Dr Żanna Komar at the prestigious CAA-Getty International Program Conference in New York

She will talk about the consequences of the Russian aggression against Ukraine for the art world, and especially for Central Europe.

Dr Żanna Komar is an art historian, theoretician of architecture and exhibitions curator. She works at the Institute of European Heritage, part of the International Cultural Centre in Krakow. She curated such exhibitions as: “Ukraine. A different angle on neighbourhood” (2021/2022), “Architecture of independence in Central Europe”(2018/2019), “Lviv, 24th June 1937. City, architecture, modernism”(2017/2018). She is the author of the book “Trzecie miasto Galicji. Stanisławów i jego architektura w okresie autonomii galicyjskiej” [The third city of Galicia. Stanisławów and its architecture in the period of Galician autonomy] (Kraków 2008).

This year the 111th edition of the CAA-Getty Conference is organised in New York. 12 International Participants were selected in an open call. The goal of the CAA-Getty International Program is to expand international networks of specialists involved in the activites of the CAA (College Art Association). Art historians, curators, and artists from multiple countries take part. This year the program will delve into such topics as postcolonialism, decolonisation of museums, interdisciplinary and transnational methodologies, the intersection of politics and art history.

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