Paweł Leszkowicz is a critic, essayist, and lecturer of contemporary art at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań. He studied art history, gender studies, and journalist at AMU, the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, and the New School University in New York. His research and writing focus on the intersections of queer studies, contemporary art and culture, and related critical theory. His work has been published by New York University Press, the Wielka Encyklopedia PWN,
Magazyn Sztuki and Museo Fortuna at the Venice Biennale in 2003. In 2001, he published
Helen Chadwick: Ikonografia podmiotowości [Helen Chadwick: An Iconography of Subjectivity]. In 2005, Paweł Leszkowicz and Tomek Kitliński published
Miłość i Demokracja. Rozważania o kwestii homoseksualnej w Polsce [Love and Democracy: Thoughts on the Issue of Homosexuality in Poland] (Aureus). He has also curated the exhibition “Love and Democracy” shown in Poznań in 2005 and in Gdańsk in 2006
