New Rector’s representative for conservation of monuments

Dr Agnieszka Seidel-Grzesińska from the Institute of Art History at UWr took up the position of Rector’s plenipotentiary for conservation of monuments as of 1 February 2023. Our sincere congratulations!

From 1988 to 1995, dr Seidel-Grzesińska studied art history at the University of Wrocław. During her studies, she held scholarship visits to Universität Salzburg and Ruhr-Universität in Bochum. From 1995 to 2000 she was a doctoral student at the Silesian Studies Doctoral Programme at the Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences, University of Wrocław.

Since 2001, she has been a lecturer at the Institute of Art History, University of Wrocław, in the Department of Renaissance and Reformation Art History; in 2003-2006, she was also a lecturer in the Department of Tourism at the Academy of Physical Education in Wrocław. In 2006-2010, she was the head of the postgraduate studies Współczesne metody dokumentacji i promocji dziedzictwa kulturowego (Contemporary Methods of Cultural Heritage Documentation and Promotion) at the Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences, University of Wrocław. Since 2012, she has been the head of the Monuments Documentation Laboratory at the Institute of Art History, UWr.

Since 1996, dr Agnieszka Seidel-Grzesińska has participated in projects in the field of documentation and inventory of historical monuments, e.g. within the framework of the Catalogue of Art Monuments in Poland and in projects in the field of the so-called digital humanities (e.g.: EDV-gestützte Dokumentation in Forschung und Lehre augewählter kunstgeschichtlicher Universitätinstitute, Bildarchiv Foto Marburg, 1996-2000; Virtual Museum of Folk Woodcuts at the Seweryn Udziela Ethnographic Museum in Kraków, 2012-2013; Implementation of the Museum System at the Ossoliński National Institute, since 2020). Works with historic preservation studios as a consultant.

Her research interests and publications focus on the semantics of visual arts in Europe in the modern era and digital methods of cultural heritage documentation and research.