Justyna Balisz-Schmelz

ORCID Institute of Art History, University of Warsaw

Art historian and critic, graduate of Art History at the Jagiellonian University, in 2005–2010, she studied Art History and Theatre Studies at the Humboldt-Universität and then at the Freie Universität in Berlin. Currently, she works as an adjunct professor at the Department of History of Modern Art and Culture of the Institute of Art History at the University of Warsaw, she also lectures at the Faculty of Polish Studies of the Jagiellonian University. She collaborated with the Centre for Historical Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Berlin while editing Modi memorandi. Leksykon kultury pamięci. Author of the book Przeszłość niepokonana. Sztuka niemiecka po 1945 roku jako przestrzeń I medium pamięci (2018). She has published articles in scientific journals (including Przegląd Zachodni, Jahrbuch der Deutschen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Folia Historiae Artium, Zeszyty Artystyczne, RIHA Journal) and in collective works, including Display. Strategie wystawiania and Polish Avant-garde in Berlin. Author of several contributions to exhibition catalogues and several dozen critical texts (including Obieg, Szum, Fragile). Her scientific interests focus primarily on German art after 1945, bilateral German-Polish and German-German artistic relations; she also examines the possibility of applying the cultural theory of collective memory to the field of visual arts.