Dr. Jana Švatnerová has joined the project team

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Jana Švantnerová has joined the Czechs and the Colonial World team!

Jana has extensive experience as curator and researcher working in museums in Slovakia, including the Slovak National Gallery, the Bratislava Jewish Community Museum and the Bratislava City Museum. Jana had led or co-curated numerous exhibitions, including: Fruits of Discord: Portraying the Ottoman Presence at the Slovak National Gallery (December 2024 – May 2025) and a 4-year project dedicated to the history and collection of the Prešov Jewish Museum (2018 – 2021) at the Bratislava Jewish Community Museum. Based on her online published article titled Seven Examples of Cultural Inclusion Art in early 2021, the project Inclusive Art and Culture was launched in the Slovak National Gallery focusing on socially engaged topics such as migration, climate crises and decolonisation. She is also the curator of the exhibition Životopisy ľudi a vecí / Biographies of People and Things at the Bratislava City Museum, which opened in May 2025 and continues until April 2026. It is an exhibition on the provenance research of non-European objects in the collections of the Museum and the present-day non-European collecting.