Work
2019 – now Artistic Director INDUSTRA ART, Brno (CZ)
2023 – now Gallery and Exhibition Management Consultant
2020 / 2022 Project Officer (Czech partner), Modernism For the Future (MoFU 360/365), Kaunas European Capital of Culture 2022, (LT)
2018 / 2022 Researcher, Teacher Masaryk University (MUNI), Brno (CZ)
2016 / 2019 Curator Era gallery, Brno (CZ)
Studies
2018 / 2015 Master’s degree Visual Arts / Arts Education, MUNI, Brno (CZ)
2015 / 2012 Bachelor’s degree Visual Creative Works and Art with a view to Education, MUNI, Brno (CZ)
Selected Curatorial Projects
2023 ECHO OF THE DEPTH IN SPACE Lukasz Horbow (PL), Anna Bochkova (RU/DE), Robert Buček (CZ), Jan Valík (SK), Julie Hrnčířová (CZ), Jonas Vansteenkiste (BE), Thomas Jacques (BE), Anna König Vlk (CZ)
2022 TÍŽE Gabriel Bardon (CZ), Andrea Krnáčová (SK), Emma Štěpánová (CZ), Kateřina Šťastná (CZ), TEA (CZ)
2022 MoFU 360/365 Martynas Timinskas, Alexandru Creţu, Justinas Stonkus, Patris Židelevičius, Hugo Herrera Tobón, Adrian Carlo Bibiano, Andrius Stakel, Marius Pinigis, Tadas Stalyga, Rita Kundrotaitė , Arknas Periokas, Karolis Lasys, Rokas Mikaiknas (LT), Olha Kuzyura, Andrii Linik (UA), Ivana Kupková, Michal Trávníček, Josef Řehák, Karolína Strnadová, Karin Písaříková, Zuzana Bartošová, Andrea Uváčiková (CZ), Ingel Vaikla, Jonas Vansteenkiste, Erich Weiss, Malgorzata Maria Olchowska (BE), Shay Zilberman (IZ)
2020 / 2021 New Future, virtual/online worldwide exhibition, Jean Philippe Paumier (FR), Łukasz Horbow (PL), Teresa Leung (HK), Felipe Seixas Coelho (BR), Dorota Buczkowska (PL), Fernando Moletta (BR), Lauren Ruiz (US), Agnes Varnai (HU) + Tina Kult (DEU), Yana Bachynska (UA), Nikhil Nagaraj (IN) & Vishal Kumaraswamy (IN)
2020 Occulting Disk Tom K Kemp (UK/NL), Aaro Murphy (FI/NL), Susan Ploetz (US/DE)
2019 Fairy Tales Marta Krześlak (PL)
2019 Zone Kei Ichikawa (JP), Max tref (BY)
Led exhibitions in INDUSTRA ART gallery
2024
WORKING TRACES Johann Husser (DE), Olena Newkryta (UA/AT), Estefanía Landesmann (BR/DE),
Tereza Zelenková (CZ) (c) Daria Bona (DE), Julieta Pestarino (AR/DE)
33 Aleš Zapletal (CZ) (c) Jiří Ptáček (CZ)
BODY IS MY TEMPLE Jonas Vansteenkiste (BE) (c) Michal Trávníček (CZ)
2023
Soft Diagrams Play & Work Marc Busse (CH), Elena Corvaglia (CH), Rocco A. de Filippo (CH),
(Re)Productive Turn(s)⬎ Alina Kopytsia (UA/CH), Fabio Melone (CH), Katerina Sedy (CZ/CH), Dimitrina Sevova
⬑ running after its own tale (c) Rocco A. de Filippo, Dimitrina Sevova (BG/CH)
The Mourners Jerôme Chazeix (FR/DE)
GENEALOGY OF A SCAPEGOAT Mary Furniss (UK/SE), performance Jaana Kristiina Alakoski (SE)
The Chalk Walls Room Alina Panasenko (UA) (c) Barbora Kundračíková (CZ)
WORKERS OUT OF OFFICE DREAMING ABOUT WORK Filip Hauer (CZ) (c) Václav Janoščík (CZ)
Somnus Solutions Anna-Marie Berdychová, Samuel Stano, (CZ), Oliver Thorr (UK) (c) Eva Slabá (CZ)
Spawn Point AUSGANG studio (SK)
THE BIODEGRADABLE SPACE Aleksandra Przybysz, Tomasz Kawecki (PL)
2022
SPENCEY PALLAIS Spencer Chalk Levy (US/AT)
Ne!Patrnost Lenka Kerdová, Eliška Perglerová, Ladislav Železný(CZ), Desl Schnebe (AT) (c) Filip Jakš (CZ)
Modré světlo září i v INDUSTŘE Ka3ka3 (CZ)
DASHA+ZHANAR Daria Pugachova (UA), Zhanar Bereketova (RU)
BURNING RE-COLLECTION Robert Buček(CZ), Pavel Czekański (PL), Matěj Frank (CZ), Michał Staszczak (PL) (c) Barbora Kundračíková (CZ)
Má vlast Hynek Skoták (CZ) (c) Iris Kasper (AT)
2021
Digging History Bob Bicknell-Knight (UK) (c) Pita Arreola Burns, Elliot Burns (UK)
INVISIBLE WORKERS Julie Hrnčířová (CZ)
ŽENY Jana Svobodová, Tereza Štětinová, Lenka Chánová, Anna Wyrwová (CZ) (c) 3kurátorky
VILLA VÄINÖLÄ, ELOKUU Aurora Alcaide Ramírez (SP) (c) Isabel María Tejeda MARTÍN (SP)
Místo klidu bezpečí Jan Bražina, Adam Hejduk (CZ) (c) Kristýna Gajdošová (CZ)
The Room Agostino Bergamaschi (IT), Anna Chervonnaya (RU), Simon Hehemann (DEU), Valerie Habsburg (AT), Leyli Aslanova (RU)
Heiko Lietz (DEU), Ángela Jiménez Durán (SP), David Bartoš (CZ), Anna Bochkova (RU) (c) Anna Bochkova, David Bartoš
Anthropos Miroslav Pelák (SK), Martin Kačmarek (SK), Filip Nádvorník (CZ) (c) Lenka Polčová (CZ)
PRESCRIBED HAPPINESS VISUAL ARTS M.A – VŠUP (c) Conrad Eric Armstrong (KE/US/CZ)
2020
Phonetics of color Argišt Alaverdyan (AM), Bronislava Orlická, Šárka Pelikánová, Jakub Sýkora, Petra Švecová (CZ) (c) Petr Vaňous (CZ)
Bodyshots22 Jakub Ra (CZ), New Aliens Agency, PXS
Humain exhibition about Design, Humanities, Arts and Artificial Intelligence (c) team Humain
STILL ROOM Tomáš Moravanský (CZ) (c) INSTITUT INSTITUT
Unsayings Monica Mays (SP), Maria Nolla Mateos (SP)
What is being sought Lenka Zadražilová (CZ) (c) Břetislav Malý (CZ)
2019
BELOW ZERO Tymek Bryndal, Piotr Marzec, Agnieszka Mastalerz, Michał Szaranowicz, Weronika Wysocka (PL)
Lidská měřítka Markéta Adamcová, Hana Garová, Vojtěch Kovařík (CZ) (c) Dominik Gajarský (CZ)
Abstraktní realita a dočasná sousedství Ján Valík (SK) (c) Martina Ivičič (SK)
The Vanishing points to which we want to go are getting twisted and stale Jan Poupě (CZ) (c) Jozef Mrva jr. (CZ)
The Object, The Tool and I Peter Demek (SK) (c) Martin Vaněk (CZ)
Syntézy Luminance Zuzana Bartošová (CZ) exhibition for Museum Night
TILL THE END OF THE WORLD Maroš Kontroš (SK), Peter Maščák (SK) (c) Adam Macko (SK)
Solo exhibitions
2024 MINDPATTERNS / qr_space / Korunní 1250/46, Prague
2022 art.mindpattern / Basement gallery / Univerzitní 3, Olomouc
Group exhibitions
2023 ECHO OF THE DEPTH IN SPACE / Pragovka Gallery / Kolbenova 923/34a, Prague
2017 Ein-topf / Ars gallery / Veselá 39, Brno
2015 Dosypáno? / Sýpka gallery / Osová Bítýška, Vlkov
2015 Personal – Šimon Kříž & Anna Königová / Katakomby gallery / CED, Zelný trh 9, Brno
2014 Kennethovy děti / Černá linka gallery / KVV PdF MU, Poříčí 7, Brno
2013 Group Light / Černá linka gallery / KVV PdF MU, Poříčí 7, Brno
Residencies
2024 Artists without borders, Lviv, Kyiv (UA)
2023 Pragovka Gallery, Prague, (CZ)
2021/2022 Makaronka Gallery, Rostov on Don, (RU)
Awards
2017 The best Master thesis in department of (KVV PdF MU) – U Zdubů Award
Conferences, Talks, Articles
KÖNIGOVÁ, Anna. Přijmout sami sebe; S modelkami a modely z New Aliens Agency o umění a modelingu. Praha: A2 kulturní čtrnáctideník, 021. s. “15”, 32 s. Antihrdinové sv. 2. ISSN 1803-6635.
KÖNIGOVÁ, Anna. The Value of Activism is Elsewhere, in the Natural Presentation of Life. online. Warsaw, Poland: BLOK Foundation, 2020. ISSN 2719-4973. link
KÖNIGOVÁ, Anna. Contemporary Art for the Chosen Ones only? Post-concept in Space, Why and How to Perceive It. In Art as a Research, Research as an Art. Brno: Masarykova Univerzita, 2020. doi:10.5817/CZ.MUNI.P210-9779-2020-6.
WILLERTHOVÁ, Petra a Anna KÖNIGOVÁ. Galerie Industra Art: Below Zero (Anna Königová). In UMA Audioguide. 2020. link
KÖNIGOVÁ, Anna & Šimon KŘÍŽ. The Art of Reading Art : Communication Aspects of Contemporary Art. In Fourteenth International Conference The Arts in Society, Lisbon 2019. 2019.
Seminart, Brno Curators: Guardians of the Art World, curatorial talk, 2019
KÖNIGOVÁ, Anna & Šimon KŘÍŽ. Doctoral Conference KKVV, Brno How to make art not just for the elected?. 2019.
STEHLÍKOVÁ BABYRÁDOVÁ, Hana, Petr KAMENICKÝ, Jana OVČÁČKOVÁ, Jana NEDOMOVÁ, Šimon KŘÍŽ a Anna KÖNIGOVÁ. Thesis 2018. 2018.
Licenses and certificates
2019 Art and Activity: Interactive Strategies for Engaging with Art, MoMA
2018 Art and Ideas: Teaching with Themes, MoMA