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Bc. MgA. Anna Luňáková, Ph.D.
Anna Luňáková (b. 1993) is an interdisciplinary artists based in literature.
She has been working since 2020 as a freelancer in many fields, especially in media as a literary editor and cultural event organizer at Czech literature and social magazine Revue Prostor. In recent years, she has also worked as a radio host on the programme ArtCafé and as a reviewer on Mozaika for Czech Radio Vltava and has published dozens of articles in Czech and Slovak periodicals (including A2, Tvar, and Glosolalia).
She regularly collaborates as a dramaturge and sound designer with the South Bohemian theatre Theatre Continuo. As part of the interdisciplinary collective HERONS VECTOR, she creates sound poetry, performances and moving image works together with Jakub Štourač. She co-founded cabaret group „Nothing is a problem here“ to organize happenings and performances.
Since January 2023, she has served as Chair of the Czech Writers’ Association.
She enjoys engaging with critical thinking in practice, and in any artistic or social field.
Born on 29 November 1993 in Jičín, Czech Republic
Contact: annalunakova@seznam.cz
Languages: English (C1), French (C1), Portuguese (A2), Japanese (JLPT N5)
EDUCATION
2020–2025, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Institute of Romance Studies, Doctoral Programme. Dissertation topic: Exile poetry of the lost Czech poet Jiří Volf (Ph.D.)
2016–2019, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (DAMU), Acting with a focus on authorial creation and pedagogy (MgA.)
2012–2016, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Institute of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Philosophy (Bc.)
2012 – 2013 LLL programme, Introduction to Czech Law – Legal Basics, Charles University
Conferences
Image Rémanente, 27 August 2023, Krahule, Slovakia. XXXIe Summer University of the Jan Hus Association
Comment raconter la vie ? La métabiographie comme possibilité pour l’écriture académique, 25 November 2022, Olomouc, Czech Republic. Challenges of Romance Studies in the Third Decade of the 21st Century
Melancholy in Thought and Artistic Practice, 8 July 2021
Problèmes numériques et concepts de présence, virtualité et actualité dans la philosophie française contemporaine, Francophone Doctoral Colloquium Les sciences humaines et sociales à l’heure du numérique : qui est le peuple, 18–19 March 2021
Awards & nominations
2025 – The Most Beautiful Czech Books of 2024 – 3rd place, student projects
2024 – Academy of Fine Arts Prague – rector price
2024 – The Most Beautiful Czech Books of 2023 – nomination
2023 – Print of the year – nomination, part of group exhibition
Study and Artistic Residencies / Fellowships
International Visegrad Fund, 01 September 2023 – 30 November 2023, Budapest, Hungary
ERASMUS+, 13 March 2023 – 23 March 2023, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
ERASMUS+, 23 January 2023 – 10 February 2023, Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès, France
Barrande Fellowship Programme, study residency within the short-term Cotutelle programme, Paris, 11 October 2021 – 11 November 2021, Centre for Central European Studies, Department of Slavic Studies, Faculty of Letters, Sorbonne Université (Centre Malesherbes), France
ERASMUS+, professional traineeship under the auspices of the art collective Honey and Dust, Athens, Greece
ERASMUS+, study residency at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, Lisbon, Portugal
ERASMUS+, philosophical study residency at Université Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France
Three-month language residency, Nagoya, Japan, Autumn 2012, completed with a language proficiency examination
BOOK PUBLICATIONS
Atlas of Grandmothers, Viriditas, 2022 (As audiobook in 2025.)
Pandetry, Association for Publishing Revue Prostor, 2021 (editor).
I Will Only Lose My Name, Malvern, 2020.
Three!, Dauphin, 2020.
Collaboration on sound design and music for theater projects
Cracks (2025) – Continuo Theatre (CZ).
Closing Time (2024) – Continuo Theatre (CZ).
For now, until then, forever (2024)
Carriers Ltd. (2023) – Kateřina Šobáňová (CZ), Stefan Bütschi (CH), Continuo Theatre (CZ).
Layers (2023)
Screenings
2024 – Serbest International Film Festival (SIFF) – semi-finalist
2024 – Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival – award winner
2023 – Marienbad Film Festival – main selection
Authorial Theatre & performing
Sensus Communis (2024) – Continuo Theatre (CZ)
“Andrej Talks to the Universe” at the NextWave 2022 Festival
Ich wünsche Dir GLÜCK, tu einen neuen Gang AUF (2021)
Christmas Plum Yard 2021 – LINK
Video essay Eavesdropping, 2020 – LINK
In the Belly of the Whale (2019)
Distaff, original monodrama. Premiere: 3 June 2019; first reprise: 29 August 2019 at the International Festival de Teatro de Setúbal, Portugal
Élévation, original play. Premiere: 4 July 2018, Casablanca, Morocco, Festival of University Theatres FITUC (direction, production, performance)
The White Disease by Karel Čapek, dramaturg. Premiere: 5 July 2018, former hospital in Terezín (director: Ladislav Karda)
Bohemia, original play. Premiere: 3 February 2018 at the Czech Centre in Paris (direction, production). Subsequent performances at the LE FIL Festival in Besançon, DAMU (Prague), and the Audimafor Festival in Hradec Králové
GAVU – Baby Don’t Hurt Me, exhibition and performance project: Eros and Psyche (ritual of magical socialism) and The Body (performance as part of the exhibition opening), Spring 2017.
Co-founder of the artistic platform Nothing Is a Problem Here; organization and curation of travelling cabaret performances (themes included Oscar Wilde, Anton Chekhov, the Beat Generation, Dada, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Božena Němcová, among others)