Karolina Łabowicz-Dymanus

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. Her publications include the book Synchronised over Network. Soros Centers for Contemporary Arts – four models: Budapest, Kyiv, Tallinn, Warsaw (2016, in Polish) and texts: 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, 2019) and The corporate and market strategies for contemporary art in Eastern Europe in the 1990s (“Proceedings of the Art Museum of Estonia,” 2019). 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.