. Prague: VVP, AVU, 2008, p. 212-222.
    • "Poznámka k temporalitě avantgardy". Česká literatura. Vol. 56, n. 5 (2008), p. 705-708.
    • "Two or three things, I know about her", in: L. Páldi (ed.), Markéta Othová: You don't know me, but I know you, Mücsarnok, Budapest 2007, pp. 4-16.
    • "Toward Minor Art", in: S. Cotter, A. Nairne, V. Pomery (ed.), Arrivals>Art from the New Europe, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford 2007, p. 106-107.
    • "East by Eastwest", in: A. Budak (ed.), Anxiety of Influences, Report Verlag, Bern 2004, pp. 76-80.
    • "Autor Proměny všednosti Arthur C. Danto", in: K. Císař a P. Koťátko, Text a dílo: případ Menard, (with P. Koťátko), Filosofia 2004, pp. 261-273.
    • "Filosofie, věda a exegeze v řeckých, arabských a latinských komentářích", Filosofický časopis, Vol. 50, 2002, 5, p. 883-885.
    • rev. on: David Sedley: Lucretius and the Transformation of Greek Wisdom, Filosofický časopis, Vol. 49, 2001, 5, p. 879-881.
    • "Epicurean Epistemology in Lucretius' De rerum natura IV 1-822", Listy filologické, Vol. CXXIV, 2001, 1-2, p. 1-54.
    • "A Note on Plato, Phaedrus 260A5", Mnemosyne: A Journal of Classical Studies, Series IV, Vol. LIII Fasc. 4, August 2000. p. 449-450.
    • "Pojetí pravé rétoriky v dialogu Faidros (259e1-266c9)", Reflexe: Filosofický časopis, 1998, 19, p. 5-1 - 5-26.
    • "Kniha, která nekončí", Filosofický časopis, Vol. 45, 1997, 4, p. 597-608.
  • Talks and conferences (selected):
    • 2011 Art Margins: Curatorial Practice in Eastern Europe Twenty Years after the Wall, 99th Annual Conference of the College Art Association, New York.
    • 2010 Art History on the Disciplinary Map in East-Central Europe, Moravian Gallery in Brno, Masaryk University and The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.
    • 2010 "50% Grey. Contemporary Czech Photography Reconsidered", MoCP, Columbia College Chicago.
    • 2009 "Any-instant-whatever", Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow.
    • 2009 "There are things I tell to no one", Institute of Art History, Jagiellonian University, Krakow.
    • 2008 "Archival turn in contemporary photography", Royal College of Art, Photography, London.
    • 2006 "Czech Photography in the Expanded Field", XXIV Oracle Prague, Prague.
    • 2006 A Place Called Home, Reg Vardy Gallery, University of Sunderland.
    • 2006 Pardon?, Photographers' Gallery, London.
    • 2006 Arrivals, Oxford Modern Art, Oxford.
    • 2006 The Multi-Faceted Curator, Goethe-Institute, ASEF, Jakarta and Bandung, Indonesia.
    • 2004 The Czech Contemporary Art Scene and European Cultural Politics, Artforum, Berlin.
    • 2004 Dispositiv Trigon, Kunsthaus Graz.
    • 2004 Geography of Changes, Kunstmuseum Bern.
    • 2003 Hand Made - Czech Video Art Now, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin.
    • 2002 Forum Art and Religion, Ecole national superieure des beaux arts, Paris.
  • Advising and affiliations
    • 2009- Moravian Gallery in Brno, member of the board of academic advisers.
    • 2009- Bulletin of the Moravian Gallery in Brno, member of the editorial board.
    • 2009-2011 - Strabag Artaward International, member of the jury.
    • 2009 Art Historical Scholarship in Central and Eastern Europe, The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, advisor.
    • 2007 Art Theory and Visual Culture, Agite/Fra, Series editor.
    • 2006 Michal Ranny Award, member of the jury.
    • 2006 Vitamin Ph, Phaidon Publishers, London, New York, nominator.
    • 2003- Allianz Kulturstiftung, alumnus.
    • 2000-2003 Ministry of Cultury of the Czech Republic, member of the grant commision.
    • 2000-2003 Umělec, contributing editor.
    • 1997-1998 Chalupecky Prize, member of the jury.
    • 1997- Revue Labyrint, senior editor.