katarzyna.ruchel-stockmans@vub.be
Katarzyna Ruchel-Stockmans teaches contemporary art, photography, and new media at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). Having pursued studies in philosophy and art history in Cracow, Poland, she completed a master in cultural studies and a PhD in art history at KULeuven, Belgium. Her research and teaching are situated at an intersection between art, lens media, participation, politics, and history. Currently, she leads a team of international researchers exploring vernacular lens media archives at the peripheries of Europe. She publishes on photography and art theory, visualizations of grass-roots protest movements, as well as East European cultures, history and representations. Her book Images Performing History appeared in 2015 in Leuven University Press.