Kacper Radny
- Über mich
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Kacper Radny is an art historian and PhD candidate at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) in Gießen. His research focuses predominantly on nineteenth-century painting, with a particular emphasis on Central and Eastern European art. Kacper’s doctoral project critically examines the depiction of Ukraine and the Cossacks in nineteenth-century Polish art and investigates its reception and popularity among Western art collectors of the period. He is also active in the fields of museology and the art market. Since February 2023, Kacper has been a member of the Graduate Studies Team at the GCSC and a co-editor of the interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, open-access academic journal On_Culture.
Dissertation title: Ukrainian Steppes, Polish Myths, and the European Exotic: A Decolonial Reading of Józef Brandt’s Art
- Kontakt
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mailto: kacper.radny@gcsc.uni-giessen.de
mailto: kacper.radny@on-culture.de
+49 641 / 99-30 011
- Publikationen
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Published:
- Radny, K., 2025. “All Things Foreign, All Things Strange: Review of the Exhibition ‘Die Erfindung des Fremden in der Kunst.’” 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual – Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte und visuellen Kultur 6, no. 1: 135–48. https://doi.org/10.11588/xxi.2025.1.110204.
- Radny, K., 2025. “Review of: Mapping Art Collecting in Europe, 1860–1940. Eastern and Western Sociocultural Perspectives.” Die Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung / Journal of East Central European Studies (ZfO): 87–89. https://doi.org/10.25627/202574111629.
- Mazzaglia, P., M. Presago, K. Radny, and Z. Song., 2023. “Report on ESSCS/TransHumanities Joint Summer School 2023 ‘Bouncing Forward: Future Narratives, Scenarios and Transformation in the Study of Culture.’” KULT_online, no. 68. https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2023.1417.
- Radny, K., 2023. “Between Roman Authority and Greek Ritual: The Turbulent History of the Uniate Church at the End of the Eighteenth Century.” KULT_online, no. 67. https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2023.1382.
Upcoming:
- Radny, K. 2025. “Bouncing One Step Forward, and Two Backwards: On Difficult History and Uncertain Future of Exhibiting Queer and Feminist Art in Eastern Europe.” In Bouncing Forward: Future Narratives, Scenarios, and Transformations in the Study of Culture, edited by Michael Basseler, Jens Kugele, and Jan Rupp. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter. Forthcoming.
- Radny, K. 2025. “Art Is (Not) Free in Berlin: On Pro-Palestinian Artists’ Struggle Against the State Policies in Germany.” Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. Forthcoming.
- Radny, K. 2025. “Polish Lone Wolf in Collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts: Examining the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Art Trade.” Artis ON. Forthcoming.
- Radny, K. 2026. “The Concept of a Critical Museum in Light of Post-Imperial Identity Politics.” In Commemoration for the Future: Challenging and Sustaining Museum Narratives (working title). Berlin: De Gruyter. Forthcoming.
- Vorträge
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- “Contested Steppe: Józef Brandt, Cossacks, and the Visual Politics of Ukraine in Nineteenth-Century Europe,” at the Workshop of the German-Ukrainian Historical Commission (DUHK) for Emerging Scholars The End of Wars: Ukraine in Historical and International Contexts
(Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Chernivtsi, 25–27 September 2025) - “Disrupting the West/East Binary: The Concept of Polish ‘Orientalness’ and Its Position in Understanding 19th-Century Visual Arts,” at the XI World Congress of the International Council for Central and East European Studies Disruption
(International Council for Central and East European Studies, University College London, London, 21–25 July 2025) - “Polish Lone Wolf in Collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts: Examining the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Art Trade,” at the 46th Annual Conference of the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Fusions of Culture, Time and Space
(Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, New Orleans, 27–29 March 2025) - “Orientalisation of 19th-Century Eastern-European Art on the Case Study of Józef Brandt’s Painting,” at the Colloquium for Doctoral Students Forschungen zum langen 19. Jahrhundert, 1789–1918: Projekte, Traditionen, Methoden
(Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich, 17–19 March 2025) - “Polish, Ukrainian, or Russian? Imperial Entanglements in 21st-Century Museum Practices,” at the 1st Museums and Memory Working Group Conference Museums, Memory, Politics
(Memory Studies Association, online, 24–25 January 2025) - “The Concept of ‘Critical Museum’ in the Light of Post-Imperial Identity Politics,” at the conference The Museum Reflects
(University of Florence, Florence, 23–24 January 2025) - “Orientalization of 19th-Century Eastern European Art: The Case Study of the ‘Polish Munich School’,” at the 56th Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)
(ASEEES, Boston, MA, 21–24 November 2024) - “Intersections of Empires, Intersections of Cultures: On Traces of Occident and Orient in the Russian Empire’s Visual Culture,” at the 10th Graduate Workshop of the Russian Art & Culture Group What Is To Be Done – Now? Discussions of Scholarship on So-called ‘Russian’ Art and Culture
(Constructor University Bremen, Bremen, 27–28 September 2024) - Discussant and co-organiser at the one-day conference Artysta a świat w XI, XX i początkach XXI wieku
(Muzeum Okręgowe w Suwałkach, Suwałki, 25 September 2024) - “Art Is (Not) Free in Berlin: On Pro-Palestinian Artists’ Struggle Against the State Policies in Germany,” at the XIV Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture Culture at War
(Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, 24–29 June 2024) - “De-Mystifying the Myth: Critically Querying the Use of the Cossack Motives in Polish Art,” at the 30th Meeting of the Working Group of German and Polish Art Historians and Monument Conservators Art and War
(Schlesisches Museum zu Görlitz, Görlitz, 15–18 November 2023) - “Queering the Contemporary and Future Curating in Central-Eastern Europe,” at the XIII Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture Future/Futures
(Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, 3–8 July 2023) - “‘Bouncing Back’: On the Difficult History and Uncertain Future of Exhibiting Queer Art in Central-Eastern Europe,” at the ESSCS and TransHumanities Summer School Bouncing Forward: Future Narratives, Scenarios, and Transformations in the Study of Culture
(International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, Giessen, 19–23 June 2023) - “(Im)Possible World: Communal Imagination and Its Imagined Environment: The Case Study of the Polish Munich School,” at the Hermes Consortium for Literary and Cultural Studies Summer School Possible Worlds: Environment, Community, Heterotopia
(University of Siena, Arezzo, 12–16 June 2023) - “Between Orient and Occident: A Case Study of the Ukrainian Steppes and the Polish Munich School,” at the conference Un/Sichtbarkeit. Die polnische Kunst(Geschichte) und Deutschland
(Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich, 6–8 April 2022)
- “Contested Steppe: Józef Brandt, Cossacks, and the Visual Politics of Ukraine in Nineteenth-Century Europe,” at the Workshop of the German-Ukrainian Historical Commission (DUHK) for Emerging Scholars The End of Wars: Ukraine in Historical and International Contexts
- Forschungsinteressen
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- Nineteenth-century visual culture
- Museum studies
- Art market and collecting
- Post-colonialism
- Queer and feminist art
- Ludology
- Lehre
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WiSe 2023/24
Historienmalerei im 19. Jahrhundert / History Painting in the 19th century (9 units)
WiSe 2024/25
Woher stammen die Objekte in unseren Museen? Erarbeitung eines Museumskoffers zum Thema Provenienzforschung für Schülerinnen und Schüler (3 units)
- Mitgliedschaften
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- Nineteenth Century Studies Association (NCSA)
- Society of Historians of East European, Eurasian, and Russian Art and Architecture (SHERA)
- Historians of German, Scandinavian and Central European Art (HGSCEA)
- Memory Studies Association (MSA)
At the GCSC:
- Member of the Working Group 'Europe's East' (WiSe 22/23 – ongoing)
- Member of the Working Group 'Game Studies' (WiSe 22/23 – ongoing)
- Member of the Reading Group 'Reading Palestine' (WiSe 23/24 – ongoing)
- Speaker of the Reading Group 'Reading Palestine' (WiSe 23/24 – ongoing)
- Member of the Selection Committee (WiSe 23/24 - SoSe 24)
- Member of the Equal Opportunities Committee (WiSe 24/25 - SoSe 25)