On Fashion and Revolution

This short text was commissioned by the curators of Left Performance Histories, a pioneering and thought-provoking exhibition at NGBK, Berlin … More

Notes from the Underground at Akademie der Kunste, Berlin (March-May 2018)

To Rend and To Sew

This essay was published in a catalogue accompanying Beata Ewa Białecka’s 2018 Ave Kobieta exhibition at the National Gallery in Gdansk. … More

On Andrzej Klimowski

This essay was commissioned for a new book on the posters of Andrzej Klimowski published by Self-Made Hero in 2018. … More

Dan Perjovschi: The Power of the Margins

A piece written in 2010 ….   The international art world ‘discovered’ Dan Perjovschi in 1999 when his drawings were … More

Études with a camera – Dóra Maurer’s films and photoworks

  What can one do with a cobblestone? This was a question asked and answered by Dóra Maurer in 1971. … More

‘Consumer Art’ and Other Commodity Aesthetics in Eastern Europe under Communist Rule

  This essay was written for a book which was published by Centrum Sztuki Nowoczesnej in Warsaw in January 2017. … More

Király’s Immoderate Fashion

In 1986 Tamás Király arranged for his latest collection to be photographed on the steps of the Műcsarnok, the kunsthalle … More

Art, Emotion and Activism in the Post-Socialist Cityscape in Eastern Europe

In 2014 developers in Kraków in southern Poland proposed the construction of ‘Nowa Cracovia’, an office and retail development on … More

The Peasant in the City

This piece was written for a Zacheta show, Polska – kraj folkloru? You can download the catalogue in English here. … More