Przemysław Strożek, Associate Professor
Dr hab. Przemysław Strożek – is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy
of Sciences (from 2011, the habilitation title obtained in 2020) and an Associate Researcher and curator at the Archiv der Avantgarden, Dresden (ADA, from 2020). He was a Fulbright fellow at the University of Georgia (2012), a fellow at the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome (2015), recipient of a Korea Foundation fellowship in Seoul (2022), Japan Foundation (2024) and Kościuszko Foundation at the University of California Riverside (2025). He is the author of several dozen academic articles, and published extensively his research on the history of the 20 th century avant-garde, as well as on sport and contemporary art. Together with Andreas Kramer he has co-edited Sport and the European Avant-Garde (1900–1945) (Brill: 2021), and published a monograph Picturing the Workers’ Olympics and the Spartakiads. Modernist and Avant-Garde Engagement with Sport in Central Europe and the USSR (1920-1932) (Routledge: 2022). In 2020 he co-curated an exhibition Ahmed Cherkaoui in Warsaw. Polish-Moroccan Artistic Relations, 1955-1980 at the Zachęta National Gallery in Warsaw. The exhibition he curated at the Archiv der Avantgarden entitled Archive of Dreams. A Surrealist Impulse (2024) contributed to the winning prize for ADA of the Museum of the Year awarded by German AICA in 2025. Recently he has co-organized a conference Decolonizing Avant- Gardes. Repositioning Avant-Gardes in the East at the Archiv der Avantgarden in Dresden (2025). Together with Katarzyna Falęcka, he is a Co-Lead of an AHRC Funded Project:Artistic Exchanges in the Global Cold War: Eastern Bloc-Northern Africa, 1940s-1980s (February 2025 – January 2027).
Publications
BOOKS
Przemysław Strożek, Picturing the Workers’ Olympic and the Spartakiads. Modernist and Avant-Garde Engagement with Sport in Central Europe and the USSR, 1920-1932, London-New York 2023.
Sport and the European Avant-Garde (1900-1945), red. Przemysław Strożek, Andreas Kramer, Leiden 2022.
Przemysław Strożek, Ahmed Cherkaoui w Warszawie. Polsko-marokańskie relacje artystyczne w latach 1955-1980, Warszawa 2020.
Przemysław Strożek, Modernizm – Sport – Polityka. Praktyki artystyczne wokół Igrzysk IX Olimpiady w Amsterdamie i Spartakiad 1928 roku, Warszawa 2019.
Enrico Prampolini. Futuryzm, Scenotechnika i Teatr Polskiej Awangardy, red. Przemysław Strożek, Łódź 2017.
Przemysław Strożek, Nic, to znaczy wszystko. Interpretacje niemieckiego dada, Warszawa 2016.
Przemysław Strożek, Marinetti i futuryzm w Polsce 1909-1939: obecność – kontakty – wydarzenia, Warszawa 2012.
ARTICLES
Przemysław Strożek, Abdelkader Lagtaa and His Conceptual Exercises in Poland, 1972-74, „NKA. Journal of Contemporary African Art”, 2021, nr 48, s. 40-52
Przemysław Strożek, Worker Sport and Art. For Proletarian Masses: Constructivist Avant-Gardes, Spartkiads, and Red Sport International, 1921-1928, „The International Journal of the History of Sport“ 2019, t. 35, nr 17-18, s. 1723-1747.
Przemysław Strożek, The Magazine Formiści and the Early International Contacts of the Polish Avant-Garde (1919-1921), [w:] A Reader in East Central European Modernism 1918-1956, red. Klara Kemp Welch, Beata Hock, Jonathan Owen, London 2019, s. 126-138.
Przemysław Strożek, The Footballer as the Figure of the New Man in Italian and Russian Avant-Garde, 1910s-1930s, [w:] Picturing the Beautiful Game: A History of Soccer in Visual Culture and Art, red. Daniel Haxall, New York-London 2018, s. 96-114.
Przemysław Strożek, Poland, [w:] Handbook of International Futurism, red. Günter Berghaus, Berlin-Boston 2018, s. 720-735.
Przemysław Strożek, Acting in front of the Camera. Avant-Garde Approaches to Staged Photography, [w:] Preservation, Radicalism, and the Avant-Garde Canon, red. Rebecca Ferreboeuf, Fiona Noble, Tara Plunkett, New York 2016, s. 215-232.
Przemysław Strożek, Becoming Avant-Garde. Formiści (1919-1921), Nowa Sztuka (1921-1922), Zwrotnica (first series 1922-1923), Blok (1924-1926), [w:] The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, t. 3, red. Peter Brooker, Andrew Thaker, Sascha Bru, Christian Weikop, Oxford 2013, s. 1184-1207.
Przemysław Strożek, Futurist Responses to African American Culture, [w:] Afromodernisms: Paris, Harlem, Haiti and the Avant-Garde, red. Fionnghuala Sweeney, Kate Marsh, Edinburgh 2013, s. 43-61.
Projects
Visual Arts and the 1988 Olympic Games, wsparcie projektu: Korea Foundation (Korea Południowa) (2022)
Odzyskana awangarda. Polska i środkowoeuropejska awangarda teatralna, 11H17014485 (2017-2022)
Sport w sztuce wizualnej Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej lat 1918-1939, NCN Sonata, 2015/17/D/HS2/00530 (2016-2017)
AHRC Modernist Magazines Project, Wielka Brytania (2010-2013)