DOCUMENT
Name and surname doc. Mgr. Daniel Grúň, PhD.
Document type: Research/art/teacher profile of a person
The name of the university Academy of Fine Arts and Design Bratislava
The seat of the university Hviezdoslavovo námestie 18, 814 37 Bratislava

I. - Basic information

I.1 - Surname
Grúň
I.2 - Name
Daniel
I.3 - Degrees
PhD. doc.
I.4 - Year of birth
1977
I.5 - Name of the workplace
Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava
I.6 - Address of the workplace
Hviezdoslavovo nám. 18 Bratislava
I.7 - Position
assoc. prof.
I.8 - E-mail address
grun@vsvu.sk
I.9 - Hyperlink to the entry of a person in the Register of university staff
https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/11741
I.10 - Name of the study field in which a person works at the university
Studies in Theory and History of Art and Culture, Visual Arts
I.11 - ORCID iD
0000-0002-4081-7360

II. - Higher education and further qualification growth

II.1 - First degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Trnava University in Trnava
II.b - Year
2001
II.c - Study field and programme
History of Art and Culture
II.2 - Second degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Trnava University in Trnava
II.b - Year
2003
II.c - Study field and programme
History of Art and Culture
II.3 - Third degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava
II.b - Year
2009
II.c - Study field and programme
Theory and History of Art
II.4 - Associate professor
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague
II.b - Year
2017
II.c - Study field and programme
Theory and History of Modern and Contemporary Art
II.5 - Professor
II.6 - Doctor of Science (DrSc.)

III. - Current and previous employment

III.a - Occupation-position III.b - Institution III.c - Duration
researcher Institute of Art History, Centre of Art Sciences of the Slovak Academy of Sciences 2019 - 2022

IV. - Development of pedagogical, professional, language, digital and other skills

IV.a - Activity description, course name, other IV.b - Name of the institution IV.c - Year
Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English Cambridge University, British Council Bratislava 2009

V. - Overview of activities within the teaching career at the university

V.1 - Overview of the profile courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes
V.1.a - Name of the profile course V.1.b - Study programme V.1.c - Degree V.1.d - Field of study
Interpretational Frameworks of Contemporary Art I, II, III Visual Arts, History and Practice of Contemporary Art 2nd (Master) Art, Theory and History of Art and Culture
Curatorial studies I, II History and Practice of Contemporary Art 2nd (Master) Theory and History of Art and Culture
Criticism and theory of modern and contemporary art I, II History and Practice of Contemporary Art 2nd (Master) Theory and History of Art and Culture
Problems of Art Media (sculptur - intermedia) Intermedia 1st (Bachelor) Art
Analysis of Image (sculptur - intermedia) Intermedia 1st (Bachelor) Art
V.2 - Overview of the responsibility for the delivery, development and quality assurance of the study programme or its part at the university in the current academic year
V.2.a - Name of the study programme V.2.b - Degree V.2.c - Field of study
History and Practice of Contemporary Art 2nd (Master) Theory and History of Art and Culture
Intermedia 1st (Bachelor) Art
History and theory of visual arts and architecture Doctoral's degree Theory and History of Art and Culture
V.4 - Overview of supervised final theses
V.4.1 - Number of currently supervised theses
V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)
5
V.4.c - Dissertation (third degree)
4
V.4.2 - Number of defended theses
V.5 - Overview of other courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes
V.5.a - Name of the course V.5.b - Study programme V.5.c - Degree V.5.d - Field of study
Realization of the curatorial project History and Practice of Contemporary Art 2nd (Master) Theory and History of Art and Culture
Methodology of writing the written part of the dissertation Fine arts Doctoral's degree Art
Introductory course I, II for all study programs 1st (Bachelor) Art
Selected Chapters from Modern and Contemporary Visual Art for all study programs 1st (Bachelor) 2nd (Master) Art
Methodology of writing a dissertation History and theory of visual arts and architecture Doctoral's degree Theory and History of Art and Culture

VI. - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs

VI.1 - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs and the corresponding citations
VI.1.1 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs
VI.1.a - Overall
27
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
15
VI.1.2 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
2
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
2
VI.1.3 - Number of citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs
VI.1.a - Overall
56
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
35
VI.1.4 - Number of citations registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.5 - Number of invited lectures at the international, national level
VI.1.a - Overall
33
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
18
VI.2 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs
1.

The archaeology of art criticism. Slovak Art of the 1960s and its Interpretations. Slovart - Vysoká škola výtvarných umení v

Bratislave, Bratislava 2009.


2.

The Case of Milan Adamčiak. Visual Music between the Acoustic Process, Performance, and the Autonomous Sphere of Writing. In:

Urška Jurman, Christiane Erharter, Rawley Grau (eds.): Extending the Dialogue, Archive Books, Berlin, 2016, 189-209.

3.

Július Koller One Man Anti Show, Daniel Grúň, Kathrin Rhomberg, Georg Schöllhammer (eds.), Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König,

Köln - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, 2016.

4.

Visual Culture Studies and Post-Communist Identity? Exploring the image in the context of social transformation. World Literature

Studies. Časopis pre výskum svetovej literatúry. Vol. 2, No. 19, 2010, s. 70-81.

5.

The Cosmos of the Slovak Neoavantgarde between Utopia, Fiction and Politics. IN: Jürgen Danyel, Jennifer Schevardo, Stephan

Kruhl (eds): Crossing 68/89. Metropol Verlag, Berlin, 2008, 136-155.

VI.3 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs over the last six years
1.

White Space in White Space, 1973−1982. Stano Filko, Miloš Laky, Ján Zavarský. Eds. Daniel Grúň, Christian Höller, Kathrin Rhomberg. Vienna: SCHLEBRÜGGE.EDITOR, 2021.

2.

Subjective Histories. Self-historicisation as Artistic Practice in Central-East Europe. Ed. Daniel Grúň. Bratislava : Veda, 2020

3.

Tomáš Štrauss: Beyond the Great Divide – Essays on European avant gardes from East to West, eds. Daniel Grúň, Henry Meyric

Hughes, Jean-Marc Poinsot, Les presses du réel, AICA International, 2020.

4.

A Guide to Ganek Gallery: The Archive of Július Koller’s Fictive Institution. In: Art and Theory of Post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe:

A Critical Anthology. Eds: Ana Janevski, Roxana Marcoci, Ksenia Nouril. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2018, 154-161.

5.

Amateurism Under Socialism. The Politics of Art Education in the Work of Milan Adamčiak, Július Koller and Jiří Valoch. In: Third Text,

Actually Existing Artworlds of Socialism, 32/4, 2018, 434-449.

VI.4 - The most significant citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs
1.

Re: Archaeology of art criticism. Slovak Art of the Sixties and its Interpretations. Slovart - Academy of Fine Arts in

Bratislava, Bratislava 2009. ISBN 978-80-80-8085-980-0.

Hrabušický, Aurel: Introduction to the Work of Julius Koller. The Sixties. In, Hanáková- Hrabušický, A.: Science Fiction Retrospective. Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava 2010, p. 119.

Vydra, Anton: Academic Writing. How a philosophical text is created. Philosophical Faculty of TU and Schola Philosophica, Trnava, 2010, p. 135.

Ján Kralovič: What is Action? Models The Art of Action. In: JURIKOVÁ, E., TKÁČIK, L. (eds.): Studia doctoralia tyrnaviensia. Kraków: Towarzystwo Slowaków w Polsce 2011, p. 188.

Kančevová, N.: Daniel Grúň: The Archaeology of Art Criticism. In: Flash Art CZ/SK, Vol. 5, No. 15, 2010, p. 10 (review).

Hamada, M.: Daniel Grúň: The archaeology of art criticism. Slovak Art of the Sixties and its Interpretations. World Literature Studies. A Journal for World Literature Research. Vol. 2, No. 19, 2010, pp. 84-86 (review).

2.

Ad: Daniel Grun: Pantheon (heroes and anti-heroes). Catalogue of the exhibition. Gallery Medium, Academy of Fine Arts, Bratislava, 2006

Hushegyi, Gábor: Activism or Courtly Art of Conformism? Profil 1/2006, XIII, pp. 56-71 Kukurová, Lenka: Pantheon - several

Heroic interventions in monumental art. Vlna 27/2006, pp. 97-101 Gregor, Richard: Monument. Dart 20 (3/2006), VII, pp. 4-5. Piotrowski,

Piotr: Agoraphilia. Art and Democracy in Post-Communist Europe. Rebis, Poznan, 2010, p. 173.

VI.5 - Participation in conducting (leading) the most important research projects or art projects over the last six years
1.

Július Koller One Man Anti Show, Vienna, mumok, Bolzano, Museion, 2016 - 2017

2.

Central European University, Open Society Archives, Budapest, 2017

3.

PATTERNS Lectures, W.U.S. Austria, 2018 - 2021

4.

Creation and Critique of Values in Contemporary Arts - Theatre, Film and Visual Arts, The Art Research Centre, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovak Research and Development Agency, 2020 - 2024

5.

Islands of Kinship, Creative Europe, The Július Koller Society, 2022 - 2024

VII. - Overview of organizational experience related to higher education and research/artistic/other activities

VII.a - Activity, position VII.b - Name of the institution, board VII.c - Duration
Member of the art research team in the institutional interdisciplinary research grant of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Slovak Republic The excellecy team of VŠVU, doc. Martin Piaček, doc. András Cséfalvay, doc. Olja Triaška Štefanović from 2018
Member of the Scientific Board Art Research Centre of the Slovak Academy of Sciences from 2021
Member of AICA Slovak Section of the International Association of Critics of Art Critics and Theorists of the AICA from 2021
Member of ICOM ICOM - International Institution of Museums and museum professionals from 2019
Chairman and board member The Július Koller Society - NGO from 2018
Board member tranzit.sk NGO from 2016

VIII. - Overview of international mobilities and visits oriented on education and research/artistic/other activities in the given field of study

VIII.a - Name of the institution VIII.b - Address of the institution VIII.c - Duration (indicate the duration of stay) VIII.d - Mobility scheme, employment contract, other (describe)
City University New York New York 1.9. 2012 - 28.2. 2013 Fulbright Scholarship
MuseumsQuartier Vienna 1.7. 2009 - 31.8. 2009 Artist-In-Residence Program
Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań 1.9. 2006 - 28.2. 2007 International Visegrad Scholarschip

IX. - Other relevant facts

Date of last update
05.12.2022