Anna Daučíková (born August 18, 1950) is Slovak visual artist and activist based in

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and

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. From 1999 to 2011 she was a professor at the

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and currently teaches at the

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. Daučíková is one of the first Slovak artists to openly identify as queer and engage with feminism.

Work

In the 1980s, after graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava, she moved to Moscow, working on automatic abstract paintings questioning the notion of authorship. She lived in the Soviet Union for 12 years during the period of

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. She did not exhibit her artwork publicly during this time . During this period she produced black-and-white photo series documenting certain aspects of late Soviet era daily life, for example ''Moscow/Women/Sunday'' (1989 – 1990), which documented Moscow women on the street. During this time she also produced photo series of drinking glasses on window-ledges, including ''Family Album'' (1990), first exhibited in 2017, in which the various compositions represent standard and nonstandard family structures. On her return to Bratislava in 1991 she co-founded the Slovakian feminist cultural journal ''Aspekt''. Throughout the 1990s she experimented with the representation of sexuality depicted in the medium of video, often combining video screenings with live performances. She has exhibited in a number of major international exhibitions, including Gender Check (2009–2010) at Mumok Vienna and

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National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, and

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(2017) in Athens and Kassel. In 2018 she was the winner of the Schering Stiftung Art Award and had a solo exhibition at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin.

References

External links

* TTT Debate
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* documenta 14: dayboo
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* Gandy Galler
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* Futura Pragu
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