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Kacper Radny

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Über mich

I am an art historian and a PhD candidate at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) in Gießen. Before relocating to Germany, I have completed my degrees in architecture (BA) and art history (MA) in Glasgow, Scotland. My scholarly focus lies predominantly on the Central-Eastern European painting and, in line with those interests, my PhD project explores the phenomenon of ‘orientalisation’ and/ or ‘exotisation’ of the 19th century Polish art in the West. I am also active in the fields of queer and feminist art and ludology. Professionally, I am a member of the Graduate Studies Team at the GCSC and the Editorial Team of the On-Culture magazine.

 

Dissertation Title: Orientalisation of the 19th century Eastern-European Art on the Case Study of the Polish Munich School

 

Kontakt

mailto: kacper.radny@gcsc.uni-giessen.de

mailto: kacper.radny@on-culture.de

https://gcsc.uni-giessen.de/

+49 641 / 99-30 011

Publikationen

  • Radny K. 2023. “Between Roman Authority and Greek Ritual: The Turbulent History of the Uniate Church at the End of the Eighteenth Century.” KULT_online, 67. https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2023.1382
  • Mazzaglia P., Presago M., Radny K., Song Z. 2023. “Report on ESSCS/TransHumanities Joint Summer School 2023 'Bouncing Forward: Future Narratives, Scenarios and Transformation in the Study of Culture.'” KULT_online, 68. https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2023.1417
Vorträge

  • “Between Orient and Occident: A Case Study of the Ukrainian Steppes and the Polish Munich School” at the conference “Un/Sichtbarkeit. Die polnische Kunst(Geschichte) und Deutschland”
    (Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, München 06 – 08 April 2022)
  • “(Im)Possible World: Communal Imagination and its Imagined Environment: the Case Study of the Polish Munich School” at the Hermes Consortium for Literary and Cultural Studies Summer School “Possible Worlds: Environment, Community, Heterotopia”
    (University of Siena, Arezzo 12 – 16 June 2023)
  • “'Bouncing Back': on the Difficult History and Uncertain Future of Exhibiting Queer Art in Central-Eastern Europe” at the ESSCS and TransHumanities Summer School “Bouncing Forward: Future Narratives, Scenarios, and Transformations in the Study of Culture”
    (International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, Giessen 19  – 23 June 2023)
  • “Queering the Contemporary and Future Curating in Central-Eastern Europe” at the XIII Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture “Future/ Futures”
    (Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon 03 – 08 July 2023)
  • “De-Mystifying the Myth: Critically Querying the Use of the Cossack motives in Polish Art” at the 30th meeting of the working group of German and Polish art historians and monument conservators “Art and War”
    (Schlesisches Museum zu Görlitz, Görlitz 15 – 18 November 2023)
  • “Art Is (Not) Free in Berlin: On Pro-Palestinian Artists’ Struggle Against the State Policies in Germany” at the XIV Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture “Culture at War”
    (Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon 24 – 29 June 2024)
  • Discussant at the one-day conference “Artysta a świat w XI, XX i początkach XXI wieku”
    (Muzeum Okręgowe w Suwałkach, Suwałki 25 September 2024)
  • “Intersections of Empires, Intersections of Cultures: On Traces of Occident and Orient in the Russian Empire’s Visual Culture” at the 10th Graduate Workshop of the Russian(?) Art & Culture Group “What Is To Be Done – Now? Discussions of Scholarship on So-called 'Russian' Art and Culture”
    (Constructor University Bremen, Bremen 27 – 28 September 2024)
  • “Orientalization of 19th-Century Eastern European Art: The Case Study of the 'Polish Munich School'” at the 56th Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)
    (ASEEES, Boston, MA 21 – 24 November 2024)
  • “The Concept of 'Critical Museum' in the Light of Post-Imperial Identity Politics” at the conference “The Museum Reflects”
    (University of Florence, Florence 23 – 24 January 2025)
  • “Polish, Ukrainian, or Russian? Imperial Entanglements in the 21st-century Museum Practices” at the 1st Museums and Memory Working Group Conference “Museums, Memory, Politics”
    (Memory Studies Association, online 24 – 25 January 2025)
  • “Polish Lone Wolf in Collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts: Examining the 19th-Century Transatlantic Art Trade” at the 46th Annual Conference of the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association “Fusions of Culture, Time and Space”
    (Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, New Orleans 27 – 29 March 2025)
Forschungsinteressen

  • 19th century painting
  • queer and feminist art
  • ludology (game studies)
Lehre

WiSe 2023/24

Historienmalerei im 19. Jahrhundert / History Painting in the 19th century (9 units)

WiSe 2024/25

Woher stammen die Objekte in unseren Museen? Erarbeitung eines Museumskoffers zum Thema Provenienzforschung für Schülerinnen und Schüler (3 units)

Projekte

Mitgliedschaften

Member of the Working Group 'Europe's East' (WiSe 22/23 – ongoing)

Member of the Working Group 'Game Studies' (WiSe 22/23 – ongoing)

Member of the Reading Group 'Reading Palestine' (WiSe 24/25 – ongoing)

Speaker of the Reading Group 'Reading Palestine' (WiSe 24/25 – ongoing)