Jurkiewicz – Astronomer/architect

This essay was published in the 2021 book accompanying the ZDZISŁAW JURKIEWICZ. OCCURRENCES exhibition at the Muzeum Narodowe in Wrocław … More

Facing Space – Jarek Kozakiewicz

This is an extract from a much longer essay which I wrote about the work of artist Jarek Kozakiewicz who … More

This essay on the afterlives of Picasso’s painting ‘Guernica’ appeared in Polish in Nigdy więcej. Sztuka przeciw wojnie i faszyzmowi … More

I gave this lecture in New York at the Bard Graduate Centre in 2018 at a symposium on Revivalism in … More

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

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

This essay is a transcript of a talk given in Zakopane in late 2014. It will appear in a … More

This talk was given in Zurich at ETH in autumn 2014. In the late 1950 and 1960s a new kind … More

In 1967 Stanislav Kolibal, the Czech artist, was commissioned to design the August-September cover of Výtvarné Uměni (Fine Arts) (fig … More

In September 1974 Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid exhibited four works at an exhibition of nonconformist art in Moscow, which … More