Typlt Jaromír

Jaromír Typlt (b. 1973) is a poet, performer and art theorist. Having graduated from the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague, he began work as a curator of contemporary art and photography. He has been curator of the Art brut Praha gallery since 2022. In 2026, he defended his doctoral dissertation in comparative literature on the topic of “écrits bruts”.

Typlt made his writing debut in 1990, since when he has published several collections of poetry, most recently Za dlouho [In a Long While] (2016) and Pouzdří [Case] (2025), and books that walk the line between prose and poetry. Alongside two of his books appearing in German translation and one in Romanian, a French edition of his poetry was published in 2026. Typlt has a steady involvement in sound poetry; in 2009 he began a long-term collaboration with composer Michal Rataj on the Škrábanice project, resulting in a number of concerts in and beyond the Czech Republic as well as three LP albums. Typlt also writes essays and works of theory. He is author of a monograph on the work of avant-garde sculptor Ladislav Zívr and an art publication about the Studio of Joyful Creation in Prague.

Works translated into: Chinese, Dutch, English, French, Georgian, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Sorbian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian.