Wojciech Szymański - global dis:connect

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Wojciech Szymański

Wojciech Szymański is an art historian and critic, independent curator and assistant professor at the University of Warsaw. He has authored The Argonauts: Postminimalism and Art After Modernism: Eva Hesse – Felix Gonzalez-Torres – Roni Horn – Derek Jarman (2015; in Polish) and several dozen articles and edited numerous exhibition catalogues along with the journal Ikonotheka. Wojciech has led a number of Polish and international research projects and Małgorzata Mirga-Tas’s exhibition Re-enchanting the World in the Polish Pavilion at the 59^th Biennale Arte in Venice (2022).

Wojciech joined global dis:connect as an artist fellow.

History of Art/History of Violence: From the Belle Époque to the Genocid

Edouard Manet’s lost painting Les Bohemiens (1862) provides an insight into the relationship between non-Roma artists or bohemians and members of Roma communities in the second half of the 19th century. The first aim of the project is to investigate the relationships between Roma subjects and non-Roma artists in Paris, to restore the visibility and identity of the Roma in relation to contemporary Munich-based art. The second issue is the Roma and Sinti Holocaust. The overarching goal is to look at Roma–non-Roma relations in Munich in the first half of the 20th century, when anti-Roma politics and discrimination grew, ultimately leading to their extermination.

Have a look at Wojciech’s research poster about his project, on which he worked together with Małgorzata Mirga-Tas. The two of them also attended an artist talk at global dis:connect.

Contact

Click HERE to mail Wojciech and HERE for a list of his publications.