Education:
Department of Modern Art History, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun
Ph.D. in Art Studies (2014)
Thesis: Culture Trouble: The Contemporary Art of Japanese and Chinese Women
Institute of Applied Social Sciences, The University of Warsaw
Postgraduate certificate course: Gender Studies (2009)
Thesis: Relation between woman and water as a context of art by Sigalit Landau
Department of Modern Art History, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun
Master in Cultural Heritage Preservation (2006)
Thesis: In search of new identity. Asian immigrant women artists between the currents of world art and native culture.
Professional experience:
May 2025
Concept and leadership of the international workshop " Polish Jews and modernism", ERASMUS+, WIT Academy
May 2025
Concept and leadership of the international workshop "Phenomenon of Warsaw Historical Art Studios", ERASMUS+, WIT Academy
2023 March – recent
Lecturer, Faculty of Graphic Design, WIT Academy, Warsaw
(lectures: History of modern art; Visual perception and artistic creation; New trends in art; exercises: Interpreting a work of art)
2022 March – recent
Research and Project Manager of Art & Modern Foundation
2021 September – 2023 March
Art Manger of Wejman Gallery
2020 October – 2021 February
Lecturer, Faculty of Fine Arts, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun
(seminar "Feminism and Gender")
2016 March – 2019 December
Associate Director of the Study Center of Polish Institute of World Art Studies
May 2015
Lecturer, Institute of Artistic Education, Maria Grzegorzewska Academy of Special Education in Warsaw
(exercises "Knowledge of the Means of Artistic Expression")
2010 March – June
Lecturer at post-graduate courses at „Gender Studies” of Institute of Applied Social Sciences, The University of Warsaw
(original lectures "Woman's Art and Feminist Art")
2005 January – February
Assistant of a museologist in the Asian and Pacific Museum in Warsaw – internship
Scholarships and grants:
May – October 2014 – grant of Faculty of Fine Art, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun
September 2010 – grant of Polish Academy of Science (a study visit in China)
2008-2012 – doctoral scholarship of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun
2008-2009, 2010-2011, and 2011-2012 – scholarship for best Ph.D. candidates, founded by Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun
Membership:
AICA – Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art, since February 2013
The Polish Institute of World Art Studies, since June 2011 (Secretary of Research Council, June 2014 – March 2016; Associate Director of Study Center, March 2016 – December 2019)
The Polish Society of Oriental Art (Treasurer, 2007- 2011)
Papers and participation in conferences:
2006
Lecture "Modernists - how they changed art and the social roles of women" on the occasion of Women's Day, Art & Modern Foundation
2025
Jubilee Conference on the 25th Anniversary of the Polish Institute of World Art Studies, Warsaw Paper: O badaniach artystek japońskich i chińskich w Polsce i na świecie (On the Research of Japanese and Chinese Women Artists in Poland and Around the World)
Seminar "Art and Artistic Traditions of Asia and Africa," University of Warsaw and the Polish Institute of World Art Studies
Lecture: Tradycja kulturowa a współczesne technologie. Wybrane przykłady twórczości artystów z Azji Wschodniej (Cultural Tradition and Contemporary Technologies: Selected Examples of the Work of East Asian Artists)
2024
Workshop "A Journey in the Renaissance in Rome and Latium", SSML Gregorio VII I Istitutio Restauro Roma, Rome, ERASMUS+ Staff Mobility for Training
International workshop „Expanding Artistic Expression in the Digital Age” University of Art and Design Cluj Napoca,
Paper: Perception of art, new forms of communication and the methodology of teaching art history.
2023
Conference 10th ANNIVERSARY MEETING ON ORIENTAL ART „BUDDHIAN ART”, Polish Institute of World Art Studies and State Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw
Paper: Tradycja kulturowa czy kicz? Ikonografia buddyjska w sztuce współczesnych artystek z Azji Wschodniej (Cultural Tradition or Kitsch? Buddhist Iconography in the Art of Contemporary East Asian Female Artists)
International Itinerant Conference ART – LANGUAGE – TECHNOLOGY, SpeakART, WIT Academy
Paper: Virtual worlds as a space of creation and a new form of language communication in Chinese artworks
2022
Academy of the Fine Art in Gdańsk, PATIO
Series „Techno-lokacje. Od sztuki generatywnej do blockchain art„
Lecture: Ucieczka od rzeczywistości czy przestrzeń walki? Sieć, wirtualne światy i media społecznościowe w twórczości artystek i artystów chińskich
Academy of the Fine Art in Gdańsk
Series „Strategie horyzontalne. (De)kolonizacja„
Lecture: Uwikłane w kulturę. Znaczenie kontekstów kulturowych w badaniach sztuki artystek japońskich i chińskich (Gender Trouble. The importance of cultural contexts in the study of the art of Japanese and Chinese artists)
2018
CCVA 11th Annual Conference „Everyday Legend: Reinventing Traditions in Contemporary Chinese Art”, Centre for Chinese Visual Art, Birmingham City University
Paper: Which Tradition is Mine? Chinese Women Artists and Cultural Identity
Meetings „Noc Orientu” (Oriental Night), The Royal Castle in Warsaw
Lecture: Wojowniczki, artystki, czy uległe konkubiny… Wizerunek kobiet Dalekiego Wschodu (Warriors, artists, or submissive concubines … The image of women from the Far East).
2017
CCVA 10th Annual Conference „Chinese Art Outside the Art Space”, Centre for Chinese Visual Art, Birmingham City University
Paper: Social Media Art and/or Interactive Art? ‘Exhibitionist: PeeP Strem’ by Funa Ye and Beio
The Third National Conference of Clothing Studies „Co (nie)przystoi mężczyźnie (What does (not) suit a man)”, PIWAS & Asia and Pacific Museum& SHS – main organiser
2015
The 8th Annual CCVA Conference on „Transdisciplinary China – Research in Practice”, Centre for Chinese Visual Arts, Birmingham City University
Paper: Culture Trouble: The Significance of Cultural Context in Art Historian’s Research on Chinese Contemporary Art
International Conference „Animals in Japanese Culture and Religion”, Warsaw University
Paper: Fajniusi przyjaciele czy mityczne bestie? Zwierzęta w twórczości Takano Ayi (Cute friends or mythical creatures? Animals in artwork by Takano Aya)
International Conference „East Asian Theatres: Traditions – Inspirations – European / Polish Contexts”, Polish Society of Oriental Art and Museum of Japanese Art and Technology „Maggha”, Krakow
Paper: Chinese opera as a significant element of contemporary artwork
The Second National Conference of Clothing Studies „Sztuka stroju, strój w sztuce (The art of dress – dress in art)”, PIWAS & Asia and Pacific Museum& SHS – main organiser
Paper: Ubiór w instalacjach artystów chińskich(Clothing and Chinese installation art)
Seminar of Warsaw Branch of Polish Institute of World Art Studies
Lecture: East Asian Art at the Hong Kong’s art fair (Art Basel and Art Central) in 2015
Interdisciplinary symposium „(No) willed identity”, Center of Contemporary Art „Znaki Czasu” in Torun
Paper: Sytuacja psychicznie chorych w Chinach a ich (nie)obecność w sztuce współczesnej (The situation of the mentally ill in China and their (non-) presence in contemporary art)
2014
Asian Academy, Five Flavour Festival, Warsaw
Lecture: Seksualność i nagość w sztuce chińskiej (Sexuality and nudity in Chinese art)
2013
Seminar of Warsaw Branch of Polish Institute of World Art Studies
Lecture: Uwikłane w kulturę. O twórczości współczesnych artystek japońskich i chińskich (Culture Trouble: The Contemporary Art of Japanese and Chinese Women)
2012
The 7th Meeting of Art Historians and Conservators of the Oriental Art, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland
Paper: Tradycyjne rzemiosło w chińskiej sztuce współczesnej (Traditional craft in contemporary Chinese art)
National Conference „Costume – mirror of culture, Polish Institute of World Art Studies and Museum of Asia and Pacific in Warsaw
Paper: Rola kimona w sztuce współczesnych artystek japońskich (Kimono in the contemporary Japanese women art)
2011
International Conference „Old Art Inspirations in the Art of the 20th and 21st Century”, Modern Art Association and Center of Contemporary Art „Znaki Czasu” in Torun
Paper: Culture and globalization in Wang Qingsong’s photography
2nd International Conference „Reality – Expression -Silence in the Philosophy and Culture of the East”, Jagiellonian University, Krakow
Paper: Białe pejzaże – przestrzenie kontemplacji we współczesnej sztuce chińskiej (White landscapes – spaces of contemplation in contemporary Chinese art)
2010
International Conference „Art of Japan, Japanisms and Polish-Japanese Art Relations”, Polish Society of Oriental Art and Museum of Japanese Art and Technology „Maggha”, Krakow
Paper: Cultural performance in photography of Japanese women artists
The 6th Meeting of Art Historians and Conservators of the Oriental Art, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland
Paper: Elementy kultury japońskiej w sztuce współczesnych artystek (The elements of the Japanese culture in contemporary women art)
National Conference „Power of the Fairy-Tale”, Jagiellonian University, Krakow
Paper: Bohaterki bajek w fotografiach współczesnych artystek (Fairy-tales heroines in photography of contemporary artists)
2009
National Conference „Ugly in Fine Arts. Ugliness, Deformation and Expression in Modern Art”, Modern Art Association and Center of Contemporary Art „Znak Czasu” in Torun
Paper: Krwawy sznur. Kilka kontekstów cyklu fotograficznego ‘Bind’ Ryoko Suzuki (Bloody Rope. Some context of photographic series ‘Bind’ by Ryoko Suzuki)
International Conference „Negotiating Difference. Contemporarty Chinese Art in the Global Context”, Freie Universität Berlin
The First Conference of Polish And Chinese Historians of Art „Poland – China. Art And Cultural Heritage”, Polish Society of Oriental Art and Confucius Institute in Krakow, Poland
Paper: Threads between past and future: Installations of Lin Tianmiao
2008
The 5th Meeting of Art Historians and Conservators of the Oriental Art, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland
Paper: ‘Św. Sebastian’ według Fiony Tan (‘Saint Sebastian’ by Fiona Tan)
International Conference „Art of China”, Polish Society of Oriental Art and State Ethnographical Museum in Warsaw
Paper: Artystki chińskie o sobie i swojej kulturze (Chinese women artist about themselves and their culture)
2007
National Conference „The Art of Japan”, Polish Society of Oriental Art and State Ethnographical Museum in Warsaw, Poland
Paper: Rola artystek w kształtowaniu się japońskiej sztuki współczesnej (A role of women artists in the development of contemporary Japanese art)
2006
National Conference of Students and Researchers „The Past without History”, University of Silesia, Katowice (Poland)
Paper: W poszukiwaniu zaginionej tożsamości Chinki (In search of lost identity of Chinese woman)
The 4th Meeting of Art Historians and Conservators Oriental Art, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland
Paper: Miejsce Japonek wśród prekursorek sztuki wideo (A role of Japanese women artists among forerunners of video art)
2005
The 2nd National Conference of Orient Researchers „ORIENT – Civilization, Cultures, Societies, Languages”, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
Paper: Elementy kultury i tradycji we współcznesnej sztuce azjatyckiej (The elements of culture and tradition in contemporary Asian art)