Karolina Łabowicz-Dymanus, PhD, is an art historian, Head of the Department of the 20th and 21st Century Visual Arts Documentation at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Her research interests include the methods of Alter-Globalist Art History and the modernisation processes in the 1950s and the 1990s. She currently works on the project Global Contacts of the Polish People’s Republic: An artistic exchange between Socialist Poland and Socialist Asia in the 1950s.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
I am currently the Head of the Department of the 20th and 21st Visual Arts Documentation at the Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences. My work involves overseeing the oldest and most comprehensive archive of visual art and documentation of artistic life in Poland established in 1949. I hold a PhD in Art History from the Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences.
Professional Roles and Responsibilities
Head of Department of the 20th and 21st Visual Arts Documentation, Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences (January 2021 - Present)
Publications on the role of the Department of the 20th and 21st Visual Arts Documentation at the Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences in Polish art life:
Karolina Łabowicz-Dymanus, The Library of the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Mirroring „official” and „unofficial” distribution of knowledge, 1949-1970, „Kunstiteaduslikke Uurimusi [Studies on Art and Architecture]”, 30/1-2 [2021[: 69-82.
Karolina Łabowicz-Dymanus, Normative Practice and “Tradition Management” in the Polish Art and History of Art of the 1950s. In: A Socialist Realist History?: Writing Art History in the Post-War Decades, red. Kristina Jõekalda, Krista Kodres, Michaela Marek, Köln, Weimar, Wien 2019, 81-99.
Karolina Łabowicz-Dymanus, The Year 1954. A Time of Doctrinal Discussions. In: Polskie Życie Artystyczne w latach 1944-1960, red. Anna Wierzbicka, Warszawa 2021, 32-40.
