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Professor of Art History at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun and member of the Polish Institute of World Art Studies.
She lectured at the Warsaw University, School for Humanities, Collegium Civitas, Academy of Fine Arts, and the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. She specializes in the field of nineteenth- and twentiethcentury visual arts, art theory and criticism in Europe and the United States. She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including from the Bogliasco Foundation (Bogliasco), the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts and the Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC), Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte (Munich), National Humanities Center (Research Triangle Park, NC), Institut national d’histoire de l’art (Paris), and Henry Moore Institute (Leeds, UK). While at the INHA in 2008 she was carrying on a project titled “En réinterprétant le passé. Art et idéologie en Pologne et en France dans les années 20. et 30″.
Prof. Kossowska has written extensively on Polish and European art, including “Artistic Reconquest: Art in Interwar Poland and Europe”, “The Search for Cultural Identity in Eastern and Central Europe 1919-2014”, “Symbolism and Young Poland”, “Reinterpreting the Past: Traditionalist Artistic Trends in Central and Eastern Europe of the 1920s and 1930s”, “Bruno 2 Schulz: El pais tenebroso”, “Medieval and Modern: Direct Carving in the Work of Gill and Barlach”, “Witold Wojtkiewicz: une fable polonaise”, “Le Symbolisme polonaise”, “Polonia fin de siglo 1890-1914”, “The Beginnings of Polish Original Printmaking 1897-1917”, “Fin-desiècle. Polnische Graphic 1890-1916”.
Signs of Freedom: About the Endurance of the Polish National Identity (co-editor with Tadeusz Wolsza and co-author), Warsaw: The Royal Castle in Warsaw, 2018
Artystyczna rekonkwista. Sztuka w międzywojennej Polsce i Europie, Torun: Nicolaus Copernicus University Press, 2017
The Search for Cultural Identity in Eastern and Central Europe, Torun : Nicolaus Copernicus University Press, 2015
Masters of Dreams: Symbolism in the Bohemian Lands 1880-1914 (with Otto M. Urban and Adam Hnojil), Cracow: International Cultural Centre, 2014
Bruno Schulz. Rzeczywistość przesunięta (with Jerzy Jarzębski, Jan Gondowicz, Łukasz Kossowski), Warsaw: Museum of Literature, 2012
1911 r. W stulecie Bazaru Polskiego. Henryk Grohman i grafika Młodej Polski, (with Zbigniew Moździerz and Wanda Maria Rudzińska), Zakopane: Wladyslaw Zamoyski Art Gallery, 2011
Symbolizm i Młoda Polska. Malarstwo polskie (with Łukasz Kossowski), Warsaw: Arkady 2010
Reinterpreting the Past: Traditionalist Artistic Trends in Central and Eastern Europe of the 1920s and 1930s. Proceedings of an international conference organized by the Institute of Art (editor and co-author), Polish Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Art History, Jagiellonian University, Warsaw: Instytut Sztuki PAN, 2010
Henryk Stażewski (with Agata Małodobry), trans. Beata Havelská, and Erik Samek, Bratislava: Milan Dobeš Museum, 2008
Bruno Schulz. El pais tenebroso (with Monika Poliwka), Madrid: Circulo de bellas artes, 2007
Władysław Podkowiński 1866-1895, Warsaw: Edipresse, 2006
Tadeusz Makowski 1882-1932, Warsaw: Edipresse, 2006
Witold Wojtkiewicz 1879-1909, Warsaw: Edipresse, 2006
Medieval and Modern: Direct carving in the work of Gill and Barlach. Henry Moore Institute Essays on Sculpture (with Susanne Deicher), Leeds: Henry Moore Institute, 2005
Mistyczny świat Antoniego Michalaka. Katalog twórczości Antoniego Michalaka 1902-1975 (with Lechosław Lameński, Waldemar Odorowski, and Jerzy Wyczesany), Kazimierz Dolny: Muzeum Nadwiślańskie, 2005
Witold Wojtkiewicz: une fable polonaise 1879-1909 (with Elzbieta Charazinska and Ewa MickeBroniarek), Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble: Actes Sud 2004
Bruno Schulz. La république des rêves (with Serge Fauchereau, Georges Lisowski, Jerzy Ficowski and Jerzy Jarzebski), Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme, Paris: Éditions DENOËL, 2004
Le Symbolisme polonais (co-author), Paris: Somogy Éditions d’art, 2004
Antoni Łyżwański 1904-1972. Academy Presents. Die Kunstakademie präsentiert (with Danuta Jackiewicz, and Wojciech Klemm), Olszanica: BOSZ, 2004
Polonia fin de siglo 1890-1914 (with Monika Poliwka, and Anna Krol), Madrid: Fundacion Cultural MAPFRE VIDA, 2002
Mityzacja rzeczywistości. Bruno Schulz 1892-1942 (with Małgorzata Kitowska-Łysiak, and Łukasz Kossowski), Lublin: Marii Curie-Skłodowska University Press, 2002
Narodziny polskiej grafiki artystycznej 1897-1917, Cracow: UNIVERSITAS, 2000
Stanisław Hiszpański – malarz osobliwy (with Janusz Pasierb, Jerzy Czarnota, and Bogumiła Hiszpańska), Warsawa: Instytut Sztuki PAN, 2000
Słownik malarzy polskich. Vol. 2, Od dwudziestolecia międzywojennego do końca XX wieku (with Małgorzata Kitowska-Łysiak, and Maryla Sitkowska), Warsaw: Arkady, 2000
Simply the Best (with Łukasz Kossowski), Coutts Contemporary Art Foundation, Warsaw: Polswiss Art, 2000
Fin de siècle. Polnische Graphik 1890-1916 (with Ewa Milicer), Düsseldorf : Stadtmuseum, and Polnisches Institut; Aachen : Ludwigs Museum; Warsaw: Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie, 1998
Francisco Goya. Los Caprichos – Kaprysy (with Maria Poprzęcka), Toruń: Muzeum Okręgowe w Toruniu, 1998