WORKSHOP: NEW APPROACHES TO CONTEMPORARY ART CRITICISM | Digital Cultures 2025 🎮

Name: WORKSHOP: NEW APPROACHES TO CONTEMPORARY ART CRITICISM | Digital Cultures 2025 🎮
Start: 2025-10-07T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-10-07T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie / Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

Schedule

Tue Oct 07 2025 at 02:00 pm to 05:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie / Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw | Warsaw, MZ

𝙒𝙊𝙍𝙆𝙎𝙃𝙊𝙋: 𝙉𝙀𝙒 𝘼𝙋𝙋𝙍𝙊𝘼𝘾𝙃𝙀𝙎 𝙏𝙊 𝘾𝙊𝙉𝙏𝙀𝙈𝙋𝙊𝙍𝘼𝙍𝙔 𝘼𝙍𝙏 𝘾𝙍𝙄𝙏𝙄𝘾𝙄𝙎𝙈
How do you write about art that defies easy categorization or challenges Western-centric views? Ready to move beyond conventional critique and engage with exhibitions from a fresh, contextual perspective?
▶ This workshop, hosted by the editor-in-chief team of 𝙈𝙊𝙎𝙏 𝙢𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙯𝙞𝙣𝙚, will focus on art criticism as both a personal and a contextual practice. Participants will consider how to balance the writer’s individuality with the reality of the artwork, how to interrogate the role of judgment in criticism, and how to “read” exhibitions. The workshop will apply methodologies drawn from decolonial theory, horizontal art history, non-hierarchical collaboration, and center/periphery relations.
▶ These key themes and frameworks, regularly implemented by the editorial team, will be the platform to discuss how writing can both reflect and reshape the cultural narratives of Central and Eastern Europe. This workshop will be held in connection with the 2025 edition of the Kyiv Biennale, “Near East, Far West” which will be toured during the workshop.
Biographies
▶ 𝙀𝙬𝙖 𝘽𝙤𝙧𝙮𝙨𝙞𝙚𝙬𝙞𝙘𝙯: art historian, researcher, author of texts on art, ceramic artist, exhibition curator, and organizer of artistic events. She studied art history at the University of Warsaw and Freie Universität Berlin. In 2024, together with Zazenski and Zalutskaya, she launched MOST Magazine, an online journal for Central and Eastern European art and culture. Her current research interests focus on neuroscience, consciousness theory, epistemology, narratology, and behavioral economics, as well as the use of video game aesthetics and mechanics in visual arts.
▶ 𝙑𝙚𝙧𝙖 𝙕𝙖𝙡𝙪𝙩𝙨𝙠𝙖𝙮𝙖: contemporary art curator, writer and cultural manager. Co-editor-in-chief of BLOK Magazine (2021-2024), co-founder of MOST magazine ( with Ewa Borysiewicz and Katie Zazenski). President of the GESSEL Foundations for the National Museum & Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw. A graduate of the European Humanities University in Vilnius and the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Lives and works in Warsaw.
▶ 𝙆𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙮𝙣 (𝙆𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙚) 𝙕𝙖𝙯𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙠𝙞: artist, curator, writer, editor and lecturer whose practice is centered around cultural production in independent, artist-led communities.In 2021, she assumed the role of co-editor-in-chief of the magazine alongside Vera Zalutskaya and Ewa Borysiewicz, which they stewarded until February 2024. The team formally resigned in April 2024 and together launched MOST magazine, as co-founders and co-editors-in-chief.
Workshop: New Approaches to Contemporary Art Criticism
Led by: Ewa Borysiewicz, Vera Zalutskaya, Kathryn (Katie) Zazenski
Date: 7.10, 14:00 - 17:00, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw & 6.11, 16:00 - 18:00, online
📎 𝘼𝙥𝙥𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢 — https://tiny.pl/7ft407ny
Participation in the workshop is free, but registration is required and places are limited.
▶ Press Play on your career in international digital art! 🎮
Workshop as part of Digital Cultures 2025 - https://www.dcfestival.pl/