June 1, 2023, 5 pm Conference hall of the National Library (1st floor)

Michaela Pejčochová (貝米沙) graduated in Chinese Studies from the Charles University in Prague. She specializes in Chinese art, the theory of the arts in traditional China, and collecting Asian art in the West. She has been working as curator of the Chinese art collections at the National Gallery in Prague for the past 20 years and published its unique collection of modern Chinese ink paintings as Masters of the 20th-Century Chinese Ink Painting from the Collections of the National Gallery in Prague. In 2019, she has completed the monograph Emissary from the Far East. Vojtěch Chytil and the Collecting of Modern Chinese Painting in Interwar Czechoslovakia, where Chytil’s collection of Chinese, Japanese and Tibetan art is analyzed. Most recently, she published the study One Hundred Years of a Single Tree. Lubor Hájek and Institutional Collecting of Asian Art in Czechoslovakia, where the establishing of the Asian Collection at the National Gallery in Prague is described in detail. Besides these works, she published studies on ancient Chinese painting and theories of painting of the Song and Ming dynasties, and has been teaching both these subjects intermittently at the Charles University in Prague.