Magdalena Holdar visiting scholar in Chicago
Magdalena Holdar, Associate Professor of Art History and Curating, has been invited as a visiting scholar at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) during the month of February.
Magdalena Holdar. Photo: Johanna Säll
During her research stay, Magdalena will work on the project Between studio and classroom: exploring academic creativity through curatorial thinking and present her research at the university.
She will also participate in the College Art Association 114th Annual Conference, both with a paper on curating as a model for creative administration and in a roundtable discussion on curating organized by SAIC on the occasion of her stay. In addition to her research, Magdalena Holdar will also meet with art students and doctoral students in art history at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and lead a workshop at Northwestern University.
She has also been invited to participate in the public program for the exhibition Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA).
Follow her work on Substack
You can follow her work on the Substack account “The Fluxist”
Magdalena Holdar is associate professor of Art History and Curating at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics. Her research interests concern collaboration, performativity, networks, and materiality in art. In recent years recent years her research has been concentrated on the artists’ network Fluxus, in particular its transnational artistic and creative strategies during the 1960s and 70s.
Last updated: 2026-01-26
Source: Department of Culture and Aesthetics