Name and surname: Denisa Šťastná
Degree: Ph.D., Mgr.
Department: Collections and Archive Department
Email: denisa.stastna@idu.cz
Telephone: +420 226 522 079, +420 605 412 819
Denisa Šťastná is a theatre researcher specializing in scenography, theatre photography, and archive. Since 2009 she has been the head of the Collections and Archive Department. She is also engaged in editing.
Education
2003, Master’s Degree, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University in Olomouc (Department of Theatre and Film Studies)
2017, Ph.D., Faculty of Arts and Philosophy (Institute of Historical Sciences)
Professional résumé
2006 – 2009 Information and Documentation Department, curator
2009 – present, head of the Collections and Archive Department, curator
Specialization and research
2014 - present – head of the book series Personalities of Czech Scenography (Josef Jelínek, Jan Vančura Irena Greifová, Iva Němcová, Karel Glogr, and others)
2017 – editor of the monograph VIKTOR KRONBAUER – THEATRE PHOTOGRAPHY, Theatre Newspaper Award for the Book of the Year
2018 – editor of the monograph KAREL GLOGR
2018, 2020 – coordinator of the Theatre Photography Showcase
2008 – present – curator and organizer of exhibitions (To Break the Space /Mapping the Boundary Design, Transformations: Theatre Designers at the Turn of the Millennium, When Theatre Posters Were Art; chamber monograph exhibitions: Jan Vančura, Irena Marečková, Marta Roszkopfová, Luboš Hrůza, Viktor Kronbauer, and others).
Conferences
2003 – International Theatre Studies Conference “About Theatre in Moravia and Silesia” in Olomouc
2010 –SIBMAS conference – Connecting Points: Performing Arts Collections uniting past and future), presentation of the ATI Scenographic Collection.