Completed master's studies at the Department of Art History of Comenius University in Bratislava, doctoral studies at the Department of History of Art and Culture at Trnava University in Trnava, and dissertation studies at the Department of Theory and History of Art at Masaryk University in Brno. Held fellowships at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Piadeia – The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Stockholm, and the Cultural Heritage Preservation and Development Programme at Academia Istropolitana Nova in Svätý Jur. Received study and research grants from The Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture and The Rothschild foundation (Hanadiv) Europe. Between 2007 and 2012 worked at the Slovak Centre of Jewish Cultural Heritage. Since 2012 works at the SNG and at the Jewish Community Museum in Bratislava. Since 2023 is also curator for provenance research at the Bratislava City Museum.
In 2013, as part of cooperation between the SNG and the Jewish Community Museum, prepared an exhibition-editorial project Shadow of the Past focused on the nationalisation of art objects from Jewish assets under the Slovak state. Focused on portrait and genre painting of the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries in the context of the work of the painter Leopold Horovitz, producing his retrospective exhibition as a collaboration between SNG and the East Slovak Museum in Košice in 2017. At the SNG, collaborated on the exhibition-editorial projects Interrupted Song (2012), Biedermeier (2015), Preserving the World (2016), and Dream × Reality (2016). In 2021, initiated with Mgr. Marcela Kvetková the socially engaged project Inclusive Art and Culture aimed at thematising and making visible sensitive contemporary issues through fine arts. Currently engaged in mapping artistic production of non-European cultures in Slovak collections, provenance research, Judaica collecting, and research of Jewish ritual objects.
Exhibitions
Design Unpacked (SNG Bratislava, 2024, with Viera Kleinová)
Visiting Dušan Jurkovič (SNG – Zvolen Castle, 2023, with Viera Kleinová and Denis Haberland)
In the Shop Display: Josef Carl Klinkosch (SNG Bratislava, 2022–2023)
Leopold Horovitz:Lost – Found (East Slovak Museum, Košice, 2017–2018)
Biedermeier (SNG Bratislava, 2015, with Katarína Beňová and Silvia Senesi Lutherová)
Shadow of the Past (Jewish Community Museum, 2013)
Contact
jana.svantnerova@sng.sk
02-20476109
