"For a long time NSU Foundation for Contemporary Art has helped young people reach the public with their energy, thinking, and sensitivity instead of having it remain hidden. These are the things that are judged much later in ways that can’t be compared to the mere valuation of material objects."

Ludvík Hlaváček, NSU’s long-time director, has served as the chairman of the board of trustees since 2023. After studying at the Faculty of the Arts at Prague’s Charles University, he worked in historical preservation and later at the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences. After signing the dissident protest Charter 77, he spent the next thirteen years working as a manual laborer. In 1992, he was entrusted with founding and leading the Soros Center for Contemporary Art. In 1998, he played a key role in establishing its sister organization, the Center for Contemporary Art Prague, which is now led by director Ondřej Stupal. Under the leadership of Ludvík Hlaváček for over thirty years, the Foundation for Contemporary Art Prague has continuously focused on supporting artistic creativity as integral to the development of a democratic civil society.

David Korecký joined NSU in 2022 with the goal of contributing to the development of a new chapter in the institution’s mission. Since 2023, he has been entrusted with managing it. David has twenty years experience in curating, publishing, project management, and fostering relationships between institutional and commercial entities, as well as for both professional and general audiences. In the past, he worked as a curator and producer for Galerie Rudolfinum, Langhans Galerie and Foundation, the Josef Sudek Studio, and the Ceska pojistovna Gallery. He has organized photography collections for PPF and other private collectors. He prepared the first Czech publication on curating contemporary art, Médium kurátor: The Role of the Curator in Contemporary Czech Art. He is currently collaborating with architects on projects for new museums and exhibitions (the Ghetto Museum in Terezín) and with graphic designers on exhibition presentations (the Identita project). He studied architecture at the Czech Technical University in Prague (ČVUT) and the Liberec University of Technology (TUL), as well as contemporary history at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University.

Jana joined the NSU team in November 2023. She spent over twenty years working in the private sector in commercial and administrative roles, since 2017 her work has been in the world of nonprofits. She specializes in project fundraising and has extensive experience in organizational management, PR, and marketing. She earned an MBA in Nonprofit Management from the Society for Management and Leadership.

Tim joined the NSU team in mid-2024 when he relocated from New York to Prague. For the past seven years he worked as Executive Director of the New York-based climate justice nonprofit RETI Center, operating under the philosophy that, “the current situation is so impacted by environmental and technological challenges that it is essential to create or reform institutions to help us find responses adequate to the world that surrounds us.” Tim is an artist, project leader, and media theorist, and for years worked as part of the artistic duo Františka + Tim Gilman. He holds a PhD in Media and Communication from the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, and lectures at New York University in the USA.

Lenka has managed and promoted contemporary visual art and other cultural projects for many years. She connects and accelerates activities within the independent art scene, the international art world, and the art market. She also serves as director of Prague Art Week.

Eva works as a member of the NSU team as a coordinator, where she develops her experience and knowledge from her studies in Arts Management (VSE). She is also gaining further experience as an archivist at the Czech Philharmonic, where she is responsible for organising documents.