Dr. habil. Tomasz Kitliński / Tomeka is an associate professor of curatorial studies and the theory and philosophy of art and culture, at the Department of Curatorial Studies, the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of the Arts in Stettin. He also serves as the Head of this Department.
He has published the following books in English and Polish: Parallel Lines (with Angus Reid, 1990), Love.Hate (with Chris Hurford and Dariusz Fodczuk, 1991), The Stranger Within: Love according to Julia Kristeva (2001), Dream? Democracy! A Philosophy of Horror and a Hope for Hospitality in Art and Action (2014), Love and Democracy: Reflections on the Queer Question in Poland (with Paweł Leszkowicz, 2005).
Together with Paweł Leszkowicz, he co-curated the following exhibitions: Love is Love: LGBTQ Art as Activism from the UK to Belarus, Labirynt Gallery in Lublin (2011), Civil Partnerships: Feminist and Queer Art and Activism in the UK, University of Brighton Galleries in Brighton (2012), Healing War Through Art, University of Brighton Galleries in Brighton (2014), War and Peace, Labirynt Gallery in Lublin (2015), Hospitality OPRN CITY, Public Art Festival, Center for Intercultural Creative Initiatives ROZDROŻA in Lublin.
Kitliński obtained a Diplôme d’Études Approfondies from Denis Diderot University – Paris 7, a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, and a habilitation from the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. He conducted research under the supervision of Hélène Cixous and Julia Kristeva in Paris and was a recipient of academic grants through the Fulbright Program at the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies, The New School in New York; the Marie Curie Actions program at the University of Brighton; and the Academy in Exile at the Margherita-von-Brentano Center for Gender Research at Freie Universität Berlin.
Kitliński’s research, teaching, and curatorial interests focus on resisting new authoritarianism, artivism, queer and feminist art, literature, and practice, as well as political philosophy. He is a social activist who was targeted by the Polish far-right politicians.
His publications have appeared in outlets such as Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, Klicksieck, The Advocate, Art in America, Feminoteka, dos yidishe wort, Social Research, and The New York Times.
Kitliński identifies as non-binary (he/they)