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1 CURRICULUM VITAE Dr Paweł Leszkowicz Research Fellow in The 1 CURRICULUM VITAE Dr Paweł Leszkowicz Research Fellow in the School of Humanities, University of Brighton, the UK Junior Professor in Department of Art History, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland Current Address: Flat 7, 99 Buckingham Road, BN1 3RB Brighton UK E-mail: [email protected], Telephone: +441273 747023 Date of Birth: 17 December 1970, Pila/Poland EMPLOYMENT June 2013-present Research Fellow in the School of Humanities, University of Brighton. January 2011 - January 2013 Marie Curie Intra-European Research Fellow at the School of English’s Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence, University of Sussex, UK. Research project: “A Comparative Study of LGBTQ Rights and Art in the UK and Poland within the Context of the EU Idea of Sexual Diversity”. Teaching MA course: "Contemporary Art & Queer Identity in Politics: Eastern & Western European Perspectives". 2000 – present Senior Lecturer - then Reader/Junior Professor in the Centre of Modern and Contemporary Art, Department of Art History, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan and Intermedia Department, Fine Arts Academy, Poznan, Poland. Research and teaching: Art, Activism and Gender/Sexual Dissidence in Eastern Europe; Cultural Institutions, Censorships and Art in Poland; Contemporary Art & Queer Subjectivity: Eastern & Western European Perspectives; Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture; Feminist and LGBTQ Art in the Public Sphere; Art in the Democratic Society of Today; Psychoanalysis and Queer Studies in Contemporary Art and Art History; Curatorial and Museum Studies and Practice; Political Theory and Contemporary Art; Contemporary British Art; Breaking Through the Systems. Contemporary Art and Identities in Poland; The Postmodern in American Art; Writing for Art Curating and Criticism. 2 Administration: a coordinator of the Erasmus Program of International Students and Staff Exchange at the Department of Art History, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland. 1994-1995 Curator of contemporary art at the State Gallery of Art in Sopot, Poland. EDUCATION AND FELLOWSHIPS 2013 – Professorial Qualification (Habilitation) in art history, obtained at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland. 2001: Fellowship of the Civic Education Project, Eastern Scholar Program for the development of the quality of academic teaching. Batory Foundation Research Grant for Young Academics, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Courtauld Institute of Art, London. 2000: Completion of Ph.D. studies at Adam Mickiewicz University. Ph.D. with top result, dissertation entitled “The Art of Helen Chadwick: Iconography of Subjectivity”. Award of Polish Association of Art Historians for the best Ph.D. dissertation in art history. Participation in the Summer Institute in World Art Studies in Norwich organised by the School of World Art Studies and Museology, University of East Anglia, Norwich and Getty Art Center, Los Angeles. 1995-2000: Doctoral program on contemporary art at the Department of Art History, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, supervised by Professor Piotr Piotrowski. ( [email protected] ) 1998-1999: Junior Fulbright Scholar at the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies, New School for Social Research in New York, supervised by Dr Elzbieta Matynia ( [email protected] ). 1998: Participation in the American Studies summer course at Columbia University, New York. 1997: Participation as Kosciuszko Foundation Fellow in “Democracy and Diversity” Summer Graduate Institute in Cracow, organised by the New School for Social Research, NY. 1996-1997: Commission of the European Community Tempus and British Council grantee, postgraduate study of contemporary British art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, supervised by Dr Sarah Wilson ( [email protected] ). 1990-1995: M.A. course at the Department of Art History, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan. 3 1989-1990: Undergraduate study at the Department of Cultural Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan. PUBLICATIONS BOOKS The Naked Man: The Male Nude in post-1945 Polish Art, Adam Mickiewicz University Press, Poznan (2012) (in Polish with English summary). Forthcoming in Ashgate Publishing in 2015. Art Pride. Gay Art from Poland, Abjekt, Warsaw (2010) (in English and Polish). The Bathhouse Contemporary Art Centre. Architecture, Art and History, edited by Pawel Leszkowicz, Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk (2008) (in English and Polish). Love and Democracy. Reflection on the Homosexual Question in Poland, co-authored with Tomek Kitliński, Aureus, Kraków (2005) (in Polish with English, German and French summary). Helen Chadwick - Iconography of Subjectivity, Aureus, Kraków, (2001) (in Polish) Sponsored by the Polish Committee for Scientific Research. Award of the Rector of Adam Mickiewicz University. CURATED EXHIBITIONS and PUBLISHED CATALOGUES Civil Partnerships. Feminist and Queer Art and Activism, The University of Brighton, Brighton (2012) (co-curated with Lara Perry and Tomasz Kitlinski) (in English). Love is Love. Art as LGBTQ Activism from Britain to Belarus, The City Gallery of Contemporary Art – Labirynt, Lublin (2011 co-curated with Tomasz Kitliński) (in Polish and English). Ars Homo Erotica , the National Museum, Warsaw (2010) (in Polish and English). Urban Legends. Public Art Festival, (co-curated with Izabella Gustowska and Raman Tratsiuk) The Fine Arts Academy, the streets of Poznan (2009) (in Polish and English). Vogue. Male Fashion in Contemporary Art, Centre for Contemporary Art – Laznia, Gdansk (2008) (in Polish and English). The Empire of the Senses, The Fine Arts Academy, Poznań (2008) (in Polish and English) Art from GK Collection, Kulczyk Foundation, Poznan (2007) (in Polish and English). Love and Democracy, Centre for Contemporary Art – Laznia, Gdansk (2006) (in Polish and English). 4 CURATED ART SYMPOSIA Civil Partnerships. Feminist and Queer Art and Activism, The University of Brighton, Brighton, 17th May 2012, co-organised with Lara Perry and Tomasz Kitlinski Artists Speak Out. A Town Meeting on the Queer State-of-the-Art in the UK, Brighton Museum and Art Galleries, University of Sussex, 14th November 2012 Exhibitionism. A Symposium on Queer Curatorial Practices, Brighton Museum and Art Galleries, University of Sussex, 16th November 2011 Contemporary Art in the Collections of Polish Museum, The Old Brewery Contemporary Art Centre, Poznan, Poland, 24th May 2007. SELECTED ARTICLES IN BOOKS and JOURNALS 2013 Ars Homo Erotica at the National Museum of Poland , ICOM-CE España Digital Review, no 8, 2013, http://issuu.com/icom-ce_librovirtual/docs/icom-ce_digital_08, str. 78-86. Jon Davies, “Towards an Intimate Democracy in Europe: Pawel Leszkowicz’s Queer Curating”), Journal of Curatorial Studies, Volume 2, Number 1, 2013. The Utopia of Europe's LGBTQ Visibility Campaigns in the Politics of Everyday Life: the Utopic of Social Hope in the Images of Queer Spaces, in: Somewhere over the Rainbow: A Critical Inquiry in Queer Utopias, edited by Angela Jones , Plagrave McMillan, co-authored with Tomasz Kitlinski, 5 The Video Art of Female Homoeroticism, in: Sexing the Border: Gender, Art and New Media in Central and Eastern Europe, edited by Katarzyna Kosmala and Angela Dimitrakaki, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Bipolar. Homophobie und Toleranz in Polen, Osteuropa 63 Jahrgang/Heft 10/Oktober 2013. 2012 The Transgender Body, Identity and Performance in Polish Contemporary Art, in: EVA & ADELE. The Artists = A Work of Art, catalogue Museum of Modern Art Cracow, 2012. (chapter in English and Polish). The Found Objects of Krystiana Robb-Narbutt, in: Krystiana Robb-Narbutt: Drawings, Objects, Studio, edited by Dorota Jarecka and Wanda Siedlecka, Krystiana Robb-Narbutt Foundation, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw 2012 (in English) The Power of Queer Curating in Central Eastern Europe, in: Working with Feminism: Curating and Exhibitions in Eastern Europe, edited by Katrin Kivimaa, Tallinn University Press, Tallinn 2012. (in English) Queer Art in Poland, in: What a Material! Queer Art from Central Europe, edited by Ladislav Zikmund-Lender, Ceske Centrum, Prague (in English). 2011 Alina Szapocznikow’s Piotr, or „The Flesh of My Son” in: Alina Szapocznikow. Awkward Objects, edited Agata Jakubowska, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Warsaw (in English). 2010 Female St. Sebastian: Parallel Lines in the Radical Lesbian Art of Gina Pane and Catherine Opie, Interalia. A Journal of Queer Studies (www.interalia.com) 2010 issue (in English). 6 The Fever of Desire and Despair in the Art of Davida Wojnarowicz, in: On the Politics of Body and Desire in the Contemporary Visual Culture, edited by Dagmara Rode and Paweł Sołodki, Feminoteka Foundation, Warsaw 2010 (in Polish). National Secret: Gay Art in Poland, in: Pejic, Bojana (ed.) , Gender Check: A Reader. Art and Theory in Eastern Europe , Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, Cologne 2010 (in English) 2009 The Manchester Seminar. Extremes Meet: Anglo-Polish Perspective on Sexual Politics, co- authored with Tomasz Kitlinski, Interalia. A Journal of Queer Studies (www.interalia.com) 2009 issue (in English). National Secret – Gay Art in Poland, in: Freundschaft als Lebens-, Produktions- und Aktionsform, Smell It!, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna (in English). 2008 Let Us Be Seen. Gay Visibility in Homophobic Poland, co-authored with Tomek Kitlinski, in: Men Speak Out, edited by Shira Tarrant,Routledge, London, New York (in English). Barbara Falender - Poilitics/Erotics, Bedeutung Magazine, no 1, (in English). The Market of
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