Art historian and curator. She graduated in art history from the Faculty of Arts at Comenius University in Bratislava and was also awarded a bachelor’s degree in film theory from the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. She worked at the Institute for Art History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, at the Department of Art Studies of the Academy of Film and Television at the Academy of Performing Arts, and at the Institute for Art Studies of the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava. Since 2008 she has been working as a curator of the Other Media Collection in the Slovak National Gallery. Petra Hanáková specializes in museum studies, the Slovak film and visual culture of the 20th and 21st centuries and curates exhibitions