Assistant professor specializing in visual studies; translator, independent curator. His research focuses on conflicts in visuality, vernacular and popular visual genres (landscape, advertisement, monuments etc.) and public art. He’s interested in image theory, methodology of visual culture and art history. He teaches classes in visual culture studies and art history, including: Methodology of Visual Studies, Anthropology of Visual Culture, Contemporary Media; Curatorial Workshop; Postcolonial-Visual Seminar; History of Images – History of Contemporary Art.
He is the primary investigator in the long-term research project “Colonial Complex. Visual Culture and Colonialism without Colonies in the Interwar Period in Poland” (National Science Center, OPUS grant, 2023-2027). His previous grant projects included: “Contemporary Faces of Iconoclasm” (NCN Preludium, 2012-2015; PI); “Visual Culture in Poland” (NCN Opus, 2012-2017, researcher; PI: Iwona Kurz). Co-founder and co-editor (2012-2021) of the online peer-reviewed bilingual academic journal Widok. Teorie I Praktyki Kultury Wizualnej/View. Theories and Practices of Visual Culture. Author of the 2018 book Obrazy wychodzą na ulice (Images Walk Onto the Streets); co-editor of the two-volume Kultura wizualna w Polsce [Visual Culture in Poland, 2017] and translator of multiple academic books into Polish (Hito Steyerl, W.J.T. Mitchell, N. Mirzoeff, J. Crary, N. Jurgenson).
In 2015-2017, he worked as a curator of public program in the Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi. In 2019, he curated the exhibition Monumentomania for the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.
He was awarded multiple stipends and prizes, among them: START 2012 and 2013 (Foundation for Polish Science), and Ministry of Education Prize for Outstanding Young Scholars (2016-2019). In 2019/2020 academic year he was a visiting scholar in the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University (Durham, NC, USA).