art historian, curator, editor
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/
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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.
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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.
October 18, 2019. 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.
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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May 23, 2019, Boston Center for the Arts
Join the conversation between the artists Marina Leybishkis, Nyugen E. Smith, Zsuzsanna Varga-Szegedi, and the curator Magdalena Moskalewicz, where they will discuss the artworks presented in the exhibition and inquire into the connections between post-socialist, post-Soviet and post-colonial conditions.
April 2, 2019, School of the Art Institue of Chicago
Conversation between project directors Luis Camnitzer and Rachel Weiss, and curator Magdalena Moskalewicz, moderated by Daniel Quiles.
Apr 25, 2018, The Arts Club of Chicago
Erzen Shkololli, Director of the National Gallery of Arts in Albania, will join Chicago-based art historian and curator Magdalena Moskalewicz to discuss contemporary art from the Balkans during the current political crisis.
In 2013, Kosovo participated for the first time in the Venice Biennale, with Erzen Shkololli serving as the exhibition commissioner. Kosovo’s inclusion was groundbreaking, and scholars from around the world have praised Shkololli’s prescient choice of contemporary Kosovar artists who have now been launched onto an international stage.
Feb 21-24, 2018, 106th Annual Conference of the College Art Association, Los Angeles
Paper delivered at at the panel ” Re-Staging Exhibitions: Past, Present, Future?” conveyed by Jane Chin Davidson, California State University, San Bernardino and Nicola Foster, The Open University
Nov 30-Dec 1, 2017, Poznań University of the Arts
Keynote speaker at European League of Institutes of the Arts 8th Leadership Symposium Heritage / Transition / Values.
Magdalena Moskalewicz 