doc. Jana Migašová, Mgr., PhD.  /Assoc. prof./

• Associate professor (since 2022) and student's counselor at IAAC
• Office number: temporarily 306 /450 / 4th floor/;
• ORCID iD / https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2874-3928​

Scientific - pedagogic description of the faculty member / study programme guarantee

Office hours - WS 2026 / 2027: TBA

Speaks:

• English (advanced, B2)
• French (beginner, A2)

CV

• 1996-2000: Secondary grammar school of J. A. Rayman in Presov;
• 2003-2008: Double major study: Fine Art Education and Ethics (at Faculty of Humanities and Natural Sciences at University of Presov in Presov);
• 2004: Internship at Gallery of Saris (Sarisska galeria) in Presov;
• 2008-2009: Teacher of graphics and photography at Secondary school (Spojena skola, Ludmila Podjavorinska st., Presov);
• 2009-2013: PhD. study at Institute of Aesthetics, Art Sciences and Cultural Studies. Dissertation thesis: Naivete and banality in Slovak 20th Century Fine Art.
• 2012: Research scholarship (Spring term): Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague
• Since 2014: Research assistant at IAAC
• Since 2022: habilitation thesis defense and achieving assoc. prof. (docent) academic degree

Research field

Visual art - history, theory and aesthetics of visual art; Slovak visual art in modern and postmodern era, problems of modernity (kitsch, primitivism and banality) and contemporary visual art tendencies in Slovakia; curating visual art. 

Courses (lectures and seminars – according to a new accreditation programme)

• Bachelor’s degree
• Art History (I.-III.)
• Basic Problems of Fine Art Theory
• Preparatory Fine Art Seminar
• Slovak Fine Art (selected chapters)
• Chapters of Slovak culture (visual art)

Master’s degree

• 20th Century Visual Art
• Slovak Contemporary Visual Art
• Museum Education
• Visual Art Criticism

Major publications (selection):

Monographs:

Migašová, J. 2021. Čaro neučeného. Preferencia naivného, primitivistické tendencie a slovenské výtvarné umenie v období 1918-1972. Príspevok k slovenskej výtvarnej moderne. Prešov: Prešovská univerzita. 

Papers - selection:

MIGAŠOVÁ, Jana, 2024. Synecdoche and Visual Art: Jaroslav Honza Dubnický and His "Inconspicuous Project" of Slovak Art History [electronic document]. In: Conference Proceedings, V2, 2024.

MIGAŠOVÁ, Jana, 2024. Ethnic populism and bad taste: exploring the kitschification of Slovak folklore [electronic document]. In: Article, V3, 2024.

MIGAŠOVÁ, Jana, 2024. The Arabesque from Kant to Comics [print, electronic document]. In: Review - Art, 2024.

MIGAŠOVÁ, Jana, 2023. Art, Creativity and Community: Theoretical Reconstruction of the Educational Method of "Workshop" in Higher Education [electronic document]. In: Conference Proceedings, V2, 2023.

MIGAŠOVÁ, Jana, 2023. Oskár Čepan Award 2019 [print]. In: Contribution, V2, 2023.

MIGAŠOVÁ, Jana, 2023. Between west & east: historiographic approach and contemporary shifting discourses on kitsch in Central Europe [electronic document]. In: Article, V3, 2023.

MIGAŠOVÁ, Jana, 2023. Children's Book Illustration in Slovakia in the Context of Sociopolitical Changes (1932 – 1971): The Case of Fraňo Kráľ's Book, Čenkovej deti [electronic document, print]. In: Article, V3, 2023.

Migašová, J. 2018. Vplyv novej vecnosti na sociálno-kritické výtvarné umenie medzivojnového Slovenska [print] /Jana Migašová. In: Opuscula historiae artium [print]. Roč. 67, č. 1 (2018), s. 38-47. 

Migašová, J. 2019. Historiografický pohľad a interpretácia súčasného umeleckého a umelecko-teoretického diskurzu o fenoméne gýča = Historiographic approach and interpretation of the contemporary artistic and art-theoretic discourse of the kitsch phenomenon [elektronický dokument]. In: Jazyk a umenie pre deti a mládež v hodnotových a didaktických pohľadoch [elektronický dokument] : zborník príspevkov z vedeckej konferencie s medzinárodnou účasťou Premeny školy a učiteľské vzdelávanie v historickom kontexte a nové perspektívy, Prešov, 6.- 7. február 2019. Prešov : Prešovská univerzita v Prešove. 

Migašová, J. 2020. Black Mountain College Case: Transformation Trends in Art Education in the First Half of the 20th century. In: Espes. Journal of the faculty of Arts and Society for Aesthetics in Slovakia, 8/2, pp. 51-58.

Curatorial Projects and Exhibitions (Selection)

• Running exhibition. June, July, August 2026: Co-curatorship of an exhibition marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Regional Gallery in Prešov. Title of the curatorial section: The Eighties. https://krajskagaleria.sk/vystavy/70/
• 2026 – Between Gauguin and Regional Dialects of the Slovak Modern Painting: Modern Primitivisms. Regional Gallery in Prešov (January – March 2026). Head curator of the research and exhibition project.
• 2025 – Eduard Klena: He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not 2. Regional Gallery in Prešov (December 2025). Curator of the solo exhibition.
• 2022 – Per Spectrum '22 - Hommage á Gregorová. Regional Gallery in Prešov. Curator of the collective intermedia project reflecting art historical heritage.

Grant team leadership / Grant team membership

Running projects:

Grant team leadership (Principal Investigator):

• 2026 – 2028 – KEGA project (No. 023PU-4/2026): Modeling Professional Networks for the Aesthetics Study Program: Between Academic Training and Practice. Position: Project Leader / Principal Investigator.

Team member:

• COST / The European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) / CA22149 Research Network for Interdisciplinary Studies of Transhistorical Deliberative Democracy (CHANGECODE) Prof Darko Darovec, Institute IRRIS for Research, Development and Strategies of Society, Culture and Environment (Slovenia)      COST   (2023-2027)

• VEGA 1/0061/26 (2026 – 2028) Estetika umenia v storočí digitálnych technológií, rozšírenej reality a umelej inteligencie.

• KEGA (IFE – prof. Suvák) / 043PU-4/2026 / Modely filozofie ako spôsobu života

• ERASMUS+ KA171: 2023-1-SK01-KA171-HED-000137942 / International Credit Mobility PU, (2023-2026) + Kenyatta University (KU), Nairobi, Keňa

Past projects - selection:

• Team member: 2020 - 2022: Grantová agentura České republiky (GAČR): Ilustrace dětské knihy v kontextu nakladatelských záměrů a kulturních, ideologických i sociopolitických změn (1869–1969). Památník národního písemnictví, Praha.
• Team member: Music and dramatic art within 19th and 20th century aesthetic theory and aesthetic education in Slovakia, VEGA no. 1/0051/19
• Team leader: KEGA - 016PU-4/2018 Compendium Aestheticae: textbook edition for the aesthetics study programme. FINISHED AND EVALUATED: https://www.portalvs.sk/en/prehlad-projektov/kega/11376
• Team member: VEGA no. 1/0531/17 150 years of "the end of art"  in reflections and analysis of philosophical, aesthetic and art theories
• Team leader: Biele miesta: video - dialógy s výtvarnými umelcami východného Slovenska / GaPU 1/18/2012. Video-interviews with Eastern-Slovak Artists – available online: www.vonzcentra.eu
• Team member: “EMP-Maths” (European Music Portfolio - Math "Sounding Ways into Mathemetics" (graphic designer)
• Team member: VEGA project No. 1/0557/11 Dejiny estetického myslenia na Slovensku v rokoch 1890-1949 (History of aesthetic thinking of Slovakia in period 1890-1949).

Membership of associations, committees, editorial boards

• Member of International association of aesthetics / IAA
• Member of editorial board Umeni, kultura a výchova / Palackého university
• Member of editorial board of scientific journal ESPES - executive editor
• Member of association SPES (Association of Aesthetics) - main secretary

International cooperation and academic mobilities

• 25. 11. - 27. 11. 2025. Erasmus+ teaching. Wroclaw University. Department of Philosophy. Topic of series of lectures: Kitsch, trash, camp in the field of visual culture (Development of the notion of kitsch, literature review and key concepts, contemporary approaches)
• 19. 1. - 10. 2. 2025. Erasmus KA171: Kenyatta university, Nairobi Kenya. Teaching mobility. Number of hours taught to students in various programs (supplementary degree, master’s degree, PhD) by various instructors (Prof. Vikuru, Dr. Abati) – in the following subject areas: History of the European Museum Model, History of European Art, Iconography of European Art—Key Themes and Motifs; 3) a set of attended lectures on domestic and East African art; 4) a set of various types of data—notes, photographs, and videos.
• Erasmus+ Training Staff mobility: Roma Tre University, Dipartimento di Filosofia, Comunicazione e Spettacolo, July 5-9, 2021
• International workshop (in a cooperation with dr. Lisa Giombini, University of Roma Tre): Banal Tales: What Aesthetics Can Tell Us about Making Choices, November 26th, 2019, Faculty of Arts, University of Presov.
• Erasmus Training Staff Mobility: ESCOLA SUPERIOR DE EDUCAÇÃO / Porto / Portugal, April 2018.
• Erasmus + Teaching Staff Mobility: Jihočeská univerzita v Českých Budějovicích / Filozofická fakulta / Ústav věd o umění a kultuře. March 2016.
• Research scholarship (5 months): Vysoká škola uměleckoprůmyslová v Prahe, Czech Republic, Prague. 20.2. - 17.7.2012; tutor: PhDr. Pavla Pečinková, PhD. Platform: National scholarship fund SR.
• International workshop in Florence: 7.-14.2. 2010. Foreigners about Italy - Country, People, Art, Fashion (During Ages, Till Today). Organizátor: Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation. Occupation: tutor’s assistant.