Eva Žáková

 /  Czech Cultural Contact Point
Head

Telephone: 224 809 134
Email: eva.zakova@programculture.cz

Eva Žáková (1961) graduated from the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University in Prague (1983) with a degree in Librarianship and Scientific Information. Before 1989 she worked in Art Centrum (foreign trade enterprise) – production of cultural projects. She worked as an expert for the Kylián Foundation – centre of Dutch-Czech dance projects and dance video library (1991–1995) and was head of the Marketing Department of the Old Masters Collection of the National Gallery in Prague (1998–2000). Since 2001 she has been working as head of the Czech Cultural Contact Point of the European Union Culture Programme and since 2005 as head of the Arts Institute (independent department of the Arts and Theatre Institute). Eva Žáková is the main researcher in projects supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic: Czech Cultural and Creative Industries Mapping (2011–2015) and The Study of the Situation, Structure, Conditions and Financing of the Arts in the Czech Republic (2006–2011). In 2008 she was appointed as a member of the OMC Expert Group of the European Commision for Maximizing the Potential of Culture and Creative Industries, especially in the area of small and middle enterprises. She is a member of the Arts Council of the Minister of Culture. Since 2010 she has been lecturing at the University of Economics in Prague– department of Arts Management.

Author of: Podpora umění a kultury z Evropské unie (The Support for the Arts and Culture in the European Union, 2006, with V. Debnár and T. Tichá), Program Evropské unie Culture 2000: Projekty s českou účastí (2001–2006) (The EU Culture 2000 Programme: Projects with Czech Participation 2001–06, with V. Debnár, Z. Kujová and Z. Lammelová), Společně napříč kulturami: Evropský rok mezikulturního dialogu (Together Across Cultures: The European Year of Intercultural Dialogue, 2008, with V. Debnár) a Umělci bez hranic: Mezinárodní spolupráce a mobilita v oblasti kultury (Artists without Borders: International Co-operation and Mobility in the Field of Culture, 2009, with V. Debnár and M. Müllerová).