Martina Pachmanová is an art historian and curator. She is affiliated with the Department of Art Theory and History at UMPRUM. She studied art history at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University and received a Fulbright fellowship to Harvard. As a guest lecturer, she has had positions at several international universities (including the Prague branch of New York University, Brown University, etc.), Her research and curatorial work focuses primarily on issues of gender and feminism in interwar and contemporary art and visual culture, including design. In parallel, she has maintained a long (if sporadic) interest in the history and theory of design, including artistic schooling (viz e.g. Lada Hubatová-Vacková – Martina Pachmanová – Jitka Ressová, eds., Zlínská umprumka, 1959–2011: Od průmyslového výtvarnictví po design [The Zlín Academy 1959-2011: From Industrial Art to Design] Praha 2013; Lada Hubatová-Vacková – Martina Pachmanová – Pavla Pečinková, eds., Věci a slova: Umělecký průmysl, užité umění a design v české teorii a kritice, 1870–1970 [Things and Words. Artistic Crafts, Applied Arts and Design in Czech Theory and Criticism], Praha 2014). She is the editor or co-editor of many books and exhibition catalogues. She is also the author of several dozen journal articles and several books: Věrnost v pohybu: Hovory o feminismu, dějinách a vizualitě [Faithfulness in Motion: Conversations about Feminism, History, and Visuality], Praha 2001; Neznámá území českého moderního umění: Pod lupou genderu [Unknown Terrains in Czech Modern Art: Through the Magnifying Glass of Gender], Praha 2004; Zrození umělkyně z pěny limonády: Genderové kontexty moderní české teorie a kritiky umění [The Birth of the Woman Artist from Soft-Drink Foam: Gender Contexts of Modern Czech Theory and Art Criticism], Praha 2013 – for the last-mentioned publication, receiving the F. X. Šalda Prize. In 2021, she published an accompanying work to the exhibition of the same name at the Moravian Gallery in Brno: Civilized Woman: Ideal and Paradox in the Visual Culture of the First Republic (Praha 2021), which was nominated for the Magnesia Litera Prize. Alongside monographs on current Czech women artists, including such figures as Milena Dopitová or Erika Bornová, she has also published several works on unjustly overlooked interwar women artists to accompany their retrospective exhibitions: Milada Marešová: Malířka nové věcnosti ([The Painter of a New Objectivity], Praha: Argo – Brno: Moravská galerie v Brně 2008); Madame Gali: Expresionistické dílo Marie Galimberti-Provázkové ([The Expressionist Oeuvre of M. G.-P.], Řevnice: Arbor vitae – Plzeň: Západočeská galerie v Plzni 2011); Vlasta Vostřebalová Fischerová: Mezi sociálním uměním a magickým realismem ([Between Social Art and Magical Realism], Řevnice: Arbor Vitae – Brno: Moravská galerie v Brně 2013, with Michala Frank Barnová); Věra Jičínská (Hradec Králové: Galerie moderního umění 2023).
