The founder and director of Galeria Konkret AR.T, Bogna J. Gladden-Obidzińska, is an aesthetician and philosopher of culture with 15+ years of academic experience. She serves on the board of the Polish Society for Aesthetics and is a team member of the international CAPHE project funded by the Horizon Europe grant programme. She studied at UWC Adriatic in Duino, Italy, received her doctorate from the University of Warsaw, completed an NCN-funded post-doctoral programme at the Jagiellonian University, and has enjoyed visiting fellowships in the UK, US, Spain, Italy, and Poland. She has taught at the University of Warsaw, among other institutions. She is the author, editor, and translator of numerous books and articles and has made dozens of appearances on television, radio, and in other media. Among other initiatives, she served as the co-organizer of a four-year cultural and artistic heritage preservation project operating across Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, and Belarus.
Bogna has a particular professional and scholarly interest in the visual arts, their medium-specific qualities, questions of taste, and the life-cycles of the aesthetic values that pump life into the arts.
As an entrepreneur, heritage consultant, and art expert, she is also passionate about introducing international investors to Poland’s historical properties and contemporary art market.
She is fluent in English, Spanish, and Italian and draws on her transdisciplinary network of international partners and collaborators.