Mgr. art. Magdaléna Stanová, Ph.D.

Magda Stanová is an artist whose research-based practice results in visual essays and lecture shows. She smuggles performative lectures into academic conferences and a drawn theory of photography into photographic festivals. She looks into cognitive sciences for ideas about creative process and perception of art and combines them with the experience of an artist.She has authored two books—Algorithms in Art (2016) and In the Shadow of Photography (2022)—and is co-author of The Pedestrian’s Venice (2017). Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at EFA Project Space, New York; Angus Hughes Gallery, London; Školská 28, Prague; ThreeWalls, Chicago; Rencontres d’Arles, Arles; Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle; ZPAF i S-ka, Krakow; The Cross Art Projects, Sydney; and Shedhalle, Zurich.She holds an MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute, where she studied as a Fulbright scholar, an MFA in Photography from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, and a PhD in Fine Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where she now teaches doctoral-level classes related to artistic research (Artistic Thinking in Research, Group Consultations, and Research Catalogue Workshop).www.magdastanova.sk