Issue publishes the critical, practical, and theoretical thinking carried out at the HEAD – Genève.

Marysia Lewandowska

Polish-born, London based artist Marysia Lewandowska has been exploring the public function of archives, museums and exhibitions. Her projects include the Women’s Audio Archive (2009); Undoing Property? (Sternberg Press, 2013); It’s About Time at the the V&A Pavilion 58th Venice Biennale (2019); Enthusiasts Archive (2019) Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw. Her work has been presented by numerous museums Tate Modern, Moderna Museet, Muzeum Sztuki, The New Museum, Whitechapel Gallery. Since 2020 she has been collaborating with Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden Baden on Institutional Healing project with its first iteration titled Recording_1989 exploring the institution and the role of the artist’s voice. She is co-editor with Jakub Gawkowski of Słów Brak, a collection of texts by Polish art critic Ewa Mikina published in 2023 by MSL and Galeria Miejska Arsenal. She served as Professor of Art in the Public Realm at Konstfack, Stockholm (2003-2013) and Chinese University in Hong Kong (2014-2016). She is a member of Tate Modern Advisory Group.

Voicing the Archive
by
- Marysia Lewandowska
What is the burden of the archive if not memory itself? Can we move on from thinking of archives as stores of data, and closer to an idea of a desiring archive, a reservoir of affective materials and resistant opacities? In establishing the Women’s Audio…

Voicing the Archive