Michal Koleček
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Prof. Mgr. Michal Koleček, Ph.D. (b. 1966, Liberec) is an art historian and curator, and a professor at the Faculty of Art and Design of Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem. He founded and leads the master’s program in Curatorial Studies. From 1993 to 2000 he was director of Galerie Emila Filly in Ústí nad Labem, and he has worked as a curator at the Center for Contemporary Art – Prague, Galerie Václava Špály and the Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art of the National Gallery in Prague. In 2003 he curated the Czech and Slovak Pavilion at the 50th Venice Biennale. Since 2016 he has been director and chief curator of Dům umění (House of Art) in Ústí nad Labem.