The Curatorial Roundtable, an international forum for curators and institutional leaders to discuss formative and current projects, is hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Magdalena Moskalewicz, PhD, was the Chief Curator of FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art at the time of its sudden closing last month. For this session of the Curatorial Roundtable, Moskalewicz will discuss a selection of her past exhibitions that investigated histories, localities, and identities of postsocialist Eastern Europe and her own geopolitical positioning and agency as a curator. 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. Born in Warsaw, Poland, Moskalewicz has worked at collecting, exhibiting, and academic institutions internationally, including 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 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). Register here.