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Pawel Leszkowicz is a Professor of Contemporary Art and Curatorial Studies at the Academy of Art in Stettin. He is an academic lecturer/researcher and a freelance curator specializing in global contemporary art, curatorial, and LGBTQ+ studies. He is the author of Ars Homo Erotica (2010) exhibition at Warsaw's National Museum and numerous pioneering queer exhibitions and symposia in Poland and the UK.
He has written four books: Helen Chadwick. The Iconography of Subjectivity (2001), Love and Democracy. Reflections on the Homosexual Question in Poland (2005), Art Pride. Gay Art from Poland (2010), and The Naked Man: The Male Nude in post-1945 Polish Art (2012). As part of his research on the history of exhibitions and art institutions, he edited two books about the Bathhouse Center for Contemporary Art in Gdańsk: CCA Bathouse: Architecture, Art, and History (2008), CCA Bathouse in Gdansk as a Work of Public Art (2018).
His scholarly contributions have been published by Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, New York University Press, Ashgate, Manchester University Press, and Heidelberg University Press. He was the EU Marie Curie Research Fellow at the University of Sussex in Brighton (2011-2014), a Senior Fulbright Research Fellow at One Gay and Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries in Los Angeles (2015-2016), the EU EURIAS Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (2016-2017), a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies (ZtG) at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (2021-2022). He was a lecturer and/or a researcher at all these international universities, including Adam Mickiewicz University and Fine Art Academy in Poznan.
His exhibitions and catalogs include Love and Democracy, Centre for Contemporary Art – Bathhouse, Gdansk, (2006) Art from Grażyny Kulczyk Collection, Art Station Foundation, Poznan (2007) The Empire of Senses, Academy of Fine Art Foundation, Poznan (2008), Vogue, Bathhouse, Gdansk (2009), Urban Legends. Public Art Festival, Academy of Fine Art Foundation, Poznan (2009), Ars Homo Erotica, National Museum, Warsaw (2010), Love is Love. Art as LGBTQ Activism from the UK to Belarus, Labirynth Gallery, Lublin (2011), Civil Partnerships. Feminist and Queer Art and Activism in the UK, University of Brighton Galleries, Brighton (2012), Healing War Through Art, University of Brighton Galleries, Brighton (2014), War and Peace, Labirynth Galleries, Lublin (2015), Hospitality. Public Art Festival in Lublin (2019), Creative Sick States: AIDS, CANCER, HIV, Arsenal City Contemporary Art Gallery, Poznan (2019). Barbara Falender. Through the Touch at the Centre for the Meeting of Cultures in Lublin (2023).
Paweł Leszkowicz is a member of the International Art Critics Association (AICA) and regularly publishes art criticism.