Talk with Dushko Petrovich, director of the New Arts Journalism program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
within the frames of Curating Institution series
- Dushko Petrovich
- Born in Quito, Ecuador, Dushko Petrovich is a Chicago-based artist, writer, editor, and teacher. He received his B.A. from Yale and his M.F.A. from Boston University before going on to serve as the Starr Scholar (Artist-in-Residence) at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. He has exhibited his work at venues including the deCordova Museum, in Boston; Rachel Uffner Gallery, Interference Archive, and P!, in New York; the Suburban and Gallery 400, in Chicago; the Charlottenborg Museum in Copenhagen; and Zacheta—National Gallery of Art in Warsaw.
- His writing has appeared in periodicals such as Bookforum, Slate, ArtNews, and the Boston Globe, among others. Petrovich is a co-founder of Paper Monument, where he has co-edited many publications, including I Like Your Work: Art and Etiquette and Draw It with Your Eyes Closed: The Art of the Art Assignment, and Social Medium: Artsists Writing 2000-2-15. He also chaired the n+1 Foundation’s board of directors from 2013 to 2015.
- Adjunct Commuter Weekly, which Petrovich founded, made its debut at ICA Boston in July of 2015 and was reported on in the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, Slate, and NPR, among others. He is now working on The Daily Gentrifier.
- Having taught previously at Boston University, RISD, NYU, and Yale, Petrovich is the director ofthe New Arts Journalism program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Ph.D. Magdalena Ziółkowska
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art historian, curator, graduate of the Institute of Art History at the University of Warsaw, School of Social Sciences in Warsaw, and Curatorial Training Programme at de Appel Arts Centre in Amsterdam (2006/2007). In 2013, she defended her PhD thesis on the concept of the Wrocław Museum of Contemporary Art and Polish museology of the 1960s.
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In 2006-2010, a guest curator at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, where she implemented projects such as Notes From the Future of Art. Selected Writings of Jerzy Ludwiński (2007) and Andrzej Wróblewski. To the Margin and Back (2010). She was associated with the Museum of Art in Łódź between 2008-2014, the author of projects, amongst others, Art Always Has Its Consequences (2008-2010), Working Title: Archive (2008-2009), Sanja Iveković. Training Makes the Master (2009), Eyes Looking for a Head to Inhabit (co-curator, 2011), Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin. Facts, Incidents, Accidents, Circumstances, Situations (co-curator, 2013-2014). Editor of the anthology "Teoria Sztuki Zbigniewa Dłubaka" [Theory of Art – anthology of texts by Zbigniew Dłubak] (Warsaw 2013) and co-curator of the exhibition Only to melt, trustingly, without reproach (Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana 2013-2014).
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From 2015 until June 2018, she was the director of the Contemporary Art Gallery "Bunkier Sztuki" in Kraków.
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From 2012, vice-president of the Andrzej Wróblewski Foundation, as well as the co-curator of the Andrzej Wróblewski exhibition – Constantly Looking Ahead (National Museum, Kraków, 2012-2013) and co-author of the monograph Avoiding Intermediary States. Andrzej Wróblewski (1927-1957) (Warsaw 2014).
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