Mgr. Hana Buddeus, Ph.D.

Researcher and head of the Department of Art of the 19th-21st Centuries, member of the CVF - Photography Research Centre

Hana Buddeus studied Art History and French at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague (MA) and Art Theory and History at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (Ph.D.). She has been working at the IAH CAS since 2016. She is currently a research fellow in the project The matrix of Photomechanical Reproductions: Histories of Remote Access to Art. From 2016 to 2020, she took part in the five-year Sudek Project focusing on Josef Sudek and his photographs of artworks (WEB). She edited Sudek and Scuplture (2020) and Instant Presence: Representing Art in Photography (ed. with Vojtěch Lahoda and Katarína Mašterová, 2017). In 2018 she received the Josef Krása Award for her dissertation published under the title Zobrazení bez reprodukce? Fotografie a performance v českém umění 70. let 20. století [Representation without Reproduction? Photography and Performance in Czech Art of the 1970s]. She participated in the international projects Confrontations: Sessions in East European History (Getty Connecting Art Histories, 2019–2022) and Resonances: Regional and Transregional Cultural Transfer in the Art of the 1970s (Visegrad Fund – Strategic Grants, 2021–2024). She served as a member of the Committee (2020–2023) and Vice-Chair of the Czech Association of Art Historians (2023–2026). As a curator, she occasionally focuses on contemporary art, she led the AMU Gallery in Prague (2013–2015), was a member of the Fotograf Gallery curatorial team (2021–2022), the editorial board of Fotograf magazine (2013–2022) and participated in the curatorial concept of several editions of the festival of the same name (2013–2015). As a guest curator at the Center for Contemporary Art Prague, she co-curated the four-part exhibition series Dialogues on Art Reproductions (2026) with Zbyněk Baladrán, Meghan Forbes, and Adéla Svobodová.

Research outputs (selection):

Camilla Balbi – Hana Buddeus, “Vernetzte bilder. Aenne Biermann und der Lette Verein in tschechischen und deutschen Zeitschriften”, Fotogeschichte, no. 181, 2026, pp. 7–17.

Hana Buddeus, “Josef Sudek: Collecting Art through Photographing for Friends”, Studi di Memofonte, numero speciale II, 2026, pp. 437–450.

Hana Buddeus, “’A Beautiful, Exquisite Gift.’ Calendars by DP (1931–1944)”, in: Joseph Immorde – Mirja Beck – Franziska Lampe (eds.), Kunstgeschichte als Geschenk, Weimar: VDG Weimar, 2025, pp. 115–134.

Hana Buddeus,"V. V. Štech a fotografie", in: Milena Bartlová (ed.), Dějiny umění jsou uměním. Život, dílo a působení Václava Viléma Štecha, Praha: UMPRUM 2025, pp. 137–157.

Hana Buddeus, “Photography: The Lingua Franca of Performance Art”, Art Margins Online, [Special Issue “Regional Resonances: In Search of the Transnational in Central East European Art of the 1970s” edited by: Zsuzsa László]. Available online at https://artmargins.com/photography-the-lingua- franca-of-performance-art/. Published on March 14, 2024.

Hana Buddeus – Mariana Kubištová, „Sedící dívka. Umění v bytě“, in: Kateřina Piorecká – Marie Brunová – Lukáš Holeček – Martin Lukáš (eds.), Gesto a skutečnost (Umění v meziválečném Československu, vol. 1. Obyčejný život), Praha: Academia 2024, pp. 423–432.

Hana Buddeus, “Za kulturní dějiny fotografie”, introduction to: Lucia Moholy, Sto let fotografie, Prague: Kunstalle Praha 2024, pp. 5–17.

Hana Buddeus, “Longing for the Unknown: Lucia Moholy’s Prague Origins”, in: Jordan Troeller (ed.), Lucia Moholy: Exposures, Prague: Kunsthalle Praha / Hatje Kantz 2024, pp. 72–89.

Hana Buddeus, Enlarged Details and Close-up Views. Art Reproduction in 1930s Czechoslovakia, Artium Quaestiones, vol. 33, 2022, pp. 61–86.

Hana Buddeus, Sudeks Gärten im Sozialismus, in: Philipp Freytag (ed.), Zwischen Avantgarde und Repression. Tschechische Fotografie (1948–1968), exh. cat., Dresden: Sandstein 2022, pp. 96–105.

Hana Buddeus (ed.), Sudek and Sculpture, Praha: Artefactum 2020.

Hana Buddeus, “The Photographic Conditions of the Happening”, in: Milena Bartlová et al., The Sešit Reader. The First Ten Years of Notebook for Art, Theory and Related Zones 2007–2017, Prague: AVU, 2020, pp. 228–245.

Hana Buddeus, Storing and/or Sharing: the Negative in the Commercial Work of Josef Sudek, Umění / Art LXVI, 2018, No. 5, pp. 388–399.

Hana Buddeus, Zobrazení bez reprodukce? Fotografie a performance v českém umění semdesátých let 20. století, Praha 2017.

Hana Buddeus – Katarína Mašterová – Vojtěch Lahoda (edd.), Instant Presence. Representing Art in Photography, Praha 2017.

Hana Buddeus, 3 Poznámky k funkci dokumentace v době normalizace, in: Jan Krtička – Jan Prošek (edd.), Dokumentace umění, Ústí nad Labem 2013, pp. 67–79.

Current projects:

The Matrix of Photomechanical Reproductions: Histories of Remote Access to Art