This essay was published in a catalogue accompanying Beata Ewa Białecka’s 2018 Ave Kobieta exhibition at the National Gallery in Gdansk. … More
Category: Eastern Europe
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
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
Notes from the Underground
In September, Daniel Muzyczuk and I curated a show entitled ‘Notes from the Underground’ for the Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz … More
Modernism Redux
In October 1993, Charles Jencks, the leading advocate of architectural postmodernism, was guest of honour at an international conference and … More
The Future is Between Your Legs: Sex, Art and Censorship in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
This is a draft version of a text which will be published by Nottingham Contemporary in 2016. In … More