David Bláha is an art historian and independent curator. He received a bachelor’s degree in art history from the Faculty of Arts at Charles University and a master’s degree from the department of Theory and History of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague. Subsequently, he completed postgraduate work at the same institution investigating the relationship between the fine-art photography of Miroslav Hák Miroslav Hák and his documentary activity for the Institute of Art Theory and History of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. Based on this research, Bláha realised an exhibition in the Window Gallery of the Academy of Sciences building and published a text in the journal Umění/Art. His texts on the theory and history of photography have appeared in the catalogue of the Humpolec exhibition Skrze sebe vidím tebe (Through Myself I See You, Anežka Kořínková and Kateřina Sýsová (eds.), 2022) and the artistic publication Teorém kamenné zahrady (Theorem of the Stone Garden, Matouš Lipus (ed.), 2023). He was a co-author of the exhibition on the relationship between photography and sculpture Objekt v objektivu (Object in the Lens, Museum and Gallery in Hořice, 2023), along with Filip Jakš. He has also published in the magazines Artalk.cz, Art Antiques, or Flash Art, and since 2022 has been the arts editor of the cultural biweekly A2. Currently, he is completing his PhD studies at VŠUP, investigating the oeuvre of professor Josef Kaplický alongside his pedagogic activity at the same institution after World War II.
