Magdalena Moskalewicz

Socialist Exhibition Cultures—International Workshop

November 18, 2021January 25, 2022 Magdalena MoskalewiczLeave a comment

November 18, 2021. Online. Project website.

“Socialist Exhibition Cultures” examines global art exhibitions organized, between 1950 and 1990, in or by (formerly) socialist or Communist countries. These include the Soviet Union and other Communist/socialist states in Eastern Europe; China; North Korea; South Korea; Cuba, and Africa, including Mozambique, Ethiopia, and Angola. We consider Cold War socialist exhibitions instances of a curatorial culture that developed as an alternative to the Western art market and its international outlets, and according to its own set of demands and prerogatives.

Conversations

[DE]MAPPING THE FUTURE: LISTENING TO THE HISTORIC ORIGIN BODY

May 1, 2021November 9, 2021 Magdalena MoskalewiczLeave a comment

May 1, 2021. Wellesley College Art Department (online).

The panel brings focus to decolonial discourse through the power of art and practices at the intersection of three often separately considered regions: Central Asia, Eastern Europe and the Caribbean. At the crossroads of diverging languages, current decolonial efforts point towards exciting trajectories, on the path from delinking structural national narratives to speculative fiction.

Conferences

WHAT ARE OUR GENEALOGIES? ENGAGED FIGURATIONS IN PRE-WAR CENTRAL EUROPE

April 15, 2021January 25, 2022 Magdalena MoskalewiczLeave a comment

Apr 15, 2021. Warsaw Museum of Modern Art (online). Conference website.

Panel moderator at the conference ”What are our genealogies? Engaged figurations: Realism, socialist realism and soc-modernism in a global perspective.”

Conferences

SITUATING AGORA: MAGDALENA ABAKANOWICZ IN CHICAGO

February 4, 2021November 4, 2021 Magdalena MoskalewiczLeave a comment

Feb 4-5, 2021. Conference “What They Brought / What They Changed: Material Culture and Polish Chicago.” University of Chicago (online).

Paper delivered at the conference panel “Chicago’s Slavic Communities of Things.” The conference is co-organized by the Department of Slavic Languages & Literature, University of Chicago and Instytut Kultury Polskiej , Uniwersytet Warszawski.

Conversations

YARN/WIRE “FEEDBACK” with OLIVIA BLOCK

November 17, 2020November 4, 2021 Magdalena MoskalewiczLeave a comment

Nov 17, 2020. ONLINE. https://www.yarnwire.org/feedback-calendar/feedback-episode24

Episode 24 in the livestreamed series of conversations between the contemporary music ensemble Yarn/Wire and guests.

Conferences

POSTCOLONIAL AND POSTCOMMUNIST CONVERGENCES IN CRITICAL CURATING

October 24, 2020November 4, 2021 Magdalena MoskalewiczLeave a comment

Oct 21-24, 2020. Conference “Decolonizing Museum Cultures and Collections: Mapping Theory and Practice in East-Central Europe.” Online. https://decolonizingmuseums.pl/

Paper delivered at the panel “Critical Curating 1: Acting Locally” chaired by Alexandra Oancă. The conference was organized by the EU research project ECHOES: European Colonial Heritage Modalities in Entangled Cities http://projectechoes.eu/

Conversations

THE PALACE COMPLEX: A CEREES OF VOICES CONVERSATION

February 20, 2020April 25, 2020 Magdalena MoskalewiczLeave a comment

Feb 20, 2020, Seminary Co-op Bookstore, University of Chicago

Michał Murawski discusses his book The Palace Complex: A Stalinist Skyscraper, Capitalist Warsaw, and a City Transfixed. He will be joined in conversation by Meghanne Barker and Magdalena Moskalewicz.

Conferences

“Neo-avantgarde on Repeat: Polish Contemporary Artists Revisit the 1970s”

January 16, 2020April 25, 2020 Magdalena MoskalewiczLeave a comment

February 12-15, 108th College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago.

Paper delivered at the panel “Freezes and Thaws in the Socialist Bloc” sponsored by SHERA (Society of Historians of East European, Eurasian, and Russian Art and Architecture) and conveyed by Yelena Kalinsky, Michigan State University and Adrian Barr, Winona State. Saturday, Feb 15 at 4pm.

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Lectures

Shared Polish-Haitian History: Cazale and Beyond

October 18, 2019January 16, 2020 Magdalena MoskalewiczLeave a comment

October 18, Polish Museum of America, Chicago

Lecture delivered at the event “Cazale: The Story of the Haitian-Polish Community in Haiti,” co-organized by the Chicago Cultural Alliance, the Haitian American Museum of Chicago, and Polish Museum of America. This event was a part of the intercultural festival of art and ideas Inherit Chicago 2019.

Image: January Suchodolski, Battle at San Domingue, 1848.

Conferences

Conceptualism and Materiality. Matters of Art and Politics

August 29, 2019October 20, 2019 Magdalena MoskalewiczLeave a comment

Oct 10-11, 2019, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London

Paper titled “Notation, Aspiration, Science, and Labour in Early Conceptual Art in Poland” delivered at a conference that celebrated the publication of Conceptualism and Materiality: Matters of Art and Politics (ed. by Christian Berger, Brill, 2019).

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