ANDRÁS EDIT
Edit András, PhD, art historian, art critic is a senior researcher at the Institute of Art History, Centre for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest (currently Eötvös Loránd Research Network); visiting professor of the Central European University, History Department.Her main field of research is: Eastern and Central European modern and contemporary art, art theory, art historiography, critical theories, nationalism and populism, gender studies. She is also an advisor in local and regional art and research projects and also curator of large scale socially engaged, critical exhibitions. She is a regular contributing critic in Hungarian and international art magazines (Artmargins, e-flux, IDEA. Arts+Society, Third text, Springerin), and was a long-year New York correspondent in various magazines. She is author of theoretical studies published in international catalogues and volumes. She is editor of numerous catalogues and books. She published two books with the selection of her own theoretical writings and essays in Hungarian (a third is forthcoming). She is a participant of numerous international conferences and workshops as invited lecturer and keynote speaker. She had courses and lectures all around the region (Iasi, Tallinn, Poznan, Bratislava, Vienna etc.) She is member of the advisory boards of the Piotr Piotrowski Research Center (Poznan) and the magazines Ars Hungarica, Artmargins, ART East/Central online Journal and The journal Kunstiteaduslikke uurimusi / Studies on Art and Architecture, Tallinn.For her further activities, projects and publications visit her website: http://editandras.arthistorian.hu
RADOMSKA MAGDALENA
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. http://piotrpiotrowskicenter.amu.edu.pl
WILCZYŃSKA KAROLINA
Karolina Wilczyńska 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. She supported the work of „The Legacy of Piotr Piotrowski” 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).