Katarzyna Matul
Poland
Art historian, museum curator and researcher.
Who?
Art historian, graduate of the University of Warsaw, former curator of the International Poster Biennale in Warsaw, and recipient of a scholarship from the Swiss National Science Foundation. In 2018, she completed her PhD at the University of Lausanne.
Her research focuses on art and graphic design after 1945 from the perspectives of art history, social and cultural history, and the sociology of art.
She is the author of the books How Was It Possible? On the Creation of the International Poster Biennale in Warsaw, De la résistance à l'autonomie, L'affiche polonaise face au réalisme socialiste 1944–1954 (Alphil, 2023), and The Artistic Legitimation of the Poster in the Polish People’s Republic 1944–1968).
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