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Dr. hab. Gabriela Świtek, Chair Art Theory at the Institute of Art History, University of Warsaw (IHS UW); Vice-President of the Scientific Council of the IHS UW. Post-doctoral degree (habilitation) at the Faculty of History, University of Warsaw (2013). Graduate of the University of Cambridge (Doctor of Philosophy, 1999; Master of Philosophy, 1996), the Central European University in Prague (1994), and the IHS UW (MA, 1992). Since 2001, Assistant Professor at the IHS UW. From 2005 to 2007, Świtek collaborated with the Postgraduate Museum and Curatorial Studies at the Institute of Art History, Jagiellonian University in Kraków.

Since 2018, Academic Plenipotentiary of the Director; since 2005, Head of the Documentation Department at the Zachęta – National Gallery of Art in Warsaw; since 2015, Vice-President of the Polish Section of the International Association of Art Critics AICA. Curator of exhibitions, such as Transfer by Jarosław Kozakiewicz at the Polish Pavilion at the 10th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice (2006); Memory Foundations by Daniel Libeskind, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art (2004). Research interests: modern and contemporary art, history and philosophy of architecture, methodology of art history. Head of the research project The History of Exhibitions at the Zachęta – Central Office of Artistic Exhibitions 1949–1970 within the National Programme for the Development of the Humanities (2014–2018).