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Jan Elantkowski is an art historian and curator based in Budapest (HU). He holds a master’s degree in art history from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (PL).
In the Institute of Art History at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, where he was a teaching assistant (2014-2016), he conducted his PhD research entitled: “Holocaust and Trauma in Post-Socialist Europe: Contemporary Art from Hungary and Poland after 1989”. He has published on contemporary art from Central-Eastern Europe and artistic representations of trauma and the Holocaust. In 2015, he worked as a program manager at the Studio of Young Artists’ Association in Budapest.
Between 2015 and 2018, he was a teaching and research associate in the Chair of East European Art History at Humboldt University of Berlin (DE).
Among his most recent exhibitions, he co-curated “Slow Life. Radical Practices of the Everyday” (2021) and “The Cuteness Factor” (2023) atLudwig Múzeum – Museum of Contemporary Art in Budapest, where he has worked as a curator and art historian since 2018.