Piotr Piotrowski
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June 14, 1952 Poznań, Poland |
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May 3, 2015 (aged 62) Poznań, Poland |
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Piotr Piotrowski (1952, Poznań - 2015, Poznań) was a Polish art historian and curator.
He received his MA and PhD from Adam Mickiewicz University and worked there as Professor ordinarius in the Art History Department of Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, which he chaired from 1999 to 2008. Research Fellow of the Graduate School for East and South-East European Studies, Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität, München/ Regensburg Universität. He also was the co-editor of the annual journal Artium Quaestiones (1994-2009), director of the National Museum in Warsaw (2009-2010), and Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Museum in Poznan (1992-1997). Visiting Professor at Humboldt University (2011-2012), Warsaw University (2011, 2012-2013), the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College USA (2001), and Hebrew University in Jerusalem (2003). He was a fellow at—among others—the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, Washington D.C. (1989-1990), Columbia University (1994), the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J. (2000), Collegium Budapest (2005-2006), and the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA (2009). For his scholarly achievements Piotrowski received among others the Jan Dlugosz Award (Krakow 2006), and the Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory (Barcelona 2010).
Publications
Books
- Metafizyka obrazu. O teorii sztuki i postawie artystycznej Stanisława Ignacego Witkiewicza, Poznań: UAM, 1985. (Polish)
- Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Warsaw: KAW, 1989. (Polish)
- Dekada. O syndromie lat siedemdziesiątych, kulturze artystycznej, krytyce, sztuce – wybiórczo i subiektywnie, Poznań: Obserwator, 1991. (Polish)
- Artysta między rewolucją i reakcją. Studium z zakresu etycznej historii sztuki awangardy rosyjskiej, Poznań: UAM, 1993. (Polish)
- W cieniu Duchampa. Notatki nowojorskie, Poznań: Obserwator, 1996. (Polish)
- Znaczenia modernizmu. W stronę historii sztuki polskiej po 1945 roku, Poznań: Rebis, 1999; 2nd ed., 2011, 288 pp. [1] (Polish)
- Awangarda w cieniu Jałty. Sztuka w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej w latach 1945-1989, Poznań: Rebis, 2005. (Polish)
- In the Shadow of Yalta. Art and the Avant-garde in Eastern Europe, 1945-1989, trans. Anna Brzyski, London: Reaktion Books, 2009, 487 pp. (English)
- Avangarda u sjeni Jalte: umjetnost Srednjoistočne Europe u razdoblju 1945-1989, Zagreb: Institut za povijest umjetnosti, 2011, 485 pp. (Croatian)
- editor, with Katja Bernhardt, Grenzen überwiegend. Festschrift für Adam S. Labuda zum 60. Geburtstag, Berlin: Lukas, 2006, 262 pp. (German)
- Sztuka według polityki. Od Melancholii do Pasji, Cracow: Universitas, 2007. (Polish)
- Agorafilia. Sztuka i demokracja w postkomunistycznej Europie, Poznań: Rebis, 2010, 304 pp. [2] (Polish)
- Muzeum krytyczne, Poznań: Rebis, 2011, 176 pp. [3] (Polish)
- Kritĉki Muzej, Belgrade: Evropa Nostra/Centar za muzeologiju i heritologiju Univerziteta u Beogradu, 2013. (Serbian)
- Sztuka i demokracja w postkomunistycznej Europie, 2010. (Polish)
- Art and Democracy in Post-Communist Europe, trans. Anna Brzyski, London: Reaktion Books, 2012, 312 pp. [4]. Reviews: Popa (JCRAS 2013 FR), Smith (JCES 2014), Smolianskaïa (Critique d'art). (English)
- editor, with Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius, From Museum Critique to the Critical Museum, Ashgate, 2015. TOC, Introduction. (English)
- editor, with Jérôme Bazin and Pascal Dubourg Glatigny, Art Beyond Borders: Artistic Exchange in Communist Europe (1945-1989), Budapest: Central European University Press, 2016. (English)
- Globalne ujęcie sztuki Europy Wschodniej, Poznań: Rebis, 2018, 208 pp. [5] (Polish)
- editor, with Arnold Bartetzky, Vom Sozialistischen Realismus zur Kunst der Gegenwart (1945−heute), De Gruyter, forthcoming, 624 pp. [6] (German)
Catalogues
- editor, Galeria odNOWA 1964-1969, Poznań: Muzeum Narodowe, 1993. Catalogue. (Polish)
- editor, Odwilż. Sztuka ok. 1956 r., Poznań: Muzeum Narodowe, 1996. Catalogue. (Polish)
- editor, Jarosław Kozłowski – Przestrzenie czasu, Poznań: Muzeum Narodowe, 1997. Catalogue. (Polish)
- editor, Zofia Kulik – Od Syberii do Cyberii, Poznań: Muzeum Narodowe, 1999. Catalogue. (Polish)
Essays
- "Nad mapą neoawangardy Europy Środkowej lat siedemdziesiątych XX wieku", Artium Quaestiones XIII, 2002, pp 125-228. (Polish)
- "Toward a Horizontal History of the European Avant-Garde", trans. Marek Wilczyński, in Europa! Europa? The Avant-Garde, Modernism and the Fate of a Continent, 1, ed. Sascha Bru, et al., Berlin: De Gruyter, 2009, pp 49-58. (English)
- "East European Art Peripheries Facing Post-Colonial Theory", Nonsite 12 (Aug 2014). (English)
- "From Global to Alter-Globalist Art History", Teksty Drugie 1, 2015, pp 112-134. (English)
- More
- Essays in Artium Quaestiones, 1991-2006. (Polish),(English)
Links
- Profile on Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (archived)
- Piotr Piotrowski Center for Research on East-Central European Art, Faculty of Historical Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland, est. 2018.
- Obituaries: ARTMargins, The Guardian
