Luiza Kempińska

Art historian and graphic designer. Graduate of the Graphic Design at the University of Arts in Poznań, Poland. Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Art History at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. Writing thesis under supervision of Professor Agata Jakubowska. Interested in the contemporary art, mostly in art related to HIV/AIDS. Currently working on a project devoted to HIV/AIDS art exhibitions, organized in Poland in the second half of 1980s and in the 1990s, during the political transformations. Took part in a grant financed by the polish National Science Centre (directed by Professor Agata Jakubowska), regarding all-women exhibitions organized in Poland, aiming to collect documentation, from the earliest exhibitions of women’s work and female students of art courses, until exhibitions organized nowadays. Co-organizer of a conference “Theorizing the Geography of  East-Central European Art” (2018, Poznań), associated with the “Piotr Piotrowski Center for Research on East-Central European Art”.