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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.
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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.
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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,
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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).
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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 Ideas. The Curator versus Private Art Collection, in :Art. Criticism and the Market, AICA, The National Galery of Art. Zachęta, Warsaw (in Polish and English).
2007
The Art of Intimate Democracy in: New Phenomena in Polish Art After 2000, edited by Grzegorz Borkowski, Adam Mazur, Monika Branicka, Centre for Contemporary Art- Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (in Polish and English).
Susan Sontag and the Ethics of the Image, Rocznik Historii Sztuki, volume XXXII, Neriton, Warszawa (in Polish).
Polnische Madonnen, Kunst und Kirche 03/2007 (in German).
Homotextuality : Homosexuality and Creativity, in : The Readings of Otherness, Elipsa, Warsaw (in Polish).
The Male Nude. A Different Story of Eroticism in Barbara Falender’s Sculptures, in: Barbara Falender. Rzeźby/Sculptures, Centrum Rzeźby Polskiej, Orońsko (in Polish and English).
The Erotics of Museums: Between Voyeurism and Fetishism, in: Museum as a Luminous Object of Desire, edited by Jarosla Lubiak, Museum of Art, Łódź (in Polish and English).
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Love, Thought, Hospitality and Other Feelings. Robert Mapplethorpe’s and Nan Goldin’s Affective Photographs, co-authored with Tomek Kitlinski, Teksty Drugie, 103/4 2007 (in Polish and English).
Towards a Philosophy of Affective Alterity. A Reconnaissance, co-authored with Tomek Kitlinski, Philosophy\Sociology, 18/1 2007, Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Vilnius (in English).
Erotic and Politics of Gay Art in Poland, Secesja, 2 (7), May 2007 (in Polish and German).
Media Introspections, in: Izabella Gustowska. Life is a Story, National Museum, Poznań (in Polish and English).
2006
Art Versus Moral Revolution, www.obieg.pl/teksty/5770 (online in Polish).
Is Your Mind Full of Goodness? www.obieg.pl/teksty/5766 (online in Polish)
The Art of Sexual Opposition, Art and Business, 5/2006 ( in Polish).
The Performance of Desire: the Homoeroticism of Krzysztof Jung Art, in: The Parameters of Desire. The Queer Culture Counter Homophobia, Universitas, Kraków 2006 (in Polish and English).
2005
Towards New Humanism: The Queer Story of Polish Art and Subjectivity, Art Inquiry, Volume VII (XVI), Łódź 2005 (in English).
God and Gay Rights in Poland, The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, May-June 2005, Volume XII, Number 3 (in English).
Other Boys from The Communist Years, in: Boys, The Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, Kraków 2005 ( in Polish and in English).
Love and Democracy, in: Art Poznań 2005. Art. Fair, Fundacja Akademii Sztuk Pięknych, ASP, Poznań 2005 (in Polish and in English).
The Queer Francis Bacon, Kwartalnik Artystyczny, XIII, no 4/2005 (48) (in Polish).
2004
Hope and Fear in Today’s Poland, The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, March-April 2004, Volume XI, Number 2 (in English).
Why homosexuality ? The sexual war in Poland and the Human Rights Crisis, Zeszyty artystyczne 12, 2004 (in Polish and English).
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Homotextuality, in: The Contexts of Gender, edited by M.Radkiewicz, Rabid, Kraków 2004 (in Polish).
Breaking through Hetero-matrix. The Sexual War in Poland and the Human Rights Crisis, in: Homophobia in Polish, edited by B. Warkocki, Wydawnictwo Sic, Warszawa 2004 (in Polish).
2003
“Review of Richard Meyer’s, Outlaw Representation. Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American, Artium Quaestiones XIII, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (in Polish).
Escaping the Heteromatrix: Polish Public Art against Homophobia, co-authored with Tomek Kitlinski “Praesens”, no.4, 2003. ( in English)
Eastern Europe’s Tales of Terror: the Art of Stanikas, in: World War. The 50th Venice Biennale. S&P Stanikas, 50Esima Esposizione Internazionale D’Arte, Museo Fortuny, co-authored with T.Kitlinski, Venice 2003 (in English).
“Sexual Avant-garde”, Teksty Drugie, 4 (82) 2003 (in Polish).
Louise Bourgeois : In Search of Lost Space, in: Louise Bourgeois. Geometry of Desire, National Gallery of Art Zachęta, Warsaw 2003 (in Polish and English).
“Poland: The Shock of the Homoerotic” , The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, May-June 2003, Volume X, Number 3 (in English).
“From the Ashes of Sex. After the Photographs of Nan Goldin”, (Op. Cit.) Pismo Kulturalno- Społeczne, 2003, no. 3 (10) (in Polish).
2002
Towards a Democratic Public Sphere. Homosexuality in Art and Society in Poland after 1989, in: Queer Mixture. Gender perspectives on minorities’ sexual identities, edited by T.Basiuk, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Slask, Katowice (in Polish, English summary).
The Dangerous Liaisons with the Male Body. The Art of Dorota Nieznalska, Res Publica Nowa, September Issue (in Polish).
Gender-Religion-Art. The Art of Robert Rumas, in: Gender-Culture-Society, Rabid, edited by M.Radkiewicz, Jagiellonian University Press, Kraków (in Polish).
Museomania, Czas Kultury, May Issue (in Polish)
2001
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Philoxenia. Faced with the Uncanny and Femininity: Helen Chadwick – Julia Kristeva – Sigmund Freud, in: Gender in the Humanities, edited by M.Radkiewicz, Rabid, Krakow (in Polish).
Libidinal Allegories. Psychoanalytic Art Criticism, Artium Quaestiones XI, UAM (in Polish, English summary).
“Abject Art” entry, in: the Grand Encyclopaedia of the Polish Scholarly Publishing House, volume I, Warsaw (in Polish).
The Unconscious and Sublimation, in: Science and the Unconscious, edited by Alina Motycka and Wojciech Wrzosek, co-authored with T.Kitlinski, Department of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences Press, Warsaw (in Polish).
Multi-histories of Art, Zagadnienia Naukoznawstwa ( Questions of Science ), Volume XXXVII, Polish Academy of Sciences Press, Warsaw (in Polish).
Gender and Sexuality in Poland: the Abortion Debate in Art, Scholar Forum , January issue, Open Society Institute, New York (in English).
Monica Dreyfus, co-authored with Joe Lockard and Tomasz Kitlinski, in: Our Monica, Ourselves. The Clinton Affair and the National Interest, edited by Lauren Berlant and Lisa Duggan, New York University Press, New York (in English).
Unnatural Selection. Intertextual interpretation of Helen Chadwick’s art, Rocznik Historii Sztuki ( Annula of Art History ), Volume XXVI, Warsaw (in Polish, English summary).
2000
The Fever of Apocalypse. David Wojnarowicz’s Exhibition at the New Museum in New York, Magazyn Sztuki (The Magazine of Art), no. 23 (in Polish).
Genero y sexualidad en Polonia. El debate del abortion en el arte, in Curare. Espacio critico para las artes, numero 17 (in Spanish).
Is Cosmopolitanism Possible ? The In-Between of Identity and Difference in Visual Culture, co- authored with Tomasz Kitliński, www.magazynsztuki.home.pl (in English).
An Overview of German Institutions of Contemporary Art, www.magazynsztuki.home.pl (in Polish).
How the Communist Party Stole the Idea of Modern Art. A Review of P.Piotrowski’s book “Znaczenia Modernizmu”, www.magazynsztuki.home.pl (in Polish).
1999
The Gender of Contemporary Polish Art, Magazyn Sztuki (The Magazine of Art), no.22 (in Polish).
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Sexy Pollock. Jackson Pollock Exhibition at MOMA, Magazyn Sztuki (The Magazine of Art), no. 20-21 (in Polish).
Onone, in A Catalogue of Alicja Zebrowska’s Exhibition, Cracow (in Polish and English).
1998
The Representation of the Human Body in Contemporary Art. Hannah Wilke and Helen Chadwick, European Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care, vol. 6:1 (in English).
Orlan: Artistic and Surgical Intervention in Identity, Dictum, October Issue (in Polish).
1997
Decentralisation and Multiculturalism, Artium Quaestiones VIII, UAM (in Polish, English summary).
Cindy Sherman: a Game with Cliches, in: The Artist’s Image, Wydawnictwo Towarzystwa Naukowego Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego (The Scholarly Association of the Catholic University of Lublin Press), Lublin, 1997 (in Polish, English summary).
Belladonna at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. A Correspondence from London, Magazyn Sztuki (The Magazine of Art), no 13-14 (in Polish).
A Journey to the Inner Eye. The Counter-Enlightenment in Contemporary Art Exhibitions, Magazyn Sztuki (The Magazine of Art), no 15-16 (in Polish).
1996
Hannah Wilke and Helen Chadwick. Art Faced with Medicalisation, Magazyn Sztuki (The Magazine of Art), no 12 (in Polish and in English).
The Invisible is Inside The Visible. A Correspondence from London, Magazyn Sztuki (The Magazine of Art), no 12 (in Polish).
Sexual Deconstruction - Sexual Identity, Kresy (The Limits), no 3 (in Polish).
Feminin-masculin. Le sexe de l'art in Centre Georges Pompidou (review), Art Newsletter, no 4 (in Polish).
The Rhetoric of Sex. Maria Pininska-Beres and Jerzy Beres, Czas Kultury (The Time of Culture), no 5 (in Polish).
Robert Gober, Magazyn Sztuki (The Magazine of Art), no 10 (in Polish).
AIDS in Images, Magazyn Sztuki (The Magazine of Art), no 9 (in Polish).
1995
Polish Performance Art, Art Newsletter, no 6 (in Polish). 11
Power-Art-Sex. Erotic Art under Communism, in: Sztuka i erotyka (Art and the Erotic), Stowarzyszenie Historyków Sztuki (the Association of Art Historians), Lodz 1995 (in Polish, English summary).
Appropriation: Sherrie Levine, Robert Mapplethorpe, Jeff Koons, Obieg (The Circulation), no 63/64/65 (in Polish).
SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS AND GUEST LECTURES
2013
Dispersed and Lost in the Museums? Gay Art Jewels on Display and in the Collections of Sussex Museums, conference of Brighton & Sussex Sexualities Network: “Queer in Brighton”, University of Brighton, , 18th September 2013.
The Specter of “Homosexual Propaganda” Is Haunting Europe. A recent case: from Soviet to neo-liberal anti-gay legislations in Russia (Eastern Europe), conference: Censorship, Democracy and Gender. Feminist critic and strategies of resistance, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw , 22/23 May 2013
Queering the Collections of Art Museums, conference: Displaying Gender in Museums, MUSEM-Musee des civilizations de l’Europe et de la Mediterranee, Marseille. 6/7 November 2013.
2012
Queering the National Museum of Poland, invited lecture at Ontario College of Art & Design University, Toronto, 16 February 2012
Queering the National Museum of Poland, conference: Civil Partnership? Queer and Feminist Curating, Tate Modern, London, 19 May 2012.
Research and Activism, forum on Queer Art and Activism, University of Brighton, 17 May 2012.
Images of Action/Images in Action: the Performativity of LGBTQ Visibility Campaigns in Europe, World Picture Conference: Action, University of Sussex, 2-3 November 2012.
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Kissing Policemen. A Comparative Study of the Current Crisis of Representation, Identity and Political Economy in the Queered G-local Police Images: The (Siberian) Case, 6th BSSN Annual Conference “Global Crisis: Local Identities and Sexualities”, 13 September 2012.
Queering the Art Collections of National Museums keynote lecture at the conference on the Future of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans* and Intersex Histories (LGBTI ALMS 2012)- International Archives, Libraries, Museums and Special Collections, Amsterdam Public Library, Amsterdam 1-3 August 2012.
2011
The Other Art of the Other Europe: the Erotics and Politics of Gay and Lesbian art in Central/Eastern Europe, a lecture at The Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence, University of Sussex, 16 March 2011.
Love and Democracy: A Queering of the Visual Field by Women Artists in Poland, conference: Feminism and Curating in Post-socialism. Transnational Perspectives on Women's Art, Feminism and Curating, International Academic Network on Feminist Curating, the Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, 28 May 2011.
The Power of the Visual for Intimate Democracy. Queer art in East/Central Europe, conference of the European Geographies of Sexualities, Sexualities and Queer Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers Hogeschool-Universiteit, Brussels, 8th – 10 September 2011.
Ars Homo Erotica at Warsaw’s National Museum, seminar: Sex in the Museum, Brighton & Sussex Sexualities Network (BSSN), University of Brighton, 14 October 2011.
Queer Curating in Poland, a lecture at the Kulturhuset in Stockholm, organised by Polish Institute and the International Lesbian & Gay Cultural Network, Stockholm, 4 August 2011.
2010
Queering the National Museum, a conference: Queer and Gender in Art Exhibitions, The National Museum, National Gallery of Art Zacheta, Warsaw, 20 June 2010.
2009
Extremes Meet. Anglo-Polish Perspective on Sexual Politics, conference: Debating Anglo- Polish Perspectives on Sexual Politics, Manchester Metropolitan University, 3 June 2009.
2008
The Market of Ideas or the Curator/Art Historian Versus the Collector, conference: Art. Criticism and Art Market, AICA, The National Gallery of Art Zachęta, 31 May 2008.
Sexuality in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture and the Question of Human Rights, conference: Post Socialism and Media Transformations: Strategies of Representation. International Summer Seminar for Art Curators, Yerevan, Armenia July 21-August 1, 2008.
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European Action and the Arts, conference: How to Make Europe Dream? A Cultural Congress, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London 15-16 March 2008.
2007
Towards an Art of Intimate Democracy. Art, Politics and Psychoanalysis, lecture at the Department of Art History and Cultural Studies, Leeds University
Exhibitions about Love, lecture at the Department of Art History, Manchester University.
Looking East. Contemporary Art from Eastern Europe, conference: London Festival of Europe, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.
The Other Tradition of Polish modernism: Alina Szapocznikow, Barbara Falender, Teresa Murak, Magdalena Abakanowicz: spaces of psychosomatic sculpture, conference : The Art of Space. The Spaces of Art, Department of Art History, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, 24-25 January (in Polish).
The Art of Gina Pane and Catherine Opie: Lesbian Performing of Pain, conference: Performing and Queering Sadomasochism, Freie Universität, Berlin, 8-11 February 2007.
2006
Government Versus Art? Art as Alternative Media Space, conference: Old Curtains, New Screens. Media, Minority and Politics in Post-Communist Europe, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam, De Balie, Amsterdam.
The Unconscious versus the Contemporary Visual Culture, conference: The Modernity as an Experience, Liberal Studies Department at the High School of Social Psychology SWPS Warszawa, 16-18 November, (in Polish).
Love and Democracy Alliances in Art, conference: Seeking Queer Alliances: Resisting Dominant Discourses and Institutions. International Queer Studies Conference, Warsaw University (Gender Studies Program, American Studies Center), Poland, 29-30.VIII. 2006.
2004
Breaking Through the Hetero-matrix in the Public space. From the Action “Let them see us” to the Sculptures of Igor Mitoraj, conference: The Polish Scenes, International Association of Art Critics, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 6 November 2004.
Poland’s Queer Conflict and Human Rights Crisis: Public Art Against Homophobia, lecture in series ”Critical Reflections on Identity”, Graduate Center, New School University, New York, 16 November 2004.
Queer Performing of Pain. Gina Pane and Catherine Opie, conference : Intersexions. Queer visual culture at the crossroads, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, 12-13 November 2004.
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Polish Homotextuality?, conference: Cartography. The Literary and Other Minorities, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Association Francaise d’Action Artistique, University Paris IV, Paris, 18-20 November 2004.
Helen Chadwick’s Installation of the Self. Self-Portrait as History of Art and History of the senses”, keynote lecture at the conference: Becoming Helen Chadwick, AHRB Centre for Cultural Analysis and Theory, University of Leeds and Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, 30 April 2004.
Poland without Homophobia? The sculptures of Igor Mitoraj on all our Squares - the Paradox of Public Art , conference: Europe without Homophobia. Queering Communities, Wroclaw University, Wroclaw 24-26 May 2004 ( in Polish )
The Art of Shirin Neshat. Femininity between Fundamentalism and Freedom, conference: Women in Contemporary Culture, University of Lublin, Lublin, 20-21 April 2004 (in Polish).
Masculine/ non-masculine Perversions. Homosexuality in Hysteria. Homosexual Hysteria, conference: Gender and Hysteria, The National Gallery of Art, Warsaw 23-24 April 2004 (in Polish)
2003
Eastern European Report, The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies International Resource Network Conference, Universidad Autonma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, Claustro de Sor Juana, Mexico City, 4-5 August 2003.
Situation of LGBTQ rights in Poland and a Public Art Campaign, conference: Participation Opportunities: Perspectives for Inclusion of Marginalized Groups, Peace Institute, Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies, Ljubljana, 6 November 2003.
Different Art in PRL. Homosexuality in Polish Art of the 1970s, conference: Parameters of Desire: Between the Public and the Private, A Civic Education Project Conference, Bielsko- Biala (Poland), 8-10 June 2003 (in Polish).
2002
Towards a Democratic Public Sphere. Homosexuality in Art and Society in Poland after 1989, congress: Translating Class, Altering Hospitality, Center for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History and Jewish Studies, University of Leeds.
The Sexual Avant-Garde. The Analysis of Richard’s Meyer book “Outlaw Representation. Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth Century American Art”, Conference of Polish Queer Studies, Warsaw University, Warsaw ( in Polish).
International Resource Network, the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, New York.
2001
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Victorian Spirit Photographs, conference: The Other in 19th Century Literature and Culture, Institute for Literary Studies, Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw (in Polish).
Queering Contemporary Polish art, Conference of Polish Queer Studies, Warsaw University, Karpacz (in Polish).
2000
Embryo Poetic: Helen Chadwick’s Medical Spaces of Memory, Conference of World Art Studies, School of World Art Studies and Museology, University of East Anglia, Norwich.
The Photography of Hannah Wilke: A Case Study of American Feminist Art, conference: Art Matters in Teaching American Studies, Seminar/Workshop sponsored by the U.S. Embassy, Puławy.
Between the Canon and Postmodernism, Seminar at the Chair of Epistemology and History of Science, Department of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw. (in Polish).
1999
Is Cosmopolitanism Possible? The In-Between of Identity and Difference in Visual Culture, AICA ( the International Arts Critics Association) Conference in Warsaw.
1997
The Culture of Trauma: a Comparative Study of the American and European Gothic in the 1990s, conference: The Politics of Culture/Cultural Politics, Polish Association for American Studies, University of Warsaw.
Michelangelo's Pieta del Duomo: a Psychoanalysis of Sexual Identity, conference: Questions of Identity. Personal, Social and National Imagery from the Middle Ages to the Baroque, Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Manchester.
1996
The Philosophy of Health and Disease in Contemporary Art. The art of Helen Chadwick and Hannah Wilke, 10th Conference of the European Society for the Philosophy of Medicine, University of Vienna.
1995
Decentralisation and Multiculturalism, conference: Memory. Space. Presence, Marie Curie University and "NN" Theatre Company, Lublin (in Polish).
Cindy Sherman: a Game with Cliches, Methodological Conference of the Chairs of Art Theory and of the History of Artistic Doctrines, Catholic University of Lublin, Kazimierz Dolny (in Polish).
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Power-Art-Gender. The Case of Polish Erotic Art under Communism, Conference of the Association of Art Historians, Lodz .(in Polish).