Luiza Nader

Art historian

Luiza Nader is an art historian, and assistant professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, in Warsaw. Her research is dedicated to avantgarde, neo-avantgarde, modern and contemporary art, with a strong focus on the 1940s, 1960s and 1970s. Her work draws on theories linked to post-humanism, emotions, memory, archive and trauma. She is the author of Conceptual art in Poland (Konceptualizm w PRL. 2009) and Strzemiński’s affect. Theory of seeing, war drawings, In memory of Friends – Jews (Afekt Strzemińskiego. Teoria widzenia, rysunki wojenne, Pamięci przyjaciół – Żydów. 2018). Her recent studies focus on the relations between art practices and limit events, on works from the Holocaust and after the Holocaust. She has published texts in Zagłada Żydów. Studia i materiały, Teksty Drugie, Konteksty, and RIHA Journal.