A lecture series devoted to various phenomena in the history and theory of art. The lectures show how artworks and artistic practices reflect changing cultural, social and political contexts: restitution of works, transformations in the depiction of the body, non-binary and queer perspectives, ethical dilemmas in museology, the role of photography and cinema, the problem of colonial heritage and concepts of original and copy. The whole is an invitation to critical reflection on the history of art as a polyphonic field of interpretation.
📅 Date: Mondays, November 17 - March 9
⏱️ Time: 18:00 (duration: approx. 75 min.)
📍 Location: online event, ClickMeeting platform
💳 Tickets and passes: Single-session tickets
Named season passes
Additional information:
- Both passes and tickets can only be purchased online.
- Season-pass holders receive the lecture link three times: a week before (except for the first lecture), on the day of the event and 30 minutes before the lecture starts.
- People who bought a ticket for a single lecture receive the link at the moment of purchase (the link is on the ticket sent to the email address provided at purchase).
- Please read the Regulations
SCHEDULE (selected dates and topics):
- November 17 — Great returns – restitution of wartime losses of the National Museum in Warsaw / Karolina Zalewska A story about the returns of works looted during World War II to the National Museum in Warsaw and efforts to recover collections.
- November 24 — “Just naked women!” - what do female nudes tell us about cultural changes? / Sonia Kisza An analysis of the function and interpretation of the female nude in the history of European art.
- December 1 — Non-binary subjectivity in art and politics / dr hab. Paweł Leszkowicz A return to the Ars Homo Erotica exhibition and a discussion about androgyny and global transphobic politics in the 21st century.
- December 8 — Between oppression and emancipation – the male nude in modern art / dr hab. Paweł Leszkowicz Transformations of the male nude in the 20th–21st century in Eastern Europe.
- December 15 — Human remains in museums – sensitive heritage / dr Łukasz Bukowiecki Reflection on the presence of human remains in museum collections and their legal and ethical issues.
- January 5 — What is this actually made of? The migration of materials in buildings and monuments / Marcin Matuszewski On materials used in construction and reconstruction (e.g. of Warsaw) and their significance for interpreting monuments.
- January 12 — Abstraction – from spiritual beginnings to contemporary explorations / Magdalena Kucza-Kuczyńska History and transformations of abstract art from Hilma af Klint to contemporary experiments.
- January 19 — How photography changed the image of the world / dr Paulina Kwiatkowska The influence of photography on visual practices, relations with painting and the social consequences of photography.
- January 26 — Do we say “Oriental art”? / Magdalena Pinker Changes in terminology and approaches to non-European art and their significance for museology.
- February 2 — How cinematography changed the image of the world / dr Paulina Kwiatkowska The development of cinematography and its influence on visual practices at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
- February 9 — Decoration, scenography, architecture of space / Dorota Buchwald Changes in designing stage space and the influence of technology and AI on theatre.
- February 16 — Art history in comics / dr Dawid Głownia Use of artworks in comics – examples and creators’ practices.
- February 23 — Practices of memory in Polish museums / dr Sara Herczyńska Mechanisms of constructing historical narratives in exhibitions and the development of Polish museology after 2004.
- March 2 — The capitalist realism of the Polish transformation / dr hab. Magda Szcześniak The role of images (advertising, billboards, media) in the process of economic and social transformation after 1989.
- March 9 — When did copying become bad? / dr Marek Płuciniczak The history of the perception of copies and the moment when their cultural value changed.
Coordination: Marcin Matuszewski / Education Department
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