Piotr PiotrowskiPiotr Piotrowski (June 1952-May 2015) was a long-time Professor Ordinarius at the Art History Department, Adam Mickiewicz University, in Poznan, Poland, which he had been chairing between 1999 and 2008. He was Research Fellow of the Graduate School fr East and South-East European Studies, Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität, München/Regensburg Universität. Piotrowski was also the co-editor of the annual journal Artium Quaestiones (1994-2009), Director of the National Museum in Warsaw, 2009-2010, and Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Museum in Poznan, 1992-1997. His visiting professorships include Humboldt University (2011-2012), Warsaw University (2011, 2012-2013), the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College USA (2001), and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2003). He was a fellow of the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, Washington D.C. (1989- 1990), Columbia University, NYC (1994), the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ (2000), Collegium Budapest (2005-2006), and the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA (2009) among other institutions. He is the author of over a dozen books including: Meanings of Modernism (Polish 1999, 2011), In the Shadow of Yalta. Art and the Avant-garde in Eastern Europe, (Polish 2005, English 2009, Croatian 2011), Art after Politics (Polish 2007), Art and Democracy in Post-Communist Europe (Polish 2010, English 2012), and Critical Museum (Polish 2011, Serbian 2013), as well as editor, co-editor or co-author of many others. For his scholarly achievements, Professor Piotrowski received among others the Jan Dlugosz Award (Krakow 2006), and the Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory (Barcelona 2010), among others. Read More Read Less