Marcin Lachowski

Marcin Lachowski is a full-time Professor in the Department of the History of Modern Art at the University of Warsaw and serves as a curator at the National Museum in Lublin. His research focuses on contemporary art, art criticism, and the institutional frameworks of Polish avant-garde art, particularly from the 20th and 21st centuries. He has contributed extensively to academic discourse through publications, co-editing book series such as Sztuka nowa. Źródło i komentarz, and leading significant projects like the two-volume Dictionary of Polish Art Criticism funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Lachowski has curated major exhibitions, including retrospectives on Andrzej Wróblewski (2023) and Tamara Łempicka (2022), and collaborates with institutions like the Lublin Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts.

• University of Warsaw (Faculty of History, Department of History of Modern Art)
• National Museum in Lublin (Curator)

His research spans modernism, post-war artistic reconstruction, spatial theory, Holocaust representation, and art deco. Lachowski's publications include monographs on Grupa Zamek, Open Form theory by Oskar Hansen, and collaborations in regional art studies. His curated exhibitions emphasize Polish modern art movements and their reinterpretations.

Notable grants include Ministry of Science and Higher Education funding for studying Polish art criticism (2011–present). He presides over the Lublin branch of the Association of Art Historians and contributes to journals like Biuletyn Historii Sztuki and Ikonotheka.