Jewish Museum Prague

Jakub Gawkowski is an art critic, curator and a graduate student at the History Department of Central European University. He studied at the University of Warsaw and the University of Silesia, from where he graduated with a degree in Art History. His research interests include the history of museum exhibitions in post-war Central Europe, socially engaged visual arts and connections between art, politics and memory. Among others, his articles have been published in Krytyka Polityczna, Magazyn Szum, Political Critique, Przekrój, Artalk.cz and Artportal.hu. In the Jewish Museum in Prague he will be researching the first exhibitions in the museum after WW2 as part of his MA research.