IS AN ART HISTORIAN, WRITER AND CURATOR.

SHE HOLDS AN MA FROM THE COURTAULD INSTITUTE OF ART IN LONDON AND A PHD FROM THE RUSKIN SCHOOL OF ART, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

HER RESEARCH HAS BEEN SUPPORTED BY THE UK ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL, THE PAUL MELLON CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN BRITISH ART IN LONDON, THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES (IAS) AT THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY IN VIENNA/BUDAPEST AND THE INTERNATIONAL VISEGRAD FUND.

CURRENTLY, SHE IS A POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER AT THE EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL (ERC) FUNDED PROJECT ‘PROLET.GARDE’ (2026-2030), WHICH EXAMINES HOW SOCIALIST CULTURE, WORKER MOVEMENTS AND AVANT-GARDE ARTISTIC TECHNIQUES FUSED IN INTERWAR EASTERN CENTRAL EUROPE.

GET IN TOUCH: dorota.jagoda.michalska[at]gmail.com

BOOKS:

CRITICAL APPROACHES TO ART, RACE AND COLONIALITY IN EASTERN EUROPE, CO-EDITED WITH MARTA ZBORALSKA (LONDON: ROUTLEDGE, 2026).

ACADEMIC WRITING:

‘CREOLIZING THE ABAKANS: THE NOMADIC POETICS OF MAGDALENA ABAKANOWICZ.’ IN: NEW ENCOUNTERS WITH ABAKANOWICZ, EDITED BY JOANNA INGLOT AND MARY JANE JACOB (UNIVERSITY PARK, PA: PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS, UPCOMING SPRING 2027).

‘KATERYNA LYSOVENKO: ON THE TRANSMIGRATION OF HISTORICAL FORMS.’AFTERALL: A JOURNAL OF ART, CONTEXT AND ENQUIRY 58 (2025).

‘DEGRADED OBJECTS, HARROWED BODIES: ROMAN STAŃCZAK AND SHOCK THERAPY IN POLAND, 1990–96.’ ARTMARGINS 11, NO. 3 (2022).

ART CATALOGUES:

‘WŁADYSŁAW HASIOR: DEKOLONIALIZM, NOWOCZESNOŚĆ, HISTORIA.’ IN: RYCHARSKI/HASIOR, EDITED BY JULITA DEMBOWSKA (SOPOT: PAŃSTWOWA GALERIA SZTUKI W SOPOCIE, 2024).

‘UNTIL THE BUDS OF REVOLT BLOSSOM IN OUR HANDS.’ IN: TERESA MURAK — NEW PERSPECTIVES, EDITED BY ŁUKASZ MOJSAK AND ŁUKASZ RONDUDA (WARSAW: ZACHĘTA NATIONAL GALLERY, 2023).

‘A SURREALIST INTERREGNUM? MARIOLA PRZYJEMSKA’S EARLY ARTISTIC PRACTICE, 1988–1993.’ IN: MARIOLA PRZYJEMSKA: CONSUMPTION, CONSTRUCTION AND MELANCHOLIA, EDITED BY EWA MAJEWSKA AND EWA OPAŁKA (WARSAW: ZACHĘTA NATIONAL GALLERY, 2022).

‘ROMAN STAŃCZAK: THE UNDERWORLD OF CAPITALISM.’ IN: FLIGHT. ROMAN STAŃCZAK, EDITED BY ŁUKASZ MOJSAK AND ŁUKASZ RONDUDA, TEXT COMMISSIONED FOR THE POLISH PAVILION AT THE VENICE BIENNALE, 2022.

‘A RACIALIZED HOMO SOVIETICUS.’ IN: SOFT SPOTS: READER FOR THE MATTER OF ART BIENNALE IN PRAGUE, EDITED BY RADO IŠTOK, PIOTR SIKORA, RENAN LARU-AN, AND TEREZA STEJSKALOVÁ (PRAGUE: MATTER OF ART / TRANZIT.CZ, 2020).

ESSAYS:

‘TO FOLLOW THE GRAIN.’E-FLUX JOURNAL, NO. 141, 2023.

‘WHERE THE LIGHTENINGS HAVE THEIR PALACE: ERNA ROSENSTEIN AND GLOBAL SURREALISMS.’POST: NOTES ON ART IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT, 2023.

‘WE HAVE NEVER BEEN COLONISERS? A DECOLONIAL PERSPECTIVE ON ETHNOGRAPHIC AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS IN POLAND.’ L’INTERNATIONALE ONLINE, 2021.

‘WŁADYSŁAW HASIOR: DECOLONIALISM, FOLK CULTURE, AND GLOBAL SURREALISM.’KAJET JOURNAL, 2021.

EXHIBITIONS:

‘NINE MOONS OVER A COTTON FIELD. ŁÓDZ AND CENTRAL ASIA.’ CO-CURATED WITH ŁUKASZ MOJSAK, CENTRAL TEXTILE MUSEUM IN ŁÓDŹ, 22.10.2026-3.05.2027.