Helena Čapková is a researcher, curator, and associate professor of the history of art at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto. She has written extensively on transnational visual culture and architecture in Japan and Europe. In 2017–19, she worked as a curatorial researcher for the bauhaus imaginista project and published an article called “Framing Renshichirō Kawakita’s Transcultural Legacy and His Pedagogy” in the 2019 exhibition catalogue bauhaus imaginista: A School in the World, edited by Marion von Osten and Grant Watson. In 2021, she curated a project to mark a hundred years of diplomatic relations between Japan and the Czech Republic, investigating architectural parallels: “1920–2020 PRAGUE–TOKYO / EXCHANGES, PARALLELS, COMMON VISIONS.”