Dr. Ewa Sułek is an art historian, curator, sculptor, and writer. Her research examines contemporary Ukrainian art with a particular focus on memory, loss, displacement, the body, gender, and postcolonial perspectives. Her recent projects include "In Transition: Rupture and Loss in Contemporary Ukrainian Art" and "Space of Transformation: Contemporary Art Centres in Kyiv." She has also published on Ukrainian art produced during the Russian war against Ukraine, with a special emphasis on corporeality and gender, including the study "Observing the Bodies: Examination of the Experience of War and Trauma" (in "Art in Ukraine Between Identity Construction and Anti-Colonial Resistance") and "Sculpture Series" (Slavic Review). Dr. Sułek is the author of two books about the war in Ukraine, published in Polish and Ukrainian. Dr. Sułek has received several honors, including the Fulbright Junior Research Award at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and a visiting research position in Ukrainian Studies at the University of Cambridge. She also served as a DAAD PRIME postdoctoral fellow at Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and at the Institute for East European Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, where she currently serves as a Humboldt Research Postdoctoral Fellow.
Beyond her academic work, Dr. Sułek is the co-founder of the Lescer Art Center in Zalesie Górne, Poland, and the Ukrainian Environmental Humanities Network. She divides her time between Boston and Berlin.
