Magda Lipska is a curator and art theorist currently working at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, where she curated and co-curated a number of
exhibitions such as Who Will Write the History of Tears? Artists on Women’s Rights
(2021), Niepodległe. Women and the National Discourse (2018), Danwen
Xing. A Personal Diary (2017), and Least the Two Seas Meet (2015)
with Tarek Abou el Fetouh. Together with Piotr Slodkowski she co-edited Was
Socialist Realism Global? Modernism, Soc-modernism, Socially Engaged Figuration
(2023) and with Monika Talarczyk Hope Is of a Different Color. From the
Global South to the Lodz Film School (2022), both published by the Museum
of Modern Art in Warsaw. She contributed to numerous publications including Points
of Convergence. Alternative views on Performance (2017) and Historie
filmu awangardowego. Od dadaizmu do postinternetu (2020).
Departing from the book Hope Is of a Different Color. From the Global
South to the Lodz Film School (2022), co-edited with Monika Talarczyk, the
presentation will address the history of student exchanges between
the Global South and the Polish People’s Republic
during the Cold War. As Poland’s second-largest city, Łódź was
a hub for international students who studied in Poland from the mid-1960s to
1989. The Łódź Film School, a member of CILECT since 1955, was a favoured
destination, with students from Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East
accounting for one-third of its international student body. The presentation
will shed light on the experiences and careers of a generation of young
filmmakers, many of whom went on to achieve success as artists in their home
countries, and also provide insight into race relations in Central and Eastern
Europe.
