Anna Daučíková was born in 1950 in Bratislava. She studied with Vaclav Cigler, who directed the Glass in Architecture Studio at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. After graduating in 1978, she moved to Moscow, where she pursued conceptual paintings and photographs. In 1991, Daučíková returned to Bratislava and co-founded the feminist queer magazine Aspekt. Since then she has been working increasingly performatively and using the medium of video and also fighting for LGBTQ rights in Slovakia.

In recent years, individual works by Anna Daučíková have been shown internationally, including the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, Chicago (US), 2018; documenta 14, Athens (GR) and Kassel (DE), 2017; Kyiv Biennale, Kiev (UA), 2015; and Manifesta 10, Saint Petersburg (RU), 2014. Before that, her works were shown in the group exhibitions Gender Check: Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, and mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, 2009, and Ars Homo Erotica, which was on display at the National Museum in Warsaw in 2010 and triggered vehement public protest.

The following curators were invited to nominate artists for the award: Diana Campbell Betancourt (BD), Erin Christovale (US), Dorothée Dupuis (FR/MX), Mai Abu ElDahab (BE), Elena Filipovic (CH), Anna Gritz (DE), Virginija Januškevičiūtė (LT), Valérie Knoll (CH), Quinn Latimer (GR), Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer (US), Balthazar Lovay (CH), Kiki Mazzucchelli (BR/GB), Manuela Moscoso (MX), Jenifer Papararo (CA), and Pip Wallis (AU).

Anna Daučíková’s solo exhibition at KW Institute for Contemporary Art will be curated by Anna Gritz and Cathrin Mayer and will open June 6, 2019 (on view until August 25, 2019).