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Olga Kotková

b. 1967

Czech art historian

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Born 1967. Olga Kotková is a Czech art historian, exhibition curator and opinion journalist.

Olga Kotková (born 20 January 1967) is a Czech art historian, curator and museum director. She is General Director of the National Gallery Prague and Director of its Collection of Old Masters.

Her scholarship focuses on fifteenth- and sixteenth-century German, Austrian, and Netherlandish painting and sculpture, as well as Rudolfine painting and seventeenth-century Flemish painting. Kotková's work has centered on artistic exchange between Netherlandish and German art and the art produced in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown. She also curated Clay Sculptures: Terracottas by 15th–19th Century Italian Masters in the Collection of the National Gallery Prague, a project connecting art-historical and scientific research on Italian terracotta sculpture.

In 2025, she was lead curator and author of Women Artists 1300–1900 at the National Gallery Prague. Kotková has described the exhibition as growing from a question about the visibility of women artists within Old Master displays. She has worked in the Old Masters Collection of the National Gallery Prague since 1990. Kotková, Olga, and Radka Šefců, eds. Clay Sculptures: Terracottas by 15th to 19th Century Italian Masters in the Collection of the National Gallery in Prague. Prague: National Gallery Prague, 2022. ISBN 978-80-7035-807-8.

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Czech art historian

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Olga Kotková was born on 20 January 1967 in Prague.

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Olga Kotková is an art historian, exhibition curator and opinion journalist.

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