Piotr Piotrowski

art theorist and curator, Poznan/Warsaw

Piotr Piotrowski (born 1952, died 2015) was Professor Ordinarius and Chair of Modern Art History at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań where he was Director of the Institute of Art History from 1999 to 2008. Since August 2009, he was Director of the

Piotr Piotrowski (born 1952, died 2015) was Professor Ordinarius and Chair of Modern Art History at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań where he was Director of the Institute of Art History from 1999 to 2008. Since August 2009, he was Director of the National Museum in Warsaw. From 1992 till 1997, Piotrowski was a Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Museum, Poznań. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (2001) and at Hebrew University in Jerusalem (2003), among other institutions. Piotrowski was a FORMER WEST Research Advisor and was a fellow at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, where he worked on a book project entitled “New Art – New Democracy in Post-communist Europe.” He was also a fellow at, among others, Collegium Budapest, Budapest (2005–2006), the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2000), Humboldt University, Berlin (1997), Columbia University, New York City (1994), and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Washington D.C. (1989–1990). He has advised and co-organized a number of exhibitions and projects including: 2000+: The Art from Eastern Europe in Dialogue with the West, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, 2000 and The Central European Avant-Gardes: Exchange and Transformation, 1910–1930, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, 2001. Piotrowski has written extensively on Central European art and culture. He is the author of a dozen books including Art and Democracy in Post-Communist Europe (2012); Avant-Garde in the Shadow of Yalta. Art in Central-Eastern Europe, 1945–1989 (2009); Art after Politics (2007); Grenzen überwinded [Conquered Borders], co-edited with Katja Bernhardt (2006); and Meanings of Modernism. Towards a History of Polish Art after 1945 (1999). [Last updated 2015]