Johana Lomová is an art historian whose professional expertise is directed at the relationships between applied and independent art and the systematic preconditions for artistic functioning (e.g., censorship, artists’ organizations before 1989 et al.). She was a participant in the project “Budování státu. Reprezentace Československa v umění, architektuře a designu” [Building the State. The Representation of Czechoslovakia in Art, Architecture and Design], 2015. She has published texts on the critic Jindřich Chalupecký and the applied arts (in: Jindřich Chalupecký, 2023), on the activities within the Union of Czechoslovak Fine Artists (in: Forms of Involvement, 2020), several articles on the textile artist Olga Karlíková (her PhD dissertation, 2015; “Pocta suknu” [Homage to Fabric], 2018, Olga Karlíková – Naslouchání [O. K. – Listening], 2020). She iso co-author of the UMPRUM anniversary exhibition (2018). Currently, her interests include among other topics applied-arts education in the second half of the 20th century in the framework of the project NAKI III “Sites of Creativity”, headed by Lada Hubatová-Vacková at UMPRUM. Previously an editor of the magazine Art+Antiques, she has taught at UMPRUM since 2013.
