Magdalena Radomska

Magdalena Radomska is Post-Marxist art historian and historian of philosophy, Assistant Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. She holds a PhD in art history, and has received scholarships at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest and at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. She was a director and lecturer of the course Writing Humanities after the Fall of Communism in 2009 at Central European University in Budapest. In 2013 her book The Politics of Movements of Hungarian Neoavantgarde (1966-80) was published. Radomska received Getty Foundation Grant (Connecting Art Histories ) for the project ‘1989 as War and Revolution’ (2022), she has been Polish director of Visegrad Grant – ‘Resonances: Regional and Transregional Cultural Transfer in the Art of the 1970’, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest (from 2020), has been partner  of Visegrad Grant on ‘Contemporary art in Middle Europe’. She received research grant at MSU in Zagreb. She was also Polish director of Visegrad Grant ‘Long Sixties’, Ludwig Muzeum, Budapest (2013). Recently Radomska has co-editedbook ‚Horizontal Art History and Beyond Revising Peripheral Critical Practices’, Jakubowska Agata, Radomska Magdalena (ed.), Routledge 2022. She is also editor of book ‚After Piotr Piotrowski : Art, Democracy and Friendship’, Jakubowska Agata, Radomska Magdalena (ed.), Poznań 2020, and WORK FOR SMALL CHANGE FRANCISZEK ORŁOWSKI PRACA ZA/ NA DROBNE / Radomska Magdalena (ed.), Warsaw 2018. Her recent publications include: ‚What Isn’t Orthodox Horizontal Art History’, in:Umeni 2/2021; Working in the Twice-mined Semantic Minefield: The Politics of Hungarian Neo-avant-garde Movements, in: Art in Hungary 1956-1980 Doublespeak and Beyond / Turai Hedvig, Sasvari Edit, Sandor Hornyik (red.), 2018, Thames&Hudson; Drawn from Communism: Anti-Capitalist Drawing from Central-Eastern Europe, in: A Companion to Contemporary Drawing / Chorpening Kelly , Fortnum Rebecca, Arnold Dana (ed.), Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Art History, 2020. Currently Radomska is engaged in a research on the Post-Communist art in Post-Communist Europe (grant received from the National Science Center) and criticism of capitalism in art (book: he Plural Subject: Art and Crisis after 2008) and – as her second PhD – she is writing a monograph on Post-Marxism. She is a member of both Polish and Hungarian AICA and editor of magazine Czas Kultury. She is board member of magazine Sztuka I Dokumentacja. Radomska is a founder and a head of Piotr Piotrowski Center for Research On East-Central European Art. http://piotrpiotrowskicenter.amu.edu.pl