Ava Holtzman is an intermedia artist and curator based in Prague, Czech Republic.
Currently pursuing an MFA at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, her work is particularly focused on the preservation and fossilization of digital and ephemeral beings and spaces. Her research investigates the changing role of photographic image in its networked and digital forms, often engaging with experimental forms of image-making such as in-game photography and experimental darkroom techniques.
She explores hauntology, science fiction, and corporeal cartographies, investigating how traces, relics, and digital remnants can act as markers of both the present and future. Her practice looks at the preservation of digital spaces before they are altered or lost, as well as the preservation of bodies and minds through medical intervention and memory. Holtzman’s process of experimentation creates a subjective, somatic map of these phenomena, leaving behind traces and reflecting on the impermanence of both physical and digital worlds.
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Education
2027 MFA Art in Context, Academy of Fine Arts, Prague CZ (in progress)
2026 Exchange at École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris FR
2023 BFA Photography and New Media, Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU), Prague CZ
2022 NODE Center for Curatorial Studies, Berlin DE
Exhibitions
2025 Disaster, Vox Loci, Bratislava SL
Pinky Promise, Galerie Sokl, Prague CZ
Solitary Pilgrimages Can Lead To Social Protests, Salounova Vila, Prague CZ
Nothing Is As It Seems, National Galerie in Perla, Krasna Lipa CZ
See it Touch it Taste It, Salounova Vila, Prague CZ
2024 Urban Foraging, St. Margaret’s House, London UK
2023 The House of Plausible, Probable, and Possible Futures, Kunsthalle Bratislava SL
FOTOFUTURES, HYB4 Galerie, Prague CZ
Drunken Forest, Galerie AMU, Prague CZ
2022 ARTOMATA - Artists in AI, Tibet Open House, Prague CZ
Emotional Damage, A[v]oid Floating Galerie, Prague CZ
Curatorial projects
2023 I Changed It For You, National Galerie in Perla, Krasna Lipa CZ
An Afternoon in the Sun, Galerie Panel, Prague CZ
Complex, Gabriel Loci, Prague CZ
2022 Rebirth, Galerie Panel, Prague CZ
Between Anywhere and Nowhere, OFF Bratistava Festival of Contemporary Photography, Bratislava SL
Lectures
2024 "Parafictions: An Introduction to Art and Conspiracy", Department of Phtotography FAMU, Prague CZ
"XR and Performance", Goldsmiths University, London UK
