Milena Kalinovska

Kalinovska has worked with artists including Richard Deacon, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Nan Goldin, Antony Gormley, Magdalena Jetelova, Isaac Julien, Cildo Meireles, Annette Messager, Mariko Mori, Ilya Kabakov, On Kawara, Jiri Kolar, Stanislav Kolibal, Edward Krasinski, Richard Prince, Adriena Simotova, Nancy Spero, Bill Viola, Kara Walker, and Lawrence Weiner.

Her mother Věra was an accountant at TESLA, but lost her job in the 1950s due to her white Russian ancestry and then worked shifts in a factory.

She began to study law at Charles University, and spent time in the UK as an au pair after the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968, returning to Prague in 1969.

In England, Kalinovska studied at the University of Essex, graduating in 1975 with a bachelor's degree in comparative literature and art.

She was director of public programs and education at the Smithsonian Institution's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC from 2004 to 2015, While at the Hirshhorn she initiated and oversaw a wide range of learning experiences, including talks, lectures, panel discussions and symposia.

She was honoured by the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities (under Bill Clinton) for "Docent-Teens," the youth museum guide program at the ICA, Boston.