Veronika Rollová is an art historian and exhibition curator focusing on architecture and design from the second half of the 20th century. She studied art history at the Catholic Theological Faculty of Charles University and at UMPRUM, where she is currently teaching. Among her interests are the questions of international relations in the context of the applied arts involving the case of international ceramics symposiums and exhibitions. She is the author or editor of many publications, texts, and exhibition projects (esp. KONTAKT. Mezinárodní sympozium keramiky Bechyně 1966−2018 [The Bechyně International Ceramics Symposium], 2019; Budování státu. Reprezentace Československa v umění, architektuře a designu [Building the State. The Representation of Czechoslovakia in Art, Architecture and Design], 2015; Pražský hrad na cestě ke komunistické utopii Umění /(1948–1968) [Prague Castle on the Path to Communist Utopia], 2019). In 2018, she received honourable mention in the young authors’ award of the journal Umění/Art. From 2018 to 2022, she participated as team member and section guarantor for architecture after 1945 in the grant project Architecture and Czech Politics (NAKI II) at UMPRUM (principal investigators: Jindřich Vybíral, Cyril Říha) and within it published many texts – among others, the chapter “Today Is a Gift for You, Dedicate Yourselves to Tomorrow!” Prague Castle as a Space of the Transformation of Czechoslovak Society through Education, Technology and Leisure in the 1960s, included in The Caring State and Architecture: Sites of Education and Culture in Socialist Countries, eds. Jasna Galjer and Sanja Lončar (2021), and with Karolina Jirkalová edited the monograph The Future Is Hidden in the Present. Architecture and Czech Politics 1945–1989 (2021).
