[spectre] (fwd) CFP: Reflections and Transformations: The Artist's Identity (Torun/PL, 21-23 Oct 25)

[Andreas Broeckmann]

From: Katarzyna Cytlak
Date: Jun 23, 2025
Subject: CFP: Reflections and Transformations: The Artist's Identity 
(Toruń, 21-23 Oct 25)

Toruń, Poland, Oct 21–23, 2025
Deadline: Sep 1, 2025

Jubilee X Conference on Modern Art in Toruń: "Reflections and 
Transformations. The Artist’s Identity in the Changing Political Reality 
of the 20th Century", October 21-23, 2025.

- Department of Modern and Non-European Art of the Faculty of Fine Arts, 
Nicolaus Copernicus University Toruń
- The Polish Institute of World Art Studies - The Centre of Contemporary 
Art "Znaki Czasu" in Toruń

Organising committee: Dr. Katarzyna Cytlak, Dr. Małgorzata Geron, Prof. 
Jerzy Malinowski, Dr. hab. Filip Pręgowski

The history of the Conferences on Modern Art in Toruń began in 2005. 
Nine conferences have been organised during the past twenty years, and 
the tenth, the jubilee conference, is planned for October this year. 
This broad-ranging scholarly project concentrating on research into 
modern and contemporary art has from the beginning taken place as a 
result of cooperation between the Department of Modern and Non-European 
Art and the Polish Institute of Studies in World Art, the latter of 
which this year celebrates the 25th anniversary of its activities.

The year 2025 also marks the 80th anniversary of the foundation of the 
Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, within whose framework the 
Faculty of Fine Arts was established on the basis of artists who mostly 
came to Toruń from Vilnius. This change in location was necessitated by 
the new geopolitical situation obtaining at the time, and demanded that 
these involuntary emigrants adapt to new realities. With reference to a 
situation dating from decades ago, as well as to the subjects of the 
last few conferences, which concentrated on artistic relations between 
Polish creative artists and artistic circles active in Great Britain and 
Ireland, Paris, and the United States, we would like to consider 
problems associated with the artist in relation to his context:

- when he leaves his own milieu as a result of political pressures
- when his art combines elements deriving from various cultures
- whether his creative work depends upon the change in location

Key subjects associated with micro-histories include:
- art as a dialogue between various environments
- migration and creativity – the artist between cultures, languages and 
experiences
- creation as a process of adaptation – the artist in a changing environment

The organisers invite art historians and critics, cultural 
anthropologists, exhibition and museum curators and artists to 
participate in the conference.
The conference languages will be Polish and English.

Please submit titles and abstracts of papers (about half a page of 
normal text) by September 1, 2025 to the either of the following 
addresses: mgeron at umk.pl or biuro at world-art.pl.

The decision regarding acceptance of proposals will be made by September 
20, 2025.

The conference organisers do not anticipate that there will be any fee 
for attending the conference, and will not cover any costs for travel, 
board or accommodation.

An outcome of the conference will be the publication of a peer-reviewed 
scholarly monograph in the series “Studia o sztuce / Studies on modern art”.


Reference / Quellennachweis:
CFP: Reflections and Transformations: The Artist’s Identity (Toruń, 
21-23 Oct 25). In: ArtHist.net, Jun 23, 2025. 
<https://arthist.net/archive/49560>.