Agata Jakubowska
Agata Jakubowska is a historian of modern and contemporary art. She received her Master’s degree in 1995 and her doctorate in 2000 at the Institute of Art History of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan under the supervision of Professor Piotr Piotrowski (thesis published as On the margins of the mirror. The female body in the works of Polish female artists, in Polish, Cracow: Universitas, 2004). She received her habilitation in 2009 based on the book Multiple Portrait of the Work of Alina Szapocznikow (Poznań: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2008). Until 2021, she worked at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, heading the Chair of Modern Art History from 2009 to 2020.
At the Warsaw University, she conducts a research project entitled Globalizing the History of All-Women Exhibitions (2021-2025, funded by the National Science Centre). She also conducts with Prof. Andrea Giunta (University of Buenos Aires) a research seminar Narrating Art and Feminism. Eastern Europe and Latin America (as part of the Getty Foundation Connecting Art Histories initiative).
Author and editor of numerous publications devoted to women’s art.
Member of the editorial team of Avant-Garde Critical Studies (Brill). Member of the international TEAM team (Teaching, E-learning, Agency, Mentoring) led by AWARE (Archives of Women Artists Research & Exhibitions). (2024)
Publications[edit]
- Sztuka i emancypacja kobiet w socjalistyczne Polsce. Przypadek Marii Pinińskiej-Bereś [Art and the Emancipation of Women in socialist Poland. The case of Maria Pinińska-Bereś], Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2022. TOC, Introduction. (Polish)
- Horizontal Art History and Beyond: Revising Peripheral Critical Practices (editor, with Magdalena Radomska), Routledge, 2022, 232 pp. Publisher. Review: Tomáš Pospiszyl (ARTMargins).
- After Piotr Piotrowski: Art, Democracy and Friendship (editor, with Magdalena Radomska), Poznań: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2019, 233 pp. Introduction. Publisher, TOC. Review: Lomová (Umění). [1] [2]
- "Umění, demokracie a přátelství - po Piotru Piotrowském", in Umění a emancipace: výbor z textů Piotra Piotrowského, Prague: VVP AVU, 2022, pp 21-28. Trans. of Introduction. (Czech)
- Zofia Kulik. Methodology, My Love (editor), Warsaw: Museum of Modern Art, 2019. TOC, Introduction.
- All-Women Art Spaces in Europe in the long 1970s (editor, with Katy Deepwell), Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2018.
- Natalia LL. „Consumer Art” and Beyond (editor), Warsaw: CCA Ujazdowski Castle, 2016. TOC, Introduction. Essay.
- Alina Szapocznikow. Awkward objects (editor), Warsaw: Museum of Modern Art, 2011.
- Portret wielokrotny dzieła Aliny Szapocznikow, Poznań: Adama Mickiewicz University, 2008. [3] (Polish)
- Na marginesach lustra. Ciało kobiece w pracach polskich artystek, Cracow: Universitas, 2004, 194 pp. Publisher. (Polish)
