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Call for Papers – Art Inquiry 2026

2025-10-02

New curator practices: an overlap between care, activism and aesthetics

Contemporary curatorial practices differ significantly from the traditional model of organizing exhibitions as a neutral act of presenting works of art. Curators are increasingly taking on the role of active participants in social and political life – they initiate artistic processes, moderate intercultural dialogue, support grassroots activities and become guardians of memory, trauma, communities and values. In response to social, political, ecological and identity crises, curating is transforming into a form of engaged cultural practice, often functioning at the intersection of activism, pedagogy, affective practices and relational aesthetics.

Read more about Call for Papers – Art Inquiry 2026

Current Issue

Vol. 26 (2024): Art and culture in times of danger
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Co-financed by the Ministry of Education and Science, Republic of Poland.

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VOLUME EDITORS: Aneta Pawłowska, Paulina Sztabińska-Kałowska

Published: 2024-12-29

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Articles

  • On the role of art in overcoming cognitive obstacles from the perspective of philosophical esthetics

    Teresa Pękala
    11-28
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/AI/2024/26/1

  • Sensory art

    Sidey Myoo
    29-42
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/AI/2024/26/2

  • Artificial intelligence and concerns about ‘true’ art. Remarks on why human art is overrated and AI-made art. unjustifiably undervalued

    Łukasz Białkowski
    43-59
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/AI/2024/26/3

  • Readymade: a problem for the definition of art. and its solution

    Łukasz Guzek
    61-82
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/AI/2024/26/4

  • Difficult knowledge as an exhibition theme in small museums: case examples from the Czech Republic

    Pavol Tišliar, Lucie Jagošová
    83-109
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/AI/2024/26/5

  • Art in post-catastrophic geography. "Don't follow the wind project in Fukushima"

    Ewa Wójtowicz
    111-122
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/AI/2024/26/6

  • The role of Cluniac art and architecture in times of danger

    Piotr Gryglewski, Natalie Moreno-Kamińska
    123-139
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/AI/2024/26/7

  • Architecture in times of climate crisis – selected aspects

    Julia Sowińska-Heim
    141-158
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/AI/2024/26/8

  • Sculptor or engineer? The idea of the "total work of art" as a form of freedom of mind in the face of danger. Comparative analysis of selected examples

    Katarzyna Kołodziejczyk
    159-175
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/AI/2024/26/9

  • Issues of totalitarian period monuments in the context of the Russian-Ukrainian war

    Yuliа Ivashko, Andrii Dmytrenko, Michał Krupa, Justyna Kobylarczyk, Dominika Kuśnierz-Krupa, Serhii Belinskyi
    177-199
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/AI/2024/26/10

  • Recent Polish and Ukrainian dramaturgy in the face of modern world crises

    Irena Górska
    201-216
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/AI/2024/26/11

  • The art of peace – can artists stop the war between Israel and Palestine?

    Eleonora Jedlińska
    217-238
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/AI/2024/26/12

  • Earthquakes and colonial art in Cusco (Peru)

    Ewa Kubiak, Guadalupe Romero-Sánchez
    239-258
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/AI/2024/26/13

  • Jane Jin Kaisen’s works as the practice of exploring history, memory and trauma

    Anna Dzierżyc-Horniak
    259-285
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/AI/2024/26/14

  • Indigenous festival arts and (dis)connect with contemporary socio-cultural realities in Southeastern Nigeria

    Princewill Chukwuma Abakporo, Stanley Timeyin Ohenhen
    287-310
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/AI/2024/26/15

  • Dramaturgy of anxiety in the theater work “Pintu Dan Ketukan Ketukan Yang Mengganggu” (The Door and the Disturbing Knocks)

    Yusril, Sahrul N., Afrizal H., Ali Sukri, Cameron Malik
    311-327
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/AI/2024/26/16

  • Expressing death between realism and surrealism in Bruegel's painting “Triumph of Death”

    Ryadh Ben Amor, Dany Abi Karam
    329-349
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/AI/2024/26/17

  • A threat of exclusion – negative aesthetics on the example of Zyta Rudzka's work

    Monika Błaszczak
    351-369
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/AI/2024/26/18

  • Art in the shadow of the gallows. Visual accounts of the execution of Teofil Wiśniowski and Józef Kapuściński

    Agnieszka Świętosławska
    371-401
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/AI/2024/26/19

  • Felix Nussbaum's Triumph of Death as a powerful voice of dissent against wartime

    Magdalena Milerowska
    403-419
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/AI/2024/26/20

  • The language of art in times of danger

    Anna Wendorff
    421-433
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/AI/2024/26/21

  • Facing the irreversible. Three philosophical études

    Anna Chęćka
    435-448
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/AI/2024/26/22
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