Magdalena Moskalewicz

Magdalena Moskalewicz, PhD is an art historian, curator, and editor, who specializes in art from the former Eastern Europe from the early avant-gardes until today. Her academic research mostly focuses on the art of the 1950s, 60s and 70s, while her curatorial practice examines the postsocialist condition and its parallels with postcoloniality. She is a faculty member at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she teaches curatorial and museum studies as well as history of modern and contemporary art.

Magdalena was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral C-MAP Fellow at MoMA (2012-2015) and the founding co-editor of post, responsible for the Central and Eastern European contents.

Contributions

Global Conceptualism Reconsidered

In the fifteen years since the exhibition Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s–1980s was on view at the Queens Museum, the term global has become ever more thoroughly entrenched in the lexicon of contemporary art. Although one might therefore draw a direct line between the 1999 exhibition and the ever-present “global contemporary” of the art world, texts by two…