Quoting name: Basia Sliwinska

Professional Category: Researcher

Position(s) within IHA: SC Member | RG Member [Contemporary Art Studies]

Thematic areas: Visual Activism & Artivism, Feminism, Care, Transnationalism

Contact: bsliwinska@fcsh.unl.pt​

CIÊNCIA ID: CF16-FE3B-5616

ORCiD: 0000-0003-4428-567X

Biography

Basia Sliwinska is an art historian and theorist whose work is grounded in and committed to feminist politics and ethics, especially of near herstories. She is Founding Editor and Member of the Editorial Collective of the academic journal Feminist Art Practices and Research: COSMOS. She works as a researcher at the Art History Institute, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal.

Basia researches at the interface between arts and activisms within transnational global frameworks, with particular attention to art practices and processes that may catalyse positive change in reproductive rights, and more broadly opposes gender-based violence. She has published widely, including the edited collection Transnational Visual Activism for Women’s Reproductive Rights: My Body, My Choice (2024 by Routledge), co-edited book Transnational Belonging and Female Agency in the Arts (2022 by Bloomsbury), edited book Feminist Visual Activism and the Body (2021 by Routledge) and the monograph The Female Body in the Looking-Glass: Contemporary Art, Aesthetics and Genderland (2016, I.B.Tauris). Her forthcoming edited collection is titled Contemporary Transnational Feminist Visual Activism and Gender-Based Violence  (2025 by Routledge). Basia’s curatorial work encompasses projects such as Love Letters (co-curated with Astrid Korporaal, Almanac Projects, 2021) or Home Strike (co-curated  with Alexandra Kokoli, l’étrangère gallery, London, 2018). She led and contributed to publicly funded research projects (Migratory Homes; VASDiV: Visual Activism and Sexual Diversity in Vietnam). In 2023 she was a Visiting Fellow at the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University.

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Abbreviations:
SC – Scientific Council; RG – Research Group