Between 2024 and 2025, the Kulik-KwieKulik Foundation is preparing the publication of the first international monograph on Zofia Kulik’s art. The book will be launched in autumn 2025 by the Thames&Hudson publishing house.

Name of task: First international monograph on the work of Zofia Kulik published by Thames & Hudson – preparation and promotion, 2024-2025

Public task financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland in the competition “Public Diplomacy 2024 -2025 – European dimension and countering disinformation”.

Value of funding: 290 200 PLN

Short description of the task: The project assumes the publication of the first international monograph on the work of artist Zofia Kulik in the prestigious British publishing house Thames & Hudson. The monograph will be the first such wide-ranging and international catalogue of Zofia Kulik’s work, it will present hitherto unknown works to an international audience, but will also allow us to benefit from the unique perspectives of the artist herself. The publication will be widely promoted at prestigious art events such as Photo London 2025, Paris Photo 2025 and in Berlin.

 

Thames & Hudson Presents: Zofia Kulik: The Splendour of Myself
Photo London, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA (Screening Room)
15.05.2025, 5:00 – 6:00

Artist Zofia Kulik joins curator Fiona Rogers to discuss her extensive body of work, journeying from her earlier works as part of the avant-garde duo KwieKulik, to the development of her solo career in the late 1980s. Inspired by eroticism, feminism, and the political and social developments of post-war Poland, Kulik’s work offers a radical critique of not only what it means to be an artist and a woman, but of what it means to be human.

Zofia Kulik

Zofia Kulik is a Polish artist whose art combines political and feminist criticism. Known for her monumental black-and-white photographic compositions built from her extensive archive of images, she focuses on the relationship between men and women, the individual and the masses, and symbols of power.

Fiona Rogers

Fiona Rogers is the inaugural Parasol Foundation Curator of Women in Photography at the V&A, having previously been Director of Photography & Operations at Webber, and Chief Operations Officer of Magnum. She is the co-author, with Max Houghton, of Firecrackers: Female Photographers Now (Thames & Hudson).
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