October 2025

Dr Marta Filipová is Research Fellow at the Department of Art History at the Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, where she is the head of the Centre for Modern Art and Theory. She is the Principal Investigator of the project Beyond the Village: Folk Cultures as Agents of Modernity, 1918-1945, financed by the Czech Science Foundation. Before coming to Masaryk University in 2019, she earned her PhD at the University of Glasgow (2004) and worked as a lecturer and researcher in the United Kingdom (University of Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Nottingham Trent, Newcastle). Her main research interest is in the questions of forming identities in modern art and design, minority arts and the politics of display. Her latest publication is Czechoslovakia at the World’s Fairs. Behind the Façade (CEU Press, 2024), she also published Modernity, History and Politics in Czech Art (Routledge, 2020) and edited the volume Cultures of International Exhibitions 1840-1940. Great Exhibitions in the Margins (Ashgate, 2015). She is a member of the editorial board of the journal Art East/Central.