Agata Pietrasik

is an art historian and Alfred Landecker Lecturer at the Freie Universität in Berlin. Her research focuses on the representation and memory of the Holocaust and the Second World War in mid-20th century European visual arts and culture. She holds degrees from the University of Warsaw (2009) and the Freie Universität in Berlin (2017). Her first book, Art in a Disruptive World: Poland, 1939-1949, was published by the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw and the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 2021. Currently, she is working on the project How Exhibitions Rebuilt Europe: Exhibiting War Crimes in the 1940s and an exhibition on early war crimes and Holocaust exhibitions at the German Historical Museum in Berlin.