Katarzyna Kosmala

A curator, and art writer. Chair in Culture, Media and Visual Arts at the University of the West of Scotland. Previously, a visiting research fellow at GEXcel, Institute of Thematic Gender Studies, Linköping University & Örebro University, Sweden, and Visiting Professor at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Areas of research: gender and the politics of representation, heritage and identity, and discourses of creativity and community in the context of a globalizing network society, as well as art production and enterprise. Founder and Co-leader for Curating Europes’ Futures -discursive series on contemporary curatorial and artistic practices that have evolved within the shifting and uneven economic and socio-political relations across an expanding European Project whilst raising questions over different kinds of constructed identities. Between 2012-2022, chaired the Interdisciplinary Research Network Regeneration and Waterfront Heritage Zones in Northern Europe. Resulted research led to several research projects concerned with culture, heritage and regeneration of waterfront spaces associated with maritime production and histories, looking at the role of arts and the effectiveness of community-led initiatives in planning as well as participatory practice in heritage protection. Born in Poland, lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.