Art
I explore how art and archaeology intersect, using artistic strategies to open new ways of interpreting the past.
Politics
Heritage is never neutral. My research examines how memory, identity, and power shape the narratives we inherit and contest.
Futures
I ask what kinds of heritage we want to create, rethinking sustainability, resilience, and more-than-human perspectives.
Main Research Areas
Rethinking Museums
I study how museums shape the way we remember and imagine the past. My work asks how exhibitions can go beyond static displays to spark dialogue, critique, and new ways of seeing heritage.
Art & Archaeology
I bring contemporary art and archaeology into conversation, exploring how creative practices can reframe our understanding of history. This dialogue opens unexpected perspectives, from activist interventions to multispecies encounters.
Future Heritage
I explore how digital technologies - from replicas to immersive exhibitions - transform our relationship with heritage. My focus is both on their potential for access and creativity, and the risks of simplification or digital colonialism.
About me
I’m an art historian and archaeologist, and I teach as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Liberal Arts at the University of Warsaw.
What drives me most in my work are questions about the political and ethical dimensions of heritage. I’m also fascinated by digital heritage, archaeological museum studies, and the ways contemporary art can intersect with and challenge archaeological theory.
Selected Projects
ACHS Central and Eastern Europe Chapter
Through conferences and publications, I bring attention to overlooked or contested heritages in Central and Eastern Europe. In my work I ask how heritage can become a space for dialogue, care, and resistance in times of social and political change.
Contemporary Art as a Strategy for Digital Archaeology
The primary goal of this project is to explore how contemporary artworks actively engage with and reinterpret the tools, methods, and practices of digital archaeology, transforming its conventional applications into innovative critiques and creative dialogues.
Unruly Heritage
In my contribution to Unruly Heritage project I reflected on how artists use archaeological artifacts to rethink fundamental questions in archaeology (artifacts, materiality, time).
Drawing on the perspective of my mentor and supervisor, Ewa Domańska, I share her words:
“But I am a scholar from Eastern Europe – from an ‘epistemic province’ that was (and still is) intellectually colonized by theories and approaches produced by various centers (…) wielding power of a traditionally imperial kind.
Thus, I employ non-Western traditions as a way of (…) envisioning a different form of knowledge that would treat non-Western ways of thinking as complementary to my own.”
Ewa Domańska
Ewa Domańska, “Retroactive Ancestral Constitution, New Animism and Alter-Native Modernities”, Storia della Storiografia 2014, 65(1): 61-75.
