About us

 CzechMobility.Info is a Czech InfoPoint providing advice in the areas of international artistic cooperation and orientation in the Czech labor law environment. Its aim is to help professionals engaged in the cultural sector to deal with the practical issues such as contracts, taxes, visas or insurance. The core of the project lies in the online information portal but the InfoPoint’s activities also include consultations and workshops.

The portal is in Czech and English and is therefore available both to Czech creatives and managers in culture and to foreign professionals collaborating with the Czech art scene.

When setting up the InfoPoint, ATI leaned on the long-lasting cooperation with foreign partners and networks and on their experience in creating similar platforms, such as DutchCulture/TransArtists, Wales Arts International, and MobiCulture. Our most important partners include On the Move, a network promoting international mobility. We have used mainly the know-how of Touring Artists, a German information portal for mobility issues, operated under the Berlin centre ITI, which became the key foreign partner of our project in 2017. Our main partner in the preparation of studies in the Czech Republic is the Fair Art association.

The project is funded by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic and is based on the Strategy of Support for the Arts in the Czech Republic 2015-2020, specifically priority task No. 30: To set up and support an InfoPoint for the mobility of artists to provide Czech artists, theorists, and other workers in the cultural sector with information and advice to make it easier for them to be professionally active abroad and likewise to make it easier to welcome foreign artists in the Czech Republic – based on a Recommendation of the European Commission. This task is also based on priority 4.2.1 of the State Cultural Policy.

Our Partners

On the move

On the Move (OTM) is an international information network comprising over 35 members and operating in more than 20 countries. Its mission is to promote international mobility and cooperation in the area of culture across different art genres. The Czech Arts and Theatre Institute (ATI) joined the association in 2012. If you wish to receive up-to-date information regularly, we recommend subscribing to its monthly newsletter.

Fair Art

Fair Art is a non-governmental non-profit organisation active in the Czech cultural sector since 2012. It brings together students and graduates of law and other disciplines that have a common interest in trying to raise the awareness of legal matters among visual artists and providing them with legal assistance in relation to artistic activities.

Touring Artists

Touring Artists is a German InfoPoint for mobility issues. Besides running the online portal, it provides consultations and organises workshops on practical and administrative matters of international cooperation. We also recommend its quarterly newsletter.

Our Team

Both ATI employees and external colleagues are taking part in the project. Individual topics are consulted with experts, partner institutions as well as experienced representatives of all art disciplines.

Barbora Novotná (Doležalová)

barbora.novotna@czechmobility.info

+420 775 665 632

She is a graduate of English Translation Studies and of Theory and History of Theatre at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in Brno; she has participated in study stays in Great Britain and Poland. Barbora translates from English and Polish into Czech. Furthermore, she works on the development of international artistic projects, she is one of the organizers of Bardzo fajný festival presenting contemporary Polish cinema in the Czech Republic, she also works for International Short Film Festival BRNO16. Since 2014, she has been based at the Arts and Theatre Institute.  

Martina Hájková

martina.hajkova@czechmobility.info

As a graduate of the Faculty of Law of Charles University, Arts Management at the University of Economics Prague, and Production at the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (DAMU), she has rich experience not only in theoretical but especially practical aspects of work in the cultural sector. She currently works as a lawyer at the Association of the Professional Theatres. Apart from this, she collaborates with the National Theatre and the FairArt non-profit organisation and devotes her spare time to producing cultural projects.

Pavel Štorek

pavel.storek@czechmobility.info

+420 224 809 116
+420 777 196 840

He studied at the Pedagogical Faculty of the Charles University in Prague. Since 1996, he has been the artistic director of 4+4 Days in Motion International Performing Arts Festival in Prague, most recently he was also a curator of the Czech architecture section of the Prague Quadriennal 2011, and conceived and realised site-specific projects, co-produced international artists in the field of contemporary theatre, dance, music and mew media in the framework of the Four Days Association. He has worked in the Arts and Theatre Institute / International Co-operation Department since 2008.