Jadwiga Kamola

Jadwiga Kamola, born in 1983 in Warsaw, is a historian, curator, and author, specializing in the history of ideas. Her studies traverse the intersections of art, fascism, and modernism, with a keen interest in post-migration memory. Jadwiga Kamola edited and published pivotal works such as »Kunst, Kitsch, Faschismus, Kolonialismus. Leni Riefenstahls fotografisches Spätwerk im Museum« (2021; tr: Art, Kitsch, Fascism, Colonialism: Leni Riefenstahl’s Late Photographic Work in the Museum) and »Artist Complex. Images of Artists in the Twentieth Century-Photography« (2021). She completed her PhD in Global Art History at the Cluster Asia and Europe in a Global Context Heidelberg in 2015, leading to roles as Assistant Curator at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. In 2019, she transitioned to digital formats, becoming a Curator at the Bildungsstätte Anne Frank in Frankfurt/Main. Jadwiga Kamola continued her curatorial work at the Museum für Kunst und Technik des 19. Jahrhunderts in Baden-Baden in 2022, and in 2023 at the Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism.

Artist Complex. Images of Artists in the Twentieth Century-Photography

De Gruyter
Berlin, 2021

Kunst, Kitsch, Faschismus, Kolonialismus. Leni Riefenstahls fotografisches Spätwerk im Museum

Band 162 FOTOGESCHICHTE – Beiträge zur Geschichte und Ästhetik der Fotografie
Jonas Verlag
Weimar, 2021

Tumor im Blick, Patientenporträts im 19. Jahrhundert zwischen Kunst, Medizin und Physiognomik

Böhlau Verlag GmbH & Cie
Köln, 2018