HEAD OF THE CENTER:
Magdalena Radomska is Post-Marxist art historian and historian of philosophy, Assistant Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. She holds a PhD in art history, and has received scholarships at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest and at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. She was a director and lecturer of the course Writing Humanities after the Fall of Communism in 2009 at Central European University in Budapest. In 2013 her book The Politics of Movements of Hungarian Neoavantgarde (1966-80) was published. Radomska received Getty Foundation Grant (Connecting Art Histories ) for the project ‘1989 as War and Revolution’ (2022), she has been Polish director of Visegrad Grant – ‘Resonances: Regional and Transregional Cultural Transfer in the Art of the 1970’, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest (from 2020), has been partner of Visegrad Grant on ‘Contemporary art in Middle Europe’. She received research grant at MSU in Zagreb. She was also Polish director of Visegrad Grant ‘Long Sixties’, Ludwig Muzeum, Budapest (2013).
Recently Radomska has co-editedbook ‚Horizontal Art History and Beyond Revising Peripheral Critical Practices’, Jakubowska Agata, Radomska Magdalena (ed.), Routledge 2022. She is also editor of book ‚After Piotr Piotrowski : Art, Democracy and Friendship’, Jakubowska Agata, Radomska Magdalena (ed.), Poznań 2020, and WORK FOR SMALL CHANGE FRANCISZEK ORŁOWSKI PRACA ZA/ NA DROBNE / Radomska Magdalena (ed.), Warsaw 2018. Her recent publications include: ‚What Isn’t Orthodox Horizontal Art History’, in:Umeni 2/2021; Working in the Twice-mined Semantic Minefield: The Politics of Hungarian Neo-avant-garde Movements, in: Art in Hungary 1956-1980 Doublespeak and Beyond / Turai Hedvig, Sasvari Edit, Sandor Hornyik (red.), 2018, Thames&Hudson; Drawn from Communism: Anti-Capitalist Drawing from Central-Eastern Europe, in: A Companion to Contemporary Drawing / Chorpening Kelly , Fortnum Rebecca, Arnold Dana (ed.), Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Art History, 2020.
Currently Radomska is engaged in a research on the Post-Communist art in Post-Communist Europe (grant received from the National Science Center) and criticism of capitalism in art (book: he Plural Subject: Art and Crisis after 2008) and – as her second PhD – she is writing a monograph on Post-Marxism. She is a member of both Polish and Hungarian AICA and editor of magazine Czas Kultury. She is board member of magazine Sztuka I Dokumentacja. Radomska is a founder and a head of Piotr Piotrowski Center for Research On East-Central European Art.
Selected publications:
Horizontal Art History and Beyond Revising Peripheral Critical Practices, Jakubowska Agata, Radomska Magdalena (ed.), Routledge 2022
After Piotr Piotrowski : Art, Democracy and Friendship, Jakubowska Agata, Radomska Magdalena (ed.), Adam Mickiewicz University Press, Poznań 2020.
Drawn from Communism: Anti-Capitalist Drawing from Central-Eastern Europe, W: A Companion to Contemporary Drawing / Chorpening Kelly , Fortnum Rebecca, Arnold Dana (red.), Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Art History , vol. 20, 2020
Working in the Twice-mined Semantic Minefield: The Politics of Hungarian Neo-avant-garde Movements, W: Art in Hungary 1956-1980 Doublespeak and Beyond / Turai Hedvig, Sasvari Edit, Sandor Hornyik (ed.), 2018, Thames&Hudson
WORK FOR SMALL CHANGE FRANCISZEK ORŁOWSKI PRACA ZA/ NA DROBNE / Radomska Magdalena (ed.), Warsaw 2018.
MEMBERS:
Pawel Leszkowicz ( Ph.D., Habilitation ) is a Professor in the Department of Art History, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland. He is an academic lecturer and a freelance curator specializing in LGBTQI* studies and international modern and contemporary art/visual culture. He is the author of the Ars Homo Erotica (2010) exhibition at Warsaw’s National Museum and numerous queer and gender related exhibitions and symposia in Poland and the UK. His publications are in Polish and English. He has written four books: Helen Chadwick. The Iconography of Subjectivity (2001), Love and Democracy. Reflections on the Queer Question in Poland (2005), Art Pride. Gay Art from Poland (2010), and The Naked Man: The Male Nude in post-1945 Polish Art (2012). His contributions have been published by Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, New York University Press, Ashgate and Manchester University Press. He was a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the University of Sussex in Brighton (2011-2014) and a Senior Fulbright Research Fellow at One Gay and Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries in Los Angeles (2015-2016) and an EURIAS Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (2016-2017). In 2021-2022 he is a visiting scholar at the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies (ZtG) at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. Additionally he is a member of the International Art Critics Association (AICA) .
Karolina Wilczyńska graduated in Art History from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland) and completed the Erasmus Programme at The History of Art Department at the University College London. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Art History at Adam Mickiewicz University. Her doctoral dissertation is about Mierle Laderman Ukeles’ maintenance art which is considered in terms of the broadly understood relation between art, labor and “the choreography of bodies” within the New York City’s neoliberal transformation. The subject of her thesis is a part of a broader research program aimed at a critical revision of socially engaged art, its methodology as well as its history in a changing context of western/eastern art.
Her M.A. thesis on British socially engaged art and the female, photographic collective called Hackney Flashers was selected and published in fragments by editorial committee of online magazine AWARE (Archives of Women Artist). She contributed chapters: Haft Okupacyjny vs. craftywizm to the book Polish Women, Patriots, Rebels (Polki, Patriotki, Rebeliantki, Galeria Miejska Arsenał, 2018) and Maintaining Public Space. Sanitation Actions of Mierle Laderman Ukeles to the book Living Politics In The City. Architecture as Catalyst for Public Space (ed. M. Hohlfeldt, C. Popescu Leuven University Press, 2023). She has presented papers at conferences both home and abroad, including Choreopolitical operation of walking, Honorata Martin ”Going out into Poland” elaborating problems of choreography, rural and public space at the international conference Walking Practices/Walking Art/ Walking Bodies and recently a paper Conservation of Performance on Conservation: Care and Preservation in Mierle Laderman Ukeles’ Maintenance Art at international conference Performance: The Ethics and the Politics of Care — # 1. Mapping the Field. In academic year 2019/2020 she taught course Art and Social Engagement at Adam Mickiewicz University
She supported the work of „The Legacy of Piotr Piotrowski” (Research Grant managed by Magdalena Radomska and financed by Erste Stiftung) and helped in organization of the East-Central European Art Forum. In 2019 she received Library Research Grant at the J.F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies in Berlin. She is a Fulbright scholarship holder (Fulbright Junior Research Award 2021, CUNY New York).