Team

Małgorzata Stolarska-Fronia, PhD – chief researcher of the project. An art historian, curator, researcher, lecturer, translator. Educated at the University of Wrocław (Poland), Marburg University (Germany) and University of Sussex (UK). Former head of the Research Department and co-curator of the Paradisus Iudaeorum gallery, part of the core exhibition at the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. The curator and author of the Polish adaptation of the Krew. łączy i dzieli/Blood. Uniting i Dividing exhibition at the Polin Museum. She has carried out research and educational projects in cooperation with the Taube Department of Jewish Studies in Wrocław, Centre for Historical Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Berlin, Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), GWZO – Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe, University of Augsburg and University of Potsdam. Co-organiser of the pioneering international Congresses of Jewish Art (2008, 2014). She has authored articles and books on international Jewish avant-garde published in Poland and abroad.

Renata Piątkowska, PhD – researcher working with Aurelia Gottlieb’s notebooks. An art historian, she has been working at the Museum of the History of Polish Jews since 1999, currently as Chief Curator of the Collection. A specialist in the history of Jewish painting in the 19th and 20th centuries. She is the author of many articles and publications, including Między Ziemiańską a Montparnassem. Roman Kramszyk (2004), and numerous articles devoted to Abraham Ostrzega and pogroms in the work of Jewish artists in Poland.

Maria Zielniewicz – digital archive editor, PhD student at the Doctoral School of Humanities, University of Warsaw, she had graduated in Polish Philology from the University of Warsaw and Gender Studies from the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences; postgraduate studies in Interior and Furniture Design (On-Arch), author of research articles mostly devoted to feminist and posthumanist interpretations of Polish literature.

Magdalena Furmanik-Kowalska, PhD – coordinator of the project, an art historian, research manager at the Art & Modern Foundation. Educated at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (doctoral studies – Art Sciences, 2008–2014; MA in Cultural Protection, 2001–2006). A member of AICA – the International Association of Art Critics. She has co-organised more than 20 international conferences, including The First Conference of Polish And Chinese Historians of Art Poland – China. Art And Cultural Heritage, 2009; The Art of Islamic World and Relations Between the Art of Islamic Countries and Poland, 2009; The First Congress of Jewish Art in Poland Jewish Artists and Central-Eastern Europe 19th Century to WWII, 2008. Between 2012 and 2020, she was the Deputy Director of Study Centre at the Polish Institute of World Art Studies (coordination of over 30 research and publishing projects, including the five-year Katalog dzieł malarskich Henryka Siemiradzkiego – grant from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education within the framework of the National Programme for the Development of the Humanities NPRH, led by Prof. Jerzy Malinowski; several-year-long Rezydencje i siedziby szlacheckie w Wielkim Księstwie Litewskim. Materiały do dziejów architektury, cz. I i II. Dawne województwo wileńskie, led by Prof. Tadeusz Bernatowicz, in association with the POLONIKA Institute; 波兰 美术 通史/ Dzieje sztuki polskiej, collaboration with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute; “Bramy nieba”, Maria i Kazimierz Piechotka, p. I and II, in association with the Museum of the History of Polish Jews; co-funded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, and Catalogue of works of Polish and Jewish artists from Poland in the collection of Israeli museums – commission from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage).

Krzysztof Wejman – President of the Art & Modern Foundation. Graduated in Cultural Studies from the University of Wrocław. A collector and owner of the Wejman Gallery with wide experience in exhibiting art and building websites devoted to art. Initiator of many shows and collateral catalogues of Polish artists, including Jan Lebenstein, Leopold Gottlieb, Hel Enri, Bolesław Biegas, Stanisław Kubicki and Elie Nadelman. An expert on the School of Paris and other Polish modernist art. A member of the Association of Polish Art and Antique Dealers.