Paweł Leszkowicz
Paweł Leszkowicz is a Polish art historian and art curator. He works as a lecturer and researcher at the Department of History of Art, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, and lectures at the University of Fine Arts in Poznań. He is a member of International Association of Art Critics.Biography
Leszkowicz studied art history, gender studies and journalism at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Courtauld Institute of Art in London; and he was a Fulbright scholar at New School University in New York. In 2000, he defended his doctoral dissertation on Helen Chadwick at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.
Leszkowicz is an LGBT rights activist. Together with his partner Tomasz Kitliński he took part in Poland's lesbian and gay visibility campaigns Let Them See Us and Equal in Europe. He is a member of Poland's Green Party.Exhibitions
- GK Collection, the first exhibition of the private art collection of Grażyna Kulczyk
- Love and Democracy, Poznań and Gdańsk, 2006
- Ars Homo Erotica at the National Museum in Warsaw, 2010
- Civil Partnerships: Feminist & Queer Art & Activism at the University of Brighton, 2012
Books
- Helen Chadwick. Ikonografia podmiotowości
- Miłość i demokracja. Rozważania o kwestii homoseksualnej w Polsce
- Art pride. Polska sztuka gejowska
- Nagi mężczyzna. Akt męski w sztuce polskiej po 1945 roku