Jakub Banasiak
PhD, Assistant Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Faculty of Artistic Research and Curatorial Studies. His research focus lies on state art system under the socialist period, as well as on art of the post-communist transformation era. He is the author of the book titled “Proteous Times. The Decay of the State Art System 1982–1993” (2020), for which he was nominated for the Jan Długosz Award. He is a member of the editorial board of the academic journal Miejsce, and editor-in-chief of Szum art magazine. He is an author of a number of texts, both in the field of art criticism and academic writing. He also curated the exhibition entitled „Tectonic Movements” at the Museum of Art in Łódź (2022), where he has presented the results of his research on Polish art of the 1980s and 1990s.