Department of Curatorial Studies and Art Theories

Head of the Department
prof. PhD Marta Smolińska
marta.smolinska@uap.edu.pl

The Department of Curatorial Studies and Art Theories operates within the structures of the Faculty of Art Education and Curatorial Studies.

The Chair’s staff, reflecting on contemporary art, including the problem of curatorship, cover a wide range of research fields: from contemporary art, its social conditions, through photography, copyright law to interests in internet art and popular culture. This broad research field allows us to be the supervisors of many BA and MA theses of students in most departments of UAP.

The emergence of the Department is linked to the launch by the Faculty of Art Education of the first theoretical course at the University – Curatorial and Art Theories. Our staff, alongside the many activities carried out for the benefit of students across the University, focus on developing this particular course. Within the Department, alongside our teaching work, we want to conduct scholarly reflection on diverse curatorial strategies.  Most of us are not only theorists, but also active critics and curators.

Lecturers

PhD Izabela Kowalczyk, prof. UAP (research leave for the academic year 2024/2025)

• Theories of art
• Monographic lectures on contemporary art
• Curatorial projects
• MA seminar
• Curatorial diploma project

PhD Mateusz Bieczyński, prof. UAP

• Copyright
• Visual arts analysis
• Optional subject:
  Legal and social conditions of copying in the visual arts – a critical approach
• Curatorial projects
• Theoretical plein-air (workshop)
• MA seminar

PhD Tomasz Misiak prof. UAP

• Aesthetics
• Contemporary art issues
• Optional subject:
  The culture of sound
• Journalism workshops
• Proseminar
• MA seminar

PhD Witold Kanicki

• Contemporary art issues
• Curatorial strategies
• Curatorial projects
• History of the curatorial and museum profession
• Introduction to contemporary art and curatorial studies
• BA seminar

prof. PhD Izolda Kiec

• Basics of text writing
• Ideological currents of the 20th century
• Optional subject:
  The 20th Century Poetry – a ‘close reading’ project.
• Proseminar
• MA seminar

PhD Ewa Wójtowicz, prof. UAP

• History of art
• Curating new media
• Internet culture
• Critical workshops
• Optional subject:
  Art geographies
• MA Seminar

PhD Justyna Ryczek

• Art criticism
• Ethical contexts of contemporary art
• Contemporary art issues
• Monographic lectures in contemporary art
• MA seminar
• Curatorial diploma project

PhD Anna Rogozińska

• Market aspects of contemporary art
• Promotion of culture in the European Union
• Art marketing
• History of applied art