Conference participants

Prof. Grażyna BorowikA graduate of Department of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. Artist, pedagogue, professor at the Pedagogical University in Krakow. She busies herself with painting, drawing, photography, performance and poetry. She has been running the Zejscie Gallery for over 30 years and the Albert Gallery in Krakow since 2000. She organized hundreds of art exhibitions on graphics, sculpture, pho-tography. She is also a co-organizer of six international conferences “Psychiatry and art” and co–author of four publications about art therapy. In 2007 she initiated an art therapy studies at the Depart-ment of Art at the University in Poznan.

Joanna DaszkiewiczGraduate of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (philosophy) and University of Fine Arts in Poznan (painting), lecturer at the Univer-sity of Art in Poznan. She specializes in research and promotion of art brut. She is a curator for a number of exhibitions, coordinator of a conference ‘Art Brut – between art and therapy’ (Poznan 15-16.04.2010) and International Short Films Festival about “self-born” artists (AUTFestiwal 2013), consultant for first Polish, art brut docu-mentary ‘Art called art brut’ (TVP Kultura 2008).

Dr Minna HaveriMinna Haveri is a vice chairman of Kettuki Art Centre. She completed her doctorate at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Archi-tecture in 2010. Her dissertation ‘Nykykansantaide’ on contemporary folk art investigated the various phenomena in Finnish visual folk art, ITE art, and the meanings attached to them. Haveri’s current re-search interests include art by people with disabilities. She is widely interested in the margins of art and social justice in visual art educa-tion.

Peter KinnyPeter Kinny, artistic supervisor at Inuti since 2012. He has MFA from University College of Arts, Crafts and Design. One of his areas of fo-cus has been Inuti Collection.

Pavel KonečnýFor more than thirty years this scholar, tourist and collector has concentrated his studies on non-professional authentic art from the territory of the former Czechoslovak Republic. He graduated from the Philosophical Faculty of Palacký University in Olomouc (1969–1974) in Arts, with specialization in literature, drama and cinema. From 1975, for fifteen years, Konečný worked as director and dramaturg of the Theatre of Music in Olomouc, which after its foundation in 1968 became one of the important cultural institutions in Olomouc. Since 1991 he has held a job at the Office for the Preservation of Historical Monuments in Olomouc, being in charge of evidence, documentation and informatics, and taking part in the editorial work on the publica-tion of the register of cultural monuments. In his professional work Pavel Konečný discovered, mediated and popularized the work of talents in naivist art and art brut.

Ewa MacakLeszek Macak’s Collection is one of the most important collections of art naive in Europe. The collector cooperates with many Polish muse-ums lending his sculptures and paintings to exhibitions organized in Poland and abroad. Works from the Leszek Macak’s Collection were presented, among others, in the USA, France, Belgium, Germany, Fin-land and Slovakia. Leszek Macak is one of the biggest collectors and specialists in naive art in Poland. The speech about Leszek Macak and his collection will be presented by his wife - Ewa Macak, who supports her husband in his passion. They are also owners of the Galerie d’ Art Naif, visited by many guests from the whole world.http://artnaive.sky.pl/index.html

Alicja Mironiuk-NikolskaEthnographer, museum worker since 1986 (currently a senior cura-tor), Main Cataloguer in National Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw. Author of many exhibitions and publications about regional art, in-cluding book ‘Polish folk art’ (Warsaw 2010). She is also working for the community of Oskar Kolberg prize. Folk Art section leader of Scientific Council of the Association of Folk Artists. Lecturer at the University of Ecology and Management in Warsaw.

Aleksandra ÖbergAleksandra Öberg works as an artist at Inuti since 2012. She works with animations, paintings, creates costumes (cosplay) and cartoons. Aleksandra works with Inuti Collection.

Dr Thomas Röske Thomas Röske has been head of the Prinzhorn collection of the Psychiatric University Clinic in Heidelberg since 2002. He studied history of art, musicology and psychology at Hamburg University and obtained his doctorate in 1991 with a book about Hans Prinzhorn. He was assistant professor at the Department of Art History of the Uni-versity of Frankfurt from 1993 to 1999, from 1996 to 1999 the second speaker of the Graduate Programme ‘Psychic Energies of Visual Art’ there. On the side he repeatedly worked as a freelance exhibition curator for different institutions. He now teaches at the Institute for European Art History at the Heidelberg University and at the Institute for Art History at the Frankfurt University. He has published main-ly on German Modernism and Outsider Art. In 2012, he became the president of the European Outsider Art Association.

Dr Anežka ŠimkováAnežka Šimková, graduate of Palacký University in Olomouc, Karol’s University in Prague and Art-Industrial University in Prague. Cultural worker with a wide experience (documentation, exhibitions, publica-tions, editing, education). After she graduated, she’s been working in Olomouc as a curator for important exhibitions. She has been a co-author, organizer and a curator for a several abroad projects, regarding Czech art (Slovakia, Hungary, Belgium, Poland). In 2011 she got Thesaurus Poloniae scholarship, MCK Krakow. In Olomouc Museum she has been responsible for fine art, applied art and de-sign. Her second specialty is non-professional art – art naif and art brut (curator of: ‘Umělci čistého srdce’ – Olomouc, Pezinok 2000; ‘Art brut v českých zemích’, 2008 – MSO Olomouc, Cheb, Brussels; ‘Vlasta Kodríková’ – Cheb, Olomouc 2010; ‘Adéla Ducháčová’ – Roudnice nad Labem, 2014)

Marianne SpringhamMarianne Springham is currently a Senior Lecturer on BA (hons) Visual Communication at Leeds College of Art in the UK and has taught in adult and community education for over 15 years. Her previous work included running participatory projects, including the ACLF funded project ‘Messages Across Leeds’ in 2011, ‘Tetley Feast’ in 2014 and ‘The WITH project’ in 2015. She is also a multi-discipli-nary artist. In 2015, Marianne worked with Robert Wood, an outsider artist from Leeds, along with his family, to curate an exhibition of his work. This involved many conversations to start making sense of their collection and to think about ways of making it visible to the public.

Sonia WilkArt theorist, curator of all-Poland and international exhibitions. She is interested in non-professional art, in particular the work of peo-ple with intellectual disabilities and the mentally ill. She graduated in philosophy at the Faculty of Pedagogy and Arts of the University of Silesia, she did museum studies at the Jagiellonian University and the Academy of Heritage at the International Cultural Centre in Krakow. She also studied at the Institute of Art History, at the Catholic University of Lublin. She often gives lectures, participates in sym-posiums and conferences on outsider art in Poland and abroad. She publishes articles in Polish journals and academic publications. She is author of numerous texts of catalogues of outsider art exhi-bitions. Since 2008 she has been the manager of the Department of Non-Professional Art at Muzeum Śląskie in Katowice and works as curator of collections. She constantly presents diverse artistic trends. She is author of a series of exhibitions presenting the most interesting contemporary artists within art brut, entitled ‘Vivat Insita’ and curator of the permanent exhibition of non-professional art in the new headquarters of Muzeum Śląskie in Katowice.