meno.priezvisko@sng.sk
meno.priezvisko@sng.sk
Jana Švantnerová
She earned her master's degree from the Department of History of Visual Arts at Comenius University in Bratislava. She also studied at the Department of History of Art and Culture at Trnava University in Trnava and currently she is finishing her PhD study at the Department Theory and History of Arts at the Faculty of Arts at Masaryk University in Brno.
She worked at the Slovak Jewish Heritage Centre and since 2012 she is the curator of the Judaica Collection at the Jewish Community Museum in Bratislava and the co-author of its permanent exhibit.
Currently she also works as the assistant of the Collection of Arts and Crafts Collection at the Slovak National Gallery. In 2013 she has prepared in cooperation with the Slovak National Gallery and the Jewish Community Museum the exhibition Shadow of the Past. Her focus is on portrait and genre painting from the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century in the context of Leopold Horovitz's work and nationalisation of art object from Jewish property during the Slovak State.
Currently she is doing research on Jewish ritual objects, Judaica collections and mapping artistic production of non-European cultures in Slovak collections. Her work is published in magazines ARS and the Slovak National Gallery Yearbook.