Paweł Leszkowicz (born 17 December 1970) is a Polish art historian and art curator. He works as a lecturer and researcher at the Department of History of Art, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, and lectures at the University of Fine Arts in Poznań. He is a member of International Association of Art Critics.
Biography
Leszkowicz studied art history, gender studies and journalism at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Courtauld Institute of Art in London; and he was a Fulbright scholar at New School University in New York. In 2000, he defended his doctoral dissertation on Helen Chadwick at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.
Leszkowicz is an LGBT rights activist. Together with his partner Tomasz Kitliński he took part in Poland's lesbian and gay visibility campaigns Let Them See Us and Equal in Europe. He is a member of Poland's Green Party.
Exhibitions
- GK Collection, the first exhibition of the private art collection of Grażyna Kulczyk (the main private collector of contemporary art in Poland)
- Love and Democracy, Poznań and Gdańsk, 2006
- Ars Homo Erotica at the National Museum in Warsaw, 2010
- Civil Partnerships: Feminist & Queer Art & Activism at the University of Brighton, 2012 (with Lara Perry and Tomasz Kitliński)
Books
- Helen Chadwick. Ikonografia podmiotowości (2001)
- Miłość i demokracja. Rozważania o kwestii homoseksualnej w Polsce (2005, with Tomasz Kitliński)
- Art pride. Polska sztuka gejowska (2010)
- Nagi mężczyzna. Akt męski w sztuce polskiej po 1945 roku (2012)
Bibliography
- Jon Davis, "Towards an Intimate Democracy in Europe: Pawel Leszkowicz's Queer Curating", Journal of Curatorial Studies; February 2013, Vol. 2 Issue 1, p. 54-69.
References
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
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- "The National Museum in Warsaw / Temporary exhibitions / Foreign press about the exhibition". Archived from the original on 27 October 2012. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
- http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/65385/CivilP_Booklet_FINAL_email.pdf Archived 23 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
- 1970 births
- Academic staff of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
- European art curators
- Polish LGBTQ rights activists
- Polish art historians
- Living people
- The Greens (Poland) politicians
- Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań alumni
- Alumni of the Courtauld Institute of Art
- Academic staff of the University of Fine Arts in Poznań
- Polish curators