Magdalena Moskalewicz is Chief Curator at FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art. An art historian, author, and editor, Moskalewicz has engaged in the revisionist rewriting of art histories and in exploring parallels between the postsocialist and postcolonial conditions through both academic publications and curatorial practice. Her scholarly research has focused on socialist modernism, neo-avantgardes, global exhibition histories, and cultural policies, while her curatorial collaborations with living artists critically investigate particular histories, localities, and identities with the goal of reshaping dominant narratives. She is interested in re-envisioning models of knowledge production, communication, and display.
Born in Warsaw, Poland, Moskalewicz has worked at collecting, exhibiting, and academic institutions internationally. This includes The Museum of Modern Art, New York, where she was the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow for C-MAP, MoMA’s global research initiative; the 56th Venice Biennale, where she curated the Polish Pavilion; and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she taught and mentored the next generation of socially aware artists and arts administrators. Her recent writing includes contributions to Magdalena Abakanowicz (Tate 2022), Reconstructing Exhibitions in Art Institutions (Routledge 2023), and Was Socialist Realism Global? (MSN 2024).
