Historian of modern and contemporary art. She received her Master’s degree in 1995 and her doctorate in 2000 at the Institute of Art History of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan under the supervision of Professor Piotr Piotrowski (thesis published as On the margins of the mirror. The female body in the works of Polish female artists, in Polish, Cracow: Universitas, 2004). She received her habilitation in 2009 based on the book Multiple Portrait of the Work of Alina Szapocznikow (Poznań: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2008). Until 2021, she worked at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, heading the Chair of Modern Art History from 2009 to 2020.
At the Warsaw University, she conducts a research project entitled “Globalizing the History of All-Women Exhibitions” (2021-2025, funded by the National Science Centre). She also conducts with Prof. Andrea Giunta (University of Buenos Aires) a research seminar “Narrating Art and Feminism. Eastern Europe and Latin America” (as part of the Getty Foundation Connecting Art Histories initiative).
Author and editor of numerous publications devoted to women’s art.
Member of the editorial team of Avant-Garde Critical Studies (Brill). Member of the international TEAM team (Teaching, E-learning, Agency, Mentoring) led by AWARE (Archives of Women Artists Research & Exhibitions).
Publications (selection)
Books
- Sztuka i emancypacja kobiet w socjalistyczne Polsce. Przypadek Marii Pinińskiej-Bereś (in Polish, Art and the Emancipation of Women in socialist Poland. The case of Maria Pinińska-Bereś), Warsaw University Press, 2022
- Horizontal Art History and Beyond. Revisioning Peripherial Critical Practices, ed. with Magdalena Radomska, Routledge, 2022
- After Piotr Piotrowski. Art, Democracy and Friendship, ed. with Magdalena Radomska, Poznań: Wydawnictwo UAM, 2019
- Zofia Kulik. Methodology, My Love, ed., Warsaw: Museum of Modern Art, 2019
- All-Women Art Spaces in Europe in the long 1970s, ed. with Katy Deepwell, The Liverpool University Press, 2018
- Natalia LL. „Consumer Art” and Beyond, ed., Warsaw: CCA Ujazdowski Castle, 2016
- Alina Szapocznikow. Awkward objects, ed., Warsaw: Museum of Modern Art, 2011
- Portret wielokrotny dzieła Aliny Szapocznikow, Poznań: Adama Mickiewicz University, 2008
- Na marginesach lustra. Ciało kobiece w pracach polskich artystek, Cracow: Universitas, 2004
Journal articles
- W stronę rewizjonistycznej historii sztuki feministycznej w Polsce, „Rocznik Historii Sztuki”, 2022, XLVII, p. 145-161, DOI 10.24425/rhs.2022.142502
- Feminism in the Time of Transformation. Piotr Piotrowski, Zofia Kulik and the Development of Feminist Art History in Poland, “Artium Quaestiones” 2022, 33, p. 261-278, DOI 10.14746/aq.2022.33.10
- Politics of women-only exhibitions today, “European Journal of Women’s Studies”, published 14.07.2020, https://doi.org/10.1177/1350506820941249
- Exhibiting Women’s Art in Post-War Europe, “Artl@s Bulletin” 8, no. 1 (2019): Article 16, https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/artlas/vol8/iss1/16/
- Zofia Kulik. The Splendor of Myself, “View. Theories and Practices of Visual Culture”, www.pismowidok.org 23/2019,
- Egzystencjalne i ekonomiczne wymiary „czynnościowania” Zofii Kulik i jej matki Heleny, „Miejsce”, 4, 2018, p. 12–25.
- Katy Bentall wobec Pracowni, “Konteksty. Polska sztuka ludowa”, 4/2018, p. 251-256.
- Meetings: Exhibitions of Women’s Art Curated by Izabella Gustowska, „Ikonotheka” 26, 2016, p. 291-311.
- Hopper/Gustowska. Alternatywna historia sztuki kobiet, „Czas Kultury”, 1, 2016, p. 103-117.
- Radically personal. The Art of Adriena Šimotova and Maria Pinińska-Bereś, “ACTA Historiae Artium”, 56, 2015, p. 271-278.
- Szapocznikow i polityka, „Pamiętnik Sztuk Pięknych”, t. 9, Numer specjalny: Sztuka polska 1945-1970, ed. Jan Wiktor Sienkiewicz i Ewa Toniak, Toruń 2015, p. 193-196.
- Ambiguous liberation. The Early Works of Maria Pinińska-Bereś, “Konsthistorisk Tidskrift/Journal of Art History” Volume 83, Issue 2, 2014, p. 168-182.
- Krużlowa i Głowa Chrystusa Aliny Szapocznikow, „Sacrum et Decorum. Materiały i studia z historii sztuki sakralnej”, VI, 2013, p. 119-131.
Chapters in monographs
- Circulation of Feminist Ideas in Communist Poland, in: “Globalizing East European Art Histories: Past and Present”, ed. Beata Hock, Anu Allas, Routledge, 2018, p. 135-148.
- No Groups but Friendship. All-Women Initiatives in Poland, in: “All-Women Art Spaces in Europe in the long 1970s”, ed. Agata Jakubowska, Katy Deepwell, The Liverpool University Press, 2018, p. 229-247.
- Personalising the Global History of Pop Art. Alina Szapocznikow and Maria Pinińska-Bereś, in: “Art in Transfer in the Era of Pop. Curatorial Practices and Transnational Strategies”, ed. Annika Öhrner, Södertörn Studies in Art History and Aesthetics, Södertörn 2017, p. 239-259.
- Divided Body. Ewa Partum’s “Hommage à Solidarność” (Łódź 1982, West Berlin, 1983, in: OwnReality (23), 2016, ed. Mathilde Arnoux, Clément Layet, https://perspectivia.net/receive/pnet_mods_00000122
- Artystki śląskie a polityka umiejscowienia, in: „Sztuka kobiet – kobiety w sztuce. Artystki na Śląsku 1880-2000”, ed. Teresa Maria Kulak, Katowice: Muzeum Ślaskie, 2016, p. 61-66.
- Wystawa jako sequel. Ekspozycje twórczości Erny Rosenstein, in: „Zawód: kurator”, ed. Marta Kosińska, Karolina Sikorska, Anna Czaban, Poznań: Galeria Miejska Arsenał, 2014, p. 355-368.
- M/Paternal meanings in the neo-avant-garde (Günter Brus, KwieKulik), in: “The Aesthetics of Matter. Modernism, the Avant-Garde and Material Exchange”, ed. Sarah Posman et al., Berlin-New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2013, p. 335-346.
- Magdalena Abakanowicz’s “Abakans” and the Feminist Revolution, in: “Regarding the Popular: High and Low Culture in the Avant-Garde and Modernism”, ed. Sascha Bru et al, Berlin- New York: Walter De Gruyter, 2011, p. 253-265 [Rudolf-Stundl-Preis an der Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald].
Online talks & readings
- Bez/względne cechy podobieństwa, Talk with Izabella Gustowska, Galeria Miejska Arsenał, November 2020, link
- Discussing women artists in European socialist states, TEAM AWARE WEBINAR # 4, 17.02.2021, link
Ostatnia aktualizacja 16/01/2023